6 of 17 people found this review helpful:

Review by: James Funcell

User Experience: 7+ years

Submitted on: Mar 17, 2008

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This is a Model di6000 so although it is ancient it still works well for coin shooting. I find coins others have missed. I know the new ones are probably mush better so sure would like to have update. I have found 100s of coins, especially on beaches. I've found a lot of artifacts. I also have found watches and rings.I only wish battery life was longer. It discriminates very good and I like the dial showing what is buried, especially wihen using ear phones. I haven't found ebough dollar value yet to justafy buying a new one but when I do it will be another White. With the detached coil and unit hung on my waist it makes it pretty light especially when beach hunting. I recommend using rechargeable battery packs as in the long run is a lot cheaper to operate.

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4 of 20 people found this review helpful:

Review by: David Evans

User Experience: Newbie

Submitted on: Mar 18, 2008

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I like to go look around old farms, falling down railroad stations, and the beach. I have a lot of wheat’s, silver dimes and quarters, but no gold coins of any type (I know there is some out there since that was the money of the old days, when people didn't trust banks, family, or friends). was given to me used very used and abused(but still works ok for me). Its light weight, and easy to use and easy to change coils.

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4 of 25 people found this review helpful:

Review by: Wilfred Duprey

User Experience: 6 months to 2 years

Submitted on: Mar 17, 2008

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I search the beaches in the fall of the year and find a lot of coins and rings as well as asorted metal things like keys belts necklace etc.

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4 of 29 people found this review helpful:

Review by: Robert Kern

User Experience: Newbie

Submitted on: Apr 8, 2008

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I purchased a Cobra Beach Pro. Wow! It already paid for itself in gold rings and bracelets, not to mention about 250 coins.

My daughters go out every weekend to the beaches near our home and treasure hunt, because they love to dig. We went to a camping place last week, but it got so frustrating. It got hits every three feet, and all they dug up were old tent spikes. I guess I will have to adjust my detector so I don't keep digging up those.

We are planning to go to an old revolutionary war site in the near future. Who knows what we might find. If all we find is a penny it really doesn’t matter, we will have a great time together anyway. My Cobra is in my truck all of the time. I never know where I might be so better to have it with me than say later on in the day, “God that would have been a great place to look.”

I find myself looking all of the time at old farms, houses, parks, etc. I mean the places are endless that you can use your detector. I look at it this way, would you rather sit in front of the TV and get fat and out of shape, (not to mention the time you would miss with your family) or go out and have fun with the anticipation of maybe finding treasure. Whether you find anything worth wild or not, you will enjoy the outdoors exercise. The smiles your children will have when they dig up even a penny are priceless.

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Review by: Paul Chauvin

User Experience: 4-6 years

Submitted on: Mar 18, 2008

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The Whites Beach hunter ID has bells, whistles, and lights. It also has four tones and a bell, for those close to the surface large targets. The Whites Beach Hunter ID also has a low setting for iron, a mid for gold, pull tabs, foil, and high for coins. The added feature is the indicator lights Red, Iron. Yellow, Gold, foil tabs. Green, Coins.

So it was time to take it underwater and see what it could do. My first dive would be about ten feet, I shortened the shaft, went into all metal mode for the wide scan which I like to hunt for added depth and sensitivity. As I was sweeping the bottom, I was getting strong hits with a green light. Then I would pinpoint and check the tone to see if I wanted to dig. Sure enough I pulled out about three dollars in clad all dropped by swimmers and snorkelers. Most of the targets were at 3" to 5" of depth the detector was easy to swing underwater with positive buoyancy.

Then, it was time to take it to the beach and do some water hunting with it. So I headed right out into the surf at low tide. The first thing I noticed after I ground balanced was that if I was in the breaking of the waves, it tended to be a false signal. It was also hard to hold down, because of the floating coil. I needed to go further out, and once I was out the falsing I stopped, and the Threshold was stable. I pulled out a couple of fishing weights; which gave a great mid tone and yellow light. The majority depths of the weights were at ten and fifteen inches. As far as Pinpointing, it’s a breeze with the usual crossing of the coil. It was time to take it on dry sand, so I searched a small cut in the sand and pulled out a total of seventy five cents. I also found a bunch of beer bottle caps (which rang mid tone and yellow lights), but I wanted to dig for the possible chance of finding jewelry.

So you might be asking, “How is this water machine on Relic hunting?” Well, I headed to an old Civil War site and went into all metal modes. I was hitting Iron left and right but I was checking the targets, and they were all lighted up red. I checked the tone and would get a nulling threshold, meaning it was Iron. I went very slow and hit a target fairly close to the surface. I checked it with the light, and its yellow was good good, after checking the tone its mid gets even better. I tried digging at about 8", and I pulled out a nice Union Eagle button. Searching some more, I pulled out a mini ball from about 15" and another Union Eagle button. There was a small issue that when I would check my signals and look at the light ID; I could not see the Red indicator, because the harness that comes with the BHID has a strap. Anyways, the strap would go right over the light, so overall the BHID is a good multi use detector with a great warranty.

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