Bounty Hunter Time Ranger Pro??

[GB_Amateur]

(Here's a thread from November 2019.)

They may be planning on releasing it for the 2020 Northern Hemisphere warm (spring+summer+fall) seasons.  There are going to be a lot of disappointed detectorists if this doesn't meet the "under $400" category, and preferably under $300.

Bounty Hunter Time Ranger Pro Data & Reviews

Bounty Hunter Time Ranger Pro metal detector - new for 2020

[Steve Herschbach]

I’m kind of giving up on seeing the new Fisher Impulse this summer so hopefully First Texas can at least get this one out the door soon. We already know how it will perform so it’s all going to come down to price.

[Joe D.]

I sorta look at all the detector companies as the "parents" driving on a long vacation! And us users as the "kids" asking " Are we there yet"!!!

Most all of you have been there!!! How did you answer after about the 50th time?🤣😅

Not the perfect analogy, but you get the idea!👍👍

[Steve Herschbach]

Well, it’s available now, MSRP $449 and internet price of $399 with free shipping. I guess it barely squeaks into under $400 category now.

[Steve Herschbach]

I just added my vote to the Time Ranger Pro being a worthy competitor in the under $400 category. The TRP is a Fisher F19 sold under the Bounty Hunter brand name with different colors/decals and a slightly lower price. MSRP $449 discounted to $399. The relation to the prior First Texas 19 kHz models means the Time Ranger Pro has an exceptional number of coil options, both from First Texas and aftermarket companies. All coils made for the Fisher Gold Bug Pro, F19, and Teknetics G2 series will work on the Time Ranger Pro. NEL/Cors and DeTech make some excellent coils for this series.

The Time Ranger Pro is for people who favor a detector that is designed primarily for separating ferrous and non-ferrous targets. It has a very strong threshold based all metal mode that puts a target id on screen via a discrimination circuit running in parallel. The discrimination mode is set up primarily as a two tone audio with displayed target id. The break point between the high tone and low tone is highly adjustable, allowing the savvy detectorist to decide just how much ferrous discrimination they want to implement, a large advantage over detectors with a fixed ferrous break point. The low ferrous tone has its own independent volume control.

The 19 kHz frequency favors low conductors, and so the Time Ranger Pro is an excellent gold nugget, gold jewelry, and relic detector. It excels on thin and small cut coins as are found in Europe. With a small coil its separation capability rivals the best made in dense trash.

The Time Ranger Pro is a decent coin detector, but the high frequency means it only rates as good, not up with the the best, on larger silver coins like quarters, and the discrimination tone and notching options are very basic compared to many detectors designed specifically for U.S. coin detecting. European hunters will have no issue with this as they tend to non-ferrous hunting and the TRP favors the smaller silver and gold coins they hunt, but a person wanting to cherry pick U.S. coins in park settings will find the discrimination options to be quite basic. They are however sufficient to the task, and the 19 kHz circuit exceptional resistance to electrical interference means this is an extremely well behaved machine in an urban detecting environment. 

 

[kac]

$399 isn't bad at all for that machine. Bet it would work very well coin shooting. Too bad it isn't water proof.