GARRETT ACE 350 KICKING ARSE TWO WEEKS IN A ROW

d3t3ctr0n · Aug 23, 2014

Second week to use my new Garrett Ace 350 and it did not disappoint. Last Saturday on first use, broke record of most coins found in a day with 42 coins, this week 54 coins total found in one day! Amazing! Also found a 1955D Wheatie...closing in on that first silver (or gold) coin! Anyway, highly recomend the Garrett Ace 350. It is far superior to the Garrett Ace 150, which I had previously used to metal detect. It discriminates better, which means alot less bending over for trash. It also locates coins much, much more efficiently and effectively.

releventchair · Aug 23, 2014

Congrats! What settings you using? I run in jewelry often even for coin shooting.Iron up to foil knocked out and start with sens a couple notches below highest. Prefer a 5x8 coil if lots of targets.

silverdollar · Aug 23, 2014

I had the 350 with the 5x8 and man did it tear up coins,actually everything.it was even better then my f4 with the 5x8 coil

d3t3ctr0n · Aug 23, 2014

I am using the 350 with the factory Double D Coil and its set to COIN Mode. Why? Does Jewelry mode perform better with coins?

releventchair · Aug 23, 2014

There is a way to find out. Modes can be switched and coins dug to compare. I'll take what little jewelry comes my way but need to dig too not to miss stuff as it can ring up, (pun intended) over quite a range. The modes take an estimated guess, then we do. Some stuff we can recognize some stuff we just figure how it rings up and need to dig it anyway.
Running jewelry mode is my coin hunting mode, keep an ear on other stuff too mode, from trying other modes on coins also I don,t think I,m missing any coins unless modern cents by not reading them right.. I switch modes on targets to see how they register too sometimes. A fresh modern American cent on the surface hits strange in jewelry mode. Mess up the pinpointing it seems also.Like other modes once you try them they all have their quirks and scrolling through them on iffy targets or just swinging them over some known ones, a better knowledge of what we are after should follow. Custom settings can be done on the 350's for sure. Site specific or it can get interesting figuring out misses recovered after checking in a standard setting. Whatever standard is... You swung a 150 too so the 350 going to be alright a while.
My 150 ran with my 350 and held its own but is what it is no fault of its own.. 350 keeps me plenty busy. Plenty of ways to dial something in. Try jewelry when going over an area again if you have time. Or try switching to other modes also on a know un dug coin. Ding ding ding =some kind of prize.....