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