Should I Get A Garrett Ace 250 For My Birthday?

I haven't had any luck searching besides old pull tabs (pop tabs) and old beer and pop cans, not really any old coins :(

I have and still use an ACE250 though My main machine is now an ATPro
Most of the finds I have posted in the finds section are from my ACE only the last four or five months are with the ATPro. Learn your machine and you will get its full potential. All detectors work on a similar priciple so your find rate is going to be linked to how well you know your machine and what it will do under all soil conditions. There are just too many other detectorists in my area to bother with the beaches and historic sites so I stick with Elementary schools and local city parks. I have not found any old coins and don't expect to I have found plenty of silver and gold though. The 250 will find gold but it will ring in the pull tab range 99.9% of the time so to find stuff you will have to dig all targets..

Islander2010, that's easy to explain, a quarter was a lot of money in those days, losing a tiny dime would be easier to swallow.

I can't wait to get into the hobby, I just hope nobody's done it around here.

@Islander2010, the thrill of the hunt is probably the coolest thing and what got me interested by looking at Youtube videos, it'd be nice to find some silver though, I'll have to do my research.

It's a decent starter model but you will soon grow tired of it. My first year detecting, I dug a half-dozen silvers. I then upgraded to a higher-end machine 3 years ago and have dug several hundred silvers, silver dollars, halves, 1,000+ wheaties, LC's, etc, and my oldest spanish silver dated 1758, here in Michigan. Not trying to discourage you, but every one of my dirtfishing buddies have upgraded to $1,000+ machines and their finds have increased tremendously.

Islander2010 how does the 350 work on the newer coinage. There are a lot saying the ace is setup for US coins and it has a hart time with the canadian coin?
Any feed back would be great as I'm looking at the 350 as well

WCP, I have had my 350 for a few years now, and have used it in Canada, the USA and South Africa! It has no problems detecting coins in any of these countries. However, you shouldn't pay too much attention to the "coin indicator" - primarily because of differing metal compositions, a Canadian quarter won't always show in the 25c range, can show as a 5c or 50c! I think it's all academic, because I'm going to dig anything that shows as any kind of coin! I never did see the usefulness of the indicator upposedly showing you what kind of coin is in the ground... It's really just making an "educated electronic guess", it's not foolproof, for example most of the time it will read zinc Lincoln pennies as pulltabs! Another thing to remember is that all Canadian plated steel coins tend to read either as either trash or pulltabs... So what I do is set the discrimination really low and dig every target if the area I'm searching isn't too full of trash in the ground. If the area is a high trash find area, then I'll crank up the discrimination and just accept not finding the "new stuff"... If it's metal, the detector will pick it up, it's up to you whether you want to factor out ferrous metals by using the discrimination feature.