Ace 250 - Best Setting?

[undertaker]

Ive recenty have been detecting large cornfields and finding musketballs, a few buttons and a buckle or two from the revolutionary war period. The biggest problem Im having is these field are loaded with square nails and its hard to tell their signals from a musketball that will often have a simular sound. I run in the coin setting with sensitivity at max or one under. Ive tried all metal mode in hopes of finding a cannonballs but couldn't stand the constant signals. I have never used any other settings that are on the ace 250. Is their another setting that might help discriminate or do I just dig these nails till my arm falls off?

 

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[savant365]

If you are digging nails in an open field I would say that there was a building some where near there at some point. I would dig everything and go over the same area in different directions. As far as settings on the Ace250 I almost always use the jewelry setting and the sensitivity at 5 or 6 bars. I get way too many false signals if it is set on 7 or 8. If I am somewhere that has a lot of trash like foil wrappers and can slaw I seem to have to turn it down to about 3 or 4 and use the coin setting and I only dig very solid nickel signals. If you are relic hunting you are going to have to live with the nails. Good luck and HH Charlie

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

I hunt the fields arroud me and use all metal. When I find a hot spot I sometimes discriminate iron and foil. Everything else I dig. Yes I dig lots of foil type crap but the small buttons may bounce arround all the way down near foil too.

Good luck, VPR

 

[mountainplayer]

I hunt with an Ace250, too. Large nails seem to give off an excellent high tone from one direction, then break up if swung from 90 degrees. Try this: when you get a high tone that repeats in both directions...keep swinging while moving your body so that you gradually adjust the sweep to 90 degrees from the original direction. Unless you've got a massive chunk of iron, you should hear the signal break up.

Square nails drive me crazy, though. For some reason, possibly the mineralization in my area, they often give me a nice clear high tone from all directions. The partial ones especially. Other times, I'll see a slight blip toward ferrous, but not so much that I'd question whether to dig. As a result, I've dug several hundred of them.

Lead, at least in my experience, tends to bounce from pulltab to .25c, and is rarely a steady lock on.

MP

 

[ivan salis]

running fulll blast or very high sen can lead to lots of false signals & thus wasted time -- often with no improvement of depth as a "trade off" ---equal depth with much less falsing can often be had at 5 to 6 "power / sen " bars --- try the "custom" setting --tweak it using the elim button in or out as you choose --it is the only mode that will "remember" the way you have it set up notch wize --if you turn it on / off --all the other modes will automatically go back to their "preset mode" set ups once shut down --however the custom mode "remembers" your settings for the next time --until either lyou change em or its been out of power for awhile (dead batteries)

take a square nail -- and in "custom" mode --run i the coil over it--- while pressing the elimanate button while doing so -- till it no longer rings up * -- you have now notched out the "nail" -- now check your machine with other "desired to be found type items" to see that they still ring up however.---if so your good to go.-- if not pop in only what blocks you need to find said items -- pushing elim once takes out the "block" push again to "restore" it

 

[ramfan]

Gr8 info Ivan! Thanks!