Making A Come Back

[Jerry-Iowa]

I have been out of treasure hunting for awhile after 13 years of hunting and ready to get down and dirty again. I told a co-worker about detecting and he wanted to try it, so I recharged the batteries on my CX Master Hunter and GTAx 1000 and we went digging, oh the fever has returned. My co-worker having four kids, really can

 

[DavHut]

Jerry,
I doubt the new ProFormance coils will work on the CXII. Uncle Willy is the guy to ask that one. However, after this long "out of it", you'd do good to sell the old CXII and GTAx 1000 and pool the moola on a GTP 1350 and a 250. If it took a little cash to up the ante, so be it.

Not that there is anything wrong with either of them, mind you. I found some yummy goodies with my old CXII. But, as you noted, things have advanced after 13 years. It might behoove you to do likewise.

I now have a GTP 1350, a 250 is in the works and I've added a coupla others, too. Shoot, I even got a bonafide freshwater detector. In order to do this, I sold off my GTA 1000, 1250, the CXII and the others, all but my Silver Sabre uMax - and its going after I get the 250. Every so often it's a good investment to upgrade.

And you can do what I did. Pick 'em up used.

Just my two cents worth. Welcome back, Jerry. Do your research and have fun

 

[saika/ace250]

Neither he nor you should doubt whether the 250 is a good machine. I have been at this for 20 years and the 250 is one amazing machine for the price. It is all I use right now. The only thing that I may be adding to my bag of clubs is a dedicated gold machine, maybe....

 

[w1ki]

You won't go wrong with the Ace 250. I bought one last spring as a backup to my primary machine (White's XLT with a Bigfoot coil) and I haven't been sorry. I just bought one of the new 9X12 accessory coils and find that to be a true asset to an already fine machine. The other day I went out in a tot lot and found just under $4.00 in change. I hunted that same lot just a couple weeks earlier ad did well, but the Ace plus the new coil just proves the old adage that you never get it all. For the money I doubt that you will find a better machine.

 

[jimmileo]

I got started in the metal detecting hobby just last Christmas. My wife bought me a BH and I soon was not too happy with it although I did find some "stuff". I took the plunge and bought a GTI 2500, a remarkable machine with all the bells and whistles and then some! When the ACE 250 came out I was in the market for a lighter weight machine for coin shooting and hitting the local parks and playgrounds. So,I got the ACE250. It is not the 2500, but it comes very close for a $200.00 detector! It will do anything most hobbiests will ever need and then some. I have read reports that it will not fare well in salty sand beaches, but have no first hand knowledge. I have used mine on freshwater beaches and it did amazingly well. If only it had a manual ground balance I think the salt beach problem...if it exists, would be solved. I would also like to see a volume control as it is a very loud detector! A set of light weight stereo headphones with an adjustable volume control from Radio Shack solved that problem. Unless you hunt saltwater beaches a lot I don't know how one could go wrong with the ACE 250.

 

[DavHut]

Some real meat. Thanks!!

David