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I bought the Garrett pinpointer from someone who already used it quit a lot. I painted it red after I lost it on a field and I had to go around for half an hour in icecold to find it again lol. Also attached an elastic rope to it. It’s a really practical pinpointer. Just on and off, and that works in an instant. With the other pps, I feel like the wait to turn it on and off are just too long. I have little patience. The metal thing to release staples was a temporary thing.. Normally I hold my screwdriver to the point where it just doesn’t start beeping, and then go around in the hole. It makes the pp more sensitive. I used that trick quite a lot before I started using the Pulsedive, because the latter is already very sensitive.
I could sell this Garrett for a few euro but it’s absolutely not worth selling it. IT’s too good to get rid of.

My buddy bought the most expensive XP pinpointer a while ago and I couldn’t help but go ‘tsssk, all this money for a pinpointer.. I will NEVER give that much for it..’ THen I searchec around and spend 200 Euro on a Nokta Makro Pulsedive :/

I bought it for these reasons:

– waterproof
– works in salt water
– can also be used as underwater detector
If it interferes then you can change it to different frequencies. It has 5 sensitivities, of which 4 equals the Garrett’s the most, and 5 is often too sensitive and starts beeping all over the place. But I use 4-5 the most anyway.
The downside is: it’s bigger and bulkier than another pinpointer. THe buttons are very tough and hard to push in, but someone told me this is because it has to be able to withstand the underwater pressure. Yes, good point. So I just shouldn’t be using this as a field pinpointer, I suppose.. but I’m doing it anyway because my old Garrett is a bit less sensitive and I have to dig more to find my target.

I didn’t get to try the underwater features as my trip to Abroad and Exotic Waters was pushed away brutally by Covid Pandemic. I did take it to the beach and it works fine there.

This is the best screwdriver I’ve used so far for digging in grass.

I don’t like to make holes with anything else. The special little shovels seem to cut grass roots and I don’t want anyone to tell me that I destroy the grass since I don’t ask permission for open grass spaces.

The way I do it:
– detect with xp deus and try to pinpoint as exact as possible (Im having a 3×3 inch area in the worst case)
– try to find the exact spot again with pinpointer. If it doesn’t beep, I try to extent the pinpointer range by keeping my screwdriver against it, just far enough to not having it go off. Then try again to pinpoint the target.
If I still don’t find it, i might try just poking in the ground with screwdriver to find a hard metal object.

Did you locate the object ?
– Put the screwdriver into the ground next to the target and deep enough to go under it. Try to lift up the grass above. Open up the cut you just made by pulling the 2 sides of soil away from each other. Then the poking and pinpointing starts.

I’m not saying it’s a fast way of recovering..

Qualities of screwdriver:
– length: enough to poke deeper holes, because that’s usually needed to find the damn coin.
– thin vs thick: better thick because a strong screwdriver will be easier to lift up the grass roots.
– a good rubber handle: the previous one was transparant plastic and just broke off

I lost the first one, which was a bit smaller and thinner. THen I broke the second one. Not angry about it since the third one turns out to be more heavy-duty !