Tips for pinpointing with a Compadre

[teresa056]

I have only had my Compadre for a day and have found two pull tabs and a tube of aluminum polish. I am digging empty holes. Either I am not pinpointing correctly or I am not digging down far enough. But I think I am just not pin pointing correctly.

Does anyone have any have any tips or advice on pinpointing with the Compadre?

 

[ken ward]

When you get a signal, Slow down a little and run your coil back and forth about 6" than forward and backward. About 6"" Keep doing this making your swings shorter and shorter. Try to eye ball the center where you make an X pattern. In the center of that X pattern should be the spot you want to dig a 4 or 5" plug. Open the plug like a door. Go over the plug and the hole to see where the target is. A pro pointer can help. I have never had one. You might need to scrape the sides of your hole. If you go more than 8" cover your hole. Might be a sewer cover down about 2 feet. Your detector is easy to pin point with. You can also rase the coil to get a tight pin point. Hope I helped. It does take practice... KEN

 

[deliveryboy]

Do as Ken stated, the key is keeping your eyes focused on the ground and synchronizing them with the detector beeps tracking where the sound beeps strongest as you go over the target. Keep narrowing your swing in each direction until you narrow it down.

I sweep slowly at first over the target as I slightly move the coil front and back so I can find the strongest/center line of the target, with this method I don't need to "X" I can tell where the target is, then I sweep the coil a few times briskly over the target using small sweeps (the "Tesoro Shake" is what it is called by most) if the signal is still strong I dig it. As a beginner I recommend the "X" but soon enough you will get eyes and ears for how to pick the target more efficiently


The 5.75" coil is very simple it is usually right under the coil when you make tiny sweeps , with 8" doughnut coils the target usually lands in the center of the coil

 

[hatpin]

Is this your first detector ? If the coil wire is too lose, it could move a little giving a false signal.

 

[slingshot]

I was a competition hunter. I had to pinpoint fast and used the "magic eye"(also known by other names) method of pinpointing. It's simplicity in itself, and the fact that the Compadre is a fast response machine is even better. I find the strongest signal side to side, then, as I move along that sweep line, I freeze my eyes on the spot on the ground where I perceive the detector beeped as the center of the coil passed. I got it down to two sweeps and can drop the screwdriver on the coin. If I can do it with a Garrett, anyone can do it with a faster response machine. In fact, I won a competition hunt using a Garrett WITH a pinpoint button which I never used=it slowed me down.

 

[Scanman]

This Youtube Video covers the very basics including pinpointing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A71OxNSirII

 

[walnut]

The compadre is so unbelievably sensitive that it will find almost microscopic bits of foil etc, that are often pretty high in the disc range. Some of it might be that sort of thing.