Ol' Yeller does it again.

[Dang]

The hunt was a dud at the start. I tried hunting an area of a old high school that I never hunted before but after an hour and a half and only one dime and a few pennies I decided to head home.
Then I stopped at a park where I had hunted before but never found any old coins. As a matter of fact I never found anything old for as a resident across the street told me the city plowed up and bulldozed the gruonds and replaced all the sod. Gave the whole park a new look. I asked him if there was any place that they didn't touch. and he pointed to a small plot near the toddler play area. That was last summer and yesterday I hunted that little plot with my Ace 250 and found 3 wheat backs! And a quarter.
Think maybe today I go back with my old Toltec and see if I can dig up a merc or 2.

 

[Uncle Willy]

A little secret about the feller - the faster you swing the coil the deeper it goes. Try this on a bench test and pass a coin across the coil at normal scanning speed and check the depth - then whip the coin across the coil and see how much you gain.

Bill

 

[Dang]

Yeah, I noticed that also. But it's very difficult to pin point don't you think?
I went back to the same spot with my Tesoro Toltec 100 today. Didn't uncover any treasures. Then I hunted another spot and brought out The Ace 250 to see if I missed anything with the Toltec and I actually found a corroded zink penny that the Toltec passed up. I just enjoy swinging that Ace 250 so much more then my Toltec. So much lighter. Found another ring today with it also.

 

[Uncle Willy]

It certainly is, but as you've probably discovered the 250 will often detect deeper than it can pinpoint.

Bill

 

[Bill G]

That is real common with most detectors, they will detect deeper than they can ID and detect deeper than they can pinpoint.

Bill G

 

[Dang]

I guess there's no such thing as the perfect detector yet. You ever read that book I think its called "Understanding Discrimination" In a nut shell it basically says....Dig every target.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah, been that way long as I can remember - and I can remember 42 years ago. HA.



Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Don't recall reading that book but have written several articles on the subject myself in the treasure mags.

Bill

 

[High Desert Jim]

Who worte it? Mr. Garrett?

 

[Dang]

"Taking A Closer Look At Discrimination " by Robert C. Brockett.

 

[Dang]

Are you a famous detectorist Bill. Are you buddies with that Whites guy, Dick Stouts?
say...are you the famous modifing genius "Mr Bill"?? Who are you Bill?

 

[High Desert Jim]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

I used to write a whole bunch for all the treasure mags, but mostly for Lost Treasure, Treasure Facts, Treasure Cache, and a few others. Pumped out about 30 articles a year. You can go to the Lost Treasure site and come across twenty years of my articles and field tests. I've got about 600 articles or so under my belt. I was field test editor for Gold & Treasure Hunting magazine before they bit the dust a few years back. I had a column in the online magazine at Treasure Depot before it died. Actually the mag is still there with all the old articles. I have field tested detectors for several manufacturers.

I used to write for Tesoro in their MDI booklet and their NSMD newspaper that Jack Gifford published for awhile. In fact I helped get that off the ground. And then I've done a few other things like test Garrett prototype and production detectors and accessories for many years. Before this forum ( which I moderate ) there was the Garrett Classroom which I ran from start to finish and taught a lot of folks how to use a Garrett. And I've been swinging a beeper in several states for 42 years. There's probably more but I can't think of anything else right now. I'm tired. HAA.

Bill

 

[Dang]

Wow! I bet I read a few of your articale when I was a 15 yr old kid with a all metal "Gremlin" Detector. Ha! Come to think of it it was yellow also!
Anyway I'm impressed. Now let me pick your brain a bit. I got back into detecting back in Nov. 03. The first detector I bought was a piece of crap. Then I bought a Musketeer colt. Got even sicker and picked up a used BH sharp shooterII, Came into some money and picked up a musketeer Advantage w/pro pack. Then I read that book by Brockett and decided I needed a detector with a meter. Came across the Toltec 100 and it became my primary detector. This machine had a notch control and a meter and I learned a lot about detecting with it. But the disadvantage was that it was heavy.You can stop a bull in it's tracks with a toltec 100. So I traded my Advantage for a Classic IDX w/ Mr.B Mods. And a few months later I left it in my car over night and some jerks broke into my car and stoled it. So I was back using the toltec and doing pretty good with it also I might add. It's old but good. Then I aquired a Ace 250 and in the few weeks I have had it I have found just as much jewelry as I found over a year and a half with all my other detectors put together. Why? I still detect the way I always detect. Is it that Micro Processor thing?

 

[Uncle Willy]

I owned a Toltec 100 and it was a helluva machine in its day and will still hold its own. I've owned or used about everything Jack Gifford ever made. The reason you're finding more is the 250 is just a bundle of hi-tech goodies crammed into an inexpensive machine. Garrett really loaded it for bear when they produced it. I have a hunch it's a precursor for a mind boggler to come ( and they are working on one as we speak ). That's why it's so popular and they're selling them as fast as they can make them and all the oldtimers like me are parking our big buck machines and playing with the 250. Since I first field tested the 250 I have hardly touched my 550/1350/1500/2500/Infinium/X5. They probably think I have disowned them. HAA.

Bill