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
Garrett ACE 250 build for Smart people.Cheap & Good.
July 02, 2009
How can somebody who is completely analphabetic in techno/detectors area
be allowed write review on detector especially as Garrett Ace250.?This is the best detector in the world if used in normal soil conditions, even on the beach. Can compete with much more expensive detectors on the market. All is perfect, discrimination, sensitivity, pinpointing, even automatic ground balancing in no extreme soils.
Scale is 100% on conductivity targets. If you find ring under pull tab sign on the scale, this means is the RING no PULL TAB, but with the same conductivity values. Garrett detector/s ACE250 is actually giving you chance to learn about CONDUCTIVITY of metals.
If : Silver Dollar nickel iron is a ring on this machine! (as stated), that means that. This two under circumstances have the same CONDUCTIVITY. Can YOU even imagine or believe, that old iron nail long time underground will shows to you as PURE GOLD on the scale ?
Even on $5000.00 detectors.
If you do not want spend 1000's on detector and want hunt for coins, relics etc, this is detector for you.
Just switch On and go. On 4x AA Batteries good ones, you can hunt 2 working days.(15 hours)
I know I have one.
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Satisfied Owner from
Australia
60117
Best Detector For The Price
June 18, 2009
I have owned my Ace 250 for about 2mo now. Although I'm new to metal
detecting and this is my first machine, I'm very pleased with it's
performance. In my first week I found a very nice diamond ring, it was more
luck than the machine, but without a metal detector I would never have
found it. I have found about $20 in clad coin, some tokens, 2 1945 war
nickels. I am now hooked with the hobby and will be up-grading to a better
machine, one that has better discrimination and depth. This is a great
machine for anyone just getting into the hobby. As far as pin pointing, I
just don't get all of the negitive reviews about it. Hold the pin point
button in, scan side to side till the signal drops off or cuts off, scan
forward till the signal cuts off and scan back till the signal cuts off
(note how large the signal is) and the target is directly under the front
of the coil. If done correctly, the target is under the front tip of the
coil (stock 6x9 coil) 95% of the time. It works great.
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David from
Portland, OR
4274
Nice attempt, But poor pinpointing capabilities
June 18, 2009
I guess I just must be spoiled by my MXT, but I just can't seem to make
this machine work very well. I keep trying, but it seems to find a lot of
targets and half the time I dig and they are ghost targets or not even
close to what the target indicator say's it's supposed to be. The
pinpointing is really all over the map, I have tried and tried and the
target seems to move around(at least according to the pinpoint mode).I bought this machine as a back up for my White's machine, but I guess I should have saved up a little longer and bought another MXT or similar machine.
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Chris from
La Verne, CA USA
9335
Ace 250 is a great little machine
June 11, 2009
All detectors have good points and also things we would like to change
about them, including all the high end detectors out there. I have been in
the hobby for many years and owned a few detectors in that time including
bounty hunter, tesoro, and whites models. Of course none of them had a
graphic target display but none of them even came close to the ace 250 I am
using now , as far as being easy to use and easy to find things with. It
has increased my finds quite a lot, even where my last detector said there
was nothing worth digging. To those who have so much negative to say about
it ,...you either didnt read the manual, have a defective unit that your
warranty will fix, or you didnt give it enough time to get used to the
machine ( which you need to do with any detector ).There are some minor negative things I would change about the ace 250. I would like to see the shaft assembly redesigned to eliminate minor movement between the sections that happens now and then while swinging, and add some sort of manual ground balance to avoid having to turn down the sensitivity in some areas. In a nutshell , the ace 250 gives you a huge amount of performance and quality for the $200 pricetag. I highly recommend it for beginners as well as seasoned pros.
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C. Spencer from
Findlay, Ohio
6692
OK MACHINE
May 27, 2009
I'm on my fourth set of batteries with my Ace 250 and it's certainly a coin
finder (it loves aluminum cans too). I've been detecting for about 15
years and have three other machines. The Ace does not out perform the more
expensive machines but it a great machine for the price. The only real
downfall I've found is the pinpointing function, maybe it's just me, but I
do just as well with sweeping the machine and listening to the normal tones
as I do with the pinpointing function. As with any machine you're going to dig up trash, it's just an evil of the hobby. Personally I don't mind digging up questionable targets. You just never know until you dig them up.
All in all the Ace 250 is a good machine with some good features, battery life is good, price is good and dependability is good. It lost a star because of the pointpointing feature and lost the second star over the depth. But I would still recommend it.
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HunterDave from
South Carolina
3688
Awesome Daddy "O"
May 04, 2009
Dude below me from Actionville is "dead on" .. Can you dig it? .. He brings
up some righteous points.. This is the lightest machine at 2.7 pounds and
you get the most bang for your buck.If you want a fantastic machine and your afraid to ask your wife to charge the $1200.00 for a more expensive machine... go with the ace250... at $199.00 you wont be upset... Afterall .. these things hold they value soo well you can turn around and sell it on on ebay for darn near the same amount you paid for it new... Like the cat said below.. Do your research, and you will realize what we are preaching is truth the whole and nuttin butt.... word.
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Coolio from
Brady Bunch, USA
2794
Very Happy
May 03, 2009
First Off let me state .. I am not an expert .. I am a newbie.. So take my
advice for what it is worth.. I am very Blessed, I have the ability to
purchase the most expensive common brand metal detector without it creating
any "setbacks" .. I purchased the Ace because of the many hours/days of
research I first conducted on the internet.. The Ace is by far the most
"favored" detector on the detector review websites. I have used it about
10 times now and I am extreemly happy with the performance.. I was
skeptical about the depth reviews until I got it in real soft sand at the
beach. I have no trouble reading coins at 8 inches.. The very few negatives
about this machine was in reference to the salt water conditions... Well..
I live in Florida and I only hunt the beach and I have not had one second
of trouble with reading wet salt water sand conditions ( I just turn the
sensativity down a coot hair).It is a known fact if you do your research you will realize the Metal Detector that will cost you over $1200.00 operating on 15 different frequencies is no more sophisticated than a scanner/radio you can purchase at radio shack for $55.00!!.. That being said ,.. the hype , marketing, name brand, arguments over reading a penny at 8 inches versus 10 inches is (in my opinion) not justiification for an additional $1000.00 bucks on a detector.. Sooo keep your negative resonses about my opinion to yourself and meet me on the beaches of Florida and I will show you how to find a deep coin with my economical $199.00 Ace 250 while you search with your $1200 over priced, HEAVIER machine (do the research ) ...
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Thinking about an Ace 250 ? from
Actionville, Florida (Jax)
10786
Noob review; entry level early 80s vs today
April 06, 2009
I got interested in metal detecting and bought an old used Garrett American
S2 for $50. I had fun with it and found a few coins and nice relics. I
thought I had found every target, including junk iron, in my yard. Then I realized that the American S2 is old technology (early 80s). I began doing some research, and bought the Ace 250. After a day of using the Ace 250 I realized that if I dug every piece of junk iron in my yard, I would have to destroy the yard. In other words, it was like a semi-blind man receiving a pair of glasses for the first time. The Ace 250 sees much more, and discriminates much better than the old one. I found many coins in my yard that the old one hadn't seen.
I have no experience with any other detectors, but I can tell that it will be a while before I need to upgrade. An old pro at a dealership here in K.C., MO recommended this to me as a no-brainer, and I went with his recommendation and I'm glad I did.
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Jsandin from
Merriam, KS
6487
Great machine!!
April 04, 2009
Been out every weekend for the last month with this machine and found 2
roman 5 victorian and modern coinage. It may not sound like much but I was
over the moon when I found the first roman bronze, it was only a small coin
about 17mm dia and also quite deep in the ground about 7 inches but it
picked it out nice and clear short sharp bleep!! Second roman was a larger
coin 25mm this one was only 2 inches.When you get a good signal sweep the coil every direction if its still giving the coin beep then its a good sign luckily for me im on a ploughed field so if you are too, sweep some of the soil away with your foot if the signal changes to iron its junk trust me.
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Steve from
Hampshire uk
2081
Not a Bad little Machine for the money
March 22, 2009
Have had the Ace 250 for several weeks now. Real good at finding coins.
That seems to be its strong point. Modes are simple and easy to use.
Pinpointing and sweeping takes a little getting used to because of the none
round coil. Seems like its a little bottom heavy too. Have found some
jewlry with it but not anything real pricey yet. Battery life is real good,
overall decent machine. Improvements would be faster sweeping ability,
easier targeting ability and beach mode plus manual ground balance.
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Jo from
Ca
1880