MrXtramean
Junior Member
I have the Ace 250, I had a Bounty Hunter for a week and returned it. The Ace 250 is, what I'm calling, my 2nd MD while I look and wait for a unit that has good frequency range for gold prospecting, beach/salt, while doing the normal park stuff of coins, relics, jewelry. We do have meteorites in our state, as well.
So I'm looking, reading reviews, etc. to find my true MD. I'm also looking for an under water unit for mainly jewelry during the hot summer days.
The Ace 250 is great. It has problems where the Ace 350 sounds like it might correct the Iron discrimination issue's of the 250. And the coil, with narrow slice sweeping, will help with multiple targets. I've read that people with the Ace 250 buy a sniper coil and love it so much, it seems that 250 is a whole new machine. I hope Garrett has a winner on their hands. If they fix the Iron issue, the multiple target, the salt/beach issue, all of this, while still getting good depth, the Ace 350 could be, for it's price, a super machine.
For the price of 1 Minelab Explorer SE Pro at $1200, I could buy 4 Ace 350's. And since I've been told to dig everything, from foil that looks like platinum to pulltabs that look like gold, why spend more.
If a machine can tell you it's a pull tab 100% or it's a gold ring 100%, then save your money and buy that machine and it will be the only machine you will ever need on land. But as long as there's even a 25% chance the machine is wrong, you could be passing up gold, etc. I do know that a gold ring next to another metal will give a different signal, so how can anyone know 100% what is really in the ground?
Since winter is probably not the best time to buy a metal detector, there should be some good sales. Wait till a few have the Ace 350, read reviews, and then look for winter specials. I hope to get a water unit this winter.
Since July 1 2010, my take is 7 rings, 1 silver bracelet, a couple ear rings and about $22 in coin. Go slow, be patient, and do areas in quadrants and you will find stuff!
Sorry for long post. The Ace 350 "should" be an awesome unit and worth every dollar more, "if" Garrett fixed some minor issue's of the 250.
So I'm looking, reading reviews, etc. to find my true MD. I'm also looking for an under water unit for mainly jewelry during the hot summer days.
The Ace 250 is great. It has problems where the Ace 350 sounds like it might correct the Iron discrimination issue's of the 250. And the coil, with narrow slice sweeping, will help with multiple targets. I've read that people with the Ace 250 buy a sniper coil and love it so much, it seems that 250 is a whole new machine. I hope Garrett has a winner on their hands. If they fix the Iron issue, the multiple target, the salt/beach issue, all of this, while still getting good depth, the Ace 350 could be, for it's price, a super machine.
For the price of 1 Minelab Explorer SE Pro at $1200, I could buy 4 Ace 350's. And since I've been told to dig everything, from foil that looks like platinum to pulltabs that look like gold, why spend more.
If a machine can tell you it's a pull tab 100% or it's a gold ring 100%, then save your money and buy that machine and it will be the only machine you will ever need on land. But as long as there's even a 25% chance the machine is wrong, you could be passing up gold, etc. I do know that a gold ring next to another metal will give a different signal, so how can anyone know 100% what is really in the ground?
Since winter is probably not the best time to buy a metal detector, there should be some good sales. Wait till a few have the Ace 350, read reviews, and then look for winter specials. I hope to get a water unit this winter.
Since July 1 2010, my take is 7 rings, 1 silver bracelet, a couple ear rings and about $22 in coin. Go slow, be patient, and do areas in quadrants and you will find stuff!
Sorry for long post. The Ace 350 "should" be an awesome unit and worth every dollar more, "if" Garrett fixed some minor issue's of the 250.
