I have the BH 3300 that I have yet to use (friggin' snow!) except to practice with. I'm noticing that there is a delay in the response tone when you pass over an object. I think it is a delay since it doesn't beep until the object is going outside of the inner coil. This is a digital machine and I'm guessing there is some delay caused by software and filtering of signals but this seems excessive. Now in pinpoint mode, it is working like an analog detector and you can get a nice real time response from it. I've noticed that it has much greater depth in pinpoint mode too. I can detect my watch from 15" which is crazy. The search mode doesn't seem that repeatable either in that it won't produce a tone at all perhaps 5-10% of the time whereas pinpoint mode works 100% of the time.
I'm thinking of hunting in pinpoint mode, then when I get a hit use the search mode for identifying the object and depth reading only. I'm wondering if others do what I'm considering? I think I now see why you guys like your analog machines. The real problem here could be that I'm a newbie and I'm definitely no expert on the swinging techniques. What are your expert opinions?
I'm thinking of hunting in pinpoint mode, then when I get a hit use the search mode for identifying the object and depth reading only. I'm wondering if others do what I'm considering? I think I now see why you guys like your analog machines. The real problem here could be that I'm a newbie and I'm definitely no expert on the swinging techniques. What are your expert opinions?