Ace400
Full Member
Yup, found my first bullet today!
Went to Ft. Washington State Park and decided to detect in the Group Camping Area. Came home with my most clad, least trash and some of the coolest things I've found so far! Took a friend with me too. She used the Bounty Hunter Jr. mostly, we traded at one point and after a few minutes I kinda broke the BH's shaft in half
Before I broke it, she found the half a horse-shoe with it! Need to do some research on that thing and see when it's from, if it's old they have a museum next to the park we'll take it to. She was as amazed as I am by how many old style pull-tabs come out of the ground. Now I think I'm going to have to get a back-up machine for when I take friends with me detecting, kinda like how I have 2 kayaks, sometimes it's extra fun to take people along. I was hoping to wait long enough to find enough to pay for one of the dream machines (yes, you already have me mentally drooling over a Dirty Thirty) and then the Ace could become the backup....
Question about pinpointing with the Ace... The manual says when you nail down the location with the PP button, the target should be directly in front of the shaft. Quite often, when I kneel down and pull out the Carrot, it seems that the coin is about 4" behind where I thought it was going to be. And sure enough, when I re-check the area after grabbing the coin, there aren't any more signals there* so I obviously got the thing the Ace had been reading.
*Except for Ghost images. My Ace seems to have a thing for coin ghosts in the holes. After I pull the coin out and refill the hole, when I run the coil over it after I will frequently get a single ping in the tonal range of the coin I just removed from the hole, maybe a couple of little bleeps and blurps... And then the hole usually goes silent. This doesn't happen all the time, but it happens quite a lot. Part of me thinks it's the image of the coin often left in the dirt and maybe some metal that leeched into the dirt right around the coin over the years, but then I laugh off that silliness because it's obviously ghosts.
Went to Ft. Washington State Park and decided to detect in the Group Camping Area. Came home with my most clad, least trash and some of the coolest things I've found so far! Took a friend with me too. She used the Bounty Hunter Jr. mostly, we traded at one point and after a few minutes I kinda broke the BH's shaft in half
Before I broke it, she found the half a horse-shoe with it! Need to do some research on that thing and see when it's from, if it's old they have a museum next to the park we'll take it to. She was as amazed as I am by how many old style pull-tabs come out of the ground. Now I think I'm going to have to get a back-up machine for when I take friends with me detecting, kinda like how I have 2 kayaks, sometimes it's extra fun to take people along. I was hoping to wait long enough to find enough to pay for one of the dream machines (yes, you already have me mentally drooling over a Dirty Thirty) and then the Ace could become the backup....Question about pinpointing with the Ace... The manual says when you nail down the location with the PP button, the target should be directly in front of the shaft. Quite often, when I kneel down and pull out the Carrot, it seems that the coin is about 4" behind where I thought it was going to be. And sure enough, when I re-check the area after grabbing the coin, there aren't any more signals there* so I obviously got the thing the Ace had been reading.
*Except for Ghost images. My Ace seems to have a thing for coin ghosts in the holes. After I pull the coin out and refill the hole, when I run the coil over it after I will frequently get a single ping in the tonal range of the coin I just removed from the hole, maybe a couple of little bleeps and blurps... And then the hole usually goes silent. This doesn't happen all the time, but it happens quite a lot. Part of me thinks it's the image of the coin often left in the dirt and maybe some metal that leeched into the dirt right around the coin over the years, but then I laugh off that silliness because it's obviously ghosts.
