Headhunter Diver
Street Price $700 - Beach, water
Number of Reviews: 12
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Caretaker in Maine -
I have owned a diver for 5 years now and been detecting for 10 years, I hunt land and beaches, I live 5 miles from the ocean and have 5 beaches in my area, and that is why I bought the diver (new). In the third year the ear phone cup spit a little, so I don't think it's waterproof anymore, but I only go waist deep so it's ok. The wire to the had phones have been repaired twice by me, I can't afford to send it to the company, money and time is the problem, but it works still, and I broke the plastic piece between the coil and the rod too,I use it on dry, wet sand and in the water, the more water over the target , the deep it reads, I like the control and the weight and I do find some nice stuff, it has paid for itself a couple of time, the main dislike is target sound and all the signals come in at the same volume, I hear no whispers, but it's a good machine and I like it, but no machine is perfect
May 03, 2009
1 Yes
0 No
Headhunter Diver
Mike in United Kingdom -
Bought new,the sales hype on the manufacturers site was very convincing...
AGAINST- very disappointing depth and poor volume (and ive good hearing) on all but the shallowest of targets.
FOR- compact, ideal for traveling, build quality ok and never leaked, good battery life.
But... sold it at an immense loss (no-one wants them over here!!) and bought a Minelab Excalibur, went over the same ground previously searched and found LOTS of signals previously missed by the HH Diver and haven't looked back since.
Jan 07, 2009
2 Yes
0 No
DetectorPro Diver
Kris in Columbus, OH -The o-rings are extremely hard to replace. The saltwater ruined this detector. I don't recommend this detector.
Jun 19, 2008
5 Yes
1 No
My New Diver..
Craig M. in Connecticut -
I recently purchased a Detector Pro Diver to use in area's of the beaches I hunt that are full of iron and where I don't want to use my PI.. I was impressed by its discrimination, My second time out with it I found a 14 carat gold wedding band.. I ran the Diver with sensitivity set at 9 and the discrimination at 1 and was impressed with its depth on a few of my finds. It was nice not digging iron trash from the wet sand.. I dug 1 bottlecap and after I learned what they sounded like I did not dig another one.. I'm happy I purchased the Detector Pro Diver and ignored some of the reviews posted here..
May 24, 2008
10 Yes
2 No
Reviews with mis-information
Shane in North East US -
Amazing so many poor reviews, but they all failed to mention that they must have been used units, and not new ones. I say this because new ones have a 2 year warranty against most anything happening, and Detector Pro Company is very liberal with its warranty policy.
So for free, they would have had it fixed.
This is the same company that designed & gave us the Excalibur, before selling the rights to Minelab. Most detectorest use Gray Ghost headphones. This is the same company, and the Headhunter detectors use the exact same headphones as the Gray Ghost phones. I don??t understand the complaint about poor quality headphone on the Headhunters.
One needs to read between the lines a bit, and ask if the reviews you are reading are true, and fact full.
I use a Diver, and a PI. I have had not problems with either. I started with a Wader years ago. They have been on the market since the mid 90??s. My Diver air test a dime at 10? so there??s nothing wrong here. The PI hits on a nickel at over 12?. There isn??t any other PI units out there for the money that can compete against a Headhunter PI. They are tops for jewelry hunting.
M.Shane
Jul 18, 2007
8 Yes
4 No
Not for me.
Shawn in Kansas -This machine was not for me, I have owned six water machines including the cheap "Viper" and it is sad but true the Viper out performed this one, I am not sure how Detector pro has stayed in business selling such a poor qulity prduct, my headphones started cutting out on the second use and of course the first time the headphones got wet they leaked, needless to say I sold the unit and will not look back, for the money there are many better units available, one more thing, the depth was very poor, it never was close to the claims made by the company. Well there ya have it, hope you find the info usefull.
Shawn
May 02, 2007
3 Yes
2 No
Wader/Diver reviews
Jake Powell in Kansas -I had good success with both detectors. Fortunately no breakdowns. I always ran in almost Max sens & low disc. I did notice that some targets were just squeaking, not any solid signal. The same targets were checked by another detector & were found out to be good targets. I assume now that the squeaky target signals were on the maximum edge of the detectors potential. The Headhunters Series is so light & tireless...ya can hunt all day.
Apr 22, 2007
1 Yes
0 No
Very poor detector
Todd in Shell Lake, WI -OK, so I buy this unit thinking it would be good for travel since it is light and breaks down well, I was kinda right- it breaks well and easily! as i set it in my carpeted trunk the earpiece covering the electronics cracked! I never even got to try it in the water, after having that fixed one speaker quit working unless I held the wire just right, If you buy this detector maybe you should just keep it in the closet to avoid any problems, very poorly manufactured unit, I have an OLD fisher 1280X I have used for ten years and never had a problem with it, think I will stick with the 1280X. Hope my review helps some of you out. Todd
Mar 02, 2007
3 Yes
0 No
Avoid it like a swarm of bees!
Paul in Palm beach -This machine was terrible! earcups filled with water and machine died after the first 5 minutes in the water, after paying the first repair cost I decided to sell, you can't give these away!! look on any of the forums, you are lucky to get $200-300 for a once used unit, what is that telling you? depth of the detector was 4" on a nickel at best, of the 20+ detectors i have owned I can definately say this was the worst!!
Save yourself people.
Paul
Jan 31, 2007
4 Yes
0 No
Save your $$ for a quality detector.
Chad in Lakeville, MN USA -I do not even know where to begin, the detector was treated gently (babied) and the ear cups leaked from the first use,(not diving) then one of them cracked, each time you send it in they want $125.00-$225.00 for each repair, I sold mine after owning for a year and a half for $125.00 I was glad to see it go! buy a good detector and avoid the detectorpro nightmare.
Jan 05, 2007
4 Yes
0 No
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