Just got a new Fors CoRe the other day and spent the day in the yard getting acquainted with it. Awesome detector and sure it will only get better as I learn its language. Anyway, I was watching a video on this detector and the gentleman on it was using the pinpointing feature of the detector and he mentioned he was going to reduce the sensitivity of the pinpointer but never explained what he did or how. But once he had done it he was able to get a much smaller pinpointing area to sound off, giving him a more precise pinpoint. Much like you can do with some of the handheld pinpointers, like the Garrett AT propointer. Anyway, I reread the user manual and even looked through most of the threads here and have seen no information on it, so here is a great tip from a complete noob to this detector:
When you have a signal that you want to pinpoint, start your pinpointing in the usual manner by pressing and holding the pinpointing button as you sweep the target. While you are still getting an audio signal, in other words, the coil is close enough to the target to give you an audio signal, let go of the pinpointing button and then immediately press and hold it again. The area around the target that will give you a signal will become smaller, and more precise. This can be repeated to further increase the precision of the audio but be careful because you can overdo it and blank out the target (no more audio signal). Not tragic, as you can just start the process over.
My yard is full of iron targets, many of them old and rusted, so they give big signals. Add to this my total lack of experience with dd coils, and location was a bit tedious. My last find of today was the back end of a shotgun shell that was dug at a measured 10 inches. It was surrounded by some big iron signals. This pinpointing process helped me precisely isolate and locate this target in a crowd of big iron signals in GEN mode, factory default settings. Didn't figure out the trick until about the last 30 minutes of hunting. Needless to say, can't wait to get back out tomorrow!
Hope this is helpful!
When you have a signal that you want to pinpoint, start your pinpointing in the usual manner by pressing and holding the pinpointing button as you sweep the target. While you are still getting an audio signal, in other words, the coil is close enough to the target to give you an audio signal, let go of the pinpointing button and then immediately press and hold it again. The area around the target that will give you a signal will become smaller, and more precise. This can be repeated to further increase the precision of the audio but be careful because you can overdo it and blank out the target (no more audio signal). Not tragic, as you can just start the process over.
My yard is full of iron targets, many of them old and rusted, so they give big signals. Add to this my total lack of experience with dd coils, and location was a bit tedious. My last find of today was the back end of a shotgun shell that was dug at a measured 10 inches. It was surrounded by some big iron signals. This pinpointing process helped me precisely isolate and locate this target in a crowd of big iron signals in GEN mode, factory default settings. Didn't figure out the trick until about the last 30 minutes of hunting. Needless to say, can't wait to get back out tomorrow!
Hope this is helpful!