![]() I'm trying to think of the last time I had a nugget in the side of the hole, but it just doesn't seem to happen for me since I generally get a good rough pinpoint with the coil prior to digging. Side of holes don't matter to me when prospecting since the holes I'm digging are pretty big compared to what they dig in the parks/yards (Most mine using a 17" coil start off about 24" wide compared to a small hole like 5" wide in a yard. Often I put the Carrot on it's side to get it into a crack a slight bit, and it's slightly more sensitive on it's side. But that's almost never while prospecting anyways, I turn it down occasionally when I'm detecting yards.įor cracks/caliche I want as much depth as possible since I'm not usually able to get the pinpointer into anything and I'm just scanning the flat top of bedrock trying to find where to start chiseling. Never been a problem for me, in the cases I need less sensitivity I just turn it down. Surely, however, a deeper pinpointer may be less productive as it will sound off on nuggets further away from all sides. If I get into situations where the soil is too mineralized, I can always use a lower sensitivity setting on the pin pointer. Plus in damper sands, the hole starts to collapse onto itself, so locating a target just before collapse, saves a lot of digging. Once you are down 15", you really need a pinpointer to keep you on track. The same principle holds true for us beach hunters as well. I can find and recover a nugget in about 50% the time usually as someone detecting the same spot without a pointer, unless the dirt is soft and easy to dig like in NNV. ![]() The purists were against them for a long time is partially why I think, but they save a ton of time if you use them in the right places. I can't believe no one has made a deep one for prospecting like 10 years back already. It's also exponentially easier to nick a nugget that deep without a pointer too as you flail around with a pick trying to loosen stuff up however the pick can fit in the hole. Once you get 2+ft, it gets real hard to keep widening the hole with a 17"-25" coil, and you want to dig just to the target and nothing more than that in hardpack like cement. Also when I have a big coil on, it saves the time carrying a 2nd detector with me, so again depth is important. I use them primarily for bedrock cracks that can be 2"+ deep or where I have to chisel through hard stuff like caliche, to save time/chiseling. ![]()
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