Just got my new Whites Beach Hunter 300. I may be yours in the future? :twodetecting:

[Willee - Texas]

What are you going to hunt for ... a 18" coil should get down there way deep!
Wet sand at very low tide for older targets?

The BHID is an excellent detector for the dry sand as it comes and with the new "300" coil you can cover a lot of beach quickly.
Get the GB right and it is just as stable in the salt water.
It is a bit on the heavy side but hip mounting the housing will fix that.
I hate pushing a floating coil to the bottom and holding it there while I hunt as it makes my arm sore after a few hours.
And if I use my right hand to retrieve the target out of the scoop ... up pops the coil.
That is the one big reason I put the 10" Excelerator coil on mine ... it sinks and stays on the bottom.
Since I am looking primarily for recently lost jewelry, that coil just like the original one goes more than deep enough.
The BHID reacts to bottle caps with a broken or crackly sound and to coins, rings, pulltabs, and such with a good solid repeatable tone usually from all directions.
A nice sharp pleasant sounding high tone with a green light is almost always a coin or silver jewelry.
Buried beer and pop cans will also give a good coin tone but if you can lift the coil 10" or more above the sand and still get a good signal it aint no ring or coin.
It has a nice fast and sharp response and is easy to pinpoint the target for a quick recovery.

 

[khouse]

So you like running in the disc mode?

 

[Willee - Texas]

So you like running in the disc mode?

Yes ... I am mainly looking for the recently dropped jewelry not the older deeper stuff.
The BHID goes plenty deep in Disc mode.

This winter when there are exceptionally low tides I will break out the Sovereign with the WOT coil and go for the deep stuff in the wet sand.
It will be all the stuff that got missed this summer ... LOL!

Willee

 

[khouse]

n/t

 

[whippy]

Khouse,

I'll be in Destin on the 18th (july) for 9 days. I also have a BHID300. In fact, I have two of them.

If you are there on these days, let me know and we'll try to get in some early, early morning hunts. My brother will be with me as well but, he's not the die hard hunter I am. I plan to hunt every morning I am there. May even do some night hunting when the wife and son hit the hay.

If you're going to be there on those days, I'll send you a PM with my cell number.

Coolwhips

 

[R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla]

Wonder if at any point, Whites would swap out the floating 9.5 for the new 10 inch D2 coil ? I got the BHID300 and like that big coil most of the time, but I think it would be cool to also have a BHID with the D2.

Curious to see if the next generation BHID does have the D2 coil. In addition, I always wondered why in all metal they couldn't make it 3 tones. I mean, the lights flash red, yellow, green in all metal, so why can't the tones be low, med and high ?

I would love that, because sometimes it's hard to see the lights in the bright sun. I used to have mine configured with the control box up near the end of the shaft, but could not see the lights when hunting in all metal ( which I do 90% of the time) I now have it mounted under the elbow and can see them a little better, but I liked the balance and the way it swings on the Anderson shaft when it's at the end.

Anyway...enough of my babble.

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Now on dry/wetsand it's great 9.5 floater- but in the water its a pain in the wrist! It seems like the audio is diff on diff targets iron vs non-iron. With more use I'm sure i could get an idea of iron vs non-iron because the audio in AM is very good. I don't care for the DD coils but a 10 inch would be more useable than the 12 for general hunting. Between fishing, wife, kid,Harley it's hard to find time to hunt! Plus only have a short window here in snowhell! Yall enjoy those beaches w/ year round hunting!!!!

 

[LX Kid]

Is the Excelerator coil heavy for working the wet sand and dry sand? Thanks