Garretts Out Hunting Again

Garretts Out Hunting Again


I went out for a quick hunt with my Garrett Ace 250 in the park. I can't resist lately, any spare time and I'm out hunting around. I don't think it's actually a park I went to, but more an open grass field that people use to play football, walk dogs etc. I only had about 1 hour so just had a enough time to dig a few targets. Pull tabs and football boot studs were everywhere, some quite deep too, and beings that they give the same signal on the Ace 250 as gold gives, I had to dig them all. I didn't find any gold, but did manage to find a very dark coloured One Pound Coin about 2 inches deep. I also found a 5p, and just as I dug the hole and peeled back the soil there was a little plastic Scottish Terrier dog pendant staring at me.

Not a bad site, but quite a lot of trash. Saying that, I think amongst the junk there could be some lost jewelry somewhere as the site is used by a lot of people on a daily basis. I might go back there again soon.

Scottish Terrier Plastic Dog Pendant found in a hole.

How Deep Can The Ace 250 Go?

How Deep Can The Ace 250 Go?

Recently I have been reading other peoples reviews about the Garrett Ace 250 Metal Detector. The reviews I have read have been quite mixed, but most of the people agree that it's a very good detector for the price. One thing all of the reviews I read don't agree on is how deep can the Ace 250 detect..Some people said their Ace 250 only detects down to about 4 - 6 inches. 

 

Other people said theirs goes as deep as 8 - 10 inches..One reviewer of the Ace 250 claimed that they had been chatting about this subject with the guy who worked in the metal detector shop, and they said he laughed when they asked him "can the Ace 250 go deeper then 8 inches". He replied, "Don't read into the hype, It's a good starter detector, but it does not detect down to 8 inches, 6 if your lucky"..

Well, I'm not sure if I have received an extra powerful, freak of nature Ace 250, but the other day, as written in my post, my Garrett Ace 250 detected an old bottle top 12 inches (a foot) down. My whole spade head and some of the neck was under the ground.

I truly believe that how deep the Ace 250 will detect matters on what type of ground you are using the detector on. When I detected this bottle top 12 inches down the soil was nice and soft, easy to dig, maybe that was why it could go so deep?. I did not have the sensitivity turned on full either, It was set with two bars left blank at the top.

I know from my own experience using the Ace 250 that it can detect an object 12 inches down. But also, in different soil conditions maybe it will only detect to 6 inches. Just like it will not detect too well in wet sand or under water, but there are specific metal detectors made for those conditions. 

All in all the Garrett Ace 250, in my experience, is a great all rounder for the price, and under the right conditions it can detect deep targets. My average depth for finding objects is around the 4 - 6 inch mark, but on some occasions, throughout the days hunting, finds are as deep as 8 - 10 inches down. 

But like written above, and in my post, I have found an object 12 inches down, this was only once, but it just shows that the Ace 250 is capable of doing it. Well it was on that day anyway! Maybe it's the Duracell battery's I use, who knows..

Latest Metal Detecting Finds

Latest Metal Detecting Finds


It's been a while since I made a post about my own metal detector finds. I have been going metal detecting, but just not really finding much of interest. It's mainly been junk. My luck might be starting to change though because I have found a few decent finds over the past week or so. I've been on a mission of elimination, crossing the sites I want to hunt off the list, visiting them one by one. The first site was a wooded area that I drive past regularly, and always say to myself ,"I bets there's something good in there". Well, I went over to find out. What I found was lots of junk, although from looking at the site from a distance, you would never of thought that. It just looked like a nice, clean wooded area. It was anything but clean. I found a huge amount of empty condom packets, foil, cans, bottle tops, and loads of other bits of junk.

I did manage to find an up to date Two Pound Coin near a big oak tree about 2 - 4 inches down. It was like someone had been lying against the tree and a Two Pound coin fell out of their pocket. This could have happened over 10 years ago as the £2 coin is dated 1998. That was my best find on this day. The coin is in bad condition beings that it's a newer coin. It seems like the newer coins corrode more badly compared to the older ones..

While hunting around £2 richer I had some strange signals by another tree, and It came to mind that people must have been over this site, possibly sitting down, leaning up various trees. I decided to dig the strange signals and came accross bits off an aztec style chain or bracelet. It's not gold or silver, more like base metal of some kind..

So, not a bad day really. As long as I find something, and got to give the detector a work out, I'm always happy with that. By the amount of junk over this site I don't think I'll be going back there in a hurry. At least my curiosity about this site has been seen to. Sometimes the places where you think would be really good for metal detecting are terrible, and the places you think are a joke turn out to be really good..You just never can tell about a site until you go over and find out.

Like I say almost every time I write a post after using the Garrett Ace 250. It's a great detector. I actually dug a strong signal that ended up being a foot deep! It ended up being an old bottle top, but that just shows, the Ace 250 can find small objects pretty deep down.


I have got my eye on a few other sites so stay tuned, more finds to come.

Million Dollars Worth of Gold

Now and again I watch a video, or read a story about metal detecting that seriously leaves me lost for words and eager to keep on hunting. This guy, who lives in Australia, goes out hunting for gold, and after some time and effort finds it.

Every time I watch one of his videos it makes me wish I lived in Australia. Some areas in the outback of Australia are hiding big lumps of gold. This guy has found some huge nuggets! Check out this YouTube video below where he has well over a million dollars worth of gold! 1100oz (ounces) to be exact!

Roman Coins Haul Found In UK

Roman Coins Haul Found In UK

A man in England found 52,000 Roman Coins worth around £250,000 GBP! What an unbeleivable find. This guy is just an amateur metal detectorist that had a funny sounding signal and decided to dig it. What he found was a huge pot full of Roman Coins weighing in at 160KG. This ancient pot was buried under the ground approximately 12 - 14 inches deep.

The lucky guy, named Dave Crisp plans to split the money generated from the coins with the owner of the land from where they were found. This huge find will have metal detector sales rocketing again in the UK. The last time was when the huge amount of gold was found worth millions of pounds - which was only around 2 - 4 inches deep!. This recent Roman Coin find is free enthusiasm for all the metal detectorists ( including me) that have been too busy doing other things. Now I want to get out there and have a look around. There's valuable treasure out there!

Read more about this heart stopping find

June 2012 Hunt With The C-Scope CS1MX

June 2012 Hunt With The C-Scope CS1MX

Went out for a little hunt a few days ago to one of my usual spots. I didn't take a camera with me but I didn't find anything worth taking pictures of either. It was good to get out and have a look around. I was impressed with the CS1MX, it was very easy to tell the difference between a good signal and junk. Well, most of the time. I did have two really good signals that just had to be investigated, these both ended up being iron. One was a big iron lump and the other was some sort of nut that was lodged underneath a thick tree root!. All that Karate chopping for a nut!

But as most people who metal detect know, lumps of iron can fool even the best machines. The site I went to was very trashy and the CS1MX really did do a good job most of the time letting me know what was worth digging and what wasn't. When a signal is most probably junk the CS1MX with either give a jumpy signal that beeps numerous times or it will give a spitting signal. The only metal that seems to fool this machine every time is foil.

The only thing I found in abundance was used shotgun shell casings of different colours. They were everywhere. I plan of getting out again very soon to a new location. I think the CS1MX would work very well in a less trashy site. It would be nice to find a site that would allow me to use this machine in all metal mode with a brand new battery to get as much depth as possible.

Shotgun Shells!