Junk and more junk.

[Rawhide]

Hi Folks, having two very nice pieces of equipment go bad on me. Finding no or poor support.

Nothing worse than in the middle of a hunt and you realize you are missing targets and carrying useless tools.

It took a few phone calls and some patience, but I got a working set of tools again. Buy American, or stay home.

 

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[Fletch88]

I just traded 1 of my Garrett propointers for. minelab brand and I'm well satisfied. The light is much brighter. The only drawback is the diameter of the body on ML is a larger than Garrett but I like it well enough to trade my other Propointer for another ML if anyone's willing.

 

[xr7ator]

My Garrett propointer on/off button failed in the on position. The business end of this almost two year old unit was so worn that it was no longer the correct length. I use it as a digging tool, pushing it into sand and loose ground to find the target. Really beat it up. I was able to use it still to finish the hunt by simply loosening the battery cap to turn it off.
I sent it into Garrett in Texas, USA, and they completely rebuilt the unit. It looks brand new! About a ten day turnaround from shipping to receivng back. During that ten days I bought another one! THEY ABSOLUTELY ROCK and I couldn't imagine going hunting without one. Now I have a spare.

Garrett makes EXCELLENT products.

 

[Fletch88]

Pond guru does a good comparison on YouTube between the 2. The brighter light is enough for me to prefer the ML.

 

[BC1969]

Had the Sunray x-1 on my minelab, it's in the closet now gathering dust, love the Garrett pro-pointer in that it beeps faster as you get closer to the target.

 

[Fletch88]

Is your X-1 in decent shape? For sale possibly?

 

[BC1969]

Well when I got that used minelab recently, the detector had less than 10 hours of use on it, so I doubt the x-1 has 2 hours on it, it looks brand new, but I'm not a charter member so I guess I cannot sell it.
Here anyway.
Mike

 

[Fletch88]

Someone will be by here to let us know in a few minutes. It's $20 per year to upgrade. Pretty good value in my opinion.

 

[Rawhide]

Garret replaced the broken Propointer with no fuss. You can bet I baby this one. I wont hunt without it. Buy American, and thank you Garret.

 

[luvsdux]

Don't know if this fits any of the problems with the propointer above, but mine got to acting quirky and would behave for a while after putting in a new battery. Then before a lot of use would start again. I put a quarter between the battery and the end cap which put more pressure on the battery contacts and haven't had any trouble since then. This may be helpful to someone.
luvsdux

 

[Ronzie]

I've had my Garrett pin pointer since it first came out and it has never falsed or have given me a single problem.