First outing with new ACE 250 and a few finds.

intocoins

Well , I finally was able to get outside due to the weather and working schedule.

I was actually just trying to get used to my new machine, but I think I did pretty good for a first outing.

I started out using the headphones, but I quickly found out that unless there's alot of noise, they are a real pain to take off and put back on every time you go in for a dig.

I ditched the headphones and started sweeping as the instructional DVD that came with the detector showed how.

I was using the jewelry mode and quickly found out that people really must have drinked alot of pop and beer back in the day.



I was finding these things left and right. I decided to eliminate the pull-tab signal from my detector, but I occasionally would pick them up here and there along with cans and sometimes pieces of aluminum foil.

I would have liked to show pictures of the site, However, I am respecting the request of the owner to not take any pictures.

I went back to digging and the little shovel I got with the detector broke, Luckily I brought a spare. I got a signal from around a big tree trunk and thought , Wow this has got to be a coin. Somebody was probably lying down around the tree and out came the dinero. Wrong........



It's a little Match Box car. It reads Science Friction 1977 on the bottom.

I went on a trail that hugged a forest line and found a bunch of shells and what looks to be carburater linkage?



Found this button in the back yard



Found a total of 4 Lincoln Memorials and one Washington Quarter


All clad coins but they are the first coins I have found Detecting. I actually thought the quarter was a bust type coin at first.

I was all ready to call it a day when I was headed back to my truck and picked up a signal along the way about 20 feet from my truck.......






I cleaned it up a bit to see if it was silver or not. Still not sure , it has a number that I think says 725 or maybe 925. Might be Stainless? It also has a jaw that actually moves , kind of morbid but I thought it was pretty neat.

So , All in all I got to know my detector a little better and I found my first coin/s and first ring.........Had a great time and I think I'm hooked

speer34

That's a great first outing--your ring is silver--it at least has that silver look to it. Clean it with some warm water and a soft toothbrush--check the numbers again and I'm pretty sure you will see 925--which ='s silver!!!

Congrats!!!!!!

CROCKofCOINS

Very good first day!
That ring is wild...925 is SILVER as said.

Jerry

BentFork

Nice chunk of silver! Congrats.

intocoins

Here's a better picture of both sides of the ring. Looks like there's engravings on both sides. One appears to be 925. The other appears to be JPA whatever that means. Happy hunting!

demodigger

yep looks like silver. that "linkage" is a copper gas tube. trash every where? how strange. you'll learn soon why headphones are important. it helps when looking for deep targets. also the audio beep will attract alot of kids. you may or may not like it.

DUBBA

nice going with the ace ....silver rings are good...hh

lordmarcovan

Great silver ring!

That button is OK, too.

(Ahh, wait- it says "CK", doesn't it. As in, Calvin Klein. Looked like it said "OK" at first.)

laserart

What do you have the "Sensitivity" knob set at?

intocoins

The sensitivity level is all the way up.

intocoins

The button reads OK. I think its probably a knock off of a Calvin Klein Button.

goldrush00013

Great first outing!

Love the ring!

ricko

Great first outing... neat ring... Cheers, RickO

bsshog40

Great first run there. I have yet to find anything silver. I've found a lot of modern coinage but nothing worth keeping. I have Garrett 1500 and it points on a dime but I guess I'm just not hitting the right places. It's hobby only for the patient, that's for sure!

laserart

<< <i>The sensitivity level is all the way up. >>


I started out with the same setting but quickly learned to turn it down a it. I dug a toy cap pistol at 14 inches on maximum sensitivity. Too much digging.

speer34

<< <i>The sensitivity level is all the way up. >>



In addition to what Laserart said, normally when the sensitivity is all the way up on this machine, you tend to get a lot of falsing. I have found on this machine you can normally run the sens at about 4 or 5 out of 8 and still get great results. I used this machine quite a bit when I was in the UK and I was able to find a lot of keepers with it and I was never able to run it above 5 bars without a TON of falsing. It's a GREAT machine for the price. I haven't used it that much within the last couple of years since I got my GTI2500. That machine is a BEAST and I love it.

Thanks for sharing and HH.

Scott

shudson

I look at lots of pull tabs in an area being a good thing! Since most detectorists would remove them, odds are the place you're hunting is virgin.

Great find with the skull ring, I really like it. lol Stirling silver is marked 925 (92.5% pure)... congrats!