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This is for those who have found silver with the ACE

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GimmieThe Loot

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I need some major help and advice. I am trying to be patient but jeez... I can't help but get frustrated when I see everyone posting great stuff and I find 2 bucks in clad and some nails. So... to those finding silver with the ACE, what is the average depth? What settings are you using? How does the ACE react to the silver?

I've been going out at least 3 times a week since March and I have tons of clad but only one old IH penny.

Does anyone who is experienced in hitting silver have any advice? I will really appreciate it!

Thanks!

Jay
 
Hey Jay,
Welcome to the hobby. I think most people who are first starting out with the ace 250 get a little frustrated. I know I did. I think it was about 2 months before I got my first silver mercury dime. You will get used to what your machine is telling you after a while. I assume you are using the stock 6 x 9 coil still. I have been using the 10 x 14 accellerator coil for the last year but more or less the silver signals are the same. A silver dime will bounce between dime and quarter and sometimes half. Usually a pretty steady bell tone signal. anything bouncing down to penny or up to dollar is usually a chunk of aluminum can slaw. A silver quarter usually bounces between quarter and half dollar only, again with a noticeable bell tone. CLAD dimes and quarters are usually very solid signals, no jumping. A big factor in finding silver is your location. There have metal detectors around for quite a while, so you might have to do a little research for older sites in your area. Remenber, if you start finding wheat pennies, there is probably silver around too. I have found a merc dime at 2 inches and a silver quarter at about 8 to 10 inches, so depth shouldn't matter as much as location. The biggest thing to remember is if you walk away from a hole wondering or not sure,.... go back and dig it. Good luck, I hope this helps.

DS

P.S. I usually use all metal mode with the bottom two (iron) notched out. (basically this is jewelry mode) I usually go as high as the sensitivity will let me without sounding like a pinball game.
 
I met a guy who took almost two years-no b.s., two years to get his first silver. Anyway, its the area, does it have silver or not. That is a factor, silver 99% of the time on my Ace 250 comes up as it is supposed to, Dime, Quarter, half, dollar, etc. Copper-Wheats, Indian Heads will also come up as dimes. I found my first silver a 42 s Merc at about 6 1/2 inchs. Just go slow if your in trashy areas, listen real hard-hopefully you do have headphones! And it sucks, but dig everything, that rings up as penny or higher. It could be though, that you need to find a older area. It isnt impossible, $1110 machines wont find silver either if it aint there! Remember, most of the 8 inch and shallower stuff has been hunted already, 8+ inchs havent as much. Its all about virgin, and maybe a little hunted area. But, also hunted out, isnt always hunted out. No place is ever hunted out. Just have patience, I first hated my Ace...now I cant believe how I can just nail targets with ease. Find the areas though, okay! I get deepedt on pennies/dimes, just under 8, close to just over 7 inchs. Quarters, halves, dollars about the same give an inch-inch and a half. It is really mineralized here in Norcal where I'm at. I use the Jewelry mode 99% of the time, with the factory preset of 6 out of 8 bars used, plus eliminate out foil-(the first bar next to Nickel). It works great for me. Anyway, it will come, it took me, lets see, I bought my machine last Christmas, probably end of Feb, I found it. In a Sacramento park, that was supposed to be hunted out. So good luck, and find those areas! Take it easy, HH

Nick
 
Thanks for your help guys... yeah I use headphones but I wear them around my neck. I can still hear the tones fine and also I can hear what else is going on around me. I'm in Chicago and I find plenty of weirdos wondering the parks around here so I need to be able to hear if there is a fight or group of punks coming close. I know these parks in Chicago have been pounded but I keep seeing posts from people still finding mercs and barbers around here. I do use the stock 6x9 still but I can't go in all metal mode for more than 2 minutes before I get annoyed at the constant pull tabs every 2 inches. I also find plenty of metal 40oz beer caps that ring up as solid dimes and quarters. I should also admit that I usually skip signals 6+ inches because it has always been some kind of odd iron peice from back in the horse and wagon days. I hate digging a huge hole just to find a chunk of iron that the ACE was showing 50 cent peice. It doesn't seem to be accurate on deep targets.

Anyways, I did try to take it slow today and dig as much as I could. Here are my finds...
 
Gimmetheloot i have dug a few silvers with my Ace. Average depth of my silver recoveries range from 2-3 inches for Roosevelts, 4-6 for Barbers and Seated. ID wise the silvers on my Ace 250 show up from Penny to Half dollar. If it is a silver dime it will show up as a dime..Sometimes bounce between Penny and dime. Silver quarter sometimes ID as a quarter or a Half Dollar. I've dug quite a few over the past 2 years. Honestly it really depends on Location, Location, Location. Here is a tip..I know you know this already, but try to find some place where folks would gather in the old days. Before 1964..Old Parks, Old houses, Old walking trails. Keep in mind the one common factor in that sentence...OLD... Silvers are hard to find. They just ain't gonna jump out at ya..Keep that in mind. Don't know about where you are located, but here in my town the parks were cherry picked by the older detectorists years ago. I still find a few stragglers...ALSO Dig those penny signals. Sure it may just be a penny, but it also could be a Large cent..Indian head pennies ID the mark before the penny..Gives a different tone as well..So if you hear that tone and it id's right next to the penny dig it. Gold ID's anywhere from Foil to penny...I have found a Gold Rings that ID as a pulltab and turn out being a ring. Also dug a Gold ring that ID'ed as a penny...You just really never know..DIG DIG DIG...Hope this helped out a little bit....zaxfire69
 
You won't find lunker bass in a fresh dug lake. Location is #1 in finding silver plus some luck. If you get your coil over silver your machine will beep. Your silver will come. Keep swinging!
 
I know it sucks! The junk sucks! BUT...you have got to dig all of those targets that are over 3 inchs. That is a must! Especially at 6!!!! hH

Nick

Remember, there is garbage before goods, like there are no's before yes's in sales.
 
This is my henry vii hammered 1485-1509 with my old ACE 250 with 6.5x9 rhino coil. set on (custom) eliminate (iron) and (sens) flat out. I found the coin on a hot day and about 9''. If the ground was wet it would be around 12-14''. Ive had a silver george iii shilling 1820 at 14''. i tell one thing the ace 250 loves been in the rain ive had all my roman in the rain. and i dont mean just a shower. i mean hard rain.
 
There has to be silver there before you can find it. It doesn't grow like weeds. Silver hasn't been in existence or minted since 1964 and most of it has been found as detectors have been around since the early thirties. of it was gathered up in the early eighties when silver hit $50 per ounce and was melted down so that silver is gone forever.Many years ago I found silver all the time. Now it's extremely rare to come across a silver coin. If I find one or two a year now I consider myself lucky.

Bill
 
Uncle Willy said:
Now it's extremely rare to come across a silver coin. If I find one or two a year now I consider myself lucky.

Bill
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3 out 5 outings with my garrett i find silver. so i must be lucky then.:spin:
 
Just depends...Virgin Virgin Virgin is what its all about. At first, I was like come on, there is no more virgin spots. BUT THERE ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finding them is awesome. Think outside the box...not just parks, old empty lots where a house once stood, old property, sidewalk grass strips, etc. You'll find em!!!! HH P.S. I asked the same questions when I first started. Now I'm answering them, and soon YOU WILL be too!!!!

Nick
 
:usaflag:My whole town is virgin. It's just a matter of hitting everything before it gets developed.
 
GimmieThe Loot said:
Thanks for your help guys... yeah I use headphones but I wear them around my neck. I can still hear the tones fine and also I can hear what else is going on around me. I'm in Chicago and I find plenty of weirdos wondering the parks around here so I need to be able to hear if there is a fight or group of punks coming close. I know these parks in Chicago have been pounded but I keep seeing posts from people still finding mercs and barbers around here. I do use the stock 6x9 still but I can't go in all metal mode for more than 2 minutes before I get annoyed at the constant pull tabs every 2 inches. I also find plenty of metal 40oz beer caps that ring up as solid dimes and quarters. I should also admit that I usually skip signals 6+ inches because it has always been some kind of odd iron peice from back in the horse and wagon days. I hate digging a huge hole just to find a chunk of iron that the ACE was showing 50 cent peice. It doesn't seem to be accurate on deep targets.

Anyways, I did try to take it slow today and dig as much as I could. Here are my finds...
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:usaflag:Dammit...another pot-head loses their one-hitter. They are probably just happy it was'nt their bag of goodies that they lost :rofl:
 
Yup, it's all about location. It sounds too simple to have to tell anyone, but that's really all there is to it. Yesterday I dug a '51 Roosevelt and a '44 Mercury dime. How? I went to where I knew there should be some silver coins. And that place, for ME, is a military base that was built in the mid-40's. People tell me that I'm "lucky to have that place to search", and that's a fact, but it's also a fact that I live in the poorest state in the Union in per capita income. So when I go to a high school, or a playground, or a park in this area I'm lucky to find a few quarters along with the mostly-rotten zinc pennies that I dig. And the rotten pennies outnumber all other coins by a HUGE margin. Jewelry of any kind is quite scarce, ALL the time.

And don't think that I always do well at the base, either. My last trip before yesterday I found a grand total of 25 Memorial pennies and 6 clad dimes for about 3 hours of searching. One day two months ago I dug 91 Memorial pennies; 12 wheats; 15 clad dimes; 2 clad quarters; a Netherlands 5-cent piece (1980); and half a dozen toy cars and trucks. And oh yeah, a 1946 silver quarter. Want to know what my last silver coin was before that? It was a '41 Merc on May 11,2008. Same military base.

Location, location, location. And lots of digging. As others have said, silver coins are just much harder to find these days. The times of driving by a deserted drive-in theater, pulling in and swinging your coil until you're tired of digging silver coins are long gone. The only reason I find ANY is that I have a place where there SHOULD be a few; it's limited access; I have no competition there; and I'm willing to cover a lot of ground digging junk most of the time. Keep in mind that this is a hobby, and you should be enjoying just being outdoors and having the possibility of making a few good finds. I understand the desire to find the good stuff, we ALL want to find the good stuff, but that's why it's called treasure HUNTING. Your best tool is your head, not your machine, so put your head to work and first find a place where there SHOULD BE silver coins, where not everyone with a metal detector has gone in the past 25 years, where you can get permission to search, and be prepared to dig junk. Those places, UNlike the obvious drive-ins, CCC camps, scouting camps, virtually untouched fairgrounds and church camps are still out there, waiting for someone with determination to find them.

Good luck, you're gonna need it just like everyone else.
 
:usaflag:I agree. Most of us know that it's not about getting rich. I've only found 6 silver coins since I took up this hobby about 3 months ago. And two of them were war nickels. But...my other four were great...a '27 peace dollar, a '28 walking liberty quarter, and a '46 rosie, and a '45 mercury. Hell...yesterday when I found my second war nickel, I could have called it a day. I was thrilled that I was able to put it in my Jefferson Nickel coin album because I had'nt filled the spot yet. It's all about living for the moment. Peace over and out.
 
Just remember...guys from the 80's mostly all the way to the 90's, really, really, really cleaned out the 6 inch and shallower coins. In most places, granted though, you can still make great finds at those depths. Just not as easy, or fast. Plus, all of the litter from those years, and years prior, and nowadays...its a little rough to say the least. Lots of trash to dig. Hence, DIG 90% OF YOUR TARGETS. Atleast 90%, thats a good way to find gold as well. You gotta dig the pull tabs to get the gold. Maybe 1 peice of gold per every 100 pulltabs? Lets say that, and see how you do. Could be a lot more, could be a lot less. Sometimes, it literally might just be laying on top of the grass! Rarely though!!!!!!!!!!!!HH

Nick
 
I love the optimism you all have!

Thanks for setting me straight and reminding me to just enjoy being outside and embracing the challenge that is treasure hunting!

HH guys!
 
Your ACE certainly won't miss a silver coin if you put the coil over one, that's for sure. I run mine on all metal and find that the ACE will "unmask" targets better than most detectors, especially if you go slow. You'll know for sure when a silver coin is under your coil. Many areas have had literally scores of detectors already over the best ground. A lot of the hype in this hobby is over which detector is better or deeper, but if the truth be known, when it comes to finding old silver coins, the site is the real key to finding silver. My ACE 150 has found over 200 silver coins, but in reality it's my research that should get the most credit.

Have fun, when it comes to uncovering a new site make sure to think "outside the box" and make sure you share with us your successes.

Craig
 
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