B-B
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Garrett carrot for me. I had a minor issue after purchase and after a 3 minute call to customer service they just sent me a new one overnight. The PP is 2 years old and going strong.
Once you get the basic gear for metal detecting there's really not much else to spend (as long as you can resist buying a new detector every year). If metal detecting is replacing some other hobby that's more expensive, then that's a pretty good argument.
I use to be into RC airplanes, now that ran into some money.
MD, once the initial outlay is completed, isn't that bad.
Thot i saw they had one that looked like orange, etc. Coulda been someone else. But nonetheless thats the general idea for a backup...around mid 20 dollar range. But the Deteknix/Quest regular XP got really solid reviews and very very few reported issues....and it costs just under ninety bucks.
I’ve been using a 20$ harbor freight stud finder as a pinpointer for 2 years now. It has sensitivity control and that’s all i really need on my pinpointer. I also use it to dig in rocky gravel a fair amount, and at one point it was completely submerged underwater, and survived that. My point is if you don’t need all the bells and whistles, the off-brand will work perfect.
My Fisher F2 was purchased as a "kit" and came with one of their cheap pinpointers that look like all of the rest of the Bounty Hunter clones. It was garbage, barely lasting a year with very light use. I bought a fake Chinese carrot from Amazon for under $30 and have had it for almost two months now and not a single issue with it. It's not fully submersible but it gets wet a lot and I toss it around and it just keeps working. Maybe I got lucky but I'm happy with it and my buddy with his Garrett carrot says it's not a bad unit too. He's been detecting ever since they started forging metal in the Iron Age so I trust his judgement.
had one of the 26.00 bounty hunter pp for years. The sensitivity knob was a bit finicky and i eventually wore a hole in the end of the probe that i had to epoxy over a couple times. It was a good pp for the money and i still have it. It never stopped working, just developed some character traits over time. If the 100 pp works better fine, but for 100 buck just buy 5 of the cheaper ones and if it gives you trouble toss it and open a new one
I went from not having a pinpointer to having a carrot knock off and now dont think I could ever go without one. It gets about 3" and with it I can recover a target in seconds rather than minutes without one. I now have the clad to buy a better one but dont see the point in doing so as my $20 pointer is still kicking strong. My only complaint would be it takes.to long to turn on and off.