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1rst Discovery 3300 outing

Rebel1

Rebel1

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Howdy all, I picked up a BH Discovery 3300 about a week ago and last evening finally got ot to give it a try. Went to the park a few blocks away for about 45-50 minutes. First find wa a piece of foil candy wrapper. I had it in disc mode with iron disc'ed out. I was going to dig all signals to learn the machine. Well after that 45 or so minute i had that one piece of foil, 2 square pull tabs, 1 bent Rusty nail that was a good 6"-7" deep but gave a good signal, 2 zinc pennies and 12 quarters. This thing seems to be a quarter magnet. I did notice that if i didn't have the ground balance set right i would get a lot of flase high tones that all gave a 199 reading. Set the GB and all was quiet again until a target was hit. Seems to be a good machine. Does seem to be a battery hog though. Anybody else using one?
 
Put on a set of headphones and the batteries should last longer.

Good machine.......I have the 3500.

HH y'all.

Frank
 
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Similar packaging, display, and feature set but to my knowledge the F4 it is NOT the same platform as the 3300/3500. This misconception has been addressed before and it's understandable given how much they look alike.
 
From the Fisher site- (Dave Johnson essays- Processes)

 
The major differences between the Fisher F2\F4 & the Bounty Hunter Legacy 3500\Discovery 3300 is the Fisher has faster recovery speed and a 0 to 99 conductivity reading vs the Bounty Hunter's slower recovery speed and 0 to 199 conductivity readings. The BHs sounds off equally loud on both shallow or deep targets while the Fishers are loud on shallow targets and have lower volume on deep targets.
 
Hightone, you are correct about the F2/F4 and 3300/3500 being based on the Legacy BH 'process'. My understanding is a majority of the Target ID machines out there use use the same or similar process, but as BH505Man states there are differences between the F4 and 3300/3500. Even the CZs are based on the Legacy BH 'process' but no one will mistake it for any of the BH models. It's the details of how that process is executed that give each machine it's unique characteristics.
 
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i use the discovery 3300 and i have to agree it sure like batts. i use headphones almost all the time and its about half the batt life that i got with my 2200 , but i love the machine and i have made some great finds with it
 
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