Target ID with the Ace 250

[Ricardo_NY1]

To add a little bit more to this post..........the target ID of the ACE in my opinion is good to about 4 inches for coins. Anything deeper could be trash or show up as a different type of coin. Just the other day I dug a wheatie at a true 6 inches, and it came in as a quarter the whole time. I remember how the machine ID'd, the hole, everything. It's not everyday I recover a coin past the 4 or 5 inch mark. Regarding recoveries, everyone needs to keep in mind that the detector should be set to all-metal. Not doing so is how you could end up with a "What happened to the target?" There's stuff in the ground that will ID as a coin while in the soil, but once out in the air will not ID that way. PP'ing.......don't concentrate on the screen or precision, is my best advice. Coin sounds at 2-3 inches but you pin-point something deeper..........lower your sensitivity or raise the coil slightly off the ground, and inch or two and keep trying. Scratch that dirt. The 250 a low end detector?............Yeah, I'd say many people see it that way because it costs about $230. They could've probably sold it for $400. If they can sell a bounty discovery 3300 as a Titan 3000XD on that K site for over $400, they could sell a 250 for that money........and the 250 is obviously up there with detectors that cost more than $230.

 

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Thanks Ricardo!

 

[dahut]

the Ace 250 - this is gonna get ugly...

If your squemish, stop now.

First, get over the 'trash vs treasure' hype. Garrett and everyone else uses it to sell detectors, man! In the real world, using that TID crutch to make your dig decision is like asking your wife if you should buy a big screen TV - instead of a vacation to Disney for her and the kids.

I dont use the TID much on the ACE 250, in fact. It is accurate on coins, at least enough - but it is squirrely anywhere there is other trash present. And lets face it, most places you are going to take the ACE is trash-city. I have found that when it wont accurately ID and tends to wander around in both depth and TID, then it is trash of some kind, or trash is VERY close. Wanna really get to know things? Dump that silly 'COIN' mode and get ALL METAL - then cover the display with electrical tape. Go on audio and coil height only. There are three main target ranges we are interested in:

Iron
Mid
High

The Ace covers them all.

Here's another tidbit for you: the ACE 250 has excellent separation. DO NOT under-rate this benefit. I have tested it with a dime and rusty nail and it gets the dime at a measured 2" from the nail. This is in slightly negatively mineralized soil, BTW. But, where there is alot of trash or other things going on in the matrix, it has trouble. It is a $200 detector, after all. Im not selling it short mind you - it also hits my wedding band (a relatively poor target) as deeply as some of my $$$ detectors and ID's it dead on pulltab, right where it should...

The biggest bugaboo I have found with this machine is running with TOO much gain (SENS). Bill Revis said it way back when it came out and Kenny got that one right, too. I recommend you get out of the fields for a while and get to work on test pieces. Work real goodies, and measure the detection of them in proximity to trash. I use a ruler and move the pieces closer until I dont get good separation. Then once back afield, turn down that damn SENS until you learn the trash suite for a given hunt site and how your ACE responds.

Then you can take the tape off the display.

 

[Fleeker]

The little yeller feller is one heck of a detector for its price and for the price of the extra coils you can get for it. Just the other day I was using mine with the 9X12 coil and I got this dime hit. I pinpointed it, which is very easy to do, (I don't know why so many people have commented about it being hard to pinpoint with it) dug down about three inches and sticking out in the middle of the hole was a piece of wire. It had a loop on the end and run back into the ground about 10 inches when I pulled it out. I thought man, this is what it was beeping at. I checked the hole again, which is always a good idea, and lo and behold it beeped a dime again and when I pinpointed it again, I was right over it and it was saying 5 to 6 inches. Dug on down to 6 inches and out popped this nice 1953 Roosevelt dime. I don't know if my Garrett GTI 1500 would have let me find it because it would have probably sized the wire instead of the dime. I had hunted that area before with my 1500. Now the 1500 is one great machine but sometimes bells and whistles is no substitute for digging