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disappearing targets when pinpointing

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How do you guy deal with the disappearing signals when you go to pinpoint. When you have a target and it sounds deep but the signal disappears when you go to pinpoint or you barely get a pinpoint.
Have any of you recovered good targets when encountering this situation or is this normally trash and you ignored it?
 
If it sounded good and deep I dug it, and more times than not it was a keeper. My first real deepie that had no pinpoint at all turned out to be a nice barber dime. Sometimes you can get a pinpoint signal by reseting the pinpoint --you switch to detect mode then back to pinpoint mode and try again to pinpoint. A good pinpoint can be tough to get on those real deepies but you can 'work' a signal out by reseting a couple times.
GL
 
I had that problem with the 8" coil with lots of targets...no pinpoint at all even after resetting. That's why I'm trying to steer away from using that coil. I'm a little disappointed in the Explorer in some ways like that. With my old detector I had the option of boosting the pinpoint way up so that it equaled or surpassed the motion mode. Haven't had that problem yet with the 10" though. -Dave
 
Thanks for all of your inputs. It came to my attention when Dave commented on using the 8 in. coil that was the same coil I was using, and for those who is going to ask it was the stealth. Perhaps this is going to be a common problem while using this coil what do you all think.
Perhaps like Dave I will switch back to my ten inch coil.
Has anyone else had this problem would be 8 in. stealth coil.
Thanks
Jake
 
No more than normal with the 8 inch Stealth than the 10 inch as the real deep one are hard to pinpoint so I go back to disc and pinpoint with it in the disc mode by using the tip of the coil and going around the target and watching where the center of the target is.
Rick
 
Let me just say this happens with all the coils when target is at or near fringe detection depth, and also sometimes in highly mineralized ground. the reason you find it more prevelant with the 8 inch is simply because the 10 sees deeper, so less targets will be at fringe depth. I for one like it when it happens as I find its almost always a good target if I hear nothing in pinpoint, and pinpointing deep targets in disc mode is fairly easy cause your only hearing it directly under the coil. I also would much rather have a machine that sees as deep or deeper in the disc mode than pinpoint, than vice versa, So I am happy it does...
 
When I get a good signal and it is very deep I have not yet had the pinpoint disappear but it is not a solid sound but something that sounds like a low "warble". I have found tagets 10 to 12 inches and have not lost pinpoint yet. I love this machine.
 
yeah most times it a very slight buzz, I think some people cant hear it, maybe their hearing doesnt cant hear that range of audio? however In certain ground the pinpoint mode resets so fast you cant hear anything in pinpoint on the deep ones.
 
It's the Stealth x-8 I was using which some say isn't as good as the Minelab " and maybe that's why I was having a problem, I don't know. -Dave
 
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