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Garrett Ace 250 Video Review (in glorious 720p HD!)

Metal Detecting Man — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:22:23 +0000

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!

Garrett Ace 250 Finds Civil War Relics In South Louisiana

Metal Detecting Man — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:59:31 +0000

Garrett Ace 250

I was recently asked about a metal detector that’s right for a beginner.

I firmly believe the Garrett Ace 250 is one of the best metal detectors I have ever used and here’s why:

I was treasure hunting with Lrlman recently in the good ol’ southland of Louisiana. We were on the hunt for civil war relics and any other metal detecting finds that we might stumble upon. We specifically wanted to find Louisiana State Seal Belt Buckles. Not the round ones, the rectangular belt buckles. Just one of those bad boys is worth $5000 minimum if sold to the right collector. Why the Louisiana belt buckle? Supposedly, it’s one of the rarest types of civil war belt buckles.

I was using my Ace 250 and walking up and down rows of cut and burnt sugarcane making sure to sweep the detector to cover as much ground as possible. It wasn’t 5 minutes before I hit something.

“Bong”

Bong? That’s usually not a very good sound. The lower and wider the note, the more worthless the target usually is. I whipped out my garden shovel and started digging. My first metal detecting find of the day: a large iron nut. It must have fallen off a sugarcane tractor. I was a bit disappointed, but we forged on.

After re-adjusting the metal detector and eliminating iron, I started anew. In an hour, I found some Civil War relics: confederate bullets and a pont-max medal! Unfortunately, we had to leave early because it had been raining and the ground was too wet to continue.

We went back a few days later and hunted again. It was drier, so we could drive further in. I found a plantation token and about 15,000 aluminum beer cans. Well, not 15,000 but it sure felt like it! It was still too wet to drive by an old fort, but I was invited to go back again to search along the banks of a bayou to find some old encampment sites.

If there’s something in the ground, the Ace 250 will find it. The rest is patience and a little luck.

Here’s the pictures of my metal detecting finds after I dug them up and cleaned them off:

Confederate Bullets
You can see two different confederate bullets and another lead bullet that has been flattened after hitting its mark.

Pont-Max Medal (Front/Back)
Pont-Max is short for Pontifex Maximus and is a religious medal.

Plantation Token 5 Piece (Head/Tail)
Plantation tokens were used to pay slaves so the slaves could only buy from that plantation’s store. This ensured the slaves wouldn’t buy anything from rival plantations. Tokens were also used during the Great Depression as an alternate source of currency. This token says “ALF. BOUDREUX”, “AMBERDOWN” and has a “5″ stamped on the back. There’s other writing, but I can’t make it out.

As you can see, the Garrett Ace 250 Metal Detector has more than proven itself to be not only versatile, but also easy enough to use for beginners and professionals alike! It’s definitely worth what I paid for and if I can find more rare Civil War relics, it will pay for itself in no time!

If you have any info on these metal detecting finds, please comment and let me know! Any help is appreciated. Good Hunting!

Gold Metal Detectors: What You Need To Know

Metal Detecting Man — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:45:07 +0000

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!