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Almost as essential as your digging tool, pinpointers are mini handheld metal detectors that use a mixture of beeps and vibration to tell you the PRECISE pinpoint location of the target you have found with your main metal detector. Pinpointers for metal detecting are one of the 3 most crucial bits of gear you’ll need alongside your main metal detector. Pinpointers use a small and very precise detection field at one end (known as the probe), to alert you to the closer the pinpointer probe is to your metal target hidden in the ground. Pinpointers are also referred to with a variety of names, including metal detecting wand, pointer, metal detecting probe, and even pro pointer.
Pinpointers are typically turned on once your primary metal detector has located a metal target that you want to dig up. You can then use the pinpointer to probe the grass and soil. Often if the target is shallow enough the pin pointer will be able to detect it before you even dig. Other times the target might be out of range of the pinpointer meaning that you’ll need to create a neat hole first, and then use the pinpointer inside the hole, where a regular full-sized metal detector can’t fit, to find its precise location.
A pin pointer is needed to very precisely find your target's location on the ground. If you’ve ever lost something in the grass or sand, you’d know how extremely difficult it is to find, even if you know the general spot you lost it. Even expert hobbyists won’t be caught out without a pin pointer. This is because with one, they eliminate the guesswork and time they’d spend frustrated trying to precisely locate their next treasure. Your metal target could be hidden anywhere inside the hole you’ve just dug or perhaps even deeper down!
It’s easy to imagine yourself using your metal detector on a beautiful day, detecting an exciting target, opening a neat hole, and plucking out the find of a lifetime… Unfortunately, the reality is that most targets are extremely well hidden in the dirt, sand, or mud. Just poking and scraping around with your hands is a sure-fire way to become frustrated and waste a lot of your precious time and energy. This is where your trusty pointer comes in very handy, to quickly, clean, and precisely tell you where the target is in these kinds of situations!
Pinpointers are typically turned on once your primary metal detector has located a metal target that you want to dig up. You can then use the pinpointer to probe the grass and soil. Often if the target is shallow enough the pin pointer will be able to detect it before you even dig. Other times the target might be out of range of the pinpointer meaning that you’ll need to create a neat hole first, and then use the pinpointer inside the hole, where a regular full-sized metal detector can’t fit, to find its precise location.
A pin pointer is needed to very precisely find your target's location on the ground. If you’ve ever lost something in the grass or sand, you’d know how extremely difficult it is to find, even if you know the general spot you lost it. Even expert hobbyists won’t be caught out without a pin pointer. This is because with one, they eliminate the guesswork and time they’d spend frustrated trying to precisely locate their next treasure. Your metal target could be hidden anywhere inside the hole you’ve just dug or perhaps even deeper down!
It’s easy to imagine yourself using your metal detector on a beautiful day, detecting an exciting target, opening a neat hole, and plucking out the find of a lifetime… Unfortunately, the reality is that most targets are extremely well hidden in the dirt, sand, or mud. Just poking and scraping around with your hands is a sure-fire way to become frustrated and waste a lot of your precious time and energy. This is where your trusty pointer comes in very handy, to quickly, clean, and precisely tell you where the target is in these kinds of situations!