![]() ![]() One situation is when you are relic hunting and clearing out a large trash or fire pit or hut, having a handheld probe that can quickly help you comb through the dirt tailings for goodies (vs. Gotta give the people what they want, even if it makes no sense. Pinpointing ain't the time to discriminate and, as the video demonstrates, a non-motion pinpointer will never be as competent at target disc as the main detector.Īll that said, I will probably eventually design a VLF pinpointer that does target ID. If it's an iffy signal, then you should already expect that there may be good and bad targets in the same hole. If it's clearly a good signal and the pinpointer finds iron (esp small iron), you want to pull the iron and re-scan. When you're detecting and made the decision to dig, you want to extract whatever is in the ground. I've never quite understood why people want a pinpointer that discriminates. I was wondering why the guy from White's posted a review of the Pro-Find. I used to sell plenty of Falcon Gold Probes for crevicing and it is a very finicky and limited tool with no ferrous disc. Yet there is a market for such a tool whether or not anyone thinks it is a wise idea. I do not need a ferrous function on my pinpointers and it I want a crevicing tool I will use a full blown metal detector. I am actually more with you on this than not Carl. A ferrous function should only be employed with care knowing the risks. I want that option and it is up to me to decide when to employ it. Yes, there are risks to that but leaving the disc feature off the Gold Bug 2 is not my preferred solution. I could use a Gold Bug 2 in all metal to dig all that stuff, or I can employ the iron disc to help me sort it out. The trash targets can far outnumber the gold by hundreds to one. My thought remains: if the pinpointer indicates there is something in the crevice, it is probably worth a look.įerrous trash in rivers comes from all sources, but old mining and logging operations is a big one. Everybody comes to what works best for themselves, I would buy the new one, having the iron tone AND being waterproof, and keep the carrot in my rig for a spare, if someone I'm with should forget theirs or something.Steve, how much iron ends up in the bedrock crevices? Is it mostly shards from old logging/dredging cables and the like?Ī potential problem with this is that the smaller gold is already right at the threshold of the ferrous/non-ferrous break point, so there is a decent likelihood of a wrong ID, and that goes up if the bedrock includes decent mineralization. The new pin pointer with iron tone? that in itself could come in very handy I think, more so say like crawling under a porch without a detector or other tight places. I have the "carrot" set at max depth, after pinpointing with the detector, getting down on one knee, I can further pin point with the carrot, after digging my plug, if not finding the target, it is often off center somewhere in the hole, with the pointer set at max, I can't tell what side of the hole the target is in, yes, I CAN go through the adjustments to bring down the sen and then go through the adj's again back to max, but after doing that time and again, it gets old, where as, I instead then switch over to the Garrett "black", and zero in on where or what side of the hole, it's a simple matter for me, and has worked really well. What I now do, is I carry two pinpointers, currently the Garrett black, and the Garrett orange, reason being, I'm lazy. ![]()
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