Since I am relatively new to the site I will contribute a review of one my detectors..... The Bounty Hunter Pioneer 505
This unit was one of my first two detectors that were purchased as a package deal.. The first thing that I did after studying about it was to go thru my own yard and get a feel of the unit. Now that I have been using it for a year I can say that I am satisfied with it. There is no reason to look for gold in south Louisiana so I am clueless about that. I also know nothing about hunting in soil that has a lot of metals in it. The beaches down here have no sand so I have never tried to go near salt water at all.
I have been hunting for silver coins with what I must consider to be good success. I have mostly hunted in areas that can be described as trashy. The 8 in coil has found a 1952 half dollar at 10 or 11 inches as well as silver dimes as deep as 7 or 8 in.
I would rather forget about the tons of beer cans over a foot deep at times but if the target is that much deeper than what the detector says it should be then I know that it is much more massive than the coin it is identifying. Also, the biggest tell that something is not a coin is that the target's ID varies too much. Trash will jump around from zinc penny to silver dollar randomly while a coin will stick to one ID or sometimes two that are next to each other when you go across it in every direction.
Perhaps most detectors act this way? I know that I bought an MPX as a package deal with the 505 and it does not do this hardly at all.
The 4 in coil really shocked me and I found an extra silver qtr and dime in spots that had been hunted by myself with the 505 in my own yard many times before. These were cluttered spots. One was at the end of a walkway and the other was in front of my shed. It goes way deeper than I would have thought and it seperated targets much better than I thought it would as well.
I will get the 10 in coil next to see if I can get an extra couple of inches out of it. I have come across deep targets that I knew were there but could not get a bead on. Also, the unit has a tendency to devalue targets that are on the edge of it's range. A deep silver qtr, for instance, will have it's ID fluctuate like it is trash.
Also, you must verify your target from all four directions just like I must assume every detectors requires.
I have learned to pin point a target while verifying it's ID will not vary. I never ever go motion free all metal because this allows me to get a feel of the target's ID as well as it's size. If I can pin point a target very tightly then I know it is coin size. I always seem to be able to dig a 5 in deep target up with a hole only a few inches across at the very most. I do this when I am in someone;s yard for instance.
I hope that this will be helpful to anyone who might want a very good looking beginner's detector. It is very simple to use compared to the MPX for instance and I would recommend it to everyone interested in hunting old fair grounds or anywhere they want to find coins less than a foot deep. Trashy areas are no prob;em with that 4 in coil and it can get dimes at seven inches or more in easy soil like ours.
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