What's best for one guy stinks for another, it often seems. I use a Minelab Pro Find 25. I don't know all pinpointers have the same features in common. The Minelab vibrates when coming into a target, has a decent bright light on it and is water resistant. It has two sensitivity buttons on it,as well. It also has an alarm that starts beeping if left on after a few minutes, which if it didn't, I would have lost it on one outing I was on. It fell out of my case on my belt, and I backtracked around a hundred yards and heard it beeping in some rugged hilly country I was detecting in!