Customer Rating: 
Summary: Works wonderfully!
Comment: My first metal detector - I purchased this hoping I'd find some jewelry at a local lake that had flooded last summer. I read the instruction booklet (very important) and sat-out to find treasure. Well...I found an old anchor, an old grill, and a Schlitz beer can. Oh well...It did work really very well, and I'm glad I got it. Now I'm off to the Gulf Coast and this will definitely be in my car!
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Summary: Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II Metal Detector
Comment: Item arrived in excellent condition and very fast, have not been able to use it much considering the ground is frozen solid here in New York, but it will be put to good use once the snow is gone!
Customer Rating:
Summary: As advertised
Comment: Bought this as a gift for one of my kids and it's great fun for the beginner. Digging up all kinds of treasures (and coins).
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Beginner Detector - Good Value
Comment: A small caveat before you read this review. Understand who this detector is marketed towards. Individuals with a lot of metal detecting exposure or experience will mock this inexpensive version of a more sophisticated Whites or Garrett detector. However, if you are a beginner, this is not a bad first investment considering the prices of some of the more advanced detectors on the market. I was an avid detector fan in high school for a summer some twenty years ago and only recently got bit by the same bug that has infected my eight year old son after watching the National Treasure movies. So for Christmas he got his Bounty Hunter Jr. and I got this detector but the Walmart branded version which is the Pioneer 202.
First, this detector is excellent at honing your digging skills, something you will need as you advance along in the sport. The reason? I dig a lot. A whole lot. With this detector, I find it very difficult to adequately pin-point my target, even using the suggestions that were included in a nice DVD that comes with the product demonstrating its features. However, as I get more accustomed to the detector's quirks and improve my pinpointing abilities, this skill will server me well after I spend $800 - $1000 on a detector with more advanced pinpointing technology. Also, because I dig a lot, I've learned to repair the ground where I torturously labored for some time.
That is really my only negative, again, referencing the market for this detector. The detector comes with some nice discriminating features. It has a manual discriminator that allows you to progressively eliminate certain objects. You can test this by moving the discriminator knob slowly, while you pass objects you want to eliminate over the search coil. Typically I have had success by simply starting in the `All Metal Mode', the default each time you turn it on, to get a feel for the area I am search and then hitting the Auto-Notch. The Notch feature allows you to selectively eliminate certain objects while still seeing others. Auto-Notch is preprogrammed to eliminate most junk. It still detects most coins except nickels but still detects smaller pieces of trash like foil. It does eliminate pesky pull tabs, bottle caps, tin and nails.
The audio you hear is based on the signature it receives as the search coil passes over the object. The signatures are:
Low Tones - Iron, Foil, Nickel and Gold Range
Medium Tone - Pull Tab, new penny, zinc, and Gold
High Tone - Copper Pennies, Dime, Quarter, Half Dollar, Silver Dollar and Silver Range
Aside from the tones, the detector has an LCD display that not only tells you the type of metal your object more than likely is, but also its depth. So far, the depth finder has not been off but you must keep in mind it what is displayed is NOT the depth the coin is buried, but you must include the distance from the search coil to the ground in your depth calculations. This has nothing to do with the detector, but something that has caught me a couple of times as I dug. If the target is displayed at 4 inches and I am holding the search coil 2 inches above the ground, then I should dig 2 inches, not 4.
I would echo another review that this detector probably is not going to work for relic hunting as in my testing I held near the search coil a small rusted antique iron (the kind people might paint and use for a door stop today) and the detector gave a different signature over each pass (high, low and medium). I am sure this iron is `iron' and not a composite material. The detector just didn't handle it well.
All in all, taken for its price and features, it doesn't nor is designed to compete against a Whites or Garrett metal detector. It is an excellent coin shooter. Great in parks or back yards. The coil is submersible but I have not tried beach combing yet. If this is your first venture into metal detecting, I would highly recommend this product for the price. If anything, it will get you the experience you need to truly appreciate the features of an $800.00 Whites or Garrett detector, and the rudimentary skills you will need to be successful and feel that you haven't sunk a lot of money into a hobby that turns out not to be as enjoyable as you thought.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not a bad intro detector for Park or Playground hunting.
Comment: For the same price you can pick up the SAME detector at WalMart. It's Wally-branded the Pioneer 202 there, but it's the same detector.
It's a nice enough "intro-level" detector to see if the hobby is something you might want to get serious about and thus make the necessary investments and upgrades to equipment designed for the long-haul or extended use.
If you really want a fair to good dectector, I'd seriously try the Prizm series (III-V) of the Whites Electronics line or a similar intro models meade by more reknowned companies like Whites, Garrett, Fisher, Tesorro or even the foreign-made Explorer.
PROS:
- Dandy little "coin-shooter" for kids and visitors while YOU use the "real" thing
- Ideal for sandy or chip-filled play areas
- Lightweight and easy to use and adjust
- Great little machine for curious relatives/friends to try, kids over 12 or to loan to land owners whose property you'd like to detect.
- Not a "bad" investment for the money, but there ARE better detectors in the $200 range.
CONS:
- Like most detectors, it'll eat up those 9volt batteries in no time if you're not using headphones (Upgrading would save you batteries)
- Not having a adjustable strap over the arm cup is literally a real pain in the arm!
- No depth (about 4 inches is pushing it, though it's picked up quarters in "clean" soil at 6 inches)
- Wil NOT work anywhere NEAR a salt beach...not even in the dry dunes. In fact, I couldn't use it to hunt a park about a mile inland because the Rec Dept had used beach sand for the play areas.
- Overloads easily in trashy areas or mineralized soil.
- Totally worthless for relic hunting.
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