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Sharp shooter 2

sinewave

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Hi all, i have not contributed to the forum for some time... but i wish to continue as a member of this forum.

Last time:.i posted i talked about the Bounty Hunter Sharpshooter 11, also i posted a picture of this detector with a frisbee as a coil cover. Did anyone else on the forum find this was true!

I have now sold on the sharpshooter 2 but staying with the Bounty Hunter i have now bought locally the Tracker IV a machine i consider to be an excellent.

Many years of metal detecting in the early 70's I have a tale or two i would like to tell forum members.

I will post some pictures soon of a detector with a wooden search head ( my very first metal detector) that i paid
 
Welcome back. Look forward to some tales, and finds. I own 2 Tracker IV units. I find them to be the best bang for the buck. I find lots of nickels when I take them out.
HH
 
I regretfully got rid of my tracker IV they are great machines, I will grab another if it comes about. I am all Tesoro now but I did just buy 2 Tracker II's one for my mom and one for my son, they are good machines too, but never have I tried the sharpshooter II. Sorry for babbling but I just had to give my opinion on the TR4 :)
 
Mmm not much response on this forum... however i still have another early machine this time from radio shack (B.F.O.) it has an open coil search head the controls are housed in a alloy rectangular ca
 
Being a realist my comments on this forum may not be agreeable to some or perhaps many.

My photograph's posted met little response also. Have decided to bow out.
 
Sometimes you wonder if the microphone is turned on, lol. I read many posts but usually just reply to the ones I can make a contribution to. I don't post "+1" replies. Your thread got a lot of views, if that counts for anything!

The SSII has been around many years, a search here or the internet should bring up plenty of reading. I don't own one but I used a couple Landstars for awhile and there are similarities. It's a capable detector.

Your old BFO using a cheap AM radio for one of the oscillators was a common home-brew approach that didn't require many parts. I'd expect the tuning to be difficult with one knob positioned way down low and other up high. Radios like that have very touchy tuning. Back then, there were easy pickings in virgin sites with fewer competing hunters, so good finds were made despite the detector's shortcomings. Does yours still work?

It seems many people have moved on to newer models, the Bounty Hunter forum is not as active as it was a decade ago. I bought a couple Time Rangers back in 2001, it's still my favorite machine. Last year, we detected a lot, this year we can't keep up with projects and haven't been out detecting lately, but I'm still active in other ways.

-Ed
 
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