lost signals

[allen]

with my ace 250 I will get a signal, dig the plug and 1 out of 4 times, I will totally lose the signal altogether.
I'll run the coil back over the plug, no signal there, run it over the hole, no signal there, remove some of the soil out of the hole, still with no luck.
What is going on with my ace 250?
She has brand new energizers in her, i've not dropped her and I keep her clean.
Any help is appreciated,
Allen

 

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[khouse]

What mode ore you running? I'll bet it's coin mode? When that happens and it does with all detectors sometimes put it in all metal mode. What has happened is a target may be at the right angle, next to another conductor or has leached into the ground making your detector beep. Then once you disturb the soil you change whatever it was that made your detector beep. Now your target had fell into a discriminated section of your detector. This is where setting your detector in all metal will find it. Buying a Garrett ProPointer would be a good idea. 22 rifle casing will do this often in the coin mode.
PS. Sometimes if it's a rust pocket that you've broken up by digging will never beep again. So if you set your detector in all metal and there is no beep simply move on to better targets.

 

[kdismuke1]

Allen if you lose signal. Hit pin point an go back over hole. I have had the same problem with the ACE 250

and the GTI 1500. As KHOUSE said a pin-pointer whould help. I just got a PRO-POINTER FROM Garrett

and i like it. Best of luck. KYLE

 

[John-Edmonton]

Two things could have happened:

The ACE could have sounded off on a piece of iron rust, and when you dug the hole, the intact piece of rust may have disintegrated to powder, which the ACE could not read it anymore.

The ACE may have sounded off on a tiny flat metallic target, and when you dug the plug, it's position was changed to vertical, and it was tiny enough that the ACE could now not read it.

Now had it been a coin or coin-sized object, you would still be able to read it regardless.

 

[hollowpointred]

Now had it been a coin or coin-sized object, you would still be able to read it regardless.

not necessarily, i have had Indians disappear like this too. put it in all metal and it reappears.

 

[oldbill]

Hot rocks, highly patch of mineralized ground! Bill

 

[JP]

This has happened to me too. Half the time it was because the object fell deeper into the hole while I was trying to dig it out. The other half of the time because it was junk (maybe Iron) that somehow was registering as something good and then when some soil was removed it disappears. But next time try digging out a few more scoops of the loose dirt from the bottom of the hole and see if the object is there.

A friend of mine recently got a pin pointer, something that I thought was a waste of time. They actually help on the recovery of an item.

HH

 

[Ricardo_NY1]

Khouse and hollow said it right............make sure you put it in all metal mode. Matter of fact, whenever you are retrieving a target.........put the detector in all metal mode........not only will you not run the chance of almost losing a good target...........but you may find a suprise item that was disc'd out.

 

[Paul4x4]

This happens all the time to me also. I normally hunt with the sensitivity set up to 3 or 4, and sometimes when I loose the signal, I simply just increase the sensitivity by a couple bars to find the signal again.

 

[Monty]

It happens a lot with several different kinds of detectors I have used. I usually find it is a very small piece of iron with a lot of rust. An old rusty nail is very bad about this. Monty