Buying a detector can be an enjoyable experience or a nightmare. Get the wrong one and it will spend more time in the closet than in the field . By no means should you rely solely on my opinion as this will be a quick course study. First of all, you must decide what type of hunting you re planning to do. There s beach and shallow water, underwater, relic, gold nugget, and coinshooting.
Jewelry is found by all machines.
Generally, underwater machines are category specific and would not be good for land hunting. Beach and underwater machines are designed to deal with the high mineralization of the sandy beach area. Gold nugget machines are also in a class of their own. They re designed for hunting small flecks of gold. And there are relic machines made primarily for hunting buttons, buckles, bullets, etc. on historical battle sites.