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Secrets stashed inside the 250...

Gee Thanks Bill(OR); I just couldn't stand it any longer and today at around 2pm I ordered a Yeller Feller (250).
The sad thing is that it is currently out of stock and I will have to sit around waiting for it. I sure hope that it is worth the wait. All the hype about this machine can't possibly be true?
Well I guess I will find out soon.
HH
 
Bill do you ever feel like just beating youre head against the wall when all this "my brand is better than youre brand" crap gets started?!! Geez guys its just supposed to be fun <img src="/metal/html/yo.gif" border=0 width=31 height=15 alt=":yo">
 
a lot has to deal with the person and how they use a detector.Every detector has good and bad pionts. I am not brand loyal but I do use the best detector that suites my needs.I also know you can not totally clean a area out but Minelab has some of the deepest detectors on the market.They also use a 2D coil that gives a field straight down from edge to coil edge.Another thing about Minelab is they see through iron better then any other detector on the market. I like my Excalibur for wet sand and water hunting although my Infinium is slowly getting the wet sand area.When I am in the dry sand and park hunting the 250 has taken these spots.I am looking for light wieght,good depth and the notch for different hunting conditions.And yes I bought the 250 because it is fun and that is the most important thing to have.I am sorry I did not what to start a Pi----- match I just find this story hard to believe.Good Luck hunting this weekend,Joe
 
Why do you think everyone is out of them? <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> You'll love it. Check all the forums and see where all the oldtimers are using the 250 and leaving their big bucks machines at home - just like me. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Bill
 
Just a little. I don't put coins under the carpet anymore to conduct a field test. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Bill
 
All coils have a certain shaped signal when it enters the ground but as it goes deeper, weakens, and contends with mineralization, the shape weakens, draws in, and shrinks in size. At peak depth it is no longer the size it was when it left the coil regardless of who made it.
Bill
 
Yes, and if I had of all these years my head would be just mush now. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> A detector is a detector, is a detector, is a detector. The key word in metal detector is "metal" and they'll all find it.
Bill
 
Now Joe be honest, you've been around a day or two and this can't the first detector yarn you've found hard to believe is it? <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Bill
 
Not quite. I'm not one of these brand radical characters. I've used about everything that has ever been made and I am yet to see the "wonder detector". And it's just a matter of fact that you can follow anyone with any kind of detector and find stuff they missed.
A lot of guys won't dig unless the target looks right or sounds right or reads out good on their display. I once dug up a flattened out beer can that was full of probe holes, but I was the only one to dig it up and find the roll of silver quarters laying under it. One time my hunting buddy passed over a traget he deemed to be a big hunk of junk. I checked it out and dug it up. It was a big hunk of junk - a pewter bank in the shape of a steer, full of old silver coins. I could tell you some more stories but you get the point.
It takes a lot more than an alleged wonder detector to bring home the goodies and the detector hasn't been made that gets it all. Anybody that thinks so is living in La La Land. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Bill
 
to your slurs against the Explorer. "Wonder detector" and all the rest. Yes, you can explain how any detector can miss, no such thing as cleaning out an area and all the rest, by why the slurs? The point of any of us questioning the Ace "cleaning up after 3 Explorers" is:
1). The Explorer is no slouch, it doesn't matter if Garrett didn't make it, they are fine detectors.
2). The purported fact that there were 3 Explorers covering the same area. This leads the reader to wonder exactly how 3 guys that even know how to turn on the EXP could have missed. 3 guys!
3). If one company is guilty of hyperbole in advertising, I think we all know who that is. Funny how multiple frequencies was labeled a waste of a detectorists time and money, but it was an incredibly good idea for the Infinium. So good in fact that they shot right past 17, 28, 36 frequencies all the way to 96.
Item 3 is NOT MY FAULT, it is based in FACT, not opinion.
Now, you ought to know me well enough by now that I would have had the same questions if The Mayor (so far as I know, the sole source of this information) had said the White's DFX, MXT, XLT, Fisher CZ-3d, Bounty Hunter Time Ranger, top of the line Tesoros, or for that matter any of the high end Garretts were the units the Ace cleaned up after.
Happy hunting.
DAS
 
Hey Bill
If your interested i just posted a find on Whites main forum above on WED Feb 16th at 8:41 am. with the pic, and the Story is 13 posts below the pic. The reason i'm posting this here is because what your saying is true.The park i found these coins is hunted to death by every detector know to mankind and i think i found a little area of the park that for some reason hasn't been hit much. And i also noticed what you said about folks digging only the signals that meet certain criteria and thats part of my story also. You are so right what your saying. HH Bill
 
When someone post about a person finding stuff after a explorer passes over the ground <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> Can't figure that out.So you missed something don't we all !!
 
and you will see prominently displayed:
Now, you ought to know me well enough by now that I would have had the same questions if The Mayor (so far as I know, the sole source of this information) had said the White's DFX, MXT, XLT, Fisher CZ-3d, Bounty Hunter Time Ranger, top of the line Tesoros, or for that matter any of the high end Garretts were the units the Ace cleaned up after.
See, reading can be fun and educational. Let me break it down for you in case it's still not clear and you are only reading the parts you want to read:
I do not believe the story, and I wouldn't believe it it it were ANY OTHER top of the line model from virtually ANY OTHER manufacturer.
I own both the 250 and an EXP II, but I guess in order to be a true Garrett user I have to get rid of the minelab and genuflect in the general direction of Garrett's inc.
See, "take offense" is really a poor choice of words. Several weeks ago a user on another forum was asking about new detectors. I explained I was very happy with my Ace250, and added a link to a review by BILL(OR). The other user stated he would treat a review from a Garrett furum with due dilligence, then I went on to explain that it wasn't a Garrett forum per se, just one page devoted to Garretts on a site that caters to most brands with pages for each. I further went on to explain that BILL(OR) having 40+ years of experience was likely to give a solid review, I mentioned that it was unlikely he was a brand bigot after all these years. Well, with the slurs against the Minelab, I have to wonder if I was correct in my defense!
Clear enough?
Hope so, becuiase I'm going to go swing the 250 for a few hours, and I might even (GASP) use the Minelab too!
DAS
LMAO at all of this brand loyalty crappola!
 
It was not a planted hunt. It was a cache that had been spread over a large area. It was our 2nd time there in 5 years. We all found plenty of gold coins using many different brands of detectors. When you have the oppertunity to hunt a site that has produced triple digit numbers of gold coins you try everything....Fisher and Tesoro as well as Minelabs and Garretts, not just the 250 and Explorers. Carl being a factory rep used a 250 a good portion of the time and it kept up with some of the more expensive detectors. Carl is also one of the best hunters around, and had the confidence in a $250 detector to spend most of his time hunting with it and he found gold just like everyone else and MOST of the other detectors.
Dig Deep
Mike
 
I understand where your comming from. I have owned a fisher coin strike , Garretts 1000,1500,2000 and now own a whites DFX. I think out of them all the Garretts are easy to use from the bottom one to the top one.To say you'll never find anything after I've been at a site is a unreal statement. No matter what you use and I've used a good many of them. Let us know what you find.
 
Thanks for posting Mike, I appreciate the update.
"Kept up with" and even "surpassed due to the luck of the sweep" are very much more palitable to those who hunt a lot and know the capabilities of their machines. My 250 is a surprizingly good tool, even better than I expected, which is of course never a bad thing.
Now on to important stuff, like, well... got any GPS coordinates you'd like to share?!?
Triple digit gold coins from one site? Wait, maybe I don't want to know where it is, I'm not sure my heart could handle it! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Thanks again for the update, I only wish I could have been there too! Waa-hoo! What a site!
DAS
 
I've used a Minelab or two. Good machines but I just ain't fond of them just as I ain't to fond of Whites or Bounty Hunter. Just my personal choice. It's only been in the last ten years that I ever owned a Garrett. My favorite machines for many years were Compass and Tesoro and I owned a slew of both and still have a Tesoro and a Shadow X5 which I like.
Bill
 
you will miss targets that I can guarantee! A good overlap will pick out targets that ARE masked over much of that supposed broad winshield wiper sensitive area. That in itself disproves some of what you read about DD coils.
Tom
 
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