ronthebomb
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I cant say I have allot of detectors under my belt, so I need to give you some history about me and the detectors I have used and this might help you see where I'm coming from.
My first detector was out of a JC Penny's catalog back around 1975 I was about 8 or 9 years old. I was very interested in coin collecting and was very interested in old coins alone. Behind whier I lived was a school that was built around 1943 and over the years I watched plenty of old men pluck out, what was treasures too me out of the ground. ( Now I'm the old man or feel like it.) So for my birthday, that's what I wanted was a metal detector. I cant remember what it cost but I think it was around 40 bucks. After several month waiting, then getting a bad one, sending back for couple months I Finlay got my detector. Every day I would run home and ask my Mom if it came. Than one day I asked and she said yes and is was under my bed hidden from brother ( The one who found out the first one was defective) I wish I could remember the name but I cant. The detector had a off and on switch and that was all the adjusting their was because if it was good, a beep would sound and a little green light would turn on, and of course if it was bad a red light would glow. Being young and very optimistic and having full confidence in those brilliant people who made this revolutionary electronically mastermind mar vile. I dug some red just to try it out, but I dug all the green light beeps. I kid you not I dug about a small pick-up trucks load of pull-tabs. I just really thought the next one was going to be good. So for a good year and half of hunting I did find coins most new one wheat penny that I bet was lost way after 1959 but no silver. And def no gold or nickels because they were in the red. What a shame.
So my next detector was the whites 5000d ( I'm not sure about the ( d) it just sounds right.) My parents bought this for me for my birthday during a visit to see my grandpa. I tried it out in my old school that I had previous map ed out with my old detect er and on the first day found 9 silver Washington's, 1 walking half, 3 mecurydimes, hand fully wheets. I will never forget that day and don't think it well ever happen again. I got the 5000d I think in the summer of 1977 I tried decreasing the discriminant to find nickels and gold but was turned a way by the foil and pull tabs I only found 2 or 3 nickels.
So (are you still with me) my next detector was the big bud pro by bounty hunter. I purchased sometime in the 80s. It did find some old silver like barb dimes and Mercury dimes in old wooded area es and Indian head Penny's that never seen the 5000d. But I never found silver or whee ts with the bounty hunter in the same place hunted by the 5000d. But I couldn't find gold ring or nickel with out finding the majority of foil or pull tab with the bounty hunter.
So 34 years later I purchase a whites V-3 and really cant tell the diff between gold and foil or pull tab from nickel. Just kinda sad to spend so much money for all those bells and whistles to navigate threw all that junk to something you cant tell the diff between a big gold ring or a compact piece of foil.
You know their was a time maybe before pull tabs that the first detector's had their run or the one with the first discrimination had the first picking with out all that trash. If maybe I would have waited a few more years. I could have found what I was searching for for half price.
My first detector was out of a JC Penny's catalog back around 1975 I was about 8 or 9 years old. I was very interested in coin collecting and was very interested in old coins alone. Behind whier I lived was a school that was built around 1943 and over the years I watched plenty of old men pluck out, what was treasures too me out of the ground. ( Now I'm the old man or feel like it.) So for my birthday, that's what I wanted was a metal detector. I cant remember what it cost but I think it was around 40 bucks. After several month waiting, then getting a bad one, sending back for couple months I Finlay got my detector. Every day I would run home and ask my Mom if it came. Than one day I asked and she said yes and is was under my bed hidden from brother ( The one who found out the first one was defective) I wish I could remember the name but I cant. The detector had a off and on switch and that was all the adjusting their was because if it was good, a beep would sound and a little green light would turn on, and of course if it was bad a red light would glow. Being young and very optimistic and having full confidence in those brilliant people who made this revolutionary electronically mastermind mar vile. I dug some red just to try it out, but I dug all the green light beeps. I kid you not I dug about a small pick-up trucks load of pull-tabs. I just really thought the next one was going to be good. So for a good year and half of hunting I did find coins most new one wheat penny that I bet was lost way after 1959 but no silver. And def no gold or nickels because they were in the red. What a shame.
So my next detector was the whites 5000d ( I'm not sure about the ( d) it just sounds right.) My parents bought this for me for my birthday during a visit to see my grandpa. I tried it out in my old school that I had previous map ed out with my old detect er and on the first day found 9 silver Washington's, 1 walking half, 3 mecurydimes, hand fully wheets. I will never forget that day and don't think it well ever happen again. I got the 5000d I think in the summer of 1977 I tried decreasing the discriminant to find nickels and gold but was turned a way by the foil and pull tabs I only found 2 or 3 nickels.
So (are you still with me) my next detector was the big bud pro by bounty hunter. I purchased sometime in the 80s. It did find some old silver like barb dimes and Mercury dimes in old wooded area es and Indian head Penny's that never seen the 5000d. But I never found silver or whee ts with the bounty hunter in the same place hunted by the 5000d. But I couldn't find gold ring or nickel with out finding the majority of foil or pull tab with the bounty hunter.
So 34 years later I purchase a whites V-3 and really cant tell the diff between gold and foil or pull tab from nickel. Just kinda sad to spend so much money for all those bells and whistles to navigate threw all that junk to something you cant tell the diff between a big gold ring or a compact piece of foil.
You know their was a time maybe before pull tabs that the first detector's had their run or the one with the first discrimination had the first picking with out all that trash. If maybe I would have waited a few more years. I could have found what I was searching for for half price.
. Most importantly don't give up..take the time to get out and learn the machine, it really is a GREAT machine.