Sniper mounted Ace250 hunting in enemy territory

[Dancer]

After 14 years, decided to see what the hi-tech club has left in one of their local parks. I was only detecting about 3 months when last I've been there. I was using my first machine a Gta 1000. I believe. Couple of hours equaled 19 coins and little over a buck. It was no match. Place was vacuumed.
Little on the club. Usually 12-18 members. Some like the latest & greatest machines, most are just average Joes. Once a month, 6 or so swarm a park or school and dig everything. Then sometimes they have a planted hunt for prizes. Sounds like fun but not for me. I will say this , hunting in any of their areas is quite a challenge. That being said, I tooled up the Ace with the Sniper coil to see what dribbling they might have left. Hunting banks close to couple of ball fields. Zip , not even a piece of aluminum. Around dugout benches, no sign of human life. Past that working toward a small concession stand, some coins started shaking out. These guys must have had pennies notched out, because there was plenty on or near the surface, along with a share of tabs. While cleaning these up started finding deeper badly stained dimes underneath. Some down 5-6" that's where the Ace started to strain. Some quarter's not many. So two trips around two ball fields = 119 coins , $7.39. Six more fields in this park. So at worst, dig up few more $, got to be a silver ring in there. Maybe just maybe a little gold. It's mostly the challenge, the Ace is leading the way on this park, maybe find a area for the big boys. At Pro / Infinium L/S

 

[GA1dad]

Awesome!!! Great post my friend!!

 

[slingshot]

Just wondering what sensitivity? 4 bars is my favorite.

 

[Dancer]

Just wondering what sensitivity? 4 bars is my favorite.

Sling, these ball fields are quite rural. There's plenty of really deep sod in areas, thinning out to 3-4" in areas around snack stands. I used sens from max in deep less trashy areas down to 3_4 bars in trash and around fences. I did find pockets of coins, some pretty deep that were missed. But the Ace couldn't even get a beep in a couple of outfields. Not even trash. My last hunt at 2 fields netted only 16 coins, ninety one cents. So for the whole Park little over $8. Which surprises me cause these guys are good. Might go back sometime in spring , try the Infinium in the deep area's.

 

[slingshot]

Dancer, I'll tell you what I've found and the reason I still love my Ace and snipey. I bit the bullet and got one of those high end detectors and they are great for open field. Now when you get in the tight spots OR those shallow spots, these detectors are TOO sensitive and to match the Ace I have to turn them down and the Ace is so much easier to fiddle wirh-just touch a button- that it's much faster to just grab it. They say the Ace has trouble with it's response time in trash-well that may be true around iron objects, but it's less noticeable around other trash- and the sniper coil makes it even better. I have my setting for rings in trash-which is basically the relics mode with tabs notched out- set up in custom mode and so I just push a button to adjust to whatever comes along-switching to one of three oft used modes. The Ace is just the ticket for shallow/medium areas and I too don't fret whenever these groups visit my town. It IS funny to watch them continually checking and rechecking their signals because the ground mineral/trash ratio has their sensitive detectors working overtime

 

[fongu]

Glad you cleaned up on their leavings, Dancer. I went to a different ball field Saturday for an hour and using the 5 x 8 on the At/Pro worked the outfield and was only finding can slaw and pull tabs when I found where the outfielder must have had his hand in his pocket and found 48 cents in clad in a circle about 4 feet. No silver, but enjoyed myself and finished my chores in town for mama. Hoped to go yesterday or today, but the wind blew her car door shut on my back real hard and I'm blessed it didn't hurt me worse than a lot of pain. First thing I did was look around to see if anybody seen me.
At least I didn't fall down. Why do humans do that? My dogs can screw up and first thing they do is look to see if I saw it and hang their heads. Must be something genetic. Happy hunting.