darrensiegel
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I've been wanting to get into detecting as a hobby for awhile now. For my birthday three weeks ago my wife bought me a Garrett Ace 250 - but with the winter that we are having here in Pennsylvania I've had to put off going outside and starting to detect. The few days of 40+ degree weather that we had this past week was enough to clear the snow from our front yard so I grabbed the MD and headed outside. Our house is almost a hundred years old and is part of a larger and older piece of property that is a National Historic Home site - so I figure there is probably a decent chance of some goodies buried outside.
I spent about 2.5 hours in my front yard, playing with and learning to use the device. Unfortunately, all I found were three nails, a bolt, several pins that hold in the invisible dog fence that the previous owner of our home installed, and a glob of some type of metal that seemed to be melted onto a rock. Despite this, I had a lot of fun and I certainly learned a few things:
First, I think I need to get one of the handheld pro pointer devices. I spent an inordinate amount of time combing through the earth that I'd turn over trying to find whatever my MD had pinpointed. From what I understand of the pro pointer devices, they make it *much* easier to find the items once you've started to dig. I'm planning on getting serious about this as a hobby, so it seems like this is a must have.
Second, I need to learn more about how to actually use my Garrett 250! I could kinda figure out what the display was telling me, and how to use the various modes and the pinpointing. I didn't try to use "DISCRIM" or "ELIM" features. The device came with some instructional video - I definitely need to watch that.
Third, I've ready on here that many folks lay down a cloth or other type of material to place the dirt on that they dig out. I figured that this only served the purpose of leaving the yard neater after you return the dirt into the hole, but it also seems like this would be useful as a way to speed up searching as the material essentially is a barrier between the earth that you searching and the rest of the earth. A few times as I was rooting through clumps of dirt, it became hard to determine what was the dirt that was I searching and what was just the rest of my muddy yard. A nice thick cloth or piece of burlap would seem to work well for this.
I'm hoping to find some time tomorrow to get out again. Maybe try the backyard (hopefully it has less nails and more coins!)
-Darren
I spent about 2.5 hours in my front yard, playing with and learning to use the device. Unfortunately, all I found were three nails, a bolt, several pins that hold in the invisible dog fence that the previous owner of our home installed, and a glob of some type of metal that seemed to be melted onto a rock. Despite this, I had a lot of fun and I certainly learned a few things:
First, I think I need to get one of the handheld pro pointer devices. I spent an inordinate amount of time combing through the earth that I'd turn over trying to find whatever my MD had pinpointed. From what I understand of the pro pointer devices, they make it *much* easier to find the items once you've started to dig. I'm planning on getting serious about this as a hobby, so it seems like this is a must have.
Second, I need to learn more about how to actually use my Garrett 250! I could kinda figure out what the display was telling me, and how to use the various modes and the pinpointing. I didn't try to use "DISCRIM" or "ELIM" features. The device came with some instructional video - I definitely need to watch that.
Third, I've ready on here that many folks lay down a cloth or other type of material to place the dirt on that they dig out. I figured that this only served the purpose of leaving the yard neater after you return the dirt into the hole, but it also seems like this would be useful as a way to speed up searching as the material essentially is a barrier between the earth that you searching and the rest of the earth. A few times as I was rooting through clumps of dirt, it became hard to determine what was the dirt that was I searching and what was just the rest of my muddy yard. A nice thick cloth or piece of burlap would seem to work well for this.
I'm hoping to find some time tomorrow to get out again. Maybe try the backyard (hopefully it has less nails and more coins!)
-Darren
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nice machine too I like my 250 
