i went to the local park this morning,and met a fellow digger, so i walked up to him and we talked about the growing hobby of detecting....so i said by the way what detector you use...and he said ..i have the top of the line minelab e-trac the best on the market...and he ask me what a have.and i replyed i have a garrett ace250 with the 9x12 coil,,,,he laugh in my face and told me to get a real detector,,i wanted to punch him...but i just told to have a nice day and HH
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laugh in my face
- Thread starter formon
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[size=large]you're safe in the knowledge he over-paid for his hobby. to each their own. if it weren't for the amount of great finds with ace 250s i might have agreed but i for one have been convinced even i have over-paid for my machines. everything i've found to date i could have found with my ace. if i'd taken the time to learn it well. instead i sold it and splurged my money on more expencive machines.
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Yeah people like that are definitely out there.
Guess he just wanted to justify what he paid for
his detector. I had a person do that to me once
years ago. Next time I saw him I just let him go
out and stayed clear of where he was detecting until
he moved into another area. Then I moved in with
my much less expensive detector and just started
to dig almost everything. You should have seen the
expression on his face. His detector was very expensive.
The look he gave me was priceless. No words were
necessary. I laughed all the way home. Never saw him again.
Good hunting to you and your Ace250 !
Guess he just wanted to justify what he paid for
his detector. I had a person do that to me once
years ago. Next time I saw him I just let him go
out and stayed clear of where he was detecting until
he moved into another area. Then I moved in with
my much less expensive detector and just started
to dig almost everything. You should have seen the
expression on his face. His detector was very expensive.
The look he gave me was priceless. No words were
necessary. I laughed all the way home. Never saw him again.
Good hunting to you and your Ace250 !
quarterhorse
New member
Sorry you had to "find" one of the hobby's snobs. There is one in every crowd 
I bought a E-trac to find a silver dime. 
Really!
I was hunting a place of convenience next to a business of mine, every night when I locked up. It had been beat to death over the years, mainly with White's and Compass machines. Oh course they proclaimed
were no silver coins left.
I found 4 silver quarters on that hillside next to a set of concrete steps that went to the WW11 era swimming pool with my At Gold. Yea I know its a gold machine and shouldn't be used for coins
.......
I had gone over that set of steps a jillion times with an ACE 350, the AT Pro and AT Gold. I had switched the coils from one Pro to the next, so that it had been covered inch for inch with both the standard and small coil, even the sniper coils until the coin well went dry and no coins for me the last 3 or 4 hunts
.
I told the wife that there was NO way that there wasn't a silver dime there if there was 4 silver quarters. Now a jillion times is a bunch, so I ordered a since they had a good reputation to find deep silver coins , to prove to myself I was right
Yep, I WAS right. I found one 1925 Mercury at 4 inches and two silver nickels @ about as deep as they can be detected. The hill has since turned coin sterile for me again , but thats not saying somebody with another brand detector running a different Khz or technology won't be able to open up this area to silver coins in the future.
Was the cost of an E-trac worth a dime and two nickels.........can you put a price on sanity
I look at metal detectors for what they are, tools to detect metals. The E-trac is just another tool, used to detect metals, and it excells in certain situations, where the Ace and AT Platforms would excel in others. Used PROPERLY the 4 metal detectors compliment each other very well.
As Rodney King once said, "Can't we all just get along"
HH
QH
I bought a
E-trac to find a silver dime. Really!I was hunting a place of convenience next to a business of mine, every night when I locked up. It had been beat to death over the years, mainly with White's and Compass machines. Oh course they proclaimed
were no silver coins left.I found 4 silver quarters on that hillside next to a set of concrete steps that went to the WW11 era swimming pool with my At Gold. Yea I know its a gold machine and shouldn't be used for coins
....... I had gone over that set of steps a jillion times with an ACE 350, the AT Pro and AT Gold. I had switched the coils from one Pro to the next, so that it had been covered inch for inch with both the standard and small coil, even the sniper coils until the coin well went dry and no coins for me the last 3 or 4 hunts
. I told the wife that there was NO way that there wasn't a silver dime there if there was 4 silver quarters. Now a jillion times is a bunch, so I ordered a
since they had a good reputation to find deep silver coins , to prove to myself I was rightYep, I WAS right. I found one 1925 Mercury at 4 inches
and two silver nickels @ about as deep as they can be detected. The hill has since turned coin sterile for me again , but thats not saying somebody with another brand detector running a different Khz or technology won't be able to open up this area to silver coins in the future.Was the cost of an E-trac worth a dime and two nickels.........can you put a price on sanity
I look at metal detectors for what they are, tools to detect metals. The E-trac is just another tool, used to detect metals, and it excells in certain situations, where the Ace and AT Platforms would excel in others. Used PROPERLY the 4 metal detectors compliment each other very well.
As Rodney King once said, "Can't we all just get along"
HH
QH
formon said:
wow what a jerk to say that to ya last i checked garrett is considered a real detector, hopefully the detector gods will smite him and his "real" detector with a cache of pull-tabs.
anyways best of luck hunting! Hope you get something really great to rub in his face
Leslie(nova scotia)
Well-known member
n/t
I'm with quarterhorse. I also have an AT-Pro and an Etrac. My hunting partner also has an AT-Pro and he's darn good with it. We routinely compare signals before we dig. Both machines do well in the right places with the right operators. For sheer depth in much of our ground the Etrac has the edge hands down. Both can do well seperating trash from good stuff. But there are times I can get a solid signal with the Etrac that the AT-Pro just can't see. Other times though I'd say the biggest difference is better ID at limit of depth. I don't see any reason to ridicule or trash either machine. Both excel at different things. I don't always use my Etrac. This weekend I used my AT-Pro a lot because the sites we were hunting were made for it. Other times it's the other way around.
We hit one spot this weekend that was kicking both machines. Sulpher warm springs, black sand and occupation since the late 1700's. Nails, trash, heavily hunted and the above conditions. Neither of us was running very deep with either machine. Both were chattering with much of any sensitivity. He beat me out and got his coil over a shallow Merc first. We seem to swap weekends on who does best depending on the site and who swings where.
I wouldn't part with either machine. Both are just tools. Both can be used poorly, average or to the limits of the machine depending on the operator and the operator can make a huge difference from what I've seen!
We hit one spot this weekend that was kicking both machines. Sulpher warm springs, black sand and occupation since the late 1700's. Nails, trash, heavily hunted and the above conditions. Neither of us was running very deep with either machine. Both were chattering with much of any sensitivity. He beat me out and got his coil over a shallow Merc first. We seem to swap weekends on who does best depending on the site and who swings where.
I wouldn't part with either machine. Both are just tools. Both can be used poorly, average or to the limits of the machine depending on the operator and the operator can make a huge difference from what I've seen!
pulltabMiner
New member
What a jerk!
I know of NO ONE who owns an Etrac who has found more gold with their machine than I did with my Ace 250. And once I put the 8.5x11DD on it, man, that little Yellow Wonder went deep! I now own an AT Pro and a V3i and I will still recommend the 250 to anyone.
I know of NO ONE who owns an Etrac who has found more gold with their machine than I did with my Ace 250. And once I put the 8.5x11DD on it, man, that little Yellow Wonder went deep! I now own an AT Pro and a V3i and I will still recommend the 250 to anyone.
GoGoGopher
New member
Remember...It is not how much you pay for your detector...It is how well you KNOW your detector...Each model has its Pros and Cons...God Bless ya if you can afford a Minelab and know how to use it, but I will stick with my AT Pro for a while and LEARN it....So far, I am doing just fine....
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