Garrett Ace 250
Street Price $250 - Beginner, coin
Number of Reviews: 146
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Garrett Ace 250
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Rodney in Jax, Fl. -
We have pulled wheat pennies up at a depth of 10-12 inches and it works well on the beach turning the sensitivity down a notch. Great detector for the price. Great starter machine or backup.
Dec 17, 2006
14 Yes
2 No
Not bad, but.....
Steve Park in Columbus, MS -I've been using the ACE 250 for about 2 months now, and while it's nice to be able to get the bells and whistles of a more expensive machine on this Garrett unit, it hasn't replaced my old Garrett Marksman yet. My biggest gripe is the Pinpointing feature, and I'm not the first to complain about this. With my particular machine I find it nearly impossible to locate all but the biggest targets (silver halves or quarters)to within 6 inches or so before even attempting to pinpoint. Once I begin to pinpoint, the fact that the machine goes to "all metal" mode for pinpointing makes it just about worthless in any area that may have trash, from tiny foil bits to wire or pulltabs (or yes, possibly another target worth digging). At times I've had trouble even getting an original signal back after the first sweep, even after going to "all metal" mode.
In my opinion the machine just isn't capable of narrowing it's own finds down to a respectably small enough area. In one instance when I first started using the machine, I had a solid hit that registered as a dime at 4". Probing revealed nothing, more sweeps indicated the target had "moved" about 3" to the left. More probing, nothing. More sweeping, and all I could determine was that somewhere in about a 10" circle there was a dime at 4". Pinpointing told me that it was within about a 12" circle, the opposite of what I wanted out of pinpointing. After digging a hole a foot in diameter, I found a penny at 10" deep (and with no other target or trash). With my old detector it would have been right under the "X" on the coil. After two months, I'm only able to cut my digging area down by about 3".
Generally I find more with the ACE 250, but that's because I can't trust the machine to tell me what the target is, where it is exactly, or how deep it is. So along with more keepers I'm getting a LOT more trash, but with age I've gained some patience I guess. I have gotten better than I used to be with this detector, but it's still not good enough for me to give it a rave review. Be prepared to spend a LOT OF TIME with this machine, learning it's stregths and weak points, and try every pinpointing method in the book (online, on the instruction video, what you can figure out on your own) before you're able to dig the nice little holes and pop out the target with a screwdriver. And in my experience, that will still be a rare occurence.
Dec 13, 2006
25 Yes
3 No
Ace doing great here in the Netherlands
Mr.Orange/Jhonn Feikens in Muntendam Groningen The Netherlands -I bought the ace 250 a few days ago and found out that it is a huge improvement over my treasure ace 100 I had before.
this is my first digital detector and as such i'm not a real expert but I already love the yellow-fellow!
The biggest improvement must be that I get a estemet for the source of the ping (coins,trash and what kind of metal)
I'm verry pleased and award this detector the highest score.
jhonn feikens
Dec 09, 2006
9 Yes
2 No
It is a heck of a machine
Arturo in South Texas -I used to use Bounty Hunter detector and other brands.
I found the 250 well worth the price and more.
I was having problems with the pinpointing until I followed some suggestions that I saw on forums .
I haven't really used the Bounty Hunters too much lately.
HH Arturo
Nov 02, 2006
23 Yes
9 No
Light Weight/great price
D.B. Cooper in Ohio/South Caolina -I have used various metal detectors for maybe 10 years. I started with a cheap Rat Shack model and it sucked. I switched to a treasure ace 300 and I performed well, I then got a minelab soverien pro. It work well but was so heavy. I finally got a ace 250 pro. It has eveything to go out and play with simple operation. I search in all metal mode, cause sometimes you never know what is actually in the ground. I give it 5 stars for price and functions. Best money I have spent in a while.
Jul 27, 2006
106 Yes
1 No
ace 250- great unit
bobbybass in brooklyn usa -just got my ace 250 in the mail today, took it out to the local park to test it, very impressed. read negative reviews about the lack of ground balancing, and some other negative reviews and was concerned about it not being a good unit. Well, it is a great unit, well made and very simple to use, pinpointing works great and the preset discrim modes works excellent as well, overall- very happy with this since i am moving up from a cheap bounty hunter unit, this is wayyy better!
Jul 06, 2006
33 Yes
0 No
Nice Metal Detector @ Nice Price
Luciano A. Mendes in Florianopolis, SC Brazil -As a beginner, I started suffering a little, until I could understand a minimum about how the ACE250 behaves. Then, quickly, I collected a lot of very nice stuff.
Definetly, itŽs not perfect - sometimes, it falses. But I think one can live with it without loosing interest, because most of times it works very well.
Suggestion: the ACE250 might have a LCD light push-button, so that the display could be seen at night [ when Garrett implement this feature, IŽll claim the royalties for my idea ;) ]
Regards,
Luciano
Jul 04, 2006
8 Yes
2 No
Got it, used it, liked it!
Dmitry in Russia -I got ace 250 this summer. Always wanted to try metal hunting and finally got into it. Read all reviews on this web and bought it via Internet of course. I was not very happy at first with its unability to ignore the trash. It made me frustrated. I used it a few times at a local river beach and got tired digging beer caps,foil and stuff like that. Although I found some coins as well. Actually, I found a heall lot of funny metals. But today I got completely convinced that I did the right thing that got it. I went to a sea beach and....found a handfull of coins and a small ring. It was a triumth after all. Now I am certain - I can find good things with it. It is a matter of time and a good place for a search. I recommend it for all beginners. By the way, I live in Russia-) Here is my email- jd75@mail.ru please write me and share your tips or ask questions. Once again 0 I like he price and the device. It is very very good! But you must be patient, persistent and consistent in this hobby. Get it, go to a sandy beach and watch the bell ring, keep digging the coins and may be some jewlery too-)
Jun 17, 2006
28 Yes
3 No
4 inch sniper
806samuel in lubbock,Tx -I just want to let everyone know that i have the 4 inch sniper coil and i have already found 2 rings. one gold the other copper. The gold ring was 2 inches deep, brass on surface. Soil is worth it. This place was very trashy (nails,pulltabs etc.,)The 250 showed as a solid nickel on screen so i knew i had something. Eaasier to pinpoint with it too. It doesnt go too deep but it has worked ok for me.So if using stock coil is frustrating you with trash and pinpointing, get the sniper. You'll be glad you did.
Jun 15, 2006
26 Yes
1 No
Absolutely the best for the money
Don Neiman in Where oil recovery got its start, Pa. -Having used detectors since the Fisher M-scope cira 1950's, I'm no new comer to the world of metal detectors. Basically, all detectors are designed to detect metal. The advances in detectors are like anything else in this fast moving world of technology but there is a practical limit to what the coin hunter, nugget hunter, jewelry hunter, or "treasure" hunter really needs. El Cheapo detectors are just that...a toy that acts like a real detector but stops at just sounding off when over metal. This is OK IF one just wants to dig his/her life away pulling out nails, pop tops, aluminum foil, etc. etc. until the cows come home...maybe if they, the owner of the Cheapo, spend enough time dragging one of these inferior machines around, a coin could be found. The most important second function of a detector is to ELIMINATE junk metals using "steps" of elimination. Next and also important is the degree of sensitivity a particular detector affords. Everything else is now getting into the "bells and whistles" and increases the cost of a good machine considerable. The Garrett 250 ace combines all the necessary features that perform flawlessly in a light weight easy to learn machine that will eliminate the guess work of the hidden metalic item. The controls can be operated with the forefinger of the users "swinging" hand. The settings are positive and deviation from these programable settings just doesn't happen. I thoroughly love my 250 ace and although I could afford the finest machine out there, this little 250 ace detector, made by a company thats been in business of building quality metal detectors for many years meets my toughest metal detecting needs..and I spend a lot of hours every week metal detecting.
May 09, 2006
190 Yes
2 No
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