Whites beach hunter ID

[jyt2017]

Anyone use one of these machines? Will they work on salt water? I have an offer for one that wasn't used much. Might take it. Not sure. I am looking to have two units. I was thinking about the beach more than freshwater for my second one, as my 1280 does not like salt water. Good machine...in fresh water.

Any input would help. I told the seller I am gonna take it for a test ride before I buy it. 20 minute dip in teh drink at least. We will see. HH -Joe

 

[pistolpete]

ask him if it has the new improved orange seal as the original black seals were prone to leakage. By this I mean the control box seal. You can get them from White's for about 10.00 but they are a little bit of a bugger to install. Eventually got my wife to help me install mine after 3 attemps by myself. I tried mine out for the first time yesterday, bought it used also. I find that I had some difficulty with the black sand but maybe with more experience I will be able to overcome this issue. I use mine on freshwater beach

 

[therover]

I had the BHID300 and liked it alot. It was very stable in the salt water here in NJ, pretty sensitive to gold, deep, has all metal ID and pin points accurately. The only reason I sold it was I just had too many detectors, and I am leaning more towards smaller coils on the beach due to shoulder problems.

I like the ability to get a small coil into the hole when pin pointing, and I can do that with an 8 inch coil. So it was more of a personal prefernce to sell it than performance.

It is a very good unit and I found it more sensitive to smaller gold than an Excal or CZ20 ( which I also used for a long time).

In addition, after a few hunts, I always used the machine in all metal as I found it went way deeper and much more stable in that mode than in discriminate mode.

JC

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I use one that has the floating black coil.
Fixed that by getting the coil anchoring bracket from Whites.
I mostly use it in fresh water.
The 3 colored led lights are pretty well on.
Unfortunately the red will indicate iron but I still dig it because lots of the coins are ferroused based.
Have had mine up to chest deep and never leaked.
Mine has the orange/red seal gasket.
Have had it for three years and bought it new.

 

[diggindirt]

The Beach Hunter 300 is an excellent and very under rated machine!

I had the original BHID and was one of the first to have the Super 12" coil installed.
The upgrade was the best thing I could have done to it and it's really hot on gold.

Run it in all metal and use the lights to id the target. Since this machine has wicked fast recovery
you'll be able to hunt a large area to increase the finds!

I never had any issues with it leaking (newer orange seals) and it's built tough.

Thanks!

 

[GENE EDWARDS]

Pistol Pete is very right on the orange seal, if you buy it make sure it has the orange seal , or order one and install it before you go in the water, I bought a new one with the black seal and it leaked two weeks later, had to send it in, and everthing inside had to be replaced. It is a very good saltwater machine, like diggindirt said, use all metal and watch the lights. I've found many gold rings with it. and i'm sorry i sold mine. Good luck, Gene

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

I also was one of the very first to get Whites to install the big coil...this detector is built like a tank, runs forever on its batteries, kills small gold,...use the super tune set up posted by "gobblegobble" the depth is great! I put 1000's of hours this detector with no issues!

 

[Neptune]

I use it and I like it. As others have said, it is a killer on small gold and is a very deep machine when super-tuned. Water proof to 25 feet. 12 inch coil is great. I have dug targets that were 20 inches and more deep with this machine and it pin points extremely well. USe it in all metal mode and watch the lights to decide if you want to dig or not, (I dig everything that does not light up as red). Hasn't failed me yet.

 

[whippy]

I have two of them.

Take all of the above posts and roll them into one and that pretty much covers what I have to say.

Coolwhips

 

[EZrider]

Anyone a lefty that uses one?

 

[sandman256]

I have tried two of these, the orginal and later the BHID 300. They worked OK on the dry sand but would false in the wet. What was worse is the coils on these water machines float where you must hold them down. I added a sand filled sock, but that only added water resitance. Other manufactures don't have problems with floatng coils, how come White's continues to add foam inside the coils? I sold the first one and with the BHID 300 White's bought it back from me.

 

[gobble-gobble]

All I have to say is-------SUPER DETECTOR

 

[diggindirt]

I have tried two of these, the orginal and later the BHID 300. They worked OK on the dry sand but would false in the wet. What was worse is the coils on these water machines float where you must hold them down. I added a sand filled sock, but that only added water resitance. Other manufactures don't have problems with floatng coils, how come White's continues to add foam inside the coils? I sold the first one and with the BHID 300 White's bought it back from me.

I use mine N.E. Coast without any falsing issues!

I run it in bad black sand in some locations and you just have to know how to tune it properly.
It's more sensitive than the older BHID (stock 9.5 coil) and I can't run it quite as hot due to the larger coil type.

However, it runs more stable and deeper while still hitting hard on the smaller gold.

I don't find the coil to really float on the Beach Hunter 300, but it was a problem on the older design!

I think White's hit the design mark with this coil as you don't want a heavy type "diver" coil running on the wet sand and beach.
If you chest mount the unit and use a straight shaft, you should have no issues running the coil under the water IMHO.

 

[vietvet]

The BH300 is one great machine,never had a problem with leaks,floating,or false signals in wet sand. The false signals were probably from sensitivity too high !

Once you learn this machine you will be very happy with it! Plus it's a Whites ,whose customer service is second to none and made in the USA!!!

 

[diggindirt]

The BH300 is one great machine,never had a problem with leaks,floating,or false signals in wet sand. The false signals were probably from sensitivity too high !

Once you learn this machine you will be very happy with it! Plus it's a Whites ,whose customer service is second to none and made in the USA!!!

Ditto