Garretts or Bounty Hunter

[Rusted Nail]

Looking at getting a Garretts Ace 250 with Digger and pouch F/ 212.00 or Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II with Free caring bag and Pin pointer F/ 180.00 anyone have suggestions, Thanks RN

 

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[godisnum1]

It's gonna be repeated time & time again, so I'll go ahead and say it... the Ace 250.

Bran <><

 

[John-Edmonton]

A no-brainer..... "ACE 250"​

 

[Jeep]

Actually I like both of them.

It will be your personal preference as to what you get.

If you take the time to learn either machine then it will work equally well for you.

Just don't test them in the house

 

[cloviscliff]

The Garrett is the better choice. Cliff

 

[outdoors]

I myself would pick the ace 250 because I own two garrett machines and have no problems
with either one don't know to much about Bounty hunters
have heard good and bad things on certain models in the past about them
can't go wrong with garretts

 

[gallileo60]

250, LOVE MINE...Had it about 3, or 4 years...My Bounty Hunter Land Star lives in the trunk most of the time............

 

[kando]

If you want good service you want the Ace 250.

 

[extractor]

the Ace 250

 

[Sandman]

Definitely the Garrett Ace 250 over the BH. You will be wanting to upgrade soon after using the Bounty Hunter an I've seen it happen many times. Money wasted again..............

 

[Rusted Nail]

Thanks, I was just concerned about the cost of additional coils, the coils for the BH seem to be a little more reasonably priced, I notice a lot of good things are posted on the Garretts and sounds like they stand behind their products, I 've got plenty of time to decide as we seem to be in a deep freeze for now. Tinkering with the old Garretts and researching some places to hit when things thaw out. Built a plug cutter and thinking of fashioning up a digging device out of an old wood rasp, 8)

 

[Sandman]

Wish you wouldn't use a plug cutter like this that cuts all the way around instead of a 3 sided cut. During dry weather the plugs can dry out because all the roots are cut.

I've seen dried lil circles all over the grass at my parks. Caught one guy damaging the grass this way and he got a ticket from our deputies, went to court, paid fines and damages to the park system. Sorry to be mean, but I warned this guy before about filling his holes and taking his trash with him. We have enough parks being closed to us by the slobs.

 

[TonyinCT]

Ace 250 and if I can help you with your purchase please let me know.
Tony
www.tcmetaldetectors.com

 

[Rusted Nail]

Last time I checked the roots in the grass around here go gown Besides I'm not planning on hunting in parks , I would not want anyone cutting even three side holes in any our parks, in a dry spell I don't care what kind of hole you dig it's going to do its toll, Parks are not intended to have people digging around in the lawns, too many other places to spend my time.

 

[Nashoba]

And yet another vote for the 250.
~Nash~

 

[rjw4law]

G A R R E T T

 

[ivan salis]

having owned and used both types in the past --my advice is hold on a bit longer and get a teknetics delta 4000 *(see the kelly co site linked to here for it $ 279 ) with its 0 to 99 numbers display --it has 99 slots in which to sort things out into vs the 8 sections on a ace 250 -- thus its a better sorter ( its my current machine --my ace 250 is my back up / loaner)-- if the choice is between bounty hunter and 250 only --go with the ace 250 would be my advice .

 

[riverrunner814]

Best Choice is Ace 250

 

[wescowood]

Ive used Bounty Hunter Tracker-4 for about 6 yrs and really liked it. I decided I wanted a new detector and got to looking around at some of the local dealers. I thought I would really like the QD-2 until I tried it out. I didn"t care for it at all. So I talked to the people at kellyco and bought a ace-250. Its not that much higher but alot better detector in my honest opinion. Something else you might try is to find a local dealer in your area and try each detector out before you buy.

HH, Wes.

 

[rocky735]

I have one of each. I have a Bounty Hunter and an Ace 250. My Bounty hunter found ok stuff such as lots of clad and zincons and went down to about 5 or 6 inches. The Ace 250 found me a couple of deeper wheats + all the other stuff above and it goes down 8+ inches. Both are pretty good detectors but the 250 would probably be the better choice.