Whites Beach Hunter ID
Street Price $800 - Beginner, water
Number of Reviews: 20
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Whites Beach Hunter ID
IF YOUR A DIG ALL HUNTER
chad in florida -
If your a dig all hunter this machine is fine, on 58 good signals with lights and tone I dug up 6 coins, rest pieces of foil, pull tabs, tin, lead, junk. Machine is very sensitive, ground balance works well, but expect to dig more then your share of junk.
Jun 12, 2009
1 Yes
0 No
Great out of the water,unhappy in the water
Joel-Winnipeg in Winnipeg Man. Canada -
Have had great result hunting parks, soccer fields, baseball diamonds and generally out of water areas. It pinpoints well, and is well balanced. The water is where the problem starts. I have a hard time pinpointing the targets. I found that if the target is laying in the open under water no problem but if its buried problem starts.
I bought this unit in the spring and used it extetively out of water and very happy with the results. Maybe more time in the water will change my outlook. The coil in the water is also a concern. I've partly solved this problem by adding a PVC tube closed at both ends filled with sand attached to the lower shaft close to the coil with plastic twist ties (no metal) contact. Also bought a bracket to keep the coil from moving up or down. Other wise I think its a great detector,just hoping to master it in the water.
Jun 27, 2008
7 Yes
1 No
Good on land but frustrating to use in water.
Steve in Mayport, FL -I've had it for about two months and bought it to use in shallow water but it is completely useless. The coil floats and since it is one solid piece it gets kicked around by the current and is almost impossible to use in the water. Why they sold these as water machines is beyond me. At best they are a good land machine that can get wet.
Jun 24, 2008
8 Yes
0 No
My First Gold Coin.!!!!! White's Beach ID
Bill in Miami, Florida -I purchased this a few months ago on Ebay and it's taken me awhile to get used to detecting. I have been digging up a lot of trash/bottle caps with this thing but 2 weeks ago I found a Stainless steel and gold Rolex on the beach in Miami. Yesterday I got my first Gold Coin.... And an attached chain. It is a liberty $5 gold on bezel with very heavy chain. Found on Haulover beach at low tide. Feel sorry for the person who lost it but it more than pays for the hours looking and cost of the Detector ($500 used)... I now have the hunting fever.
Jun 09, 2008
10 Yes
3 No
Simply the best
mark,k in melborne,fl -I own 3 what can you say about perfection. I have gone directly over spots where excal's have gone and gold rings, diamond rings, and thousand's of dollars in silver and clad coins. And don't waste your money on high end junk detectors. The rating only goes to 5 stars I think the Beach Hunter I.D.deserves a few more stars. Good hunting.
Feb 25, 2008
14 Yes
5 No
Too sensitive
wes in long island ny -Its a great machine, its DFX unprogammable. The down side is hot rocks and purple sand, up side is that I've nailed silver dimes on land at 10 plus inches. Good on land and water could have been better. My toggle went bad and flooded the machine, but whites covered it 5 years later "didn't have to"
Jan 26, 2008
13 Yes
0 No
Close..... but not close enough
Steve in Columbus, MS -There's a lot to like about this machine, in particular the fact that the indicator lights function in all-metal mode the same as they do in discrimination. The machine goes deep and picks up targets easily, though pinpointing is not the easiest or quickest.
There's a lot to dislike, also. The buoyent coil is the worst feature of all, you really have to fight to keep the coil in contact with the bottom. It doesn't just slowly rise to the surface if you let it go, it bobs to the surface and requires a very concerted effort to hold it down. Most fixes for this involve weighing the coil down with something like a tube sock filled with wet sand, and you can imagine how ridiculous this looks. Not to mention that the machine is supposed to have been designed to use in the water as well as on land.
Another detraction is the comlete lack of any type of harness through White's that will allow you to chest mount the control box. They provide a nice pouch for that, just no harness to use it so you have to come up with your own. By the way, the pouch they include has two straps to secure the control box in the pouch, and one of the straps covers the red indicator light when in use. I found the lights very difficult to see in direct sunlight when you do find a way to chest mount it.
These would be very easy fixes. I don't particularly want a different coil, but a provided weight that's quickly and easily removed would be very nice, and would stop the guffaws from onlookers when you exit the water with a tube sock tied to your coil. This and a chest mount harness available as an accessory would go a long way towards a 4-5 star machine.
As far as I'm concerned White's missed the boat by not addressing these issues before they put the machine on the market. I have a Viper Trident ($350) that was going to be my backup machine to the Beach Hunter ID, but the Viper remains my primary since it's MUCH easier to use in the water. It's about as resounding a negative as I could give. I hope White's wakes up and realizes that with just a few tweaks they would have a really good, or even great machine.
Oct 03, 2007
20 Yes
4 No
Solid Machine
Jeremy P in Ft Lauderdale, FL -I have been TH since 1979 and owned many different machines. The BHID is great on the wet sand. The lights do for the most part indicate correctly except for nickels which indicate as jewelry not coins. I have found more on the beach since using this machine than I did with the Headhunter PI, Tesoro Sand Shark or Xterra 30. Only complaint would be the non-buoyant coil which makes it very difficult to hunt in the water
Sep 18, 2007
7 Yes
1 No
BHID is really nice.......................................
Dave in Eastern coast -I've had it for a couple of months and I'm really pleased with the detector. In the water I've found jewelry, silver coins and lots of cool things with it. The best feature is you can detect in all metal and still have the lights id the target for you, but it only has single tone in all metal. It has nice depth and the detector is really sensitive to smaller silver and gold targets. Between the multi-tone and id lights either working in all metal or discriminate the detector is very accurate in letting you know the target type to dig. So, if you want a deep detecting machine that's sensitive to smaller targets, built with quality and is not too heavy get this machine! The BHID works very well on the land as I've pulled some nice old coins from the dirt with it too.
Jul 09, 2007
19 Yes
1 No
Good For Beach and Inland!
Paul in Savannah, GA -This is my second Water Detector first one was a Fisher CZ-20 and I must say that the Beach Hunter ID is just like it giving multi tones and an added lighted signals showing Rings Coins and Iron at a less expensive price. It has proved itself very good on the land and Sea although it will False signal in surf action. depth has been very good dug quarters out of 12+ inches on land. If your looking for a overall land, water detector this might be the one for you!
Apr 01, 2007
18 Yes
1 No
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