Golden Mask Deep Hunter Pro3 is a fully automatic pulse induction (PI) metal detector, designed to detect deeply buried medium sized and large metal objects. This machine uses frame coils for deep search (should be used by two persons) and round coils with a stick to be used by one person. The Deep Hunter Pro3 has simple and intuitive controls and a boost mode to outperform any other pulse detector of this class. The type of the objects are identified by two LED lights – red for non-ferrous metals and green for iron. This model features a GM-developed Full AGEB system to compensate automatically for different ground conditions, and a new TRASH function to select whether the machine reacts to large targets only or to large and small targets at the same time.
Pulse induction is a different bargain from an ordinary detector. It ignores soil mineralisation and wet salt almost completely, which buys real depth on anything substantial. What it gives up is target identification: you will dig iron. For hoards, relics, meteorites and caches that trade is worth making. For coin hunting in a tidy field it is not.
The Pro3 is the fully automatic machine in the Deep Hunter line. It gives you the depth of the frame coil system with less to set up than the SE, at the cost of manual ground balance control.
The full range is on our Golden Mask page, and PI detectors explains pulse induction in more detail.
One that sends a short magnetic pulse into the ground and measures how the returning signal decays. Because it is not continuously comparing against the soil, mineralisation and salt stop interfering, which is where the extra depth comes from.
Substantially deeper than a VLF detector on medium and large objects, especially with a frame coil. On a single coin the advantage largely disappears, because depth scales with target size whatever the technology.
Only crudely. Two LED lights indicate non ferrous in red and iron in green. That is useful but it is not comparable to the numerical target identification on a VLF machine. Plan on digging most signals.
For the large frame coils, yes, they are designed for two. The round coils mount on a stick for single operator use, with less depth. Most owners have both.
It selects whether the machine responds to large targets only, or to large and small targets together. On a site littered with small iron, restricting it to large targets is what makes the machine usable.
10 hours from the rechargeable AA pack, which is a full day. They are standard rechargeable cells, so a spare set is cheap insurance.
Five years on the electronics and two years on the charger and coil, handled by us in the UK. That electronics term is unusually long and tells you something about how these are built.
The SE has newer electronics and adds manual ground balance. The standard Pro3 is automatic only, which makes it simpler to operate but gives you less control on difficult ground.
We are not publishing a price for this model at the moment. Ring us for the current figure and availability. The Pro3 SE above it is £1,299.
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