Well what detector do you have?
He has a Bounty Hunter sharp shooter 2.
Ok, here's the deal on pinpointing with
my cheap Quicksilver BH...a Wally World special which I think was a "second" AND which should have never left the factory to be put on a shelf and sold to anyone.
I had an extreme falsing problem on all sensitivity levels and no pinpoint button,
and the stupid thing was cross-eyed!
Xing could narrow down the target to an area about the size of Rhode Island.
Not kidding, here...it was ridiculous.
Also, on a concentric coil the "sweet spot" is usually pretty much dead center of the coil.
Not on mine, however.
After tons of hours with thing, and maybe a million empty holes, I finally figured out that target center by xing was
not in the center but actually about 3 inches to the left and about 1-2 inches up from where I determined the target should be.
Don't know why this is, (badly wound coil?), but after dozens of hours with thing I learned to adapt and target recovery became a little easier.
Then I got a Cen-tech pinpointer from Harbor Freight and that helped a bunch.
Months later when I got my Vaquero with it's laser-like pinpointing ability, and after my
very first swing and target signal, I suddenly realized how bad that thing really was.
Eye opening, to say the least.
My point is even with all the problems with this albatross, I still managed to learn to pinpoint better and find my targets and dig way less empty holes....eventually.
Try this...
Go outside and throw a penny or other coin on the ground and cover it with a towel and mark it's position under the towel with a piece of colored tape, or something.
Or dig a small hole and throw a coin in there and cover and mark it.
Then practice your pinpointing at all different levels by raising the coil on several different passes.
Do this enough and eventually pinpointing by xing should start to become second nature.
You just need some practice, that's all.
Also get some sort of decent hand held pinpointer because that should help a lot.
HH