Need review from someone who owns a Beach Hunter

[Adrian SS]

HI Khouse.

The toggle is a pain and I have placed an elastic band around it and secured it to a metal ring that I set under the case bolt/screw closest to the switch, seems to work fine, at least until the elastic perishes.
The TID lights are not bright enough in bright sunshine but you still have the Tones to go by, although in All Metal the targets are detected deeper than than what the lights will respond to so you have to uncover the target a bit to get closer to get a positive TID. That is normal for most VLF TID machines with the exception of the Sov and similar machines which TID at good depth. I found these little details to be rather insignificant with the BHID because it operated so smooth and steady on the beach and is capable of very good depth in All Metal mode. Quite frankly I am very impressed with this machine.

There are better beach machines out there that will handle high black sand concentrations better, such as the Infinium.
I have no doubt that there will be some highly mineralised volcanic sand beaches that may challange this machine but as we all know, No one detector can do it all with equal efficiency.

Most of the items I found the other day were bottle caps and fish hooks but I did get a few coins at around the 6 to 8 inch mark that all TIDd correctly. These items were easily detected in the Disc mode and I like the way the Iron ID works; Every time that little red light lit up and the threshold dipped slightly in All Metal the target was ferrous.

As I said earlier, this one is a keeper.
Adrian

 

[Adrian SS]

G/Day GuerillaBill,
I pretty much agree with everting you have said.
I found that I was detecting in All Metal, looking at the lights, swich to Disc and re check target and dig it up if the lights were not red.
I changed mode to Disc when the black sand got a bit heavy because this mode handled the mineralisation extremely well and the All Metal mode still operated well enough to pinpoint by. But as I said earlier, I was still able to search the black sand in this mode and get good depth.

This is a good machine even with that irritating toggle switch an not so bright Leds.

Cheers
Adrian SS

 

[khouse]

I found it to be a great performer also. Especially for the price.

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

Thanks Again Everyone;
Based on all your feedback, you have convinced me that this is the machine that I need to buy. I'm looking forward to hit the water and will probably be using this unit to also hunt the dry areas as well. I'll bring my GTI 1500 as a back-up unit.

Thanks Again and HAPPY HUNTING TO EVERYONE.
PS---Will update everyone once I receive and use this unit.

 

[Jackalope]

Picked up a BHID 300 about ten months ago and used it for a week in Galveston. Really fun to use compared to the 1280X I had been using. Covers lots of beach quickly and allows you to take advantage of the wet sand areas of low tide during the short period they are exposed. Also found it deep in All Metal (Gobble-Gobble) super tune. Hip or chest mounted, it's very light.

I'm getting too old for water hunting but wet and dry sand hunting are great. Going to use my E-trac for that.

Ron