Well, I asked my wife for a metal detector for Christmas and when the box came in the mail with may ACE 250 Christmas present I broke down and begged her to let me have it early. So, I took it to a local park today to give it a trial run and searched around the benches and found 3 pennies and 1 quarter!!! I was elated; then I was told by the park ranger that detecting hours are from sunrise to 9:00 am and I would have to stop as it was past 9:00. Well I decided to try the beach next and was really surprised to get NOTHING!! There were very very few signals. So I tried some of the bench areas in a park near the beach and wound up with about 6 pull tabs/bottle caps. Oh well, it's a start!