Question for the Ace 250 user's

To be honest, with only an area 12 x 12, I wouldn't have thought it would matter much, which mode you used.

Jewelry mode should just knock out any iron though.

Hope you find the ring

Jewlery mode would be the best. In an old shed I would expect to find ALOT of iron junk-nails, screws etc...that were dropped in the years it was used. You may also find that you will want to notch out foil as well. Gold should hit higher than both of those metals. You wont want to listen to the detector sing the "all metal song" in an old workshed

There is one thing to remember though; the ring may be hiding under a nail so cleaing the area of junk may be to your advantage. You will have a better assessment of this once you start.

Other than that, I think you have a decent shot of finding the ring

Dig anything that locks onto nickle or pulltab. After you find the ring dig everything else up :P

A sieve might come in handy, and perhaps a big magnet to sort the ferrous metal.

user18 said:

Finding a gold ring among a lot of iron trash might be a challenge (even in a relatively small area) for a first-time hunt. But just keep at it. Your problem is likely to be that the ring is probably buried near (or below, or directly on top of) some iron that may confuse (or completely obliterate) the tone you want to hear. I would guess it will read (probably round) pulltab or nickel, but it really depends on the ring. Good luck!

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Would it be wise to discriminate out iron? This is my first Ace250 detector but I have been detecting for about 12 years with a Garrett Freedom Ace Plus/Fisher 1225X/Tesoro Silver uMax/a Whites' something or other (didn't have it very long). Thanks for all your replies! Steve.

Would it be wise to discriminate out iron? This is my first Ace250 detector but I have been detecting for about 12 years with a Garrett Freedom Ace Plus/Fisher 1225X/Tesoro Silver uMax/a Whites' something or other (didn't have it very long). Thanks for all your replies! Steve.

It probably wont help with the ACE 250. It will still read iron it jsut wont give you a tone. It will still mask another metal.

I have had gold rings ring up as nickels, dimes, foil and pulltabs ... So you might want to start your search by notching out everything except these. I think I've had one or two ring up as pennies also. Not very common, but could happen.
Basicially notch out everything under a nickel, then over a dime, then clean up and get rid of any scrap metal in sight.
Thats what I would do.
Swing slow, overlap, dig everything that produces a repeatable signal.
Senstivity shouldn't matter all that much since its likely not very deep. 3/4 or so should do, easily.
If that failed, I would then try again, with even slower and more over lapping sweeps, opposite of what you just did [ie north to south instead of east to west].
If that failed, I would turn up the sensitivity, go to jewelry mode, sweep slower still, and dig any signal that would pinpoint.
If that failed, I'd try the same once more, after which I'd be convinced that there is no gold ring to be found there within 8 inches of the surface.