He danced circles around my Ace 250......

[Old Katz]

I was at the soccer field again for a couple hours this morning. Picked up a few
more dollars in clad when an acquaintance of mind called and asked if I wanted to
go detect an old Drive Inn. No problem. He warned me that there was a lot of junk in
the ground so I went home, got both my MXT and Ace 250 and drove to his place a
few blocks away. We drove to the old Clairmont Drive Inn now all plowed up
He told me he had pulled three silver dimes out of there.

I put the 5.3 coil on the MXT and the Sniper on the Ace 250.

He brought his trusty old Master Hunter A7. He's had it for thirty years and he swears by it.

We hunted a couple hours and he danced circles around me. I tried the MXT with the 5.3 coil
but even with that the junk was so thick I finally took the Ace 250 out. The sniper coil did well
but by the end of our hunt he had a handful of quarters, dimes and pennies compared to my
few pennies (one wheat cent) and two modern dimes.

That machine of his is OLD but its a damned good one. It makes me think I ought to
go back to the old machines.

Katz

Something I do not understand is why when I got signals that I had a penny or dime, what I dug
was a bottle cap or a pull tab.

 

[John-Edmonton]

That Garrett detector was a great detector in it's day and still is today!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Just goes to show that detectors haven't advanced all that far - just added more bells and whistles without changing the detecting ability. A lot of old detectors will hunt circles around the new stuff.

Bill

 

[flash5153]

I think you need round 2.

I hunt many high trash areas with the 250. Can Not run it hot,,3-4 bars at most. Usually nothing reads as it should because there is more than one item under the coil.
Its a pain in the ace.
Round 2!!! (take aspirin)

 

[Onus]

I know how you feel. A very talented old dude with an antiquated Whites 6000 ate my lunch at a demolition site. The thing looked like he drug it behind his car all the way to the site too! Onus

 

[oldcoon]

[size=small]Listen to Uncle Willy.
He know of what he speaks.
Sorry if I have rained on anyone's parade.
You may return to your regularly scheduled programing.[/size]​

 

[synthnut]

There were not only wonderful , well made . machines back in the day, but those " old dudes" as you call them , KNEW those machines ....Today is a LIGHTER , FASTER , DEEPER , CHEAPER , mentality ......Back in the day, you scrimped and saved for a machine , and you learned every tone, every squeak, and every nuance that the machine had ...You knew more with those old machines , with the "old dudes" running them , then the "new dudes " with the fancy machines today !!...... It's called SPENDING THE TIME TO LEARN YOUR CRAFT !!!....... Hang out and hunt with an "OLD DUDE " ....You just might learn something !!.....Jim

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I've got a buddy who still uses an old Compass TR from 1970 and he will thump your nub hunting with your fancy modern machine. He knows that old detector inside and out.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Installing the new DD coil would eliminate that problem as it works great for separating and isolating targets.

Bill