Poor White'sBHID 300. I just bought one and know it is a capable detector, yet it is frustrating that so little is seen on the forums with this detector. Or is it just me. Seems that the BHID 300 is a secret that some successful guys are keeping to themselves...or Excal-mania has drowned it out? Aside from the "floating coil" complaint, which didn't bother me when I took it out for it's first spin, it seems to be a great detector.
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I am amazed at how little info/talk there is on the BHID 300
- Thread starter comisoas
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I've read some good stuff about it on the whites electronics forum. the 5 and 15 khz makes it like the CZ-20/21. I've seen a couple for sale used but I'm so nervous about getting a used water unit. I know there are members here with good reputations I'm hoping I'll maybe find one from.
Flintstone
Well-known member
I got a Beacher 300, and love how it works. If it hits red, you can just walk away. The first time i took mine out i dug all hits, after about a hr. i stoped digging any red hits. My friend said he would let me know what i misted, then he said just forget about those red hits they are iron. If it hits green you have a coin or a silver ring. The hard one is yellow, it could be a gold ring or tab. I got a nice chain at 6" and it didn,t have a clasp on it, that is good for a detector, any detector. I just keep quit about mine so other won,t find the good stuff.
Thanks, I would just like to hear more hype about this detector by users.....I am tired of hearing the Excal stories....not just Excal, but it seems all other water detectors....I want to hear some BHID 300 stories! Hopefully before long I will have a few, but I am not able to get to the beach as much as I would like due to family responsibilities.
Flintstone
Well-known member
Just remember not to let the cat out of the bag. I have hunted with alot of guys with other detectors and they did not beat me and my Beach hunter. I got just as deep as others, infact i got alot smaller rings than they did. The Beach Hunter hunts in 5and 15 K, i don,t need any more than that. As for the coil floating they fixed that as well, still floats a little but a small bag of sand around the top and it is fine.
It's funny I just saw this posted here on the forum,
I just got of the phone with the main distributor For White's west coast. I called White's advertised phone number just five minutes ago and asked about the BHID 300. I was thinking of adding a VLF water proof detector to the heard for salt water beach use. To my surprise they did not recommend it at all for the salt water mineralized type beaches like here in California period and made that very clear to me. They said it works great for Florida, Hawaii and less mineralized salt water beaches and fresh water beaches as that's what is was designed for.They highly suggested the White's Duel Field for California or West Coast salt water beaches they also suggested the MXT that I had or just sold worked better here on the West Coast beaches but it is not water proof, oh well that's what they said no fooling.( and the MXT is a single frequency unit ??). I also ask and said I have heard the BHID 300 is a scaled down DFX in a water proof case with out the meter and all the adjustability features. They said yes it was based in so many words on that technology but still again made it clear he did not recommend the BHID 300 at all for West Coast beach use and said I would not be happy and suggested the White Duel Field to me again.
Happy Hunting All,
Bill G
I just got of the phone with the main distributor For White's west coast. I called White's advertised phone number just five minutes ago and asked about the BHID 300. I was thinking of adding a VLF water proof detector to the heard for salt water beach use. To my surprise they did not recommend it at all for the salt water mineralized type beaches like here in California period and made that very clear to me. They said it works great for Florida, Hawaii and less mineralized salt water beaches and fresh water beaches as that's what is was designed for.They highly suggested the White's Duel Field for California or West Coast salt water beaches they also suggested the MXT that I had or just sold worked better here on the West Coast beaches but it is not water proof, oh well that's what they said no fooling.( and the MXT is a single frequency unit ??). I also ask and said I have heard the BHID 300 is a scaled down DFX in a water proof case with out the meter and all the adjustability features. They said yes it was based in so many words on that technology but still again made it clear he did not recommend the BHID 300 at all for West Coast beach use and said I would not be happy and suggested the White Duel Field to me again.
Happy Hunting All,
Bill G
Texas gulf coast. Didn't like the coil. I prefer an 8" coil. Just didn't work as well. We have a lot of iron on most of our beaches. The Excal 800 will clean it's clock in such conditions. The Excal gives you much more audio info. I couldn't care less about the Lights on the White's. The White's might be OK on really clean beaches but if the beaches are really clean pulse machines would also be a good choice. Just my opinion but if you really want to give one a try then go for it. Best of luck whichever you choose.
OldBeechnut
Well-known member
Bottom line is the CZ20/21 or the Excalibur are the better machines but someone that really knows there BHID can be a good challenge for any machine. A friend of mine Paul uses one and does Ok, Video from a few years ago, he pulled a nice one and it was the talk of the looters that day....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFVSU8iUGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFVSU8iUGE
Nauti
Well-known member
"Bottom line is the cz20 or the excalibur are better machines"
Most who use these machines never really get to grips with it properly and end up dismissing it as an inferior machine.I'll put my 300 up against an excalibur any day of the week........and pick up the tiniest bits of gold that the excal won't even register.
The BH is a machine for those who don't mind learning the machine over a long period of time.....you will not get instant success with it because it is harder to use than a lot of machines.
The excal is a brilliant machine,one of the best ever made for the beach,but it won't beat a BH in the right hands,especially on the tiny bits of jewellry.
Most who use these machines never really get to grips with it properly and end up dismissing it as an inferior machine.I'll put my 300 up against an excalibur any day of the week........and pick up the tiniest bits of gold that the excal won't even register.
The BH is a machine for those who don't mind learning the machine over a long period of time.....you will not get instant success with it because it is harder to use than a lot of machines.
The excal is a brilliant machine,one of the best ever made for the beach,but it won't beat a BH in the right hands,especially on the tiny bits of jewellry.
comisoas: Bill G. is right: they are not well suited for wet mineralized salt. So for the machine to excell, you would need to be on whiter sand (versus cinimmon colored sand) beaches. So despite the catchy name with "beach" in the title, no, they are not necessarily good on all beaches. That's the reason you don't hear much hype about them . Any other questions ? 
Well there ya go...ya didnt find any gold didja?..some folks make due with what they got, and I'm sure the BHID 300 is better than nothing...if a fellow applies himself, he will find gold no matter what rig...its just that some rigs are better than others at it, and thats what you heard here when you asked about it...
Gold is a cruel mistress and a guy hunting it needs all the help he can get...time and gold wait for nobody..
Mud
Gold is a cruel mistress and a guy hunting it needs all the help he can get...time and gold wait for nobody..Mud
i started water hunting with the bhid, with the original floater coil. I hear the 300 coil is near neutral. anyway, I tried a sock with sand and it was flopping around. And the added weight was a pain on the wet or dry sand.
The coil also has a problem flipping up, especially in surf. I found that reversing the coil helped with both problems. Much less coil movement, and as the angle my body made with the coil was more acute, I could hold it down easier without added weight.
The lights do indicate what's down there pretty well, and they work in all metal, though bottle caps can show green light. But the deeper targets, the discrimination falls off, so deep targets are pretty much dig it all. It also discriminates by sound, with 3 tones.
It is sensitive to small items. It does go deep. My first outing where I had everything set up right including a good scoop, booties, and wet suit (winter time in s. fl.), I found a Tiffany friendship ring in the water, a 9k english men's gold ring with nice heft, and a silver toe ring. The gold ring and the toe ring were under the seaweed that piles up at the highwater mark. The gold ring was at least 12" deep, or more. I went out 2 days later and found a large men's ring with 3 diamonds, total about 1 carat, the diamonds were of indifferent quality, but it was 14k, solid, and heavy. I found more gold, too, in a few subsequent trips.
But when I found an excal 1000 selling cheap, I jumped at it. It is much easier to use in the water over longer periods of time. The bhid is noisier in the water, and that darn bhid coil tires me out, hurts my hands like carpal tunnel, and the excessive noise in the headphones is also tiring.
However, it is much cheaper than the excal, and it does works good at finding gold. The BH 300 may be much easier to use, I don't know. But the price is getting up there where you might as well get an excal.
I think I'd like to have the bhid for the wet and dry sand more than the excal as the coil is much lighter, but then a DFX might be better for that.
The coil also has a problem flipping up, especially in surf. I found that reversing the coil helped with both problems. Much less coil movement, and as the angle my body made with the coil was more acute, I could hold it down easier without added weight.
The lights do indicate what's down there pretty well, and they work in all metal, though bottle caps can show green light. But the deeper targets, the discrimination falls off, so deep targets are pretty much dig it all. It also discriminates by sound, with 3 tones.
It is sensitive to small items. It does go deep. My first outing where I had everything set up right including a good scoop, booties, and wet suit (winter time in s. fl.), I found a Tiffany friendship ring in the water, a 9k english men's gold ring with nice heft, and a silver toe ring. The gold ring and the toe ring were under the seaweed that piles up at the highwater mark. The gold ring was at least 12" deep, or more. I went out 2 days later and found a large men's ring with 3 diamonds, total about 1 carat, the diamonds were of indifferent quality, but it was 14k, solid, and heavy. I found more gold, too, in a few subsequent trips.
But when I found an excal 1000 selling cheap, I jumped at it. It is much easier to use in the water over longer periods of time. The bhid is noisier in the water, and that darn bhid coil tires me out, hurts my hands like carpal tunnel, and the excessive noise in the headphones is also tiring.
However, it is much cheaper than the excal, and it does works good at finding gold. The BH 300 may be much easier to use, I don't know. But the price is getting up there where you might as well get an excal.
I think I'd like to have the bhid for the wet and dry sand more than the excal as the coil is much lighter, but then a DFX might be better for that.