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I'm Impressed. Ace 250 Field Report By JerDfx.
Hi everyone,
I ordered a Ace 250 for my Dad Monday from kelleyco.
I got it today and my first impressions were good.
He paid for it but I ordered it for him. For 223.00 plus the digging tools headphones etc it was a great deal for that price.
I decided I was going to field test it today. I put it together played with it for a few minutes and told the wife I would be back in a few hrs.
I headed over to a old park and hit some woods. I put it on Jewelry mode used my good headphones and bullseye and started.
Took me about 10 minutes to find my first piece of metal.
I turned the sence up and put up the disc a little. It seemed to like hot rocks and read them fairly well.
The unit has good balance. The i.d was pretty accurate. Pinpointing is decent. Size of display is a little issue. But I go by tone and dig everything.
It was giving some false signal when bumped on roots and such but nothing really bad. It was quiet until it cam across something for the most part.
The tone i.d helps.
I didn't achieve great depths but I was still impressed.
I found 3 nice old coins in a hr and a half.
All were about three inches deep.
I noticed it was very sensitive to small pieces of metal. I like that. It could find a .22 shell.
It's light weight so I didn't feel a thing. It's pretty durable but has slight play in the rod mechanism. But nothing to worry about.
Overall I am very impressed with the unit. It's a great beginner machine I think. I have always used white's and know them the best.
But this little unit will run with alot of 450.00 and 500.00 units I have seen in the past.
I will be out again tomorrow for a little while. Then Saturday my Dads gonna get it and were gonna go out.
Hope you like the coins. The first coin on the unit is a 1921 buffalo I dug with it today.
Then shortly after that under a large tree I get a nice quarter signal stayed steady said 2 inches dug down and found a nice 42 S Washington.
I then new at that point this thing would find some goodies.
My Dfx never left the trunk today.
It wasn't a Dfx but it's worth every bit of 200.00.
I might just keep this little unit from my Dad.
HH Jeremy
Hi everyone,
I ordered a Ace 250 for my Dad Monday from kelleyco.
I got it today and my first impressions were good.
He paid for it but I ordered it for him. For 223.00 plus the digging tools headphones etc it was a great deal for that price.
I decided I was going to field test it today. I put it together played with it for a few minutes and told the wife I would be back in a few hrs.
I headed over to a old park and hit some woods. I put it on Jewelry mode used my good headphones and bullseye and started.
Took me about 10 minutes to find my first piece of metal.
I turned the sence up and put up the disc a little. It seemed to like hot rocks and read them fairly well.
The unit has good balance. The i.d was pretty accurate. Pinpointing is decent. Size of display is a little issue. But I go by tone and dig everything.
It was giving some false signal when bumped on roots and such but nothing really bad. It was quiet until it cam across something for the most part.
The tone i.d helps.
I didn't achieve great depths but I was still impressed.
I found 3 nice old coins in a hr and a half.
All were about three inches deep.
I noticed it was very sensitive to small pieces of metal. I like that. It could find a .22 shell.
It's light weight so I didn't feel a thing. It's pretty durable but has slight play in the rod mechanism. But nothing to worry about.
Overall I am very impressed with the unit. It's a great beginner machine I think. I have always used white's and know them the best.
But this little unit will run with alot of 450.00 and 500.00 units I have seen in the past.
I will be out again tomorrow for a little while. Then Saturday my Dads gonna get it and were gonna go out.
Hope you like the coins. The first coin on the unit is a 1921 buffalo I dug with it today.
Then shortly after that under a large tree I get a nice quarter signal stayed steady said 2 inches dug down and found a nice 42 S Washington.
I then new at that point this thing would find some goodies.
My Dfx never left the trunk today.
It wasn't a Dfx but it's worth every bit of 200.00.
I might just keep this little unit from my Dad.
HH Jeremy
You did good!!Got mine about 3 weeks ago and LOVE IT!!Hunt mostly east coast beaches with mine and have found only clad and tons of pull tabs and other junk but M.D.'ing is like fishing,the more you wet a line the sooner you'll catch a keeper.H.H.!!! 8)
