marco
Jr. Member
Hello!
After oh...20 years without a MD(had a garret when I was about 12yrs old)..bought an Ace 250 7 days ago. Reading this great website and its many helpful posts incouraged me. I have used it every day, and it has been a somewhat quick learning experience..thanks to the many "HELP!" posts concerning the Ace and other MD issues in general.
My first weeks MD lessons learned..if you see a question in here you can answer...feel free!
First is that a cheap trowel will bend its first time out. So far Ive bent up 2 of them! Anything decent cost under $20?
All Metal Mode taught me the sounds of good and bad..running in "Coins" works but All Metal and gradually notching out trash makes me feel more...professional? LOL
The Ace really lets you know when the target is good..that "double-bell" is a coin about 95% of the time. "Bouncing" targets have not once been good so far..should I just ignore them?
Im already wishing I had a small pinpointer..tot-lot sand is no problem but digging ever widening and deeper holes in nice grass for 20 min makes me stressed out and frustrated. many coins have appeared right in the plug or hole..but many have been a struggle to find. I have scratched 2-3 clads already but what if that was a nice coin?
This is the "Todays Finds" post..so Im happy to say i found my first....drum roll....wheatie today. Funny cause I am a coin collector and I know it is worth very little..but finding that 1934 was special cause I know it sat there since World War 2 at least..waiting for ME! And then theres the clad....18 quarters, 20 dimes, 10 nickels and 34 pennies. 82 coins first week out....Im hooked again. Now all I want is a Saint Gaudens to pop up!!
After oh...20 years without a MD(had a garret when I was about 12yrs old)..bought an Ace 250 7 days ago. Reading this great website and its many helpful posts incouraged me. I have used it every day, and it has been a somewhat quick learning experience..thanks to the many "HELP!" posts concerning the Ace and other MD issues in general.
My first weeks MD lessons learned..if you see a question in here you can answer...feel free!
First is that a cheap trowel will bend its first time out. So far Ive bent up 2 of them! Anything decent cost under $20?
All Metal Mode taught me the sounds of good and bad..running in "Coins" works but All Metal and gradually notching out trash makes me feel more...professional? LOL
The Ace really lets you know when the target is good..that "double-bell" is a coin about 95% of the time. "Bouncing" targets have not once been good so far..should I just ignore them?
Im already wishing I had a small pinpointer..tot-lot sand is no problem but digging ever widening and deeper holes in nice grass for 20 min makes me stressed out and frustrated. many coins have appeared right in the plug or hole..but many have been a struggle to find. I have scratched 2-3 clads already but what if that was a nice coin?
This is the "Todays Finds" post..so Im happy to say i found my first....drum roll....wheatie today. Funny cause I am a coin collector and I know it is worth very little..but finding that 1934 was special cause I know it sat there since World War 2 at least..waiting for ME! And then theres the clad....18 quarters, 20 dimes, 10 nickels and 34 pennies. 82 coins first week out....Im hooked again. Now all I want is a Saint Gaudens to pop up!!
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...I love finding wheaties...they are the cutest coin ever!!!! I save them from pocket change, when I count down the tills at work and from metal detecting...gotta' love those wheaties!!!However, I would not mind adding a few SILVER to my slowly growing coin collection! 
