Good/cheap detector?

I used the bounty hunter 2200 with good results. I feel it is preety good for a beginer without the massive cost of other detectors

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Hi, a Fisher 1225-x cab be bought for around $220-$230 or something like that....that little detector has good depth and has a discriminator. It's not the greatest in trashy places...with lots of nails, etc. But it is a good and pretty deep unit for the money. Another detector is the Tesoro Silver Umax. I've not used it but have owned similar units from tesoro and have used the older Silver Sabre unit that the Silver Umax was based on and it has really decent discriminate circuitry and ought to work like a charm to find coins and jewlry or even buttons and other relics. The new Fisher F-4 may be good unit also--I've not used it but some folks like the unit and say it works fine. But I have used a Tesoro Compadre with 7" coil and done quite well and that thing cost me just $151 . They now now are fitted with a 5'' coil and have gone up a wee bit in price from what I paid for mine. A fellow gave me a Harbor Freight detector that ran off 3  9v batteries and that unit was useless...a waste of money to purchase such a cheaply-built unit. It's not for the serious detectorist...just a toy for children. Stay away from cheap Bounty Hunter units and those Radio Shack types built by Bounty Hunter--they are junk! And I wouldn't get the Garrett Ace 150 0r 250 either. The folks I talked to that use them say the units give lots of false signals and such and don't have much depth...not for serious detectorists.
I've owned several Tesoros and the first version of Compadre had 7" coil and I bought it for about 151 dollars---and it worked  decently in trashy ground to find many small things-but it lacked good depth and it wasn't so good around the wet salt water sand at a beach-12khz I suspect was the cause-not sure. The newer Compadre comes with a 5" coil and should be even better in trashy places to ferret out some gooies.

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Biggest problem people have with falsing on the Garret 150 and 250 is running the sens at max. Use it at 3/4 and you?ll get more usable depth (Better signals) with a stable ID.

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