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bounty hunter 202 vs. tracker IV

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twalton

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Hi All! I just bought a used BH 202 at auction today for $25. I turned it on when I got home and searched some areas of my yard which I had already been over with my Tracker IV. To my surprise I found a clad quarter 1973, clad dime 1969, a nickel 1993, 11 memorial cents, a 1889 Indian head cent and a copper or bronze slug a little bigger than a nickel with the initials "D. W." stamped on both sides. I was very surprised that the Tracker IV passed over so much stuff. My house was built about 1903 and sits on a acre lot. The tracker IV has found a lot of silver coins for me over the last year as well as the usual stuff - tabs, foil, nails, beer cans, large iron thingys and such. Is the 202 that much better of a detector or am not using the IV correctly? Any thoughts are appreciated.
 
The only real advantage the 202 has over the T4 is maybe about 1-2 inches in depth, plus the LCD display...Other than that, they should both find pretty much the same stuff. The 202 has 3 tone audio instead of the T4 2 tone audio...


HH,

BH-LandStar
 
hi twalton, i happen to own both machines as well. i've not had the t4 out that much though, got it at the flea market for 20 bucks! i think the 202 is a little more powerful than the t4 is, especially with the 10" mag coil. they are both great machines. there's a bit more of a learning curve involved with the 202. our friend nugget on here has made some super finds with his t4, and swears by it. but, i've always thought it's more about the man that swings the machine than the machine itself that makes great finds. you've made some good finds, we sure would like to see 'em! i've had some really good times and finds with my 202 too. good luck, and hh,
 
Thanks for the comments, I really learn a lot from this forum. Here are some pics of finds from my own yard. I will post some later of the change that I find from around a now defunct riding stables that is next to my parking lot at work. The owner is good enough to let me prospect on my lunch hour.
 
Is the address on the dog tag your address now? If not, I wonder if you called the number if you would get the owners of Nugget still??? Wonder if the number on the bottom is June 17, 1961???
Great ring finds...wish I had things like that in my yard!!!...


HH,

BH-LandStar
 
The phone number is no longer working and I cannot locate the family in Normal anymore. I did Google the address and it still exists. I live in Virginia Illinois which was founded in the early 1800's. There are still many of the old homesites and farmsteads which the owners will let me poke around. I use a 1917 farmers directory to locate some of the old farm sites that no longer have standing buildings. It lists the township, range and section for a property that I can locate on a more recent county plat book. I also spend some time searching the county fair grounds. It has been in existance since the early 1960's. This site offers a lot of clad change, small carnival type tokens and literaly a truck load of can slaw and tabs. What makes this hobby interesting to me is that I have watched quite a few people search all of these same areas with detectors since the 1970's and I still find stuff they missed. I suppose someone else will find some things that i have missed too!
 
Hey Brett, here are the links to the user manuals for the pioneer 202 and the quickdraw II. The only difference that I can see is in name only. Keep it swingin' !


http://www.detecting.com/pdffiles/p202man.pdf

http://www.detecting.com/pdffiles/qdiiman.pdf

HH, twalton

Tracker IV
Pioneer 202
 
Thanks. I love my detector. I use it only for coinshooting for now. I use my method called "Power Searching tm" where I just normally walk around until I get the coins that I want to pick up. I have had great finds by just holding my detector while I'm walking to throw away trash or use a bathroom, etc and get all kinds of good hits(clad). I found $3.49 under 45 minutes ($2.50 in quarters) by Power Searching (tm). Happy hunting.:bounty:
 
I've had the quickdraw II for about 2 days now. Found about $1.10 in my yard. Works good except i get a lot of false signals.
 
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