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| Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II Metal Detector | 
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| Brand: Bounty Hunter
Category: Lawn & Patio
List Price: $279.95
Buy New: $161.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 13635
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: No
Battery: 2 9V
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 21.5 x 12.6 x 6.4
MPN: QD2
Model: Quick Draw II
UPC: 089723240023
EAN: 0089723240023
ASIN: B00005A3L2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Three levels of iron discrimination | | • | Target identification and depth readout; sensitivity control | | • | Full discrimination and auto and variable notch | | • | Measures 10 inches in length, 9 inches in width, and 57 inches in height | | • | Requires two 9-volt alkaline batteries; five-year limited warranty |
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Amazon.com Review
Bounty Hunter's Quick Draw II detector offers the excitement and profit of metal detecting at a moderate price--it's feature rich but still affordable. With a fully submersible, 8-inch Bounty D-Tech search coil, Quick Draw II also has Ground Trac, a feature that automatically balances the machine to the soil conditions. The Quick Draw II has four modes of operation, ranging from an all-metal detection to the Disc Notch mode that rejects iron and nails and two modes that emit different tones for varying kinds of metal. The detector's display gives both target ID and depth readout, controls for the four modes of operation, and a low-battery indicator. Users will also enjoy Bounty Hunter's comprehensive, easy-to-understand online tutorial and downloadable manual at www.detecting.com. The Quick Draw II has a built-in speaker and headphone jack and runs off of two 9-volt alkaline batteries. Five-year limited warranty. --Ariel Meadow Stallings
Product Description
8" INTERCHANGEABLE, WATERPROOF SEARCH COIL*SENSITIVITY&DISCRIMINATION CONTROLS *NOTCH&AUTO-NOTCH MODES *3-TONE AUDIO DISCRIMINATION *TOUCH PAD SELECTION *3-LEVEL IRON DISCRIMINATION *LCD DISPLAY WITH TARGET ID&DEPTH READOUT *DETECTS COIN-SIZE OBJECTS UP TO 8" DEEP*LARGER OBJECTS UP TO 3 FT *HEADPHONE JACK*5-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY*INCLUDES POUCH&DIGGER
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II Metal Detector February 13, 2008
Item arrived in excellent condition and very fast, have not been able to use it much considering the ground is frozen solid here in New York, but it will be put to good use once the snow is gone!
As advertised February 8, 2008
Bought this as a gift for one of my kids and it's great fun for the beginner. Digging up all kinds of treasures (and coins).
 Great Beginner Detector - Good Value January 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A small caveat before you read this review. Understand who this detector is marketed towards. Individuals with a lot of metal detecting exposure or experience will mock this inexpensive version of a more sophisticated Whites or Garrett detector. However, if you are a beginner, this is not a bad first investment considering the prices of some of the more advanced detectors on the market. I was an avid detector fan in high school for a summer some twenty years ago and only recently got bit by the same bug that has infected my eight year old son after watching the National Treasure movies. So for Christmas he got his Bounty Hunter Jr. and I got this detector but the Walmart branded version which is the Pioneer 202.
First, this detector is excellent at honing your digging skills, something you will need as you advance along in the sport. The reason? I dig a lot. A whole lot. With this detector, I find it very difficult to adequately pin-point my target, even using the suggestions that were included in a nice DVD that comes with the product demonstrating its features. However, as I get more accustomed to the detector's quirks and improve my pinpointing abilities, this skill will server me well after I spend $800 - $1000 on a detector with more advanced pinpointing technology. Also, because I dig a lot, I've learned to repair the ground where I torturously labored for some time.
That is really my only negative, again, referencing the market for this detector. The detector comes with some nice discriminating features. It has a manual discriminator that allows you to progressively eliminate certain objects. You can test this by moving the discriminator knob slowly, while you pass objects you want to eliminate over the search coil. Typically I have had success by simply starting in the `All Metal Mode', the default each time you turn it on, to get a feel for the area I am search and then hitting the Auto-Notch. The Notch feature allows you to selectively eliminate certain objects while still seeing others. Auto-Notch is preprogrammed to eliminate most junk. It still detects most coins except nickels but still detects smaller pieces of trash like foil. It does eliminate pesky pull tabs, bottle caps, tin and nails.
The audio you hear is based on the signature it receives as the search coil passes over the object. The signatures are:
Low Tones - Iron, Foil, Nickel and Gold Range
Medium Tone - Pull Tab, new penny, zinc, and Gold
High Tone - Copper Pennies, Dime, Quarter, Half Dollar, Silver Dollar and Silver Range
Aside from the tones, the detector has an LCD display that not only tells you the type of metal your object more than likely is, but also its depth. So far, the depth finder has not been off but you must keep in mind it what is displayed is NOT the depth the coin is buried, but you must include the distance from the search coil to the ground in your depth calculations. This has nothing to do with the detector, but something that has caught me a couple of times as I dug. If the target is displayed at 4 inches and I am holding the search coil 2 inches above the ground, then I should dig 2 inches, not 4.
I would echo another review that this detector probably is not going to work for relic hunting as in my testing I held near the search coil a small rusted antique iron (the kind people might paint and use for a door stop today) and the detector gave a different signature over each pass (high, low and medium). I am sure this iron is `iron' and not a composite material. The detector just didn't handle it well.
All in all, taken for its price and features, it doesn't nor is designed to compete against a Whites or Garrett metal detector. It is an excellent coin shooter. Great in parks or back yards. The coil is submersible but I have not tried beach combing yet. If this is your first venture into metal detecting, I would highly recommend this product for the price. If anything, it will get you the experience you need to truly appreciate the features of an $800.00 Whites or Garrett detector, and the rudimentary skills you will need to be successful and feel that you haven't sunk a lot of money into a hobby that turns out not to be as enjoyable as you thought.
 Not a bad intro detector for Park or Playground hunting. June 14, 2005
42 out of 50 found this review helpful
For the same price you can pick up the SAME detector at WalMart. It's Wally-branded the Pioneer 202 there, but it's the same detector.
It's a nice enough "intro-level" detector to see if the hobby is something you might want to get serious about and thus make the necessary investments and upgrades to equipment designed for the long-haul or extended use.
If you really want a fair to good dectector, I'd seriously try the Prizm series (III-V) of the Whites Electronics line or a similar intro models meade by more reknowned companies like Whites, Garrett, Fisher, Tesorro or even the foreign-made Explorer.
PROS:
- Dandy little "coin-shooter" for kids and visitors while YOU use the "real" thing
- Ideal for sandy or chip-filled play areas
- Lightweight and easy to use and adjust
- Great little machine for curious relatives/friends to try, kids over 12 or to loan to land owners whose property you'd like to detect.
- Not a "bad" investment for the money, but there ARE better detectors in the $200 range.
CONS:
- Like most detectors, it'll eat up those 9volt batteries in no time if you're not using headphones (Upgrading would save you batteries)
- Not having a adjustable strap over the arm cup is literally a real pain in the arm!
- No depth (about 4 inches is pushing it, though it's picked up quarters in "clean" soil at 6 inches)
- Wil NOT work anywhere NEAR a salt beach...not even in the dry dunes. In fact, I couldn't use it to hunt a park about a mile inland because the Rec Dept had used beach sand for the play areas.
- Overloads easily in trashy areas or mineralized soil.
- Totally worthless for relic hunting.
Discover treasures untold... October 19, 2004
16 out of 59 found this review helpful
Ho, noble comrades! `Twas time again for the Fellowship Fan Club to host its Annual Sauron Scavenger Hunt. As ever, the goal was simple: Club Chairman Solun Fangtooth (my neighbor, Glen) took thine replica One Ring, authentic down to the Mordor Elvish inscribed around the band, and hid it in yon forested creek behind his parents' abode. The five new members of the cabal, myself included, would comb the wilderness in search of this mighty treasure. He who was first to unearth Sauron's golden band of evil would be promoted from rank of Hobbit to the Council of Elrond, and get to choose the location for our next screening of all three LOTR films.
The rules of the hunt are simple: any method is allowed, provided it can be justified as the tactics and materials of a fantasy character.
The other four fledglings, cloaked in robes of Rivendell and carrying Torches of Truth (in the form of flashlights), scoured the wooded gully, seeking some minor clue of Fangtooth's passing. But having shared a road-trip to ComiCon with Fangtooth, I knew him to be a wily foe - it would take wits, not persistence, to uncover the location of the One Ring.
To this end, I unsheathed mine ultimate weapon: the Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II Metal Detector. A gift from my patriarch for the passage of boyhood to man, I had honed my skills at alloy retrieval on the sands of Hilton's Head. Finding 64 in Coins of the Realm, I knew the path to advancement lay in the probing waves of this device.
Setting the proper adjustments to compensate for uninteresting metallic flotsam (nails, etc.), I knew the rhythmic beeps of the Quick Draw II would lead me to victory. In practiced, methodical sweeps of the search coil, I combed the creekbed, finding the One Ring in a shallow pool, partially buried in the silt. Victory was mine. My own.
Of course, there were protestations at my ingenuity. Some argued that the technological marvel of the Quick Draw II was outside the boundaries of our club charter. However, I deftly explained that the very name of this product led me to adopt the perfect fantasy persona: I was a bounty hunter - one who used any means necessary to achieve his goals. I was Bilbo Fett!
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