Vintage Bounty Hunter & Fisher Detectors

[Wild Bill]

A friend contacted me recently and asked if I could check out his detectors.  He dropped them off so here they are.  The Fisher 443 has a hard case, a straight rod, extension cable and harness so you have a choice in rods and method of carrying the control box.  Also a 3 1/2-4” small coil and headphones.  The original receipt, purchased 1980 and manual is in the box.  I was surprised, it takes 12 AA batteries.  I’m not sure if it’s a BFO or VLF?  The Bounty Hunter III Pro I believe is a BFO.  Both are in very good shape.  I’ll put batteries in them and familiarize myself with them and maybe compare performance with some newer detectors.  The owner owns a patented gold-silver underground mine with an interesting history of about 35,000 Oz gold and 130,000 Oz silver from two parallel veins.  One predominantly Au, the other Ag.  The geology is Epithermal.  Owned by his dad and original owner was his dad’s partner.  I think he wants to sell them and why he wants me to check them.  He’s not into detecting.  Here’s pics of the dinosaurs in their natural habitat.  

[Geotech]

Fisher is a straight VLF-GB, no disc. 4.5kHz. Should do OK on silver, probably sucks on small gold. The BH3 is a BFO, probably sucks on everything. Nice pics, tho.