Hi Folks,
Well the Bounty Hunter IV that I ordered for my wife just came in. I must say for 105 bucks I am very impressed. It has 3 operating modes; Full Discriminate, Alll Metal and Tone Discriminate. I especially like the Tone Discriminate mode. In the Tone disc. mode it gives off 2 tones; a high one for the Clad and Silver range, and a low one for the nickel and gold range. With some precise tweaking I was able to get it to give off a solid low tone (with hints of the high tone in the background) for nickels and a broken low/high tone for most pull tabs! That is going to be very useful. The shaft was a little wobbly due to it not fitting completely snug against the upper part of the shaft. A few winds of electrical tape made up for the gap and now it's really solid and doesn't wobble at all. Seems to be pretty well made for the price that I paid. I bought it off of Amazon for 95 bucks..you can get free shipping too. I went with the USPS Priority for a few dollars more. One thing that I think could have been designed a bit better was the battery compartment. It takes 2 9 volts which fit a little too snugly (in my opinion) with the wires. I am worried that over time the wires will snap due to being crunched in so tight with the batteries. But I guess I will just have to be very gentle removing them etc. But all and all my "out of the box" opinion of it is great. We're heading out now to do some detecting and I'll give you an update when I get back after we field test it.
Steve