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Must have been asked before, but how does the Ace 250 handle rusty bottle caps and nails? Also can you knock out tabs and find nickels? Thanks!

Handles nails pretty well, old, haloed square nails will sometimes bounce around near foil. Alot of rusty bottlecaps will belltone, but I haven't found a machine yet that won't sometimes hit on bottlecaps (buried/rusty) like a coin.
Nickels and pulltabs will often look the same to this machine, you just gotta' dig them to get nickels and similarly conductive gold rings.
The 250 seems to hit nickels harder than alot of other machines in "coin" mode, unfortunately, the pulltabs can hit hard too.
HH!
Skillet
 
I have 7 detectors and they all have trouble seperating nickels from pulltabs.
You can notch out nails too, but old, rusty nails won't always read dead-iron on your machine. This is really only an issue if you are relic hunting, maybe jewelry hunting...
The 250 has 12 notches, like the 350, compared to 24 on the 1500... I have both machines. The 1500 has more resolution but the 250 has faster response/recovery and handles minerals better than the 1500 when comparing the stock coils.
The 1500 handles minerals as well or better with the 5X10 DD coil, but I have to give the 250 higher marks for target seperation.
Hope this helps you compare the two!
Skillet
 
Because pulltabs come in various sizes and shapes and positioning, they don't all read in the same place. If you notch them out, you unfortunately notch out nickels and some high k gold. On the plus side, if you really master your detector, you can tell from the tone response and scaning from different directions will usually give you a hint of a non-circular object. All the notches on a detector are only probabilities, and are subject to error based on many conditions.
 
Yeah I have found the 250 to be excellent on target separation when scanning over multiple coins laying within a few inchs of each other.
Bill
 
I got into a multiple coin drop yesterday, coins at 1" and less apart, and at first I thought it was a large junk object, but upon investigation, found 6 coins in about a four inch area. The little yeller feller was screaming at me!!
 
Yeah if you slow way down and move the coil just a couple of inches back and forth sideways you can isolate each coin pretty well. I got a big signal the other day and used that technique and isolated six coins laying next to each other. It also helps to detune over a pile like that then you can really separate them.
Bill
 
The steel caps ussually hit all over the id. It will hit as a coin then as foil then as iron. If you slow your swing down and watch the id scale when you are over a cap you will see the id go to iron as you make multi passes. I don't dig any thing that shows up in iron inca.Small foil will bounce but it goes from foil to near zinc. Also when in pinpoint it will be a real tight signal down the middle of the coil.Good hunting,Joe
 
While hovering over the target and pinpointing release and press pinpoint one or more times to narrow the signal down.
Bill
 
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