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Pinpointing question...

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Lodihunter

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I hope everyone is having a great week. I can't wait to see what everyone has found at the end of the weekend. I haven't been hunting much this week but when I was able to, I had a bit of a problem. When I go over a target and get a decent VDI reading and beep, I will move the coil off to the side and pull the pinpointer button. Sometimes, it acts funny and will not pick up on the possible coin. It remains silent. In fact, if I keep holding the trigger down and raise the coil off of the ground, it will make the loud noise as if over a piece of metal slowly getting louder as it gets further away from the ground. It happens with my 12" coil as well as my 6X10". Is this normal and if not, what can be the cause? Like I said, it only happens sometimes; but enough to get me FRUSTRATED! :(
 
Make sure after you locate a possible target that you pull the coil completely away from the target before pulling the trigger to put it in all-metal (pinpoint) mode. My MXT will null out the target also if I pull the trigger while I'm still over it. I believe it's confusing the target w/the ground the same as if you linger over a deep target. Check it out . .
 
No problem Lodi. BTW your avatar pic always makes me smile, reminds me of when my kids were small . . . well, smaller than me at least. Good luck and let me us know how that works for you . . .
 
I had the exact same thing happen about a month ago. It's definitely is strange behavior. I posted this phenomenon over on the whites site, basically the people over there thought it was probably just really hot ground. I think it was target specific in some way, although I dug to chinaand found nothing. It's only happened once, and it's defiantely weird. I figure the software could possibly have executed a bug, under the exact conditions we encountered???
 
Well, I'm glad it isn't just particular to my machine. I live here in CA so ground has a very high mineral content. I guess I will just chalk it up to that then.
 
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