Bounty Hunter Teknetics 4000 Delta Metal Detector

Great little metal detector, not the cheapest by any stretch but a very very good unit to break you in to the hobby. This was bought as a Christmas present for my daughter so she could come with me, I use a White's Beachhunter which cost more than twice the price. The White's takes a lot of getting used to but my daughter was able to use the Delta 4000 and out perfrom me in under an hour, this was on a salt water beach. I was gutted. Of course it takes a little getting used to before you can be 100% confident in what the unit is telling you but that is no different than any metal detector and to be fair this one is much easier to read than most.So what makes this so good? It has notching and discrimination which really help to cut out the junk, it also gives you a 0-99 number scale which is usally found on much more expensive units. If you're hunting a tourist beach then waving a gold ring, 50p and pound coin before you go will give you a solid indication of what numbers you are looking around to avoid digging most junk. Most metal detectors are set for US coins so being able to see what UK coins read as is a massive advantage. Depth wise this detector has no problems, when we were testing it found a quarter inch long piece of thin electrical wire 5-6 inches down, it had no problem fnding coins deeper than 6 inches. Again in wet sand.Downsides? As much as the preset ground balancing seems to work fine (you need to adjust the sensitivity to suit, I think this is where the reviewer on Amazon.com went wrong when he talked about salt water performance) it would be nice to be able to ground balance yourself. Basically this is adjusting the unit for the mineral content of the ground, this unit takes cares of it itself whilst most others require you to go through a simple balancing procedure. When moving from one type of ground to another, or starting again after laying it down the 4000 can go crazy for a few seconds but it does settle down quickly. The other thing is the pinpoint function. Unless you are working in a team with 1 person digging then it's not really worth having. By the time you've got up and down from digging to checking half a dozen times you'll really wish you bought a seperate pinpoint probe (http://amzn.to/1yqWtOt)Overall though a fantasic metal detector and I wouldn't hesitate in getting another one for myself, which is probably what I'll be doing for when we hit some fields later this month.

Great detector.Very sensitive.Can detect small coin 30cm under ground.