ace 250

[allen]

I FINALLY GOT MY ACE 250.
BUT TODAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS I TRIED USING THE ELIM BUTTON TO WEED OUT ALL THE PULL TABS I WAS FINDING AND IT JUST DIDNT WORK.
ID RUN ONE UNDER IT, THEN WHILE IT WAS UNDER MY COIL I'D HIT THE ELIM BUTTON. IT WOULD ELIMINATE THAT PULLTAB, BUT AS SOON AS I STARTED DETECTING AGAIN, BAM THERE WAS ANOTHER PULLTAB.
AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG?
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED.
ALLEN

 

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[khouse]

Most tabs come in at nickel and the two zones above nickel. You can't eliminate one zone and expect to eliminate all tabs.

 

[The-Bone]

i've found that the ace is annoyingly bad at eliminating items on the first sweep....often on the 1st pass the target reads 'good' and on the 2nd pass it reads 'bad'...the trick,it seems, is to get a target that reads good in both directions...you must also remember that there are 2 generations of pull tabs in the ground and each one will read slightly differently than the other...to compound this if the earlier generation is folded in on itself or not will give two seperate readouts..

 

[bnsfhobo]

Also to remember, you won't find gold rings/jewelry if you don't dig pulltabs.

Happy hunting

Hugh

 

[MD Dog]

Pulltabs come with the territory no matter what machine you use. Unless your willing to give up all gold rings/ gold coins/ gold jewelery of any kind/ platinum jewelery too. :P All thats left is silver and clad.

 

[Larsmed]

Hi

thi is coming from an ace user: dig everything that you here or you will miss the good stuff. Forget the Elim!

 

[Fishstank]

Yah boy! Forget the Elim. and get to know your machine


Fish

 

[allen]

SOUNDS GOOD THEN.
GUESS I HAD BETTER DIG EVERYTHING THEN.
I HAD A BOUNTY HUNTER, BUT DIDNT DIG AS MANY PULLTABS.
GUESS THE ACE 250 IS ALOT MORE SENSITIVE..
THANK YOU ALL FOR REPLYING...

 

[rmptr]

Allen, I hunt a number of areas that are heavily infested with tabs, foil, and screw caps.
They are usually in worse concentrations in certain areas.

When I get tired of digging so many tabs with no joy I move over a bit where they are not so thick.
After I've had a little success, I hedge back towards the area with the massive tab concentration and kind of chip away at the edges of it.
Perhaps one day I'll get them cleared out and all new ones will be on the surface and easy to gather up.
You could miss many valuable rings if you notch them out, all the time.
HH
rmptr

 

[limitedthoughts]

As far as tabs go. you go though a day pulling a million of them and you get frusterated but then that day when you drop a nice gold ring in your palm from doing all that work for the next few moments it pays off and then we all start again.

LT

 

[stanjam]

I have heard two schools of thought. One is "dig everything" and the other is "When the sensor bounces around, you have junk."

Any ideas on the reality? I get real tired of lots of trash. I generally know when there is a coin under my coil, as it is very distinct and doesn't jump.

Will rings and jewelry jump all over?

 

[MD Dog]

Some yes and some no. Jewelery is as varied as possible so a small childs necklace might jump around while a mans 18k gold nugget ring will, well, Ring !

 

[melvin_it]

Not so easy to share from pulltab and nickel to me...Last evening I've found an old holy token (XVI cent. maybe..), very shallow and was sonding like a pulltab with a slightly erratic signal. I only decided to dig it just because was a very clean area and a close target... then my sixth sense :-)). I think pulltabs give a more erratic signal but stops more frequently on "pulltab" than "foil" or "nickel".

Good hunt

Mellllvin