Whats You Weapon Of Choice?

I have an Ace 250 it does all I could ask.

garrett ace 250. got it for 100 bucks

i started with the prizm 5 ,did well, updated to the minelab se , 8 inch coil and stock coil and its a world of difference ,i love my se . just my opinion.

i have white for some years now can only find trash with it picks up any kind of metal it suppose to discrimint trash out but it dosent anyone have a good suggestion on what one I should get I tried of digging trash

i started with a garrett gtax550. then I got the gti2500. I found a lot of stuff with both machines. however, it was only when I started using a minelab explorer xs that I feel like I was really detecting. I have pulled a wheat out of dry ground from a measured 11.5 inches, and it even sounded and ID'd as a coin. other detectors may hear deep targets, but they're so deep that they ID as something much lower on the scale than a coin, so they're passed up more often. with the explorer I had a 20-silver day from a pounded park and constantly find great, old coins in the same hole with nails and bottlecaps.

the explorers are definitely heavier machines, and they may take a bit longer to truly master, but it's definitely my weapon of choice!

good luck out there!

HH,
Mike

White's MXT

Priced from highest to lowest:

Garrett 2500
Garrett 550
Garrett Ace 250

I now have a White's DFX and I love it. It's not a beginner machine but it does have pre-loaded programs to get you started. You can also design your own custom programs for whatever soil conditions you're digging in and the type of target you're going after (eg. coins, jewelry, relics). It's not cheap but I wanted something that I didn't have to upgrade in a year or so. Previously, I had a White's Eagle and before that an old White's Coinmaster. Once you decided on a metal detector, don't expect it to "attract" treasures to you. You have to listen to the signals the machine is producing and how it reacts to different targets and conditions. I've gone over areas that were "hunted out" and found some incredible items. And the more I got used to my new metal detector, I realized that some of the weaker signals, even though they sounded like trash, were actually very deep, old coins. The sound was slightly different and that's something you'll learn with experience. It's all in knowing what your machine is commumicating to you and how well you interpret it. I couldn't be happier with my choice.