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Ron from Michigan

Ron from Michigan

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On of the first decent metal detector I owned was a IB 200 Bounty Hunter.The hyped ad fact sheet stated that you could go to old schools and parks that were worked out and find alot of deeper missed coins.The brochure showed pictures of these finds and testimonials of the hunters successes in working in these hunted out areas.The foundation of this latest technology a induction balance metal detector with a 2D eight inch coil.The IB200 I had did work well it did locate a lot of deep silver coins,but sold it and got a Garrett Coin Hunter discriminator. I've been looking for one of these old Bounty Hunter's for a while but the one's I have found people are asking too high of a price.The other day I found one on Ebay the battery door was missing yellow tape on the handle(probably rusted in half),but the seller said it worked.There was a reserve of 50.00 on this unit and 35.00 shipping, which I thought was too high.My curiosity of how well this old unit would work caused me to place the bid.At this point I'm very busy and haven't had much time to hunt,but when the refrigerator size box was dropped off by the UPS driver I had to open it up and power up the old Bounty Hunter.The detector was in pretty sad shape dirty and batteries lose in the control box.I took the Bounty Hunter apart retrieved the lose batteries and wiped the unit off with a cloth.With the tape off the handle cleaned up the unit now looked new. I took the IB300 through the test garden 6 out of six targets the Garrett GTAx 550 and Whites DI 6000 Pro had problems making it through this obstacle course missing the deep silver dimes and even a half dollar buried at about seven inches missed 3 out of six.
 
Silvernail,I tryed all the modes on the 6000 DI(8 inch coil).And played around with the sensitivity.It responded to a penny buried at about 4", silver dime 4",silver quarter 6" targets missed silver dime 5",nickle 5" clad half 8". The IB300 is a no motion non discriminnate detector. The audio responed was with a faint rounded signal,which I would have dug these targets in the field.The CZs I've tested at this coin garden had problems with the nickle even in a low discrimination mode.The detector that really worked well in this garden the 1236 with a 5 inch,which gives a very sharp response to each target.
 
Interesting. I've seen forum comments, maybe by Larry Gressel, saying that some of the old Bounty Hunters were smooth, stable, and deep. Sounds like you have one that you can talk to. Congratulations on the find.
 
Silvernail,when I start talking to my metal detector thats when I get into another hobby or check myself into the mental hospital.The old IB series were great detectors.I guess there may be a couple of guys on the other forum that talk to their detectors
 
Bill,your right the Garrett 2500 series does talk to you.I can't wait until they make a detector that says"hey dummy you missed another good target"Worse yet a company comes out with a detector that sounds like your wife's voice in the nagging mode.I sure hope my wife doesn't see this post.
 
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