If you like your Nokta pointer then use it and enjoy it. My take is that if you have a base detector that goes deep and your hole is deep and your soil is clay based or wet then your gloves or hands will be dirty. When you reach to the bottom of a deep hole then your hand naturally migrates to the rear of the pointer. In your case that just happens to be where the recessed buttons are located. These recesses around the buttons is where the soil will collect. the Pointers that have the side buttons do not have that problem so they work even if soil collects in that area. The normal procedure with the Nokta is to dig the hole and clean out the loose dirt then stop, rotate to view the buttons, make your selection, hold that selection the required time for it to be entered, wait for it to come on. Now you can search for your find. Then Stop, rotate rotate to view buttons and shut off the pointer until the next time it is needed. If during this process the buttons get mud/soil covered, then there is a cleaning process that must be done in order to continue with your hunt. Even fellow hunters who have the manual dexterity to text at a good rate have difficulty trying to accomplish this task with one hand. Again, I say that if you like it keep it. It is just not for me, I would rather be detecting than having to deal with what I have described above.