John-Edmonton said:
Sometimes laying the Pro Pointer on it's side exposes the whole barrel to the minerals in the soil, and it then sounds off. I aways shut mine off.
I hunt trashy areas where this is often the case, but my Pro Pointer continues to buzz, slightly, even when I pick it up. Turn it off, back on, the buzzing stops. But then, I loose the modified sensitivity setting I got by turning it on close to the target. I used to be able to set the Pro Pointer very close to the target, leave it on, and search thru my dirt pile until I almost touched what I was looking for before I got any buzz. This is very handy for tiny, dirt covered objects (Usually worthless, like spent .22 bullets, or split shot fishing sinkers. Or my one tiny piece of quartz/gold, almost discarded, until I got home and scrubbed the dried mud off). Did you ever wish the Pro Pointer had a sensitivity adjustment when you were checking inside a hole, and can't get it to shut up? It does. Turn it off, and on, inside the hole, near where you think your target is.
I digress. Anyway, I put in a new battery, and scrubbed the outside clean, checked the battery contacts for corrosion, and will give it another try tomorrow.