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Valued Member
United States
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I am looking on upgrading my metal detector. I have a discovery 1100. I am not in a place where I would go hunting for gold nuggets, but would like to be able to get hits on small jewelry. The reviews are all over the place. Garret, fisher, etc. any opinions? Looking in the $300-$500 range. Also a decent hand pointer.
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Moderator
 United States
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ACE 250 or 350 gets mentioned a lot here on CCF. John1  |
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Valued Member
 United States
52 Posts |
OK. So I am looking at a bundle with the Garret 400 and it reads Quote:
Highly Recommended - Coin Hunting, Jewelry Hunting, Relic Hunting, Competition Events, Dry Beach/Fresh Water Hunting, Cache Hunting, Prospecting, Ghost Town Hunting What the heck is "Ghost Town Hunting"? |
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United States
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A 'Ghost Town' is an abandoned town, no longer inhabited.
Picture a small mining town from the Old West days.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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What the heck is "Ghost Town Hunting"? You can use this detector to find Ghost's ! No just kidding . A ghost town is an abandon old town usually out west . could still have old items in the ground .  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I have the BountyHunter Tracker IV, ive found tons of stuff. My property isn't too big or old, but I pulled a silver roosie out over by an older tree that was a good 3-4 inches down. I also found a 1942 dated .30-06 fired rifle cartridge... that was an odd find lol. We have an abandoned railroad that ran straight through town so I've also found my fair share of railroad artifacts lol.
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Pillar of the Community
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I bought a Bounty Hunter "Time Ranger" awhile ago and I really like all the features and settings it has on it for a detector for around 200$. You can set it to only find certain metals, and cancel steel bottle caps and old pull tabs. Plus the big on screen data shows what you may be finding, like quarter, cent, silver, nickel,and if you are lucky, gold. Plus it shows how deep the object is. Took me a little while how to figure out all the settings and how to use it but it's really alot of fun and does the job as good or better than more expensive models. Comes with large and small coil, underwater coil operation too. Here's what the readout and settings screen look like:  Edited by Mark1959
03/28/2017 2:38 pm
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United States
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MineLab is another one to look into. John1 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Used Garrett AT Pro.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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03/28/2017 6:41 pm
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Australia
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How are you going with the hunt to find a detector you can use for gold,I use Minelab detectors for all my nugget hunting but these maybe out of your price range brand new so I sagest second hand SD2200,GPX Extream or even if you can afford it a GPX4000. found with a 4000 but could have been found with any detector  cheers Harry Edited by nuggethill
05/22/2017 9:48 pm
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