The first ever My Metal Detecting Finds video review is up! We decided to make this when we were out with the Garret Ace 250 on our Civil War Relics hunt and thought, “Hey, the Garret Ace 250 has served us so well and it would be great if we shared our thoughts about it with our visitors”. Fast forward a few weeks later and here you have it!

Watch the video after the jump!

We hope that it serves you well to inform you about this handy metal detector. If you enjoyed this video review, please leave a comment, as we are considering to do more video reviews in the future! A big thanks goes to our friends Jimmy Duke and Kenneth Moon for their help in making this video. And a big thanks to all our brave, adventurous, and extremely handsome and rugged visitors! Enjoy and leave a comment below!

So if you’ve been looking to getting into metal detecting but wasn’t sure which one would be best for you, then look no further than the Garrett Ace 250! We know you’ll love it! Good luck and Good Hunting!

A lot of people have this idea that metal detectors are all the same. That they’re just devices used by bums who refuse to get a real job and spend all their time combing their local beach for people’s lost jewelry. While in some respects it is true, most of these people are sadly mistaken. Case in point, the gold metal detector.

Gold metal detector? Aren’t all metal detectors the same?

That isn’t so my friends! You see, all metal detectors are different and serve different purposes. When you go through airport security, they check you with a metal detector. There are metal detectors designed to help farm hands find nails and other nasty bits of metal that they don’t want their cows to ingest. Then you have my personal favorites, treasure detecting detectors (that’s a mouth-full)! And just as there are many kinds of treasures that you can find, there are many kinds of metal detectors for specific treasures!

So how is a gold metal detector different from other treasure-hunting detectors? Well, these detectors are so fine-tuned that they can detect even the smallest traces of gold at great depths. They’re main purpose is to find gold, no matter how big or small, deep within the earth!

The interesting thing about gold metal detecting is in how all the commercial gold you see is made. There aren’t tons of people going out with gold metal detectors trying to find nuggets to send back to jewelry factories. They actually take large amounts of rock and earth and use a chemical process to extract the tiny amounts of gold within those rocks. However, with a gold metal detector you can find naturally occurring nuggets of gold! Why is this important? Because naturally occurring nuggets of gold are many times more valuable to collectors!

How was gold found the old fashioned way?

Back then if you wanted to strike it rich with a nugget of gold, you had to pan for it in rivers. Rivers that flowed from the mountains would sometimes bring along small nuggets and if you were at the right place at the right time, you could catch a few in your gold pan. There are still people out there today who are going out and panning for gold, just like the old days. But this is backbreaking labor! Imagine being hunched over a small stream all day long, filling your pan with water, and shifting it around, trying to separate dirt from gold. And even if you find some gold, it will literally be a tiny flake of gold! Oh, and did I mention, that when panning for gold, you have to be by a running supply of water? That’s right. Forget about searching caves and mountains, you’ll be stuck in the same spot, day in and day out, looking for flakes of gold!

With great technology brings great chances to find gold

Thank God we’ve moved on from the gold-hunting dark ages! With today’s modern gold metal detectors, we can find gold in nearly any environment! One of the best places to search for gold is in the arid regions of the southwestern United States: Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, and New Mexico. There are possibly huge reserves of untapped gold veins because there aren’t any water supplies nearby. Remember, in the old days of the Gold Rush, you needed to be by a river to find gold, leaving gold in rocky and dry areas relatively untouched. This is where you can make some great metal detecting finds! Now, gold that was impossible to get 100 years ago has been made available to us through gold metal detectors!

Gold Metal Detector Suggestion For The Desert:

The gold metal detector that I think would be best for searching in the desert is the Bounty Hunter Gold Digger Metal Detector. It’s a great metal detector, capable of withstanding the dry and dusty climate of the desert. Plus, it’s light and only costs a measly $70.44 on Amazon!

Not just the desert

But don’t think you have to buy a plane ticket all the way to the southwest to get in on the shiny stuff. There are many untapped gold veins throughout the United States. Just search the gold production history of your state, and you’d be surprised at what you’ll find. For instance, states with no history of having high levels of gold productions, such as Alabama, Michigan, and even Pennsylvania have had some sort of gold production.  And because of the lack of technology, we’ve often thought of these places as barren sites for gold. But thanks to new gold metal detectors, we’re discovering more and more gold veins that have been untapped all across the United States!

Gold Metal Detector Suggestion For Moist Climates:

I suggest the Famous Trails Md6000 The Neptune Metal Detector for wetter climates. This bad boy is fully waterproof up to 120 feet and still keeps its sensitivity to distinguish between different types of metals! And while most waterproof gold metal detectors can cost up to $1000, this one comes in at just $295 at Amazon! That’s a steal in the metal detector industry!

These amazing advancements in metal detector technology has opened up a whole new world of great gold finds. We’re finding more gold in more places than we have ever found during the Gold Rush! Don’t let this chance to cash in pass you by. Pick up a gold metal detector and strike it rich! Oh yeah, don’t forget to leave a comment below when you do hit the motherlode!

UPDATE: Check out our field test of the Garret Ace 250 Metal Detector. It’s a great, all-around metal detector and another option to helping you make a great metal detecting find!

Let’s start off with the basics:  How to use a metal detector!  The first and most important thing is that you need a metal detector! (Who would have guessed!)  Now if you don’t have a metal detector, there are many kinds of metal detectors at many different prices with many kinds of functions.  But make sure you get the right metal detector for the right environment first, then choose the one that fits your budget.

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For example, if I mainly did my treasure hunting near the beach or in swampy areas, I would need to get one that is good at detecting items underwater.  Or if I am doing a bulk of my treasure hunting in desert area, I would choose a metal detector that could withstand the high heat.  So make sure you’re using the right metal detector for the right environment!

Next, RTFM (if you don’t know what that stands for, I’ll give you a hint:  Read The ____ Manual)! All metal detectors work differently so make sure that you’ve read the manual from front to cover and know exactly how it works.  You don’t want to miss out on a big treasure because you don’t know how to use your metal detector!

The next step that you should take is to research the spot you would like to go hunting for treasure! It’s fun taking the metal detector to the backyard and seeing what’s there, but the biggest finds will be in places where you’d expect to find treasure.  Old mines, rivers and lakes, old battlefield grounds; these are all good examples of where to find your next treasure coin, nugget of gold, or Civil War medal!  And if you have a beach near you, make sure that it’s one of the first places that you search!  People lose many things at the beach and their loss is your gain!

When you’ve found the area you want to start searching, fire up your metal detector and start detecting! Make sure to move slowly, your metal detector needs time to search the area!  Also make sure that you are keeping track of the areas you are searching.  I talked to a lot of beginner treasure hunters and they always make this mistake.  Make sure you’re not wasting your time by being extra careful not to search the same area twice!  And listen carefully to your metal detector.  That means no iPods while on the search!

The last step and most important step is to remember you started with nothing, so don’t be discouraged if you end with nothing! What I mean is that even if you don’t find anything, don’t look at it as a big loss!  You started out with nothing but you and your metal detector and at the very least (if you don’t end up losing your metal detector to a grizzly bear sneak attack!), you’ll end with nothing but you and your metal detector.  Sure you don’t won’t have any physical object, but you did get to enjoy the outdoors!  Also, the information that you gained from your search will definitely help you when you go out on your next search!  So if you feel discouraged that you couldn’t find any treasure, just chalk it up as experience and remember you’re *that* much closer to finding hidden treasure!

So what are you waiting for?  Get out there and start your next adventure!  Oh and if you do find the next hidden fortune, send some my way!