Bounty Hunter Silver Seeker SS1 Professional Metal Detector

I was disappointed in this product for a couple of reason. First the description is incorrect. There is no headphone jack for private listening. The coil, which must swivel for adjustment, is all plastic without any washers to prevent wear. The arm support is hard plastic and is somewhat uncomfortable. The whole item looks like something you would get from inside a cereal box. For $50 as a Gold Box item it was still over-priced.
The operation of the unit is even less impressive. It could not find a penny 2 inches below the surface of a potted plant (in a plastic pot). I always wanted this more for finding the roofing nails in my yard after the roofers tossed shingles and nails to the ground last summer than anything else, but other than a novelty toy for some kid, I don't see myself hanging on to this one. Sorry Amazon.

I recently snapped this up during the "gold box" offering. I figured it was a relatively small amount of money and a little research revealed two upgrade coils available here on Amazon that are supposed to fit all Bounty Hunter models.
Well, long story short; It arrived today and besides the expected "inexpensive" quality which is very obvious, I also noticed there was no simple way to remove the existing coil. It looked to me to be hardwired into the control module.
A quick call to the main distributor for BH revealed that the upgrade coils claim to be usable on "all" BH models is not accurate and only pertains to those units with a "quick connect" feature which this low end model does not have.
I will leave the debate on whether this is a good value or not to those with more knowledge and experience with this type of equipment.
What I will say is this is nothing more than a childs' toy and I am going to have to spend a bit more to take a legitimate step...Read more

bought this as a gift and was too embarassed to give it to him so we sold it for $10 at a garage sale.