First, I'm still a rookie - but as I received my md some days ago and since I've been hunting a beach (where I found an IKEA spoon and lots of rubbish) and the forest (where I found a nail) - I've decided to changed my profile name appearance, and bring up my real name that is Morten. Hi!
Anyway - I do have some questions regarding the Ace 250 and the sounds it makes. I don't really mind that is says "ding" and that it "thinks" it's a coin there on the beach - although it's only some peace of foil. But what really is a mystery to me is the way it was producing sounds today in the forest. (Please note that the forest I'm referring to is a place where there are hardly any people, and very little - if any - rubbish to find. For instance I heard a "ding" - checked again - and heard a ding again. Took the md over the place back and forth several times. Sometimes with a ding sound and sometimes without a sound at all. After that I used the pinpoint. A rather strong sound produced. Fond what I felt was the centre and begun digging. Pinpointed again after having dug a pretty big hole. No sound whatsoever. Checked the soil I had dug up - no sound there neither. Suddenly there was no sound at all.
After that I got to a place where I got a pretty strong signal, producing sounds more frequently. After having dug a pretty big and wide hole all I could see a very big stone (that might contain some iron - as it had some read brownish colour...(?) Could that stone have been the reason to the ding sound?
What do you say - is a "ding" - only now and then - on the same spot saying that "Yes, there's metal down there"? Is there always metal below the md when it produces a single "ding"? Or can other things/reasons (that are not made of metal) produce signals now and then? Could for instance moist grass produce false signals?
After having checked several places where signals were produced - without finding anything - I sort of started to mistrust the detector slightly - as I didn't find metal - and sometimes not even a stone.
Have any of you 250 users any advice to give me?
I've decided not to show you the spoon I found . Think I'll wait with pictures till I find something slightly more interesting
It's NOT that I'm giving up hunting - I just would appreciate a good sound advice after my first day out "in the field".
All the best to all of you from a rainy and rather cold Norway.
:-) Morten
Anyway - I do have some questions regarding the Ace 250 and the sounds it makes. I don't really mind that is says "ding" and that it "thinks" it's a coin there on the beach - although it's only some peace of foil. But what really is a mystery to me is the way it was producing sounds today in the forest. (Please note that the forest I'm referring to is a place where there are hardly any people, and very little - if any - rubbish to find. For instance I heard a "ding" - checked again - and heard a ding again. Took the md over the place back and forth several times. Sometimes with a ding sound and sometimes without a sound at all. After that I used the pinpoint. A rather strong sound produced. Fond what I felt was the centre and begun digging. Pinpointed again after having dug a pretty big hole. No sound whatsoever. Checked the soil I had dug up - no sound there neither. Suddenly there was no sound at all.
After that I got to a place where I got a pretty strong signal, producing sounds more frequently. After having dug a pretty big and wide hole all I could see a very big stone (that might contain some iron - as it had some read brownish colour...(?) Could that stone have been the reason to the ding sound?
What do you say - is a "ding" - only now and then - on the same spot saying that "Yes, there's metal down there"? Is there always metal below the md when it produces a single "ding"? Or can other things/reasons (that are not made of metal) produce signals now and then? Could for instance moist grass produce false signals?
After having checked several places where signals were produced - without finding anything - I sort of started to mistrust the detector slightly - as I didn't find metal - and sometimes not even a stone.
Have any of you 250 users any advice to give me?
I've decided not to show you the spoon I found . Think I'll wait with pictures till I find something slightly more interesting
It's NOT that I'm giving up hunting - I just would appreciate a good sound advice after my first day out "in the field".
All the best to all of you from a rainy and rather cold Norway.
:-) Morten