However, if you wanted to knock out the Iron and still get the good stuff you could forget it. It would pick up every stinking piece of nail and Iron that was out there. It was more of a good coin shooter for me. I use to take it relic hunting with me all the time but did not feel that this detector really shined in that area. In my experience with it, it seemed to have really good depth for it's day. It could find a fragment of a paperclip no problem lol. It was EXTREMELY sensitive to small objects. I use to own one, I must say I really enjoyed that machine. If you can compare against your present detector and its not as deep then it needs a service and I suppose that means a third party repairer as Fisher is no longer the original Fisher. They are noisier than many modern detectors so you have to be prepared to use your ears and good headphones and listen to what its telling you. Only problem is going to be does it still provide the depth it should as its going to be really old now and componants do start to fail over time.

You could get some nice smaller coils, sniper ? for really getting between rubbish and a five inch. In some ways it was better than the 1266 that followed that had increased depth but the discrimination didn't keep up. Many really liked the dual discrimination feature which Tesoro couldn't see the point of but then copied some years later with the Tejon. Weight is around 3.9lbs with the stock 8' coil.

The 1265 provided the depth to keep up with even many of the modern detectors on the market. The 1260 got it right but did lack a little in depth. Before discrimination relied on either whipping the coil or later a faster than normal sweep speed was needed. It was the follow up to the best selling Fisher 1260 that pioneered normal speed motion detectors. If working right it will be way deeper than your Bounty Hunter.

Fisher 1265x metal detector manual