Nice to see older machines being demoed. Thanks for posting :)

Hello Jeremiah! Try a Brinkmann Treasure Sensor 4000. Rock-solid pinpointing. Nulls on almost (ALL) iron. Very simple to ground tune. It is a non-disc. TR and easier to set up than the typical vintage Bounty Hunter TR and/or Bounty Hunter VLF/TR disc. model. Goes appx. 9" on a medium-size coin. I don't use headphones either by the way. Just turn down my volume if it's too loud for my surroundings. Good Luck!

The Nautilus is probably the most powerful of them all and I'm not impressed with the inability of the F2 to 'see' through the iron and still correctly i.d. the quarter and the nickel. I have a Bounty Hunter VLF/TR 840 w. disc.; kind of like the Bounty Hunter TR-550's 'big brother'. Can detect a quarter at 12" and a dime at 9". Pretty respectable, even by today's standards. I enjoyed your test especially against the 'old school' detectors. Nice, older machines.

Try a Compass Relic magnum 7 for depth.

Welcome to my metal detector museum!

I use my old Garret Grand master hunter in non motion vlf mode with a 12' coil and just dig every signal till the ground is silent, I have a lot of horse shoes ;)

If you disc. out the iron on the F2 it will still signal on the coins.

Hi i have a garrett ADS 3 master hunter from the late 70's itsa VLF/TR detector n it rocks! Its powerfull n it can competent with the new high end machines! Great depth n has a lower arm rest piece too! Only itsa a tad heavybut you get used to that cos all oldies are heavier cos they are all metal housing n stuff..try 1 i wud say :)

Are you telling us that the Fisher F2 cannot pick up the coins even if it is set to discriminate iron? What happens if you set the F2 to discriminate out iron, and place the nail/file on top of the coins? Does it still not distinguish the target as a coin?

THIS IS WHY WE SWING. i have a 1983 garrett a2b vlf / tr gold hunter, wouldnt swap it for anything have found 10s of thousands of coins with this BEAST.

That "handle" on the Nautilus OMG, WTF, pmsl.

Is Bounty Hunter VLF 2-1 a good Metal Detector ? Thanks

Hello, I've got a old Bounty Hunter TR-1000-D Discrimiator metal detector but I can't figure how to set it up correctly to work. It's a little different from the one in your video. It has a ground balance too. This ground balance button is a 10 turn pot. The coil has a "Bounty Hunter Recovery Team" written on it. I try to tune it pressing the handle button and turn tune button until hear a faint sound then release it. I let the ground balance around the 5th turn. But if I let the tunning knob around 20 or more, the sound goes up very fast and i have to retune it by pressing the button very frequently. Could you help me? Best regards.

dude don't wast time on his answer get a tesoro compadre i know its been a few months but here goes the tesoro is cheaper than the ace but runs at higher freq therefore finds deeper and smaller obj gl and good hunting

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