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[jettyjay]

Hi everyone! I quit coin shooting about 35 years ago, and just got back into it a few days ago. My first detector was a Red Baron bounty hunter that took sixteen batteries. I found a lot of old coins with that heavy clumsy machine.
Around two years ago I bought a high end Whites and didn't find much and really did not care for the machine. I sold that on Ebay after only using it a few times. And never really stopped wanting to dig again.
I just purchased a Bounty hunter platinum, maybe because my old bounty hunter brings back fond memories of finding lots of old coins when I was in my mid twenties. Thank god for modern technology my platinum is weightless by comparison to the Red Baron I swung back then.
I haven't been out much yet with my new machine, just messing around with it in my back yard to get used to it. The few hours in my back yard did not yield much, lots of my old flattened beer cans that somehow managed to get buried. And a few newer cents.
I live on a very old farm, roughly 40 acres, so there is a lot of places to learn my new machine. I also have a condo on the beach,which I plan to hit as well. I am not sure how the Platinum will behave on the beach. My old machine did ok in dry sand.
if and when I find anything worth mentioning I will be sure to post. Good luck fellow diggers. Jay

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

I have used a tracker IV and a pioneer 505 on the beach and they both worked fine in the dry sand. Close to or in the edge of the water adjust your ground balance and back way off on your sensitivity and you will do just fine.
HH Ed in co.

 

[jettyjay]

Thanks Ed, I will give it a beach try when my condo is not being rented. It is a weekly rental vacation unit. When it's empty my wife and I stay in the unit.
I just found out that an old drive in theater is now a vacant lot. Right down the road and I want to give that a shot. JJ

 

[Dign-nbama]

Welcome jettyjay,, I have a Bounty Hunter Landstar, very under rated machines, I have found a lot of coins and some rings with it, goes deep in dry sand like all VLF machines dry sand is good, wet sand gets a little iffy as Ed said adusting the ground balance and backing off the sensitivity will help tremendously but,, mine still would cut up and act like a nervous shetland pony,, you just do a little more adjusting and keep getting it.. Happy Hunting...

 

[DESERT DOG]

welcome to the forums

 

[jazzman58]

Welcome to the forum and glad to have you back in the "fold" as they say. Can't tell you much about the beach situation you will be facing but with your experience and this forum (not just this one, but all of them ) I'm sure in no time you will be putting us all to shame with your finds. Good luck and HH.

Jeff

 

[digger1967]

I am also new here.i bought the platinum last yr.it seemEd to be very erratic on the beach.it will not ground balance near salt water but did work ok in the grass.

 

[KennyD]

Hi there jettyjay! I'm new here as well.
I just got my Pioneer EX today and took it into the back yard for a test run. Found a handful of modern coins, probably out of my own pocket.
But, I have to say that I too am hooked on this hobby!!! Hopefully you and I will be posting some sweet finds in the forums here soon.
Good luck mate!

 

[john barrale]

Hi my name is john welcome to the forum i just got in from hunt and i did ok 2.20 plus found a gold mood ring or something, the inside of the band has a #6 in it and i was wondering what that meant.i was searching along the sidelines of an old soccer field and thats when i found it, it did;nt read as a low tone so i'm guesssing its not gold though. but anyway i took a stroll through forest park in st louis and passed it up you pretty much have to have a high end model such as a mindlab or whites i have a qdii.good luck to everyone.