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Well, I finally got a chance to go pick up my 250 today. I took it outside to see what all the hype was about over this little yellow $199 machine. I took some relics I had at work and placed them on the ground. I'm not much on air testing but if the machine detects even close to what it did in air tests, it's not hype at all. I was very impressed to say the least. No, it's not a 2500, explorer or any of the other $800 plus machines but for $199, it is miles above anything else in this price range. Heck, it will give some $500 machines a run for there money. I got about 8 inches on eagle buttons, about 9 inches on a South Carolina coat button, 7 inches on a pewter USA cuff button, 9 inches on a large cent and 16 inches on a Civil War officers sward belt plate. I also got a solid hit on a three ringer at about 9 inches and it belltoned. I really like that. I would like to see the belltone go even lower but I guess you can't have everything. Another thing that I liked was the fact that the machine would belltone on everything from nickel and above when the target was just about out of reach of the machine. Talk about getting some feedback from your machine. If I get a 8 inch reading on the scale and it is giving a belltone, I'm thinking deep button size target or something brass, copper or lead that is bigger and maybe deeper. Again, this was just an air test but it still looks very good for the little yeller feller. It should do great when hunting inside Civil War huts. I was also able to run the machine wide open with no false signals at all. The ground is pretty nasty around here and still no false signals. I got the weekend off for the first time in quite a while and I am planning on going down to VA and give it test in the civil war relic fields. I don't plan on it taking the place of my DMCIIba but I can't wait to see what it will do. This should be fun. HH Tim