Headhunter Diver
Street Price $700 - Beach, water
Number of Reviews: 8
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Tom Van Vleet in USA -
I bought this machine used and talked to the previous owner who assured me the detector was in fine shape. I tried it in the house and it was very erratic until I discovered that it did not like my computer or tv set being on.
I removed the earcup covering the circuit board to try and adjust the trimmers inside but really got things out of whack( don't do this unless you really know what you are doin!!) I finally gave up and sent the detector back to Detector Pro along with 75 bucks for their annual maintenance fee, preparing for more bad news.
Well, I got the machine back a few weeks later and they put in new seals and also a new circuit board ( I guess the old one was was bad after all despite what the previous owner had told me?) Anyway, I just took the machine out to a resort I had received permission to hunt in. At the swim beach, all I found was pennies and 1 nickel but was relieved to find the machine operated with no chatter even with sens at 10.
I went into the water, disc at 2.5, sens at 10, vol max, shallow pennies and other targets were extremely loud. The unit has excellent audio modulation, similar to a Tesoro Lobo Supertraq. I was hearing signals that I can only describe as a whiff-whiff as I listened to them swinging the coil back and forth. Most of them turned out to be very deep, estimate 10-12 inches, coins, mostly quarters, all black, been there quite a while from what another water hunter told me. I also got 3 ladies rings, 1 gold , in about waist deep water.
Good targets were scarce until I was in water between knee deep and waist deep and then found about 3 bucks in quarters and the 3 rings. I also modified my Babbs Beach Brute scoop by replacing the handle with a smaller 3/4 inch tube and had it anodized in red so my hand would no longer turn black from using it. I also removed most of the holes in the bottom of the scoop and bolted in some square holed mesh screen I had from another scoop. Now it sifts real fast AND catches the small stuff.
Sep 20, 2003
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