Sent the pinpointer back to garrett last week

[cjon455]

and its killing me, I haven't been out in over a week, but cant bring myself to hunt w/o it. It was sounding off in mid air and the button was broke or something, had to hit it a bazillion times to get it to turn on, has anyone else had to send theirs in, and if so how long til you got it back??

 

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[Plumbata]

I've never even touched a pinpointer in 21 years of detecting. Sure, it might make a world of difference, but I seem to do OK. Perhaps it's like people born blind; their other senses, techniques, and intuitive abilities are necessarily enhanced to compensate for the deficit. If I end up getting one it may wind up spoiling me, heh.

 

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[gforce1972]

Battery brands make a difference too. Did some testing with fresh batteries and diff battery brands did matter.

Once you use a GPP you'll never hunt without one.

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[EC.Mason]

My Garrett pinpointer is doing the same thing. Goes off in midair and gets erratic at times. Like someone said, I hate to send it off and have to do without for awhile. I think I will try the foam lke someone suggested. If that don't work I'm just gonna buy a new one then send the old one off to be worked on. Thatvway I will have a back up.

 

[kshollywood]

Mine was returned in 5 days, if you've never used one then don't. Once you do you will not want to hunt without it

 

[Old Dude]

I've never even touched a pinpointer in 21 years of detecting. Sure, it might make a world of difference, but I seem to do OK. Perhaps it's like people born blind; their other senses, techniques, and intuitive abilities are necessarily enhanced to compensate for the deficit. If I end up getting one it may wind up spoiling me, heh.

If you've done OK without one, just imagine how well you could have done with one! They really do make it so much easier and quicker.

 

[xr7ator]

Double your finds with a pinpointer! It's the time you are wasting down on the ground while the guy with the pinpointer has located three targets and moving on while you are still trying to find that one target.
I started metal detecting in 1984 when there was no pinpointer. I got a few scratched coins that I would like to go back and find with my pinpointer, rather than my probe that scratched them.

 

[Darby]

My pinpointer acted up but turned out it was the rubber cover over the on off switch. Double check and make sure the rubber isn't pushed in slightly underneath the plastic outer casing. Mine was only slightly but it was enough to continually activate the on off switch. Other than that I've never had a problem with it and

 

[Darby]

Sorry, hit the send button before I was finished! I was saying I wouldn't go diggin without it! Hope this helps.

 

[Fix]

If you've done OK without one, just imagine how well you could have done with one! They really do make it so much easier and quicker.

I didn't think I needed a pinpointer either. I was dang good at pinpointing with the coil after many years of detecting which no doubt you are too.
But every once in a while there was that one object I couldn't find.
I bought a Garrett pinpointer about a year ago and I can't live without it now. I'm twice as fast as I used to be and I thought I was as good as I could get. It's well worth the money.

I know I'll be in the minority with this next comment. I'm getting a little weary of Garrett because it's obvious there's a flaw in the pinpointer. Too may people are having the same problems as am I. They don't seem to acknowledge that there's a design flaw nor are they coming out with an updated fixed version.

I was planning on buying an AT Pro but now I'm wondering what other flaws they're not telling us about.

 

[surf]

Plumbata

Hey Stephen,

I gotz to axe you, since I know your glass digging skills pretty well; do you use your White's often? Has it been useful on the bottle front?

Many of the dumps/ trash pits that I've dug have had sizable trashy metal areas & pockets, that I believe would make for an unpleasant detecting experience. But what do I know, never having swung one.

Coming from a glass centric perspective, I've not dug a great many coins or metal relics, that I have cherished as much as the old glass and stoneware goodies, with which, I'm more conversant. I guess this is my roundabout way of asking your perspective on metal finds versus the glass, pottery, talking brick triangle, I've hunted, heretofore. I, of course, enjoy a best of both worlds artifact, as I imagine any of us would.

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[Plumbata]

Wow, I didn't expect to receive such positive commentary for that offhand remark. To put it into perspective, the best of my detecting finds (LCs, Seateds, etc.) all combined do not match the value or rarity of my best individual bottle or stoneware finds, and I've only been actively digging good stuff for 6 years or so (dug a bottle accidentally while metal detecting at the age of 5 which planted the seed, though it certainly took a while to germinate into an active pursuit of digging huge holes). If monetary value alone was considered, a couple dozen of my bottle and stoneware finds would have made the "banner" whereas none of my detecting finds would likely qualify. If objective rarity was also considered, relative to that of coinage anyway, then dozens upon dozens would qualify. I am not concerned about this fact at all though; I am here to vicariously enjoy the good finds posted and offer assistance when I am able. Getting banner recognition is not my thing, lol.

When I have free time to enjoy my hobbies, metal detecting ranks rather low on the list. When I am able to dig in one of my several good dumps I will do so without even thinking about detecting. How many of you can spend between 1 and 8 hours and come home with over 100 bucks (or sometimes 1,000 bucks) worth of coins almost every time? Few if any, I would imagine. But bottle and dump diggers do so with consistent regularity. I greatly enjoy reading your threads and appreciating your detecting finds, but personally consider it to be a relative waste of time if you have access to dumps or outhouse pits. 100+ dollar days of bottle digging are the minimum norm for me lately, but how many times have I gone out and found 25 silver quarters (nominally worth 4 bucks each) during a detecting session? That can be personally counted with zero fingers, lol.

Surf my good man, I have actually tried detecting in the creeks and areas adjacent to dumps I've worked, and the levels of metallic interference make it utterly pointless. Even with a 2-inch coil ran on the highest discrimination mode you'd still encounter so much junk that your time would be wasted. I've eyeballed IH cents and sterling silver flatware and whatnot while inspecting the creeks, but haven't found a darn thing when detecting them. Interference from the clinkers/slag, iron, aluminum, brass, and other scrap junk all essentially superimposed on-top of eachother makes a detector useless. Detectors may be helpful in the location of privies or trash pits but aren't necessary, and certainly don't help in terms of recovering the small goodies intermixed with the junk. One's eyesight and a sifter will be far more useful if that's your goal.

Happy hunting y'all, but remember that bottle-digging is where it's at.

When I'm "treasure hunting" I leave the detector at home and use my brain, eyes, and hands instead. Access to even the best of pinpointers will not change this reality.