Dunno if I have the right forum, BUT, Garrett Pro-Pointer...

[lennon631]

I recieved my Garrett Pro-Pointer yesterday, and got to use it this morning. The thing is REDICulously cool and Da-Bomb! It works SO great! I picked up a signal with my M6 and broke out the pointer. It not only cuts your digging and time in half, I was laughing because at the base of a tall oak, I didnt pick my machine up for the next three or four digs! The pointer was going off all over the place and grabbed a pocket spill of clad, and several other coins in a four foot radius. Can't compare to any other pointer, cuz its the first and only one that I ever had, but my two cents is "Get One"!

 

[Iron Patch]

Wait until the day you have a Sunray to play with!

 

[kando]

I heard that the sunray was not as deep as the Garrett Pro Pointer plus you have a extra cable to drag around with you. And you can use the Garrett with any detector and the Sunray only works with the detector you get it for. I would pick the garrett over the sunray

 

[Iron Patch]

I heard that the sunray was not as deep as the Garrett Pro Pointer plus you have a extra cable to drag around with you. And you can use the Garrett with any detector and the Sunray only works with the detector you get it for. I would pick the garrett over the sunray

Well I've heard the Sunray pinpoints in discrimination which makes it just like a small detetor, and it attaching to your detector makes it easy to grab, and impossible to lose. I think I'd take the Sunray.

 

[kando]

Extra cable to drag around get stuck on brush makes your detector weight more .Give me the garrett

 

[Iron Patch]

Extra cable to drag around get stuck on brush makes your detector weight more .Give me the garrett

Lose the Garrett in the brush... then no more pinpointer. I'll take the Sunray. (and know where it always is - on my detector)

 

[m bryan]

How deep will the Pro Pointer detect a target?

 

[kando]

How deep will the Pro Pointer detect a target?

I have had it go as deep as 2 1/4 inches

 

[extractor]

The Garrett and the Sunray are both great pinpoiniers. I own 2 Garrett Pro Pointers. I'll take a beer and follow this thread .

 

[lennon631]

LOL, I didn't mean to start a debate/argument ! ANYway, I don't know any other pinpointer and bought the Garrett Pro based on all the raves it got right here on TNET, soooooo, thank you all for your revues.
P.S. the co. I bought it from and the salesperson, who also is a detectorest, said and I quote "The Garrett Pro-Pointer is the bomb"!

 

[Frankn]

The Garrett pro pointer picks up a dime at 3/4 " by actual air test video here on T-NET. It also cost $130. The HF pinpointer picks up a dime at the same distance and cost $16.99!

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[mlayers]

The Garrett Pin pointer also can detect coins on the ide which makes it nice it you are in sand and you need to sweep thur your pile of sand. I love mine.....Matt

 

[Frankn]

My surfmaster PI gets me close enough in sand that I just scoop it up. No pinpointer required!

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[Canman]

I had a Sunray on a F70 ,I like the Pro-pointer better .With the Sunray on the F70 with the sens turned up ,when I plugged the target the Sunray would pick up the target right at the month of the hole,making it harder to pp.The Pro-pointer goes right down in the hole and pps right on the target .

 

[AUDuke]

The Uni-probe detects deeper than any other pinpointer.

 

[Iron Patch]

The Uni-probe detects deeper than any other pinpointer.

But it's all-metal and extra depth would often hurt you more than it helps being confused by multiple targets.

 

[Keppy]

I guess it is just what each person likes ...That's why there are many to choose from.....

 

[luvsdux]

I've always been a believer in, IF YOU LIKE IT, USE IT. However, granted that the Sunray needs to be mounted on my MXT, I can't accidentally leave it behind that way and I'll guarantee that I'm getting more depth than the Propointer does. That said, the Propointer is on my list when the budget allows to carry along with several of my other detectors as it certainly is a very usable pinpointer.
luvsdux

 

[2bits]

A&S Co. online sells the pro pointer for $105. I wouldn't be without mine!
Doc

 

[Born2Dtect]

I have owned and used 7 pointers. A Whites Bullseye, Sunray, Automax V4, Treasure Mate, Centech, Whites Bullseye II, Garrett Pro Pointer, in that order. I used the first (Bullseye)for a long time.

Did not like the Sunray with my Whites IDX Pro. Kept forgetting to switch back to the detector coil. Sunray owners know what i am talking about. It also chattered sometimes when switching between coil and probe. The weight did not bother me. Kept both Whites, the Centech (great for the $16 price). But my main one is now the Garrett Pro Pointer. I don,t leave home with out it.

By the way almost no one uses pinpointer water detecting anyway.
1. Most are not water proof.
2. You probably don,t have time if in the ocean, before waves will knock you off the target and long handled sand scoop make for quick digging and can be very large, ie. no need for a pin pointer.

Ed D.