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don't like about the Explorer. My other detectors and any that I've owned always shot deeper in the all metal pinpoint mode than in the discrimination mode which I understand. I don't understand why the Explorer is just the opposite. Whenever I find that beautiful deep very faint repeatable signal in smart screen or iron mask I switch to pinpoint and the signal isn't there. Then I have a heck of a time trying to pinpoint it in the smartscreen or iron mask mode and usually end up giving up. I'm sure some of you guys have a solution for this and I'd appreciate any help I can get. HH- Coinshooter65 and thanks for all your responses to my Rock post.
 
I usually swing my coil up a little into the air and make sure I hear the threshold tone before switching to pinpoint. Sometimes if you pinpoint over a large object the pinpoint adjusts itself and needs to be reset to get it back on a smaller nearby object.
 
First, make sure your sense isn't too high. This will give you falses that sound like deep, repeatable silver signals that are difficult or impossible to pinpoint. I can't tell you how many deep, empty holes I dug before I discovered this one out. But if your sure your not getting falses and the signal sounds good I would just pinpoint in smart screen by X-ing the target and then digging a larger than normal hole. Call it a character flaw but if it sounds good I just have to know what's down there. One last tip, you can increase the depth of your pinpoint mode by maxing out your gain. This will tend to make targets at a normal depths pinpoint bigger and shallower but it will give you more depth.
 
If you lift the coil off the ground like Wally said and hit pinpoint you will usually at least hear a little rumble in pinpoint, however I find it very easy to pinpoin the deep ones in disc cause you only hear it exactly when the coil is over the target, so use Nimrods X method or pinpoint off the tip of the coil where the signal disappears while swinging the coil back towards you
 
too much sensitivity and too many ghost signals. How low can you with the sensitivity with the 10.5 and still get the deepies?
 
Darrell and I met with Carl from Minelab a few weeks ago and he was telling us that in damp soil conditions he will use a manual sense of only 10. I think it comes pre-set at only 15 in the default mode so you can go pretty low and not lose too much depth. If you read the posts closely most of the guys in the forum are generally in the mid to low 20's for sense. And the people using auto sense have no idea how low they are actually set at. It would be interesting if someone (not me, I'm too lazy) did air testing to compare depth for each of the 32 sense settings to see how much depth you do give up for each number you drop.
 
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