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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2013, 08:37:32 PM »

Hi mate it's deffo  as said got to walk over it to find it used a few good machines now still no hammered. Local man who bought my last machine found a long cross hammered using ace 250.
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2013, 09:39:54 PM »

I think Da Monkey hit the nail on the head - I bought myself a minelab (bad timing of having a few quid to spend when I was looking for a detector) - and found very little for several years.

I bought my 7 year-old boy a 150 - and he started finding coins in my front garden (my missus even found a few by eye) - that the minelab didn't see because a) it was too sensitive b) I didn't know my machine.

Ok I've also used a T2 on the garden, but I've now pulled out 30+ coins from the garden (and my house is from 1949!).

So, for simplicity of use - and that it does find stuff it's a good starter machine.

I've been quite fortunate over the last year or so - but that's partly land, and the hours put in - as well as learning from others with more experience than I have! Don't give up - I almost did several times, but I'm really glad that I didn't Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2013, 10:56:32 PM »

Ive not long been detecting and I have  a minelab explorer. I also have a mate who's started detecting the same time as me. He has a garrett 250. We both so far have found the same sort of stuff.
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2013, 11:47:58 PM »

Ive not long been detecting and I have  a minelab explorer. I also have a mate who's started detecting the same time as me. He has a garrett 250. We both so far have found the same sort of stuff.

after using the T2 for a year, I went back to using the Minelab (I wanted to see if it was any good before I sold it). Since then, all I can say is that it has certainly repaid my use of it - for me it was more that I didn't really understand how to detect and also how to set my machine up - rather than it wasn't a good machine...
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« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2013, 11:49:02 PM »

hi.
me and my boy got ace 250's. been detecting for a year. found nothing but cans etc on our first half dozen trips.we then went to a park by his school and pulled up a viccy penny as well as loads of modern coins.i was lucky then in getting permission on a farm that was a ww2 camp so get so many signals i am forced to ignore some. as for cans sounding like coins its because the 150 has limited discrimination markers. 303 casings sound like coins and i now have almost three ctesco bags full.
its a good machine. what i generally do is dig everything that isn't iron. you dig a lot of rubbish but thats the hobby.generally a good signal will sound strong in both directions. also another indicator is how big an area does the signal cover? a coin will be a small area. a can will be big.also cans tend to ding repeatadly and quickly.
i'm happy to show you what i've learn't on the 250 if your willing to travel to where im based.oh, beaches will always be full of rubbish. to learn we found parks were quite good.
swing the coil as low to the graound as you can get and go slow.
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« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2013, 12:51:58 PM »

I have been out for 4 to 5 hours not found a thing but come home a happy man and think to my self  may be next time. But glad to be part of this great hobby.
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