Garrett Ace 250
Price: $250
Avg. Score: 
4.2
Based on 260 reviews
4.2Based on 260 reviews
Avg. Durability:
4.05
Avg. Ease of use:
4.50
Grossly Overhyped
April 07, 2010
Purchased the Ace as backup, when pressed into action it failed miserably.
It didn't seem to matter what denomination registered nothing was ever
found. In the all metal mode, nothing, not even a bottle cap. The odd thing
is this unit passed all of the bench test's. I even resorted to using a
shovel instead of my trowel to no avail. I loaned to a friend, also a professional, telling him I had never used it. He reported back saying "this thing has more false alarms than chicken little". My only salvation lies in the fact I am only out $212.00 as my friend deposited it in a local lake. The only reason I gave it one star is because I could not submit the review with no star's.
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Jayhawk from
Topeka, Ks.
10842
GARRET ACE 250 SOOOOOOOOO GOOD
March 28, 2010
Hi just found my first gold Celtic stater with the ace and had no problems
picking it up. Brilliant detector, light, comfortable and such a delight to
use as after having a go on most minelabs and xp I find them too heavy and
as for performance, well the ace is literally ACE........
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RICH MORLEY from
UK
2388
Great starter Detector for beginners...
March 13, 2010
I just bought this nice unit for what I feel is a fantastic price from the
Sportsmans Guide (you tell me? $215.97). Came with Garrett Treasure
Headphones and sport Tote bag. I gave this 4 stars and not 5 because I haven't used it outdoors yet, but I'm confident I will soon be giving it the fifth star once I try it out in nature.
To try it out indoors, I placed several metal items, including several US coins, as well as a gold and a silver American Eagle under several books, then under several stacks of news papers and magazines...the Ace 250 did a nice job at pin-pointing each individual coin.
I'm looking forward to visiting historic forts and battlefields and trying this nice detector out. I live in a historic Colonial town which was founded in the 1600's, where Indian tribes were abundant and where the British attacked and burned our town in the late 1700's.
Countless artifacts have been found over the years by towns-people and construction crews, I hope to find the next priceless artifacts with my new Garrett.
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Kev from
Fairfield, CT.
1894
Garrett Ace 250
March 13, 2010
I recieved the Garrett Ace 250 for Christmas in 2008. I was very impressed
with it. I dug twenty silver coins that year which quadrupled what I found
the year before. At the end of the year I decided to upgrade to something
that detects deeper. I think that the 250 is very good for the money. If
you are a beginner like I was I reccomend the 250 until you understand the
basics of detecting. After this you should move up if you want to. If you
want to see the things that I have found, Please visit my website at:http://www.metaldetectingfortreasures.com
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Brandon from
Wisconsin, USA
1787
I am surprised
February 27, 2010
So I read all the reviews on this site all 145 and eventually decided to
buy it. I received it and a bought a pro pointer. I previously owned a
bounty hunter 202 and was satisfied. First thing I did was go into my
backyard and try to figure it out, its actually really easy to use.I only found rusty old nails, and for 4 hours all I got was nails. I was frustrated but I didn't give up hope, next thing I did was went over to my aunts where I previously found 2 wheats with my 202 and all I got was confusing beeps and weird signals. I went home empty handed.
Throughout I think 3 weeks I have gotten so used to it that I can tell what is garbage and what is good, but I still dig everything. Today I went over to my aunts house again after some experience and I have never been so excited from metal detecting. I pick up a couple junk items but then I get a very iffy signal and dig it and MAN O MAN I get my very first mercury dime, 1944. I also found 4 very deep wheaties, probably around 7 or 8 inches. With the bounty hunter I got up to 4, and rarely ever the 6 inch mark. So I can tell you that you will not be disappointed, I have found 4 silver items and 1 gold pendant. I am very very happy I got it.
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Sam from
Vancouver, WA
40109
Garret Ace 250 Buy It
January 31, 2010
I have a couple detectors in the past but never really got into Metal
Detecting until Sept 09. I bought the Ace 250 and got the bigger coil with
it. I pretty much used the large coil all year and found tons of old
coins, the oldest 1864 L indian head penny, 3 silver barber dimes ,10 gram
gold ring, and a 2 ounce silver chain and many other sweet items. For the price it a good all around detector. It took a good week to learn the detector to its full potential. I have mostly done old parks, lawns and yards "over 100 coins in one lawn" and a few new england cellor holes. The old cellor holes are tricky because of all the metal in the ground, so i used the smaller coil. It does go pretty deep for the price, found coins around 8"+
I'm thinking about buying another detector and keep the ace as a back up, I just hope whatever I buy out preforms the ace, I don't want to be dissapointed in spening $600 on a detector and have the ace outpreform it.
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JJdigs from
New Hampshire
57102
Discriminator
January 26, 2010
Why does my garret 250 pick up tin foil when it indicates gold which shows
on the indicator 5 cents if I discriminate five cent signal it wont pick up
gold on any other, so enjoying after a dig only to find tin foil.
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Rich morley from
United kingdom
16107
Ace 250 creams all OF YOUR BIG DOLLAR DETECTORS
January 23, 2010
Wow its a shame that theirs people out their who degrade a great metal
detector for its price and its simplicity. Well you can mention your
whites your fisher your mine lab and many other great detectors but, for
the $212.00 what I spent I made it back in amount of 35 minutes in a park
and only on my first day I found not one but 2 gold rings, one big heavy
10kt dads ring and one 14 kt ladies ring and as for change about $35.00 in
quarters so how did it and up too pay FOR THE DETECTOR. Simple math, I took
the gold where they buy gold was offered $318.00 thats good enough for me.
And that money paid for it in 35 minutes.So it seems a lot of the bad mouthing this great detector comes from the people who spent 3 or 5 times more are theirs and are miserable they spent too much, and found nothing to pay for their expensive detector. So believe what you want! My detector was free and I made $106.00 off it too! So go ahead spend your money and buy the so called Expensive detectors but keep in mind! Was your'for free? And yes maybe I was lucky but I am still finding more rings charms pedants.
And if you did spend a lot on your detector then you should learn how to use it and made back what you spent. And the pin point on this works, but I don't need it if I can see whats on the segment bar simple is better then complicated. And also I'm not putting down the brands I mention I just said if you spent that much on one of those expensive ones I hope what you spent paid for it have a great day and watch out for power lines? REMEBER MOST OF THE GREAT FINDS ARE IN PARKS RIGHT IN YOUR NEIGHBOR HOOD.
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MONEY GROWS IN GROUNDS from
NEW JERSEY
37126
Garret Ace 250
December 10, 2009
I bought my ace 250 2 weeks ago. I have used it 7 full days since buying
it. My experience in metal detecting is very limited. I would advise any
one who buys one to read the manual and watch the dvd a number of times. I
was very impressed from the start with the 250. It has great, easy to use
functions and it is very light and comfortable. I am getting two full days
from one set of batterys, I probably would get longer, but I have a big
supply of batterys.I have used it on the beach in woods and on open fields without any problems. I have made some great finds as well. I would start of by using the "all metal" option on the ace untill you get familiar with the other options. I find the "pin point" option to be a god send, it saves you digging big trenches for the sake of a small item. I just cant wait to get back out there. Good look to all and happy diggings.
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Mark from
Liverpool, U.K.
108100
Free money
December 02, 2009
I bought my ace250 4 weeks ago and have loved every dry day I can use it. I
have found 30 dollars in quarters and over 10 dollars in dimes and 1 clad
dollar coin, also I found a world war 1 button, a kids sliver ring and a
14k gold wedding band. Felt this metal detector is easy to use and I hope
with time I will learn more about it, I have only used in coin mode so far.
Well happy hunting.
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Mutt west from
Dallas G.A
35104