tbird said:
Comparison of eurotek pro and bounty hunter landranger pro.... anybody used both?
No, not yet. I have owned two Euro-Tek Pro's, but not the Bounty Hunter Land Ranger Pro. I hope to get my hands on one to compare, but looking at the detector features and reading the Owner's Manual, it is easy to compare some things about these two models, especially since I have had two brand new, out-of-the-box Euro-Tek Pro's that didn't function alike.
tbird said:
....which has better depth
Best Guesses would be the BH Land Ranger Pro
IF you used the Disc. 2 Discriminate mode on the BH-LRP which is similar to the Tek ETP, AND set the ETP Volume to '20' to duplicate the BH-LRP at a max setting of '10', as well as use the same search coil size/type on each model. The simple reason is the BH-LRP has Ground Balance adjustment while the Tek. ETP is fixed.
tbird said:
Not easily described for comparison, because to compare side-by-side you have to use similar coil sizes & types, similar settings, and then hope the detector has the circuitry performance needed. Not all of them do. All too often we do a quick air test or just toss some targets on the ground, wave the past a coil or sweep over a few coins, then determine their "separation" ability by how quickly they respond and are able to recover and beep on the next target, or to the same target briskly swept back-and-forth across the coil. This "quickness of response and recovery" is a good thing, but it isn't the only thing we have to consider.
Most of the time we search in a Discriminate mode, thus we are using some amount of rejection. Quick-Response and Fast-Recovery are only two of the factors to be considered. There is also the processing time and ability of the Discriminate mode circuitry to process a Discrimination signal and recover. That's something most folks don't consider and that I compare in my detector evaluations, especially for 20+ years.
I don't use a lot of Discrimination. The most is just want it takes to reject iron nails which is the #1 problem trash in ghost towns, homesteads, urban tear-downs and renovation sites, so that's all I use and sometimes I hunt at a minimum Disc. setting in sparse-target locations. I used to use one or more nails oin some random positioning to evaluate performance, but since Memorial Day Weekend of '94 I have relied on what I call my Nail Board Performance Test. In was hunting a southern Utah ghost town and chanced upon an Indian Head 1¢ in plain view on top of the ground.
This was the old school hill and all that remained were countless rusty iron nails all over the place. The Indian Head was centered among four different length and different positioned nails. A perfect and actual in-the-field scenario to compare the detectors I had with me, one I was evaluating for a manufacturer, and I used my clipboard and notepad to press on them and duplicate that exact positioning. From that I made my Nail Board Performance Test and have used it to evaluate detectors to learn their
true "
separation" ability.
It combines iron trash and a single US coin in a challenging actual comparison, and calls for the use of Discrimination to just reject the iron nails. Then add an Indian Head or Zinc Cent and sweep across the set of four nails and coin, in four directions, sweeping left-and-right, to make 8 possible hits. If a detector/coil combo can reject all four nails, yet give 7 or 8 good responses on the coin with a slow sweep, then it passes
my test on "separation". I have used stock coils and accessory coils, including the 5" DD, on every Teknetics except the T2, and on the Fisher F5, F75 and F19. Only the F19 comes close. The rest fail that test, miserably.
As for the LR Pro, I'll have to handle one and see. Maybe it will be improved like the F19, which was the better or all the other FTP detectors I have tried. Every detector in my personal detector battery, today, can easily pass the test and prove me with excellent "separation" in dense iron nil and other trash environments.
tbird said:
...etc.? any other comments on these 2 detectors appreciated.
Honestly, until I handle a Bounty Hunter Land Ranger Pro in my four test scenarios as well as work it in the field, I can't give an honest comparison answer, but I can tell you that sim9lly based on the LR Pro's ability to Ground Balance in three of the Discriminate modes, I believe it should have an 'edge' over the Euro-Tek Pro in several ways.
Monte
