DISCRIMINATION SETTINGS

Depends on where you're hunting, and what you're hunting for. And your tolerance for junk, blah blah blah.

Since it already has a crude TID screen (cursor bouncing in and out of categories), you can always set it to low disc. settings, in disc mode (to accept all items) and simply use your eyes to see where thing come in at, to decide if you want to dig it or not.

If you want gold jewelry, you're going to have to dig things in the foil/nickel/tab range. If that's too punishing, and you find yourself digging 100+ foil wads and tabs without a single gold item to show for it, it means you are not in an area that is good for gold jewelry hunting, to begin with. Ie.: don't go to junky blighted urban ghetto parks, lower the disc, and think you're going to find gold jewelry (without first going mad). Instead, pick locations where gold jewelry ratios will be better, and that, by their nature, are more productive for jewelry losses. Namely: sandy swimming beaches. Doesn't need to be ocean beaches either. Can be inland freshwater swim beaches. Preferably in the water (in the case of lakes), but above water is ok too.

Or if you want to cherry pick for silver coins in park turf, then you might choose to be a little more selective, and pass surface foil, shallow zinc, etc....

So it all depends on where you hunt, your junk tolerance, and what you want to find.
 

Discriminate iron/foil and dig everything else.

I got a gold ring that registered as a quarter and a silver ring that registered as a nickle.

I got a gold ear ring that registered as a pulltab.

If you don't dig the trash you will miss a lot of good targets.

I dig everything other than iron and foil.
 

if gold / silver jewelry and old silver coins are mostly what your after * and you got a ace 250 -- cit out the iron --and for all but the tinest of gold items --cut out the foil as well 9although i did have a paper thin 10 kt gold mexican made "kiddie" ring -- ring up as "foil" only dug it up since i had a nickle signal near it and was clearing away the trash to get a better lock on it .

with a ace 250 and its simple 8 block ID system many worth while finds tend to be "lumped" together with trash items -- meaning your going to dig a lot of trash to get treasure .

having had a ace 250 (and still do as a back up / loaner machine) I must say that my newer teknetic delta 4000 is a better machine --yes its a bit more $279 vs $212 but for the extra $67 -- you get 100 "number slots (0 to 99) for the machine to sort finds into vs 8 blocks-- thats 12 1/2 times the find sorting space ID wize --thus better IDing --less trash digging --more productive good signal digging time in the feild = better chances of getting a good batch of finds
 

Honestly, In a nutshell.
Coins setting.

It has all the necessary discrimination to block most of the bad and report the good.
 

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