A Trick for the Ace 250 owners

[SC_hunter]

I have been using my Ace 250 for 2 years now. I also have a Whites Eagle Spectrum, but since I had surgery, the Ace is much easier to handle. I went out for awhile this morning and took the Ace with the sniper coil. I went to a location that produced silver in the past but lately it has been few and far between.

I started in the coin mode and was picking up clad left and right but nothing with any age to it. After about an hour of hunting in coin, I switched to all metal. Just about every square inch of this place is filled with old iron. I was getting signals on every swing, but on occasion I was picking up the coin tone. I then had to just about "woble" the coil to get the coin sig and when I had it pinpointed..showed a dime at abt 4 inches. Dug it and out popped '45 Merc......I used this method for the next hour and ended up with 5 wheats and another Merc..Just goes to show that the iron signals do mask the good ones.

Just remember to take ur time and when you get the coin signal, shorten your swing until you can get the full tone both ways...Good luck and just bear with all the tones..

 

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[warsawdaddy]

Good post !

 

[John-Edmonton]

WTG with that sniper coil. I too have been pulling a lot of silver coins using it. Some people feel using a deeper detector will get more coins. I have found the oposite in many cases. Often, all a larger/deeper coil does is decrease the abiltity to separate good targets from junk, increase target masking and allow the user to dig more junk at greater depth.

 

[TxCacheHunter]

Re: A Trick for the Ace 250 and other Garrett's

Great tip! That also works for other Garrett detectors and probably other brands. Even with my 2500 with imaging feature. If I hear a coin tone or see a coin sized target flash on the display among some trash, then I swing back and forth over it until I get the coin hit and lock on to pin point and dig it. Sometimes it is a false signal, but more often there is a coin in there among the trash. You can also try from different directions to get a fix on the target.

HH,
Larry

 

[melvin_it]

Yes, SC, have the same experience with the sniper...I'm hunting in the site we're currently diggin, in the area were we're parking our cars. Centuries of erosion from the near hilltops formed these layers and they're loaded with a lot of small iron junk (nails and fragments of artifacts), as well as lead fragments and coins too. They have a very poor informational value and we can just rescue some data by recovering these finds.

I run in All Metal and if I pick some good signal between that mess of iron low tones, I wobble the sniper in the exact point were I got the signal and dig: most of the times is lead or a roman coin.. It works, specially with small coins that doesn't give a strong signal.



M.

 

[kdismuke1]

I do the same thing when i get a sound one way and not the other way.When you hear the sound try to see the spot then come back and pin-point.Have found a lot of wheates and indian heads.

 

[melvin_it]

I do the same thing when i get a sound one way and not the other way.When you hear the sound try to see the spot then come back and pin-point.Have found a lot of wheates and indian heads.

Yeah! Me too...I still wonder why this happens sometimes! One way strong signal, the other way nothing at all, even if I come over the spot from another direction

M.

 

[kdismuke1]

 

[relichunters]

I bought my ACE 250 for the pinpoint feature, but my BH does a better ID job

 

[brokenarrow]

thanks for the tip. i will be trying that at my good spots.they are old and i know there has to be silver there