Anyone have any experience with this detector?

[pio_dov]

Christmas/Yule and the first night of Hanukkah overlapped this year, and I received my first detector yesterday (previously only hunted by participating in archeological digs and collecting things I find on the ground)! I assembled it and am still figuring it out, and I knew this would be a good place to ask questions. My friend and I are going beach combing in Jersey next week, but there's been a lot of snow lately so I'm wondering if it's waterproof. Also curious if anyone has any positive or negative experiences with this brand in the past. Thanks in advance!

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

It is a Chinese made detector on the very low end of detector quality, and will not work well on salt water beaches at all. Salt is composed of metal minerals, and it will not be able to tell the difference between salt and other metal targets, in other words it wil think there is metal everywhere.

If you can return it and get your money back I highly recommend you do so and get a detector made by a company dedicated to making quality detectors.

 

[pio_dov]

damn, got it.
can it do anything, at least? My parents probably won't buy me a fancy expensive one, so hoping this at least works.

 

[robertk]

can it do anything, at least?

I'm sure it will do something. My first detector was a piece of crap compared to just about anything these days, but I still found cool stuff with it. You can too. Just gotta dig... (Though you might want to dig someplace other than the beach if it can't handle the salt.)

 

[DizzyDigger]

damn, got it.
can it do anything, at least? My parents probably won't buy me a fancy expensive one, so hoping this at least works.

There are a number of YouTube video's that you will find helpful.

 

[pio_dov]

Thank you all
Google seems to think it's good for beginners (me), so that's good. I've seen a few reviews by people who have successfully used it at beaches, but I imagine it'll be more useful at lakes and campsites? I don't plan to go to a beach much again after this anyway, because I have a deep hatred for sand. I'll be wearing thick rain boots the whole time, and once it's done, I'm not touching sand again for another three years.

 

[Older The Better]

Pro tip! watch the rain boots if they have steel toes… made that mistake when I was first learning took several times of a target disappearing or continually being at the edge of the hole before I figured out what was going on

 

[pio_dov]

Pro tip! watch the rain boots if they have steel toes… made that mistake when I was first learning took several times of a target disappearing or continually being at the edge of the hole before I figured out what was going on

well that sucks :l thankfully mine are all rubber lol