Land Star

[RodneyQ]

Anyone here ever use the BH Land Star. If so, opinions please.

[Silver Fox]

Anyone here ever use the BH Land Star. If so, opinions please.

I've owned a Land Star since the middle of April. I've gone to the park a couple of times and it works fine finding coins and junk. I've taken it to the beach but couldn't Ground Balance it in the wet sand. But it worked fine in DISC.

It doesn't have a PINPOINT feature but I find such a feature to be unnecessary and a waste. As long as you have ALL METALS you can pinpoint as good as it gets.

The 4-tone audio is okay although I would have preferred 5 separate tones for nickels, copper cents, dimes, quarters, and halves. And maybe an additional tone for all junk

The display is on the chintzy side but it's adequate.

Because SENSITIVITY and GROUND BALANCE are set by knobs, you don't lose the settings as you do with some detectors.

I've gotten an extension cable and have hip-mounted the control housing so all I have to swing is the light rod.

For most detecting it is ideal.

[BuckleBoy]

For a little less than the same cost, you could get a Tesoro Silver uMax--which is just as good of a machine--WITH a lifetime warranty.

Regards,


Buckleboy

[Silver Fox]

For a little less than the same cost, you could get a Tesoro Silver uMax--which is just as good of a machine--WITH a lifetime warranty.

Regards,


Buckleboy

Almost same cost? Not this side of town! At eBay the Tesoro maxes out at $240 while the Land Star is being offered at up to $380! Look at the uMax: 2 knobs and a flip switch. NO comparison to the Land Star at all!

That said, the uMax will, like any good metal detector, find coins, etc. But you're driving blind with no display.

[BuckleBoy]

For a little less than the same cost, you could get a Tesoro Silver uMax--which is just as good of a machine--WITH a lifetime warranty.

Regards,


Buckleboy

Almost same cost? Not this side of town! At eBay the Tesoro maxes out at $240 while the Land Star is being offered at up to $380! Look at the uMax: 2 knobs and a flip switch. NO comparison to the Land Star at all!

That said, the uMax will, like any good metal detector, find coins, etc. But you're driving blind with no display.

OK. So the Tesoro is cheaper. So how is 2 knobs and a toggle switch worse than ANY machine with a display?? By the way, I've never owned a "display" machine. Never needed to. I've used them--but didn't like them...because I can get ALMOST as much information from my Fisher 1266-X as you can with your display. So your comment about "driving blind" is inaccurate. Do you think that because a detector looks simple it should be dismissed as a capable machine? Have you ever used a uMax? I've used a Land Star...and it was an *o.k.* machine...with a *limited* warranty, IMHO. So don't come down on me like stink on shyt! I was offering other options to the poster of the thread--since they are obviously interested in purchasing a machine.

Regards,


Buckles

[Silver Fox]

For a little less than the same cost, you could get a Tesoro Silver uMax--which is just as good of a machine--WITH a lifetime warranty.

Regards,
Buckleboy

Almost same cost? Not this side of town! At eBay the Tesoro maxes out at $240 while the Land Star is being offered at up to $380! Look at the uMax: 2 knobs and a flip switch. NO comparison to the Land Star at all!

That said, the uMax will, like any good metal detector, find coins, etc. But you're driving blind with no display.

OK. So the Tesoro is cheaper. So how is 2 knobs and a toggle switch worse than ANY machine with a display?? By the way, I've never owned a "display" machine. Never needed to. I've used them--but didn't like them...because I can get ALMOST as much information from my Fisher 1266-X as you can with your display. So your comment about "driving blind" is inaccurate. Do you think that because a detector looks simple it should be dismissed as a capable machine? Have you ever used a uMax? I've used a Land Star...and it was an *o.k.* machine...with a *limited* warranty, IMHO. So don't come down on me like stink on shyt! I was offering other options to the poster of the thread--since they are obviously interested in purchasing a machine.

Regards,
Buckles

You are wrong about my "driving blind" comment being inaccurate for when I started in 1979-1980 I "drove" blind for about 5 years as I paid my dues with a detector with no display except for an intensity meter which didn' mean anything as far as indicating what the detector found. The higher priced White's had an expanded meter and I was jealous of them, not being able to afford the many hundreds of dollars they cost. So, for about 5 years I had no idea what my detector was indicating until I opened the ground. After many hundreds/thousands of pulltabs, screwcaps, etc., I started to advance the DISC knob until all I would hear would be cents and up. Only at the beach did I run the detector without DISC.

Once I "graduated" to a Teknetics Mark I with a wonderful meter and various tones did I feel that the hobby was as fantastic as it eventually became until I retired in approx. 2000. That Tek cost over $700 in the early 1980s!

I didn't "...come down on me like stink on shyt!" I compared machines, no personality mudslinging. Take a deep breath! One can buy an inexpensive machine that has an adequate display indicating what the probable target could be. It's only fair that a person looking for a machine have the option of knowing what's available. Not everyone wants to constantly guess what's in the ground. I went through that. No fun.

[BuckleBoy]

With my Fisher, I can tell whether or not the target is brass, aluminum, zinc, or a coin. I can even tell whether or not the target is a small cent or something better like a quarter or dime. I can also tell approximately how deep the target is from the beep. In the old days of the early 90's when I was finding my share of silver coins, I could even tell whether the coin was silver or clad. My point is that with a meterless machine, you don't have to guess. But you have to know that machine well in order to be afforded that priviledge.

Best Wishes,


Buckleboy

[Silver Fox]

With my Fisher, I can tell whether or not the target is brass, aluminum, zinc, or a coin. I can even tell whether or not the target is a small cent or something better like a quarter or dime. I can also tell approximately how deep the target is from the beep. In the old days of the early 90's when I was finding my share of silver coins, I could even tell whether the coin was silver or clad. My point is that with a meterless machine, you don't have to guess. But you have to know that machine well in order to be afforded that priviledge.

Best Wishes,
Buckleboy

Well, meterless or not, the OP was about the Land Star and I've tried to stay on topic.

Best Wishes to you also,
Silver Fox

[ivan salis]

yes but learning to hunt by ear (as I first did many yeaers ago with my dad in the "good old days" of metal detecting in the early 80's) is very hard for most new folks and it takes a lot of time to learn your machine well to really "know it" as you say --most folks today like some type of meter of some sorts to assist them in figgering out just what it is -- I like to use tones and display together to cut out junk digging

[ParkHunter61]

Hey Rodney
I have to side with buckleboy on this one.
I had a classic ID for years and hunted at night alot
trying to peak at the screen with a flashlight
and I ended up just learning the sounds and
using the meter for extra info..
learning the sounds isnt easy or hard.
If u havent learned what your md is telling u
yet u just havent put in enough time on it.
silver umax = great md
be good
bill

[NGE]

I stand with BB, I also own and use a Fisher 1266-X. Most all of my finds came using that "meterless" Machine. Although I prize my minelab explorer XS, I still use my 1266! I have had many people trying to get me to sell them my fisher, no way jose'. When I discover a fresh construction site, out comes the fisher, it is lightweight, simple to use, no major set-ups, and it is very likeable to use. then if I find alot of nails and other trash, then, and only then, will I get the Minelab out. The only Fisher I ever owned with a meter, was the famous Fisher nickel getter, the CZ-5. Don't have it anymore, sold it and a bunch of nickels to get the 1266-X........NGE

[Silver Fox]

This is the OP:
"Land Star
Posted Jun 08, 2008, 07:28:05 AM
Anyone here ever use the BH Land Star. If so, opinions please."

My reply was the only one that tried to answer the OP.

But, as it often happens, some straying occurs because some people have pet peeves they feel they must air having nothing to do with the OP and sometimes becoming emotionally unstable and losing sight of what the OP was about.

Eventually, because of the ridiculous straying, Ivan Salis added his comments nay-saying the strayers whose "points" had nothing to do with the OP. Negatives supporting negatives. Doesn't make sense!

Silver Fox

[ParkHunter61]

on the land star - the pinpoint and all metal mode are the same as with most detectors.
check manual under pinpointing
be good everyone
bill

[BuckleBoy]

This is the OP:
"Land Star
Posted Jun 08, 2008, 07:28:05 AM
Anyone here ever use the BH Land Star. If so, opinions please."

My reply was the only one that tried to answer the OP.

But, as it often happens, some straying occurs because some people have pet peeves they feel they must air having nothing to do with the OP and sometimes becoming emotionally unstable and losing sight of what the OP was about.

Eventually, because of the ridiculous straying, Ivan Salis added his comments nay-saying the strayers whose "points" had nothing to do with the OP. Negatives supporting negatives. Doesn't make sense!

Silver Fox

Thanks, Good Buddy!

I'm sure that talking about the post straying doesn't constitute "straying" either, now does it.


I'll take a thread in any direction I please--and not because I'm "emotionally unstable."



Best Wishes,


Buckles

[NGE]

i not stable under emotion either!

[revdrlon]

i have used my land star for 2 seasons and it is an awesome machine, i picked it up on ebay for $250 and it has never treated me badly. at this point though i would like to upgrade to a beter machine. i am wanting to either go for a time ranger or a minelab e-trac (depends on if i want to spend $400 or $1500 hehe)