TerryRB
Oklahoma

Tracker 4 Finds Gold Earring & Coins

I was SO excited to receive my Bounty Hunter® Tracker IV in the mail that I had ordered online. I quickly put it together, read the directions and headed out the door. I went to a spot I thought of immediately ... a place where the whole town goes to sled when it snows. I quickly started finding junk, but then I found a quarter, then a dime, then a penny, then a nickel and another quarter! I know it was not a lot, but exciting to say the least. THEN, I decided to try looking for jewelry ... I adjusted the detector’s settings to the recommendations in the owner’s manual and planned on finding several pop tops (as the manual said I would) before finding any gold rings. Well, I wasn't out five minutes when I heard, “The Tone!" The low tone specific to GOLD! I dug down a couple of inches and out popped this 14K gold earring!

Needless to say, I AM HOOKED! Thanks for a wonderful product!

Michael Vertrees

1/2 Reale Found with the Lone Star

Hi, my name is Joaquin Mendoza from San Luis Potosí, México. I have a Lone Star metal detector with 5 " searchcoil, I found 1/2 real Macaco coins, a few copper cents and some bullets, in a dry creek.

Kind Regards, Mendoza

First time out with my Bounty Hunter® Tracker IV™

I was SO excited to receive my Bounty Hunter Tracker IV detector I had just ordered. I quickly read the directions, put it together, and headed out the door. I went to a spot I thought of immediately...a place where the whole town goes to sled when the ground is covered with snow. I quickly started finding junk, but then I found a quarter, then a dime, then a penny, then a nickel and another quarter! I know it’s not a lot, but it was exciting, to say the least! THEN I decided to try looking for jewelry...I adjusted the settings to the recommendations in the owner’s manual and planned on finding several pop tops, as the manual said I would before finding any gold rings. Well, I wasn't out five minutes when I heard, 'The tone!" The low tone specific to GOLD! I dug down a couple of inches, and out popped this 14K gold ring! Needless to say, I AM HOOKED! Thanks for a wonderful product!

Michael Vertrees

Huge Coin Cache found with the Bounty Hunter® Tracker IV™

I am a new metal detectorist, having purchased in late February 2011 a new-in-the-box Bounty Hunter® Tracker IV™ with Christmas money my wife gave me. After many early successful hunts in parks and school playgrounds, I decided to hunt a site near my home where a fast food drive-in had gone out of business. I started with the Tracker IV and was using the discrimination mode and checked out all the flower beds and grassy area at the back of the building first. I found one clad dime but was not discouraged because from experience I knew if there were any coins around there, I would find them. I moved to the front landscaped area and searched the left hand side first, finding nothing. When I moved to the right hand side I noticed first that the bushes were gone and the ground was almost barren looking of grass. I was soon to find out why!!!

I started to swing the detector and it went wild with signals. This had never happened before, so I backed off and looked at my settings...Yup everything normal. I walked around on the other side of the spot and swung the coil; about 2 feet away from where I did before and the machine went nuts again!! What the heck! I thought. Then I got down on my knees and looked at the ground...in front of me on the surface were at least 15 coins, just exposed! I picked them up and thought, well that is that...swung the coil again over the same spot and the machine had the same reaction. I looked around, saw a piece of cardboard, got it and sat down on the ground. Put my Tracker IV next to me so I could start running my composite scoop past it and started digging. First scoop: 7 coins, second scoop: 5 coins...!! This went on for 2 hours and I was worn out, plus my sizable coin bag was full!
I took the stuff home and started soaking it. I had a hard time sleeping that night, so next morning at daybreak I was there again. I checked the area with the coil again, plenty of signals left. I dug for another 2 hours....full bag again and still signals! I left and took the second batch home and started soaking them to clean them. Two more visits resulted in me finally cleaning out the site.
Total value was 1,396 coins face value of over $24.00, all clad and memorials, except for one wheatie penny. Just the memorials alone weighed in at 6.45 pounds on my wife's digital kitchen scale! This was a remarkable amount of coinage from a spot that was merely 3 feet X 3 feet by 12 inches deep. The zinc based Lincolns had reacted in the ground due to zinc and copper poisoning and killed the bushes planted by the landscape company. All the nickels, dimes, and quarters I dug, are copper plated!!

I can only speculate that the original coin-bearing gravel came from either a coy pond or a wishing well that the landscaping company had cleaned out but neglected to examine before they deposited the material where I found it! It just seems impossible to me that someone would intentionally dump that many coins in one spot.

I just wanted to praise your company and the Bounty Hunter® Tracker IV™ because it was so easy for me, as a beginner, to learn and I had such early success with it that I would never had found this site and recovered this cash if the machine had been a difficult one for a beginner! Thanks for making a coin shooter's dream come true!

Oh and I should mention that this past weekend after only 10 weeks with my machine, I surpassed the $100.00 mark and have now started a savings account at my local bank to dump my coins in! My Bounty Hunter Tracker IV has paid for itself.

J.M Howard “Little Rock Area”

Finds with the Fast Tracker and a Tracker IV

Hi There,

PS - I mentioned that I have both a Fast Tracker and a Tracker IV. I received the Tracker IV for Christmas 2009 and have not used it a whole lot, but from what little I have done with it, I am impressed. I found my first .410 shotgun brass at four inches with a solid signal and I was using the 4" coil.

Railroad Spikes
Some of the narrow gauge railroad spikes from the logging railroad line.
Found with both the Bounty Hunter Fast Tracker and Tracker IV

Round Ball
Round Ball for .44 caliber "cap and ball" revolver.
Found with the Bounty Hunter Fast Tracker

Silver Cache Found With My Bounty Hunter Lone Star

Three and ½ years ago my wife purchased for me a Lone Star bounty Hunter Metal detector. I figured that it was a sensible and affordable detector to start with incase I did not stick with it or like it. Through the first 6 months it involved a lot of trial and error, learning and reading. I had some frustrations at times to learn the machine and a few thousand pull-tabs along the way. Following the first six months success had increased tremendously with my Lone Star Bounty Hunter. At the end of the first year I have found many wonderful coins. Like silver quarters, and dimes, wheat pennies, rings and also a fantastic find of a 1909 svdb. In the last 2 and one half years there have been numerous wonderful finds of rare coins, artifacts, jewelry, watch fobs and tokens. One of the best finds recently was a huge coin cache that included 163 coins. Of these 72 were silver dollars. Fifteen of them were Morgans the oldest being an 1880 and the newest was a 1921 s. This included an 1890 cc. Fifty-seven were Peace Dollars ranging in age from 1922 s to 1928 s. Two Standing Liberty quarters (1926 s & 1927) and twelve Washington quarters (1934 - 1945 d) were part of the cache. There were also 41 Mercury dimes (1918 -1945 d), two Roosevelt dimes (1946), seven war nickels (1943 s – 1945 s), ten Jefferson nickels (1938 - 1941), one 1905 V nickel, two Buffalo nickels (1927 s & 1937 d), and fourteen Wheat pennies (1917 – 1946 d). Many people have encouraged me to upgrade to a Mine Lab or a Whites DX. But I figure why should I do that when my Bounty Hunter is working great for me. I am sure that my success will continue with the use of the Lone Star Bounty Hunter along with the 4 P’s: positive, persistent, patience and perseverance. This is a wonderful hobby that I enjoy every day that I can.

Todd