Afetr using the LRP for awhile, I decided to take the QDP out for a "quick" hunt at a ballfield. Since I bought the QDP to utilze the 10" C coil on my LRP (I am a fan of concentrics over DDs), I left the 11" DD coil on it to see how it does. Neeedless to say, I was once again impressed with the newer Bounty Hunter units and their abilities.
I have hunt this park with my old F5 and my F2 a year or so ago.
Turning on the unit, it lghts up in a sensitivity setting of 7 (out of 10). I ran it up to 10, and swinging it gave me all kinds of signals. I set it to 9, and it still had a few ghost hits. At 8, it quieted down. I disc-ed out the first segement (iron) and started swing.
Most signals started coming in with a medium tone, and a few highs. I seemed to be in a trashy area behind the bleachers. I slowed down my swing a little and I could make out a better separation between the mediums and highs. At first I concentrated on the highs.
Now I'm not the best at PP with the DD coil. I did the backward wiggle until I lost the signal then marked where the toe of the coil was. I PP the first target at a depth of 4". (I raised the coil slightly to see when I lost the target to see how the depth registered at an 8 sensitivity. The result was it picked up until after 7".)
My very first dig with this detector was a zinc penny that hit as a dime. It was 3" down, so the depth may be off an inch). The running arrow depth had 2 of 3 arrows on.
My next hit was a fifty cent segment. The numeric was between 85-92. 4" down again. I dug and was surprrised to find a silver quarter at 3" down. Second coin with this machine gives me silver. It was completely clean like it was dropped yesterday. Only drawback is it's a 1975 Elizabeth Canadian. I'll take it.
I continued getting a few more quarters, a dime and some pennies. I decided to dig a few medium tones to get a feel. I dug one bolt, one screw and one pull tab. The pull tab and the bolt moved around the segments. The screw hit as a nickel (it doesn't have a point to it and has kind of fine threads).
It is a great detector learn, IMO. The one thing I noticed is that when you go into pinpoint mode, when you let up on the button, there seems to be about a half a second delay before the unit is back in detection mode. There is no interference between my XPointer and either the LRP or QDP. I am amazed at how well this detector works, how much information it gives (audible and visual) for how light and comfortable it is to swing.
I'll probably sell the F2.
I have hunt this park with my old F5 and my F2 a year or so ago.
Turning on the unit, it lghts up in a sensitivity setting of 7 (out of 10). I ran it up to 10, and swinging it gave me all kinds of signals. I set it to 9, and it still had a few ghost hits. At 8, it quieted down. I disc-ed out the first segement (iron) and started swing.
Most signals started coming in with a medium tone, and a few highs. I seemed to be in a trashy area behind the bleachers. I slowed down my swing a little and I could make out a better separation between the mediums and highs. At first I concentrated on the highs.
Now I'm not the best at PP with the DD coil. I did the backward wiggle until I lost the signal then marked where the toe of the coil was. I PP the first target at a depth of 4". (I raised the coil slightly to see when I lost the target to see how the depth registered at an 8 sensitivity. The result was it picked up until after 7".)
My very first dig with this detector was a zinc penny that hit as a dime. It was 3" down, so the depth may be off an inch). The running arrow depth had 2 of 3 arrows on.
My next hit was a fifty cent segment. The numeric was between 85-92. 4" down again. I dug and was surprrised to find a silver quarter at 3" down. Second coin with this machine gives me silver. It was completely clean like it was dropped yesterday. Only drawback is it's a 1975 Elizabeth Canadian. I'll take it.
I continued getting a few more quarters, a dime and some pennies. I decided to dig a few medium tones to get a feel. I dug one bolt, one screw and one pull tab. The pull tab and the bolt moved around the segments. The screw hit as a nickel (it doesn't have a point to it and has kind of fine threads).
It is a great detector learn, IMO. The one thing I noticed is that when you go into pinpoint mode, when you let up on the button, there seems to be about a half a second delay before the unit is back in detection mode. There is no interference between my XPointer and either the LRP or QDP. I am amazed at how well this detector works, how much information it gives (audible and visual) for how light and comfortable it is to swing.
I'll probably sell the F2.
