I believe these pictures of my land rig are from when I was still using the 15x12, so if the coil looks a little bigger than my current 12x10 I always use on land that's why. I've also long since ditched the detector stand seen in the pics and now just have two rubber feet (from radio shack or office supply stores) stuck on the bottom of the control box to cushion the GT and keep it's bottom from laying on the ground. I feel that's important, because not only would laying the box on the ground with no rubber feet to cushion the impact be constantly jarring the machine, but also because the off/on/off/on pressure being applied to the battery compartment might make things get loose there.
As you can see in the pics, I mounted the meter on top of my hand grip (bike end bar). I also have a remote PP switch wired installed inside the end of the bike end bar and is hanging down like a regular trigger found on other detectors such as Whites. In the last pic where the land rig is standing up if you click on the photo to blow it up you can see the switch hanging down. Strangely though, I hardly ever use pin point mode and prefer to PP in discrimination mode these days. I guess the switch would be useful to me for hunting say clean/deep areas in say all metal or PP mode, and then switching back to check them in discriminate, but I honestly feel at least so far that in my soil the GT is deeper in discriminate, but that may change with more testing, as I know some like Gunnar swear by the all metal mode on the GT being one of the best they've ever used on a machine. Some even claim they can tell targets by how they sound in all metal.
Anyway, my land rig is a custom shaft and a few other mods that dropped almost a pound and a half off the weight of the GT. You can also see my water rig in the photos. It's the stock shaft and arm cup. The only difference is I also put a bike end bar on it (I cut it down to just use the straight part of it) and of course you can see a really comfortable rubber grip on that that I also picked out at a bicycle store. It's so much more comfortable than the stock grip, and since it's not foam like the stock grip cover it won't hold water when water hunting. Since I always use the 12x10 on land, I keep the stock 10" Tornado on my water rig. That way to go water hunting I need only disconnect my GT control box from the land shaft, throw it in a plastic bag, and then throw that bag inside the Minelab hip/chest mount bag that I use chest mounted. Done like that I can get about belly button deep.
For explanations of all these mods please see this thread...
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,1164138,page=1And if you want to wire up a remote PP switch for you GT, heres my pictorial on that. I tried to make it as clear and simple as possible for those who are not electronics savy
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,1303737,1303737#msg-1303737There are also various how-tos out there for wiring up remote pin point switches on older Sovereigns. Just remember those wont work on the GT due to its more complex switch relations, and thats why I wrote the pictorial for the GT users after figuring out what was going on with the various switch combinations inside the control box. I honestly havent paid much attention to the Elite so I dont know if it uses the same two switches involved as the GT for switching to the various modes.
Think I'm finally home after a lot of years searching for my particular needs. Custom 1.5 lb lighter 
Sovereign GT (easy to do by just "building" lighter shaft) & SEF 12x10 as everyday coil. 8" Tornado (actually 7.25") as super heavy trash coil (Very deep & separates better than typical 8/9" true size coils). 13" Ultimate for large fields/beaches on certain days I want to grid faster than even the 12x10's nice improvement over stock for that. Stock 10" Tornado stays on water rig (stock shaft). 
ProPointer. Owned 15x12 & SunRay S-5 (5.5") at one time. Loaned a prior 13" Ultimate & SunRay S-12 (12.5").
Some Oldest Silver- 1835 Bust Dime, 1842 "O" Seated Dime, 1855 Seated Quarter, 1858 3 Cent Piece, 1891 Seated Dime, & another Seated Quarter too damaged to read date. Highest Value- 3 Cent Piece, Seated Quarter, & now 1921 F-12 Standing Liberty. Oldest Coin? Got to give large cents a good look & see. 2013 so far- 1 Seated Quarter, 1 Barber Quarter, 1 Standing Liberty, 2 Washingtons, 1 Barber Dime, 9 Mercs, 3 Rosies. 1 War Nickel. 19 silvers in total, & 1 1872 key date Indian, 2 Bufallos, 1 man's 14K gold medium sized ring & 1 gold chain, with possibility of few 8"+ deep mystery coins being Indians after cleaning.
What matters in life is the journey and not the desitination. How you handle that journey determines if you were a success, not so much what you achieved if and when you finally get there, especially if you made it by stepping on people along the way...
In loving memory of my long haired (wooly) husky Sky. She taught me just how beautiful and pure a soul can be, human or not...
