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Went to a huge park today and couldn't believe my detectors!

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GreggWestCoast

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I had planed to hit this park for a while. I drove by it a few times in Santa Maria California. It is a beautiful park and I noticed many people there when I drove by. So I drove about a 1/2 hour back to this park with my wife. My detector was going off ALL over the place. Every few feet... I walked and walked and it kept on doing it. I dug a few holes and found nothing at the depth my detector metered or deeper... I figured my detector was not working so I got out my other detector and the same thing happened. I have NEVER seen such a thing. This park was as nice as a golf course. Thankfully this person comes over to chat and ask questions. He said he walks through the park everyday. I asked him if he ever sees guys metal detecting here. He said very rarely. I told him I couldn't detect this park because there was to much junk deep down. He said, "well no wonder, this was the city dump at one time." I couldn't believe it... WOW... Now I have never detected in such an area. Is there any way to detect this park??? If I only had a detector that went 3 inches max! There must be good stuff all over this park and probably FEW have been able to get there detector to work. Any advice? I have always avoided trashy areas but this is a real nice spot.

Thanks,
Gregg
 
But you will still get some large targets buried deep... Use Disc to control your hits too.
 
That's why I love the Ace. I can go to 1-2 bars sensitivity, slow the sweep speed, and work places no other detector can.:thumbup:
 
GreggWestCoast said:
Ace 150 or 250? Does it hit the big targets down bellow?
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It will hit the bigger targets just like any other detector. They are metal. Like pop cans.
 
GreggWestCoast said:
Ace 150 or 250? Does it hit the big targets down bellow?
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Sorry. I happen to have the 250. NO IT DOESN'T. I have a tot lot I search and there are two strips that CANNOT be searched because of the large signals. I can lower the sensitivity to 2 bars and if I don't speed up the coil I can find coins the first 2-3" WITHOUT a sound from the huge trash below. At 1 bar sensitivity, I find coins the first inch or two. That's with the sensitivity all the way down-1 bar. This also works on the trashiest tab sites you can imagine. I put it at 2 bars and search in Coins mode. It's cherry pickin' at it's finest. It's one of the Ace's best kept secrets.
 
Garrett ATPro in Pro mode with iron audio on and 35-40 discrimination. You can hear the good targets in all the iron and junk with practice.

video on it
AT PRO Basics, Part 7of 7
 
I do the same thing at a totlot that's on a very junky piece of land. I have an AT-Pro and turn the sensitivity down to two bars with the 4.5" sniper coil on and aside from newly dropped trash I can hunt it in Pro coin mode and get all the new drops of coins and jewelry that's in the chips.
 
i would think a Ace 150 would work also wouldn't it?
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Yes.

I know of an older gentleman who doesn't get around that well anymore. He's strictly a park and playground hunter these days. He works for clad and recent drops in the top 3 inches or so. He finds a tremendous amount of coins using an Ace 150. He keeps the sensitivity set low and wastes no time trying to search for deep old targets.
 
The Ace's are good detectors but if you already have some detectors, you can turn down the gain/sensitivity on all of them I bet. Low sensitivity, small coil, slow swing and discrimination are the key points to hunting in junk.
 
I never hunted over a land fill, when I want limit the depth of my detector I lower the sensitivity and raise the coil off the ground 3" or 4". I know for sure that works for me because at times I still get a pull tab or 2 and 3".

Good luck,

Ron in WV
 
LOL....one of the parks here in my city in Idaho is built over the city's original dump, circa 1885-1950. Park is beautiful. And Greg, my Tek T2 detector behaved just like yours did:) I dug some big junk, but no keepers like coins, toys or household items. Did get a old automobile hubcap though.
 
Turn the sensitivity way down and use the smallest coil you can get you hands on.
 
Larry (IL) said:
The Ace's are good detectors but if you already have some detectors, you can turn down the gain/sensitivity on all of them I bet. Low sensitivity, small coil, slow swing and discrimination are the key points to hunting in junk.
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Larry, I have 4 other brands and only the lowly BH Tracker allows the gain to go down almost as low as the Ace. Apparently, the mfg's only allow a certain minimum for fear that customers will complain because of the poor depth.
 
AS others have said, smallest coil you can get, low sensitivity and start of with fairly high discrimination. Good luck. By the way, Tesoro's will also give low sensitivity when turned down, as well as other detectors...not trying to turn you away from the Garretts, but others will also work. HH
 
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