Ace 250 question

[spin65]

I have a Garrett Ace 250 that I LOVE but all I ever find are modern coins. I've found lots of coins and a couple of cheap pieces of jewelry but that's about it. Our church is 113 years old and I've been all over the grounds and found--you guessed it--Clad.
I usually use the "all metal" setting.

Any advice?

 

[SC_hunter]

spin65...Let me just put your fears to rest about the 250 finding old coins. It finds coins period..old or new. I have found a lot of mercs and other older coins. If your coil passes over it, it will find it. I have found most of the older coins down around 4 - 6 inches. I also go to a church that was built around 1890...haven't found a coin older than 1962...Just hang in there...if it is there and your coil passes over it...you will find it.

 

[surfin]

Yeah, I wouldnt stress.......alot can happen to the ground in that amount of time and I agree with SC_Hunter, its not your machine.

Ian

 

[cntrydncr1]

I have found many old coins with my ACE as well. I found that when I had cleared out alot of pennies and other stuff the older coins started popping out of the old site I was working on. Keep at it. Good luck.

 

[sqwaby]

Took me a long time to get my first, it was a 1936 merc. A lot of older coins will be down 5-6 plus inches, which means you might only get a very faint signal like I did. 5-6 plus inches is getting to the depth limit of the ace(my opinion) My deepest coin was a clad quarter at 8 inches, sure was hard digging in our hard gumbo.

 

[spin65]

Well, thanks for the responses and the encouragement. I guess I'll keep at it, especially on the church grounds. With all of the revivals, picnics, and barbecues they've had there in the last hundred years, someone must have dropped something! The site of the old parsonage is there, too.

Thanks!

 

[treasureace14]

turn ur senitivity to 2 or 3 and go slow.
i learned to do that and it works great.

 

[Ant]

Find old places that the soil is being disturbed or moved by construction equipment. Scraped areas are the best at producing old targets and coins.

The first photo is of a park restoration, and the second photo is of new constrution in the old part of town, that's was an old sidewalk that a foot path use to be under. Places that look like this:

 

[rmptr]

All good advice!

Spin, no one mentioned target masking yet...

Sounds like you are real busy with the surface targets and getting lots of practice.

After you have covered the entire property (sounds like it's good sized!) seasonal weather will have changed.

Then, you can go back over it all, a tad more cautiously, with your learned experience.
Damper weather may help you get some targets that were missed...

With my Ace I ran sensitivity higher than it seems most advise... long as it's not false'ing, more is better.
You may also benefit from a coil change.

Best

 

[spin65]

rmptr,

You said, "You may also benefit from a coil change."

Do you mean a new coil? or were you referring to a change in size?

I'm currently using the standard coil, about 6 1/2" wide by 9" long.

Thanks.

 

[relichunters]

Old and new coins are everywhere, you just have to hit the correct target. I keep my BH detector on medium setting which in the manual says the maximum depth is 4 1/2" for medium and I found a beer can at 10 1/2" deepest coin I found was at 7". when I found my 1914 wheat penny it was about 4" deep on a playground, while I have dug 2003 coins at 6" deep.

 

[rmptr]

Yes, I meant you could get different effective results from another size coil.

 

[WV Hillbilly]

I live in a very rural area . There are lots of old churches , old homesites , ect . My area has been hit
hard over the years by md'ers . It's hard to find old coins . The old timers got most of them . I have a
CZ3D which is plenty deep . It may be that your old sites have been detected several times over the years .
It is my belief that unless the soil has been disturbed you should be able to find them with your ace .
HH

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

I own an ACE 250 and have used it it alot in the past. I can tell you that you will find all varities of coins........clad and silver. The silver ones have to be there. I can also tell you that you will not find all of them. Not to start a debate here, but you're not going to find every coin with an ACE 250 simply because the coin is below the coil. The truth is that you'll miss some targets with a machine like this. Some will not be possible for it to detect. Trust me. Anyone here can try using a 250 for a year and then something like the Explorer I use now and you'll see what I mean. I always go back to the same park that I could barely grab one coin out of with the 250, where I can go back today with my Explorer and pull out 4, 5, or 6. I'm not bashing the 250, I think it's a great entry level machine, but it has its limits and it's not simply a matter of being over a coin to find it. If I had to compare, I would say that the 250 can see 1/6th of what an Explorer can.

Best,
Ricardo

 

[X-Terra70_TreasureHunter]

Hi spin65

You just got to get the coil on top of a possible find
by going over say a 3' X 3' area as in the following diagram
tou should not miss a find if one is there.

You also need to overlap your search area by 50% to make
shure you don't miss anything what so ever.

You can take Golf Tee's & Orange or Yellow string to lay out
a GRID. Its normally found in the Hardware section of
Wally World where the tools are at.

 

[rmptr]

If I had to compare, I would say that the 250 can see 1/6th of what an Explorer can.

Best,
Ricardo

Ouch!

...Not even a quarter

I agree, Ricardo...
Little Yeller Feller is a fine machine for general surface hunting and lots of fun.
Some folks do quite well with one.
I think the same person would do better with a Compadre, and I'm sure they'd do better with
a Tesoro Silver uMax.

Best

 

[SC_hunter]

Ouch...comparing an Ace 250 to an Explorer.....I'm a bit slow down here in the South but that is sure enough comparing apples to bannannas..lol

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

Hi spin65

You just got to get the coil on top of a possible find
by going over say a 3' X 3' area as in the following diagram
tou should not miss a find if one is there

Sounds good in theory, but I can locate several targets with an Explorer that will not make a peep on the ACE 250 no matter what angle, direction or setting you have it in. Some targets are not detectable by a certain machine, and there are targets that are not detectable at all.
I'm not putting the ACE down or making the Explorer sound like the greatest machine ever........this will apply to any machine. I am sure there are things that the Explorer cannot hear that perhaps another detector can for whatever particular reason.