kemichael74
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- Apr 22, 2022
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I've been detecting now for about 3 months. I started with the bounty hunter tracker IV like most people. Did well with it. Found a lot of clad and even an old button. Recently a coworker gave me his Garret Ace 250 with the stock coil and also a 10x14 DD coil. It's an easy machine to operate and i figured it out pretty quickly. I like it a lot and it's more powerful than the tracker IV. It hits the targets good and i can quickly pull targets with no problem with the stock coil (5x9 i think or something like that).
I went to a local park yesterday with the stock coil and hunted around the ball fields and WOW got quarters and dimes everywhere but a lot more ground to cover and taking a long time with the 5x9 coil. I went back today with the 10x14 coil and i don't think i like it at all!! I tried to give it a chance. I knew it was heavier but that's not the big issue with it. I'm having an impossible time targeting anything. It seems confused and much harder to get that good double ding when you got something.
It also goes much deeper which i knew also. When i do think i've pinpointed my target i'll press the PP button and get over the target till its full bars and screaming then i'll dig and nothing! I think that might be it's much deeper than what i'm digging. Well at the park i don't think i want to dig deep holes as deep as that thing goes anyways. I usually bump the sensitivity down one or two notches with the bigger coil. I just thought using a bigger coil would be a better experience and so far i hate the thing! And the pinpointer. When using it do you only use it after you've somewhat located the target. In otherwords if you leave the button off do you have to pass over the target again before pressing it on again? Seems like anywhere i randomly set the coil and press PP the tone goes off high. It's like i have to kind of show it first where the target is.
So for now i guess i'm going back to the 5x9 as i feel today was a complete loss of time walking around with the big coil. I feel if i go back over what i did with the small one i'll get stuff and that's a terrible feeling to know you left stuff behind. I might reconsider using the 10x14 when i start doing big fields. You can dig bigger holes out there, lol!!
OH, and i did calibrate the detector after changing the coils and tried various custom settings as well as pre programmed. It's just so much harder to use. My coworker said their was nothing wrong with the coil or detector. They are both like new so i trust him.
Any tips or pointers man i could really use them. The places i have lined up will take way too long with a 5x9 coil.
I went to a local park yesterday with the stock coil and hunted around the ball fields and WOW got quarters and dimes everywhere but a lot more ground to cover and taking a long time with the 5x9 coil. I went back today with the 10x14 coil and i don't think i like it at all!! I tried to give it a chance. I knew it was heavier but that's not the big issue with it. I'm having an impossible time targeting anything. It seems confused and much harder to get that good double ding when you got something.
It also goes much deeper which i knew also. When i do think i've pinpointed my target i'll press the PP button and get over the target till its full bars and screaming then i'll dig and nothing! I think that might be it's much deeper than what i'm digging. Well at the park i don't think i want to dig deep holes as deep as that thing goes anyways. I usually bump the sensitivity down one or two notches with the bigger coil. I just thought using a bigger coil would be a better experience and so far i hate the thing! And the pinpointer. When using it do you only use it after you've somewhat located the target. In otherwords if you leave the button off do you have to pass over the target again before pressing it on again? Seems like anywhere i randomly set the coil and press PP the tone goes off high. It's like i have to kind of show it first where the target is.
So for now i guess i'm going back to the 5x9 as i feel today was a complete loss of time walking around with the big coil. I feel if i go back over what i did with the small one i'll get stuff and that's a terrible feeling to know you left stuff behind. I might reconsider using the 10x14 when i start doing big fields. You can dig bigger holes out there, lol!!
OH, and i did calibrate the detector after changing the coils and tried various custom settings as well as pre programmed. It's just so much harder to use. My coworker said their was nothing wrong with the coil or detector. They are both like new so i trust him.
Any tips or pointers man i could really use them. The places i have lined up will take way too long with a 5x9 coil.