Bounty Hunter Land Star

As good as the operator

Pete Netzel in LaCrosse, Wisconsin -
I used this machine and found the 1843 Dahlonega $5 gold coin in Silver and Gold 2005 issue. On page 34. In the right locations this machine will make the finds. Dug Civil War buttons and one buckle also with this detector.

Nov 25, 2005

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Land Star a very good Mid-Level detector

Scott in South Carolina -
I have had my Land star for sometime now. I use it for Relics, coins and the beach. I have made some decent finds with it, more coins but a good many relics, and many beach finds. This MD surprised me on the beach! I can run the sensitivity at about 3/4 and it runs really quiet in the wet sand, black sand and dry sand. I will say it's not much for swimming at all as it did chirrup a lot in salt water. I have found the desc to be really good, and it finds coin sized targets at about 7 inches deep. The Pin point on this model is spot on most of the time, and goes REALLY DEEP in that mode (ALL Metal No motion) I found some melted bullets at almost 11â?� in that mode! Overall this is a nice detector for the money, I would get a used one or new off ebay.

Oct 08, 2005

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Land Star

David Loving in Rio Rancho, New Mexico -
I have owned the Land Star for 1.5 years now, its good for coins to about 6 inches deep. It does think that a crushed soda can is a quarter. I have found rings, charms and lots of new coins, no silver ones, but I live in a new area in the west. The display needs to be larger. I have to lift up the whole detector to see what it thinks it found, some items use the same beep tone. I put on a 4 inch coil and found hot rocks and a test gold nugget(tiny)on the ground, but it didn't see the gold 1 inch in the ground. Its a coin detector.

Sep 30, 2005

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Fantastic Entry Level Detector

Skadar in Stamford, CT -
I've owned the Bounty Hunter Land Star for about 2 years now and it is a great, economically priced detector. Shop around because you can get it for less then one hundred dollars if you know where to look... cough... ebay... cough... ebay.

I've found tons of silver coins with this detector. It's target processor is extremely reliable for coins. If you get a solid repeatable coin tone then you've got a 95% chance of digging up a coin. I've also found Civil War buttons, old toys, and multiple rings at the beach. Yesterday I found 2 Mercury Head dimes (1918 and 1941) in a local park. Believe me when I tell you that treasure is in the ground everywhere.

Bottom line: Great metal detector to get you into the hobby cheaply so that you can begin finding some great stuff. Like I said, I've been using mine for 2 years and I don't feel the need to upgrade.

Aug 08, 2005

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Great detector at a great price

Will in Baltimore, MD -
I've used it for a few years and found a lot of coins with it. I usually run it with the disc. turned all the way down and just listen to the tones. Low tone = iron/gold range , medium tone = pulltab zinc penny , High tone = silver/copper. A good repeatable high tone usually means you have a good target. A couple of things I would like to change is ; lack of depth - usually only good to 5 or 6 inches , it's harder to pinpoint a low tone signal. It's very easy to learn and a great deal for a beginner.

May 19, 2005

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Aztec Guy

Gerry in Laredo, Texas -
This is a pretty good detector for its price and value. I went to a historical town near Monterrey, Mexico and found three real gold coins and relics, now I have money to buy an expensive metal detector but i won't because its only money wasted, i prefer keeping my land star metal detector for its precision and accuracy at the time of finding coins and relics. Thanks Bounty Hunter for making inexpensive and exellent metal detectors.

Feb 01, 2005

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Bounty Hunter Landstar

chad in USA -
This is the 2nd BH that I have owned. I too use it in disc mode and find alot more tgts than what I did before. It is fairly easy to learn and detects fairly deep, up to 10 inches in some cases. I am extremely pleased with it

Sep 18, 2004

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Bounty Hunter Landstar

Brian Gilbert in USA -
I used my Landstar for a little more than a year, and it's a very good coinshooting detector. I didn't use the notch or autonotch features much,
but detected in regular discriminate mode. The ground balancing feature is a little different than, say, the Tesoro ground balance, but it does work.

The 3 tones make finding nickles easier, and I found much more nickels with my Landstar than my Tesoro Bandido II, which is my current detector.
All in all, this is a very good detector, especially with the 4" coil.

I very much wish that BH would make more coils for their detectors, like ovals or widescans. Depth is the same for my Landstar as it was for the Tracker IV (or both of my Tesoros, for that matter)

Feb 15, 2004

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