Garrett Ace 250...confusing Me....

#1...learn your machine. I love my ace. Grab some coins...penny, nickel, dime, and quarter...place them on the grass...a good distance from each other. Now set your "mode" to "coin mode"...it's the top left button..keep pressing this button...you'll see the 4 "modes" changing. Leave it on "coin mode". Next hit the top middle button for your "sensitivity". Hit the "-" side until you have only "2" bars lit up. Now go swing over one of your coins...watch wath happens to your screen...listen to the sounds...and watch the screen to see if your signal jumps around as you swing over the target or if it repeats. Now, as you swing over the target...go past it then hit the bottom center button and hold it in...this is the pinpoint mode. Watch the led screen when you get right over the target. Make an "X" while still holding the pinpoint button down. Find the sweet spot on your coil that lights up the entire led screen. Do this with all of your coins. Watch where the coin is when doing all of this again. You should see that dimes act a little different in pinpointing.

Now let's go hunt. Leave all settings like this. If you find that your house doesn't have alot of trash in the ground...then increase the top middle button (sensitivity). It's going to go a little deeper now..but might find trash too.

But, I think the best thing to do is hit a tot-lot park in your area..no real digging for you. Find a lot with sand or wood chips. You should be able to find lots of coins...which will be lots of practice for learning your ace. Once you get a better handle then it's alot easier to hit the grass.

I hunt in coin mode most of the time and I usually use 2 or 3 bars of sensitivity. If I was in the woods where I knew there wasn't alot of junk/trash..I would crank up the sensitivity to get a little more depth. My last silver dime came at 3 inches. So not everything is deep. Just get out there and hunt. It does get better when you learn the litle things about the ace!

I have to agree about the importance of learning your new Ace. When I first bought mine (about 2-3 weeks ago) I was frustrated at the amount of trash I was finding. But looking back, finding trash was probably the most important thing that could have happened to me. Finding trash has helped me fine tune my hearing, and learn what trashy signals sound and behave like. Then, when I started finding coins, it made all the frustration worth it!

Way to go Pat! I dug a whole of of trash my first few weeks with the Ace, but as previously posted, pay attention to the signals a dug target gave and you will be diggin the good stuff more often. Just one word of advice. Some trash gives erratic signals that bounce all over the scale. A pocket coin spill of coins will do the same.