BHID

[The-Bone]

Holy S**T!!! i just won a brand new BHID off Ebay...got it for $489 with shipping. Man my wife is gonna kill me!!!
If i live i would appreciate any thoughts and feedback from u guys..thanks
bone

 

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[guzz1]

WTG !!!!!!!! GOOD PRICE Guzz1

 

[trashdude]

Now you're going to have to go out every day (twist the arm) and get back what you paid for it. That way the wife won't mad at you.

 

[The-Bone]

Guz
what do u think of this unit? i have read a lot of mixed reviews (love/hate it). will it perform adequately for the occasional salt water romp? any tricks that i need to know?
thanks
john

 

[guzz1]

I really haven't had a chance to really use it that much . I did take it out to the beach and it was hitting targets like crazy ,I found some clad that day I was impressed . Whites has a great name detectors I think there very durable ..detectors Its just a matter of preference .I also use an excal.and I think great .. I'm going to be using the bh this weekend so I'll let you know how well it did... I'll keep you posted . Guzz1

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I use to have one, I liked it and I never had a problem with the "floating coil". It is a little buoyant, but never a big deal to me.

My one and only complaint was the battery door, it is a poor design and it will leak if your not real careful to close it properly and to be sure there is NO sand on the rubber gasket.

 

[Sandman]

The BHID is a nice water detector. The only thing I didn't like was the floating coil as I felt I had to hold it down to much. They do make a weighted coil for it but you must send it in for installation. No big deal, if it bothers you that much you can always tape a sock filled with sand to the lower shaft.

It is great for fresh water or any dry sand and wet saltwater sand in some places with little black sand. Many have reported it gets unstable in the shallow saltwater wave. I didn't notice this as I normally don't need the extra sensitivity everyone else dials in trying to get deeper. As Treasure Hunter said, be careful of any sand on the door gasket and make sure you lube the O ring with silicone grease before closing. I didn't think I had to add putting the silicone inside till I got a PM from a BHID owner that said it made a mess of the outside.

 

[guzz1]

I Think if you change your batteries out at home before you head to the beach away from elements you should be fine . I haven't had to change mine out yet . But won't be doing it at the beach. guzz1

 

[The-Bone]

thanks for the info...i'm pumped up...letme know about the w/e Guz!!!

 

[DaChief]

Hey Bone. What area do you live in and what type of water or environment will you be hunting in?

There are lots of folks on here that have some great experience. I have just started water hunting in the past 4 months but have 18 years of land experience. Most of the same principles apply. I paid for my machine already with what I have found.

DaChief

 

[The-Bone]

Hey Bone. What area do you live in and what type of water or environment will you be hunting in?

There are lots of folks on here that have some great experience. I have just started water hunting in the past 4 months but have 18 years of land experience. Most of the same principles apply. I paid for my machine already with what I have found.

DaChief

hey Chief,
I live in Pennsylvania just outside of Allentown...about an hour north of Philly..Most likely i will be using it for fresh water but the Jersey shore is only a few hours away and i hope to give her a spin there some time..BTW, we leave for Disney early Saturday morning...maybe i will see u there as u live in Florida

 

[DaChief]

Good deal on your trip to Florida. I have only hunted the West Coast Beaches at St. Pete and Clearwater but this is what I have done so far and I have been really successful in my limited hunts.

This is long but hopefully you or someone else will benefit from it.

Most everything I have found has been in the water. Law of averages I think. There aren't too many folks running around in the water with Detectors and there are tons of folks on the beach with them. While in the water, I have tried to stay at a depth no more than just below my chest and no shallower than my waist. I found that if I got deeper or shallower than that, I would tire quicker. In shallow water, the surf beat me up and my equipment felt heavier due to gravity and no support from the water. In the deeper water, I found that the effort of struggling to dig and find targets while keeping my head above water caused me to tire out. If you get there at low tide, you can hunt what is normally deeper water anyway.

The correlation of being tiredto how much you find is related to sloppy hunting techniques vs good techniques. Most of my finds come when I am fresh and paying attention to technique especially coil speed, coil direction and the height of the coil relative to the bottom. If you tire yourself out, the coil gets sloppy and at least in my case, I may as well be at home watching TV because the finds go to nill. It pays to pace yourself and take a break every now and then. I was tempted at first to hunt till I dropped and I did. I made myself sick by staying in the water too long. It was summer time with warmer water but you still suffer from core body temp loss even in the warmer water.

I wade into the the water until I reach a depth of breast level. I then turn and walk parallel to the shore maintaining a constant depth of water near my lower chest and then walk in a straight line as far as a dare go for the return trip. I often walk a quarter to a half mile or so then turn and come back. On the return trip back down the shoreline, I make sure that I move toward the shore enough that I can tell that I am in just a little shallower water as measured on my chest. This helps to make sure your are not covering the same ground as when you made your first pass. When I get to the end of that pass, I move in again until I can tell I am a little more shallow than the previous pass and so on and so on till I get to waist deep or whatever is comfortable in the shallow part.

By the time I have worn myself out in the water, it is usually late in the afternoon. I then move to the sandy beach since the population is thinning. (Make a note to look down the beach when you arrive for the day and you will clearly see that the bulk of the sun bathers have a certain distance from the high tide mark that they like to lay out there stuff on the sand. I stand at a point that is even to them and then pace that off to the high tide mark when I see it so that I can pace it off again in the evening when I start hunting on the sandy beach later in the day. Once the people leave the beach, you can't readily see where the "lay out" line was anymore.) I pace from the high tide mark to find that optimal location and then hunt the beach by walking as straight down that "lay out line" as I can maintain, just after everyone leaves. I drag my scoop behind me in the sand leaving a line so that I can see where I have been when I make the return passes coming back and forth. I continue to hunt into the night. I carry a small head mounted light for night hunting.

I seem to have been more successful in areas where there are no big resorts or hotels. I guess those folks leave their jewelry in the safes and stuff in their rooms although I have found some things in these locations, the bulk of my finds have come from places where folks don't have a room to come from. I get more finds in areas where people drive to the beach and walk to the water. My theory is that they bring their jewelry with them to the sand.

As far as choosing what to recover, I use a Garrett Infinium in the water which gives two signals, possible gold and possible silver. I ignore silver signals and dig gold signals only. My reason for that is because there is so much clad and other stuff like aluminum cans that give a silver signal that if I spend time digging all that, I am wasting time that could be spent finding gold. One good gold ring in my opinion is worth several silver rings and you don't usually find gem stones like diamonds in silver settings. Just my preference. I dig all possible gold signals which still nets me a great deal of junk like pull tabs and small pieces of aluminum.

In the surf when digging, I take one big dig with my scoop and if I don't have the target in the scoop after that, I stand over the hole that I have started and fan the hole with my foot in a kicking motion until I have fanned out a respectfully deep area then check to see if the target popped out. It usually does come out either in the front or behind the hole and then I just scoop it off the top of the sand. I can see the item laying on the bottom if the water is clear enough. Wear shoes or booties if you do this, there are things that can cut your feet up in the water. On shore, it is business as usual for land digging.

I have a new Sovereign that I hunt with on land now in combination with using my Infinium in the water. There is more trash on land than in water and I will dig myself to death on land with the Infinium in high trash areas because it is a PI machine. It picks up bottle tops which is in abundance on shore. The Sovereign ignores most of them. The Sovereign also ignores most bobby pins and some other items that are plentiful on shore but finds the gold. I dig more clad with the Sovereign because a large gold ring can give an audible tone similar to a zinc penny. I can also use the larger coil on the Sovereign to cover the greater amount of land to hunt as opposed to the water.

Good luck to you and I hope you find some good stuff. I would say on your first couple of hunts to dig everything until you become accustomed to how your detector reacts to items. Once your wife holds a free gold ring, necklace or the like especially with a diamond attached, she will be wanting you to buy two water machines!!!!! Heck my wife encourages me to hunt now!

DaChief

 

[The-Bone]

Great Reply Chief!!!! Thanks for all th great info.

 

[guzz1]

HEY TB You'll be happy to know I went siesta beach today and I used the BH ID all ..needless to say it worked flawlessly . The finds were meager, some clad in the wet and dry.I'll post pics later ... VERY HAPPY WITH THE BHID..Guzz1

 

[guzz1]

Hey bone,, Have a good trip.Your gonna love the weather here right now ..Guzz1

 

[G.I.B.]

Holy S**T!!! i just won a brand new BHID off Ebay...got it for $489 with shipping. Man my wife is gonna kill me!!!
If i live i would appreciate any thoughts and feedback from u guys..thanks
bone

Look at her lovingly and say, "Honey, I bought this for you, but if you don't want it, I can always sell it on TN for $425.00 to the GuyInBack."

 

[Inthasurf]

The BHID is a real nice machine! I really like mine and it's used in combo with my Pulse (Infinium) detector. In case everyone is not aware, White's new super 12" epoxy coil (neutrally boyant) with 20 to 30% depth increase and sensitivity is available from White's authorized VA repair center. If you're interested give them a call for the details. I've been trying to get mine out for the mod but keep unpacking it due to detecting opportunities that keep coming up (however I will get it out soon)!

Enjoy the new machine, if gold is under the coil and you have it setup correctly, you'll go home with gold!!!

HH