Ace 250 Question-I Know Another One

[Pugsley6485]

I know its been a while since I posted but I been working about every day since last week, and college class don't help the matter. I have read all the post and info. about the Ace 250, and it seems like a great detector for the money. So my question is this:

Is the Ace 250 a decent detector for beach areas? I'm not talking about going in the water but I'm talking about the part where people lay out. Any comments are helpfull and much appreciated.

 

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[dudes2112]

I haven't been to any salt water areas yet but have used mine on two fresh water beaches and it did fine, almost. The only trouble I had was using the pinpoint function, it would seem that it wouldn't pick the target up, or tell me the target was a foot across. So, I didn't pinpoint on the beach and made out just fine. Of course in the sand you don't need to be as picky about pinpointing if you have a scoop anyway. I'm guessing the sand I was in was too mineralized?? I didn't have any problem at all getting targets and the depth it would find them didn't seem to be compromised either.

Dudes

 

[treasurekidd]

I have an ACE250, and I love it. It's a great machine for hunting land. I use it at schools, parks, and have started and have started hunting an old colonial era farm site, and the ACE250 does just fine! That said, it is not a beach machine. Fresh water ponds and lakes are ok, but salt water beaches are another thing altogether. I have tried it on salt water beaches here in Rhode Island, and it works really good in dry sand. However, as soon as I bring it down near the water, below the high tide line, it starts to give false signals. It will still work, and will finds targets, but you'll do a lot of digging where there is nothing. I would suggest sticking to land and dry sand areas at salt water beaches. If you want to give it a try in wet sand, turn the sensitivity down to 2-3 bars and only dig solid repeatable signals. It can work, but you'll have to be patient with it, as it is not designed for wet sand hunting, as some other detectors are. Good luck!

 

[another _novice]

I tried mine at a fresh water beach today and it worked well.