Hi David, I'm using the ACE 250. I bought two of them about 7 years ago, I liked the first one so much that I wanted to have a backup if number one ever quit on me. It hasn't, but I still like having two. One of my brothers used my backup at a different area a couple years ago, and after a whole 20 seconds of "instruction" he found a nice little 14k Artcarved band. I swear, he just turns any detector on and just stands there while anything gold within 100 yards makes it's way over to him. I've owned 9 different machines over the years, and this is the first model I've ever bought two of. I was in jewelry mode on the soccer field, the Tiffany ring was maybe 4 inches down, the little monogrammed ring was actually not on the soccer field but outside a playground area nearby. Someone had hit that particular area not too long before I got there (poor job of covering their diggings), so I hit "outside the lines" of a bark chip area, up against the outside of the plastic barriers put down to contain the bark chips. That's at least the third .925 piece I've found in the past couple of years doing that and I recommend it, highly. Seems like most people lock in on the bark chips under the playground equipment, and rightly so due to the large amount of easily recoverable coins. But since that had already been done at this particular place, I hit in the spillage outside of the barriers and the ring was no more than half an inch down, easy to flip out with my probe. The dime was at maybe 3 inches, it's only the second silver coin recovered by me at this location in six years of hitting it. When it first came up I was like "wow, how did a shiny new dime get that deep so quick?" because a silver coin was the last thing I was expecting. Duh. I actually had to look at the date to convince myself it was indeed silver. Obviously I'm not done with this field, but it's getting hot out and it might have to wait for October.
Steve
