Hunting Excal in AM/Pinpoint

[erikk]

Correct me if I am wrong but if you hunt in AM/Pinpoint aren't U reducing the size of your search zone? After all the pinpoint design is to help find the target thereby reducing the are of the detection .You may get a bit deeper but when you reduce the size of the area your coil will detect a target seems to me you are losing more than you gain. If you take a 10 inch DD coil and reduce it with the pinpoint ,what size are you actually hunting with? It is a big ocean and the name of the game is cover as much ground as possible. I hunt with an Excal most of the time because I want to eliminate iron, otherwise I would hunt my LS or SH2

 

[kered]

Actually in AM/pinpoint you tend to pick up targets long before you reach them, try it and see, put a coin or something on the ground and see how far away it will register, then do the same in disc mode, you can also swing slightly faster too.
Once you pick up the target change to disc to see if its iron or not, if its a deep target quite often it wont register and you have to move some sand first to get the coil closer

 

[OldBeechnut]

Allmetal is a Large Diffused Field

Discriminate is a Narrow Concentrated Field

Click the Image to see the difference in the fields

 

[NamVetLesTreasureSeeker]

GREAT POST - Old Beechnut!! I really demonstrates the question!! Many THANKS! Les Robinson

 

[dfxone]

OBN, That is a great animation of the difference between allmetal and discrimination. Thanks for the post. Don