Wanted - Starter Metal Detector

[tim2357]

I'm looking for a used Starter Metal detector. Any unit that you have laying around collecting dust that still works would be fine with me. I would like to get into metal detecting, but can't make an investment in a unit yet, until I make a first few finds for the hobby to start paying for itself. I got into coin roll hunting a couple months ago when I found this board. That hobby has been paying for itself, so the wife doesn't mind so much as long as it pays for itself.

Free would be best, so I don't have to explain it to the wife, but I suppose I could trade 2 rolls of %40 Silver Half dollars..

 

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[dazoff]

Do you really want to be taken seriously

 

[erikk]

Right..............

 

[tim2357]

2 rolls of 40% is about $100 in silver... I suppose i could go 3 rolls... or about $150.. How much would you say for a used basic starter unit.

 

[Old Fart in TN]

check on craigs list. I see them there all the time.

 

[tim2357]

pinebarrens1 has offered a Bounty Hunter Prospector, for 2 rolls for %40....
I see another one listed here $80 for http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds_config.pl?noframes;read=148808

Is this a good unit to start with?.
I'm hoping to dig old coins or rings, and maybe around the lake.. so I'm also wondering if the coil on this would be water proof?

 

[Jeep]

pinebarrens1 has offered a Bounty Hunter Prospector, for 2 rolls for %40....
I see one listed here $80 for http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds_config.pl?noframes;read=148808

Is this a good unit to start with?.
I'm hoping to dig old coins or rings, and maybe around the lake.. so I'm also wondering if the coil on this would be water proof?

The Bounty Hunter prospector is a good unit.

It works well in parks and fields. It works well around fresh water.

For 80 bucks with headphones you can't go wrong.

Just remember to dig everything until you get used to the tones.

Download the Prospector Manual here:

http://www.detecting.com/products/product.cmdl?c=e0109bb4afb45209

 

[tim2357]

Looks like the Prospector is very similar to the tracker IV, which is the one I was thinking about getting anyway...

 

[PAPPYGOL]

THE COILS ARE WATERPROOF

 

[tim2357]

Thanks for the advice, I bought this one last night.

http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds_config.pl?noframes;read=148808

also bought this pinpointer

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=97245

I picked it up today at my local harbor freight store to save on shipping.
After a fresh battery and adjusting the sensitivity right to the limit before it starts a solid tone it is detecting coins about 2 inches away...Which is good enough for what what I was hoping for a pinpointer to do. Can't beat $16

 

[tim2357]

Well, I got my metal detector, and tested it last night using a variety of items including a 1854 Gold dollar. We got about 4 inches of snow last night, and with 15 mph winds and windchil of -2 I went out and scored my first find.

 

[PAmike]

where is the pic of the gold dollar?

 

[tim2357]

where is the pic of the gold dollar?

 

[ivan salis]

thats a nice gold dollar

crh has to pay for itself -- since you find silver at "face" value -- and since the coins value will always be at least face --no matter what silver does up or down wize simply put you can't lose --- and if you sell a few silvers that you find replacing the "base face" value ---the "cash" excess you earn is your own "free money" to play with that way momma can't say "boo" since your not shorting the house hold "income" for your "hobbie" items -

use your earned by CRH "hobby" found silver --sell it to fund your fun -- complaint free of the wife --she gets your "job" money for bills -- hobby made cash is "bonus money" you earn for your fun items --that is more than fair to her and "the house".

if she wants your "free money" you get from your CRH hobby too -- I'd say "sorry" shes just being greedy --(some women want every buck their man ever gets -- they keep their man broke and poor and no matter how much he earns --the money is all hers --its a power game ) the only way I'd hand over my "hobby" made money is if we were way behind "household" bills wize.

 

[tim2357]

1851, and 1854 They are about 1/20 of an OZ, and sound somewhat similar to the aluminum foil.

If anyone was interested in them... I have to say that I think they may have made into a set of earrings in a past life because they both have a identical spot that looks like it was drilled,and filled, or perhaps soldered? A coin dealer told me they were cleaned and thought they would only be worth around $80 a piece