First day detecting, first day with ACE 250

[BarrySr]

Hello, All;

After reading magnificent posts here for God knows how long, and wondering whether I could even operate a metal detector much less find anything, I went out with the ACE 250 my wife and kids got me for my birthday.

Now understand that I'm a coin collector who has always WANTED to try this detector thing out, but never the gumption to follow through.

So I put it together and go out in the back yard and run it over a few coins that my kids threw out there and buried. Just put it in coin mode and got to it.

Found 'em all: hmmmmmm.

Went down to the neighborhood swimming pool park here in Kingwood and ran it through the gravel in the playground area and found 3 dimes, many cents, a few nickels with no problem whatsoever. Dug no trash.

Went down to the playground area of the oldest elementary in Kingwood, dating to only the late 70's. In 45 minutes had 3 quarters, 3 dimes, 5 nickels and lotsa cents, with one Canadian cent. This was outta the box by a novice in every sense of the word.

All I have to say is:

I'M HOOKED!
I'M HOOKED!
IT'S GOT ME!!

Day two and beyond! Silver, here I come!

(yes I know I'll dig my share of trash and just dirt, but my gosh I'm hooked!)

BarrySr
Kingwood, TX

 

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[Huntin' 59er]

Welcome, Barry from another Texan! Looks like you're off to a good start.

Huntin' 59er

 

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[goldencoin]

Excellent, you'll be getting the good stuff soon (BTW, my 10 year old cousin has one and he has already found a silver cross with it in a few months, so, you'll master it soon )

Excellent job

HH
-GC

 

[dugupfinds]

Welcome to my world.

Also welcome to Tnet from the UK element.

 

[Nashoba]

Welcome to TNET Barry! Get back out there and swing your Ace off ...
Happy hunting!
~Nash~

 

[coinman66]

LOL Good one Nash! HH with the Ace 250.
Coinman66

 

[mobrigade]

Re: Its worse than drugs, welcome!

I love the new ones, I've been doing it for years and am just as anxious to hunt this weekend as when I first started...welcome aboard!

Paul

 

[BarrySr]

"It's worse than drugs"

You got that right, Paul

I'm sittin' here at work waiting for 5PM to get back home and head out by a popular fishin' hole to see what I can get (coins that is!)

I was sick this weekend; it was a looooooong weekend.

BarrySr
Kingwood TX

 

[Moonshadow]

Welcome to our madness Barry! You've been bitten by the Metal Monster!! It only gets better now. Glad to have you aboard!! Very much looking forward to your future posts!

HH,
Moon

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

yo Barrysr

From the land of the Bluenose.....waiting for mine to come too sir. Now I'll have 5 garretts in my family. Now me son get out there and dig a few goodies and do a few posts so us bouys up north have something to read. Cabin fever big time here! Happy hunting!

 

[Kas]

That's a good day of detectin' You'll have good and bad days, but the good one keep you coming back.

HH
Ken

 

[ringfinder]

Hey Barry, Welcome to the forum. Those are some great finds your first day out.

I'm looking forward to watching for you next post and pictures.

Good Luck and keep us posted.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[Mirage]

I gotta get an Ace!
You have lots of company here in Houston!
Welcome!

Welcome, nice first finds, Gotta retire my antique detector & get an Ace.

Fossis..........................

Me too!!!

I think it's a new cult or something. I feel like I want one just to be part of the "group".

Hey, good luck with that POS, erh, I mean SMOKIN detector.

I really do believe it is a good detector.

Mirage

 

[BarrySr]

Well, to be logical, since I have not ever tried anything else, I really couldn't tell you whether it was smokin' or a POS. All I know is that it was like that thing had eyes; strong signals on all. Most of the finds came at depths of 3"-6", except for the 2nd quarter, which was ~7" underground near a tree root. Depth on the MD was 8".

BarrySr
Kingwood, TX

 

[Eddy1H]

My friend just got a 250 and it works well for him its his first detector and he is doing great with it, my old buddy Naturlite. Happy hunting
Eddy

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Welcome to brilliant added feature to coin collecting. With just the clad finds so far you have a whole world of things to unearth. jewelery, toys, bullets, ext. Let me know when you start finding the silver coins and the coins you long to collect and I may check into getting an Ace250 then.

Keep @ it and HH!

 

[rsc]

off to a great start . Congrats. I found a live 44 Mag round in a Kingwood elementays school playground last weekend with my Garrett 550. Never know what you will find . Hh Gayle

 

[sounder]

Yup, the hook is in now!!

Don't fight it--------just go along--------and have TONS OF FUN!!!!!!!

sounder

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

welcome to the club........the hobbie is extremely addictive. love your detector and it will love you back.....i'm getting all weepy here. i like your choice of detector. i once owned a garrett master hunter 7 and got many great years out of that workhorse. the only thing that i didnt like about it was that it took 6 nine volt batteries.really expensive. i'd still be using it today if it ran on AA's

 

[Tucker]

Welcome to the world of metal detecting. I hope that you have a lot of fun trying to find old things, just remember that you mite not always find stuff. It takes a lot of practice and research to find things. I hope that you find awesome coins and relics so that you can post them. Good luck detecting and have fun doing it.