Found SILVER on my FIRST HUNT with the ACE 250 :)

[scrible]

Tonight I went out for my very first hunt with my Ace 250. I spent an hour and a half before sundown in a local park. This is the first metal detector I have owned and finally picked one up after wanting one for years. In the past I have cash register and coin roll hunted.

I found a couple random pieces of soda or beer cans, two pull-tabs, a nail, a Mickey's Malt Liquor cap (rang up as a half dollar and was about 6 inches down), a Budweiser cap, a random piece of iron, and two beads with a small piece of metal on the string.

My best find of the night was part of a bracelet, it is marked "EVERYMAN STERLING" on the back. Google turned up nothing on it so if you guys have any information I'd appreciate it.

The only thing I found odd about the hunt is that I found no coins. This was a bit disappointing to me as I am a coin collector and this is what I am most interested in. The park was extremely rocky and difficult to dig in so each target took me a significant amount of time. I had some trouble with "phantom" targets but by far the most difficult aspect of hunting was pin-pointing. I followed the instructions laid out in the Garrett DVD but it still proved quite difficult. Is it worth it to purchase a separate pin-pointer?

Thanks for all the help and any suggestions!

 

[rob.s]

Nice

 

[NYCGuy]

I do not know anything about the silver, but I do know that you will save A-LOT of time if you purchase a separate pinpointer. The pinpointer makes finding the target much easier. If you are going to get a pinpointer, I suggest the Garret Pro Pointer. It works great for me and I have a 250 myself. By the way, the pinpointing feature on the 250 is not good. After I realized how long it takes to dig a target, I got a pinpointer almost immediately. Hope this helps! By the Way, nice finds!

 

[The Recovery Agents]

Way to go! now you are hooked. I purchased a pin pointer just on a whim and it cut my digging time in half. Then my hunting partner borrowed it and then they purchased one too. Well worth the money.

 

[jewelerguy]

can't beat silver on your first hunt

 

[detectahead]

Try this, you visually see the spot where your detector is picking up the signal. Narrow it down to where you are just above the target then hit your pinpoint button. It will sound out in a very limited spot right over the target. You know what to do from there. detectahead

 

[High Plains Digger]

I spent 30 minutes trying to find the target that I found in a buffalo wallow, without a pinpointer. I knew it was small, but could have been anything, or something very important like a meteorite. It was a half inch length of a cotter pin. Pinpointer. Absolutely. Mine hooks up through the detector unit, uses detector power, and signals through the detector's earphones. Much better than the cheap one I used to have, plus 3 times the depth. Wanna buy my "Bullseye"?

 

[scrible]

Ya'll have made up my mind. I am going to pick up a Garrett Pro-Pointer... should make life much easier.

 

[TommNJ]

Good Job on your 1st hunt! You got to love the way silver comes out of the ground , wait until you see the GOLD, , good luck!


TommNJ

 

[Chocadog]

You will get better with pin pointing with the 250, I find most targets a little behind the stem connection. A Garrett pro pin pointer is a must as far as I am concerned and will increase you speed of recovery dramatically. Good luck, the 250 was a great choice.

 

[kevkirki]

very sweet...ordering my Garrett on Friday.....cant wait HH

 

[tomjiggy]

Just to touch on what the others have already said, a pinpointer definitely saves time. You mentioned "ghost signals". I've hunted a lot of rocky area's in the past and they do have a lot of false signals duer to moisture pockets and such. You also have minerization which will give false signals. In rocky places I have found that the drier it is the less false signals I get.

 

[drgeorge]

I'm also somewhat disappointed with the pinpoint function on the 250, but I've learned to deal with it.....don't be discouraged, you'll get the hang of it eventually (eg. I tried out my son's 150 on a recent outing and was overeager to get back to the 250......it's pinpoint is alot easier to handle than dead-reckon-cross-vectoring!!!!!). As far as "ghost-signals are concerned...the 250 is famous for these--especially in areas with lots of (moist) undergrowth or jutting rocks. Also I've noticed that if the cable from the coil to the unit is either too taut or too loose, this may cause the problem. Microwave and other signals also disturb the 250 (cell phones, aircraft navigation instruments, cell towers, other detectors, etc).
HH!!!!!

 

[kblackphoto]

Well looks like when I go hunting minus the silver!! At least you can smelt it and get some money for it. I mostly get clad pennies, well ive only found 3 lol. Im still learning but I have the same machine and its easy to use just hard to find stuff worth anything -but I also need to find the right place to hunt. Im still exploring my machine. What sensitivity do you use? Or do you knwo what the best one to use is?

 

[riverrunner814]

That 250 ace is a great detector works great for me and light weight. Nice finds you got and just think it gets better with practice.

 

[krango41]

nice finds well done

 

[kayden]

Tonight I went out for my very first hunt with my Ace 250. I spent an hour and a half before sundown in a local park. This is the first metal detector I have owned and finally picked one up after wanting one for years. In the past I have cash register and coin roll hunted.

I found a couple random pieces of soda or beer cans, two pull-tabs, a nail, a Mickey's Malt Liquor cap (rang up as a half dollar and was about 6 inches down), a Budweiser cap, a random piece of iron, and two beads with a small piece of metal on the string.

My best find of the night was part of a bracelet, it is marked "EVERYMAN STERLING" on the back. Google turned up nothing on it so if you guys have any information I'd appreciate it.
Only 97 more hours & you will understand this tool....JUst keep doing it & the old silver will come...also do some research on sites to hunt ...trust me the coins are stil out here
The only thing I found odd about the hunt is that I found no coins. This was a bit disappointing to me as I am a coin collector and this is what I am most interested in. The park was extremely rocky and difficult to dig in so each target took me a significant amount of time. I had some trouble with "phantom" targets but by far the most difficult aspect of hunting was pin-pointing. I followed the instructions laid out in the Garrett DVD but it still proved quite difficult. Is it worth it to purchase a separate pin-pointer?

Thanks for all the help and any suggestions!

 

[Shadowmanflash]

Hey Scrible, well to continue on from everyone else, I can tell you that when I started years back, I used the Ace 150, I don't care what they say, that was one of the best machines out there and still is as far as I'm concerned. I would use it before many of the more expensive detectors and had no problem finding what they did, as far as nice or somethiung of value. Now for the past couple of years I have bought and use the Ace 250, it's a good machine on some of the little better features, but it's not much better than the 150 and as far as the pinpoint, on the 250, it doesn't come close to be as good as the 150. I don't know what they did, but I wish they would use the 150 technology on the 250. If they did, I think it would be hard to beat for the price. I've learned on pinpointing with the 250, that as your swinging over the target, when you hear the tone, push the pin point, the sound will be louder when you get over the target and weaker when you mmove away from it. That's the way I do it and it seems to work well for me. The target is usually at the center x of the coil or just behind it. The more you use it the better you will get with it. As far as the ghost signals, water does make a diffrence, but not enough to distact you from a target, if it is on yours, turn down the discrimination strength and you will see a lot of those ghost targets will go away. Use the custom mode and discriminate the foil and bottle tops and pull tabs, but keep in mind you could loose some good targets, sometimes. Or go back and fourth on the modes when you find a target and you will learn the diffrence. The more you use it and learn the target tones, the better you woll become, keep at it, you will see. I always take both detectors with me when I go out and check myself from time to time and see if there is much diffrence. As far as locating the finds, there is a little bit better with the 250, but as we all mention the pinpoint is tough, I like my 150 on that. I've kicked both machines around for about two years each now, and though I like them both, I have been considering going to a higher grade machine, mainly for the functions than anything else, we all like the more descrimination and depth we can get the better, that's why I'm doing it, I know better targets will come to follow as well. I've been studying the GTI 2500 for a long time now, reading reviews and stories and talking to others, plus comparing them to everything out there and I believe this machine as it always has will be the best bang for the buck. It's an awesome machine and I believe I might just have to do it here real soon, especially while there is a sale right now on it and the other coils. So, Happy dirt fishing to you, welcome to T-net, and good luck to you, Ken.

 

[scrible]

Hey Scrible, well to continue on from everyone else, I can tell you that when I started years back, I used the Ace 150, I don't care what they say, that was one of the best machines out there and still is as far as I'm concerned. I would use it before many of the more expensive detectors and had no problem finding what they did, as far as nice or somethiung of value. Now for the past couple of years I have bought and use the Ace 250, it's a good machine on some of the little better features, but it's not much better than the 150 and as far as the pinpoint, on the 250, it doesn't come close to be as good as the 150. I don't know what they did, but I wish they would use the 150 technology on the 250. If they did, I think it would be hard to beat for the price. I've learned on pinpointing with the 250, that as your swinging over the target, when you hear the tone, push the pin point, the sound will be louder when you get over the target and weaker when you mmove away from it. That's the way I do it and it seems to work well for me. The target is usually at the center x of the coil or just behind it. The more you use it the better you will get with it. As far as the ghost signals, water does make a diffrence, but not enough to distact you from a target, if it is on yours, turn down the discrimination strength and you will see a lot of those ghost targets will go away. Use the custom mode and discriminate the foil and bottle tops and pull tabs, but keep in mind you could loose some good targets, sometimes. Or go back and fourth on the modes when you find a target and you will learn the diffrence. The more you use it and learn the target tones, the better you woll become, keep at it, you will see. I always take both detectors with me when I go out and check myself from time to time and see if there is much diffrence. As far as locating the finds, there is a little bit better with the 250, but as we all mention the pinpoint is tough, I like my 150 on that. I've kicked both machines around for about two years each now, and though I like them both, I have been considering going to a higher grade machine, mainly for the functions than anything else, we all like the more descrimination and depth we can get the better, that's why I'm doing it, I know better targets will come to follow as well. I've been studying the GTI 2500 for a long time now, reading reviews and stories and talking to others, plus comparing them to everything out there and I believe this machine as it always has will be the best bang for the buck. It's an awesome machine and I believe I might just have to do it here real soon, especially while there is a sale right now on it and the other coils. So, Happy dirt fishing to you, welcome to T-net, and good luck to you, Ken.

Thanks Ken, I am really happy with the 250 so far. I went out for about an hour and a half yesterday and found my first coin, a 1951 wheatie!