scottlindberg
Greenie
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2007
- Messages
- 16
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- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Champaign, IL
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett Ace 250
Hello! I've been lurking here for a year or so, but today I am finally coming out of the shadows. I've been blabbering about wanting a metal detector to my family and friends for years. I had a little Radio Shack detector when I was a kid and remember having a really great time with it, but my wife thought I was crazy for wanting to get a metal detector as an adult. This year, however, my entire family chipped in and bought me a Garrett Ace 250 for my birthday. Even though that's still a couple weeks away, I received a package in the mail this afternoon from Kellyco! I immediately read the manual, watched the video, and suited up to head out into the back yard to practice swinging.
My very first find was a 10" long screwdriver shaft, which required I dig a trench in my back yard to extract. I really need to work on pinpointing, but I hope that will come with more practice. After the screwdriver, I started digging a bunch of foil and wire. The foil sometimes rang as a nickel on my display, but I was digging everything for practice so it really didn't matter. In the future, I'm going to have to try to tell the difference between a real nickel signal and garbage. Somewhere in the midst of unearthing wire and foil, I also found the handle end of a file (I think). It's like someone dumped their toolbox in my back yard and sodded over it. Both the screwdriver and (possible) file handle were at about 6 inches.
After 2 hours of hunting I got my first solid coin signal. The indicator flipped back and forth between penny and dime, which confused me a little bit. When I dug the plug, a 1969 Lincoln memorial cent popped out. My first coin turns out to be from the same year as me! Before filling the hole, I ran the detector over the hole again and it hit dime once more. After a little more poking around, out came a 1995 dime ... explaining the weird signal I got.
No great treasures for my first two hour with the Ace 250, but finding my first two coins was a thrill. Consider me addicted.
My very first find was a 10" long screwdriver shaft, which required I dig a trench in my back yard to extract. I really need to work on pinpointing, but I hope that will come with more practice. After the screwdriver, I started digging a bunch of foil and wire. The foil sometimes rang as a nickel on my display, but I was digging everything for practice so it really didn't matter. In the future, I'm going to have to try to tell the difference between a real nickel signal and garbage. Somewhere in the midst of unearthing wire and foil, I also found the handle end of a file (I think). It's like someone dumped their toolbox in my back yard and sodded over it. Both the screwdriver and (possible) file handle were at about 6 inches.
After 2 hours of hunting I got my first solid coin signal. The indicator flipped back and forth between penny and dime, which confused me a little bit. When I dug the plug, a 1969 Lincoln memorial cent popped out. My first coin turns out to be from the same year as me! Before filling the hole, I ran the detector over the hole again and it hit dime once more. After a little more poking around, out came a 1995 dime ... explaining the weird signal I got.
No great treasures for my first two hour with the Ace 250, but finding my first two coins was a thrill. Consider me addicted.
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