Pistol Probe Push Button Stubborn!

Pistol Probe button

its new it will get better,they are nice,i have one, and the garrett,but for handling, i lean more to the garrett,depth more to the pistol probe,but sometimes the pi pulse, interfears with my etrac,never the less,give it some time,happy hunting ,Earl

Pistol probe

I really like the Pistol Probe but anything heavier than thin gloves make the button impossible to push! That's a Pain when its cold outside! Why they put a tiny button onto a pointer you could almost fit a home light switch onto doesn't make a lot of sense to me,,,LOL.... GL & HH......Pat

The design

could have been better,thats why 90% of the time i pick up a Garrett instead

Is it just mine?, or is the speaker volume almost useless? Even on Hi vol, a big wind blows and makes the Pistol impossible to hear on anything except for a surface coin. It IS impossible to hear if I had HPs on both ears!, even without the wind.

Is it just mine? martin

I started using a Pistol Probe late last December. I hunted in really cold, difficult weather. The only digit that I had trouble with was the thumb that turned on the Pistol Probe - between the button and the cold, I split the callous on that thumb and it took weeks for it to heal.

So yeah, the button is pretty darn stiff. It is designed to be stuffed into a holster without it turning on.

Volume... I have less than good hearing. If I am wearing my detecting cans, I cannot hear the pistol probe. If I am wearing a light weight pair of phones that are not designed to block out ambient noise, I can hear the probe, but it doesn't take a lot of background noise to make it hard to hear.

Right now I am considering getting a set of Rattler headphones so I can hear the probe while keeping one ear sealed in on the detector. I am also considering Howard Leight R-01526 earmuffs but they worry me because I don't know of anyone using them while metal detecting. The Rattlers seem like a surer bet - but I do shoot occassionally, so I am sitting on the fence while the snow piles up.

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volume is a problem

The volume could be louder, and the switch could be a lot better than it is. Most of the time I use the Pro Pointer.

Thanks for the replies. You've saved me the cost and embarrassment from sending mine in for repair. Maybe it is personal opinion difference, but I read one review on the Pistol Probe's sound that the volume was "embarrassingly loud" on his Pistol and I about fell out of my chair. I am not a nut afterall...the Pistol Probe really IS a whisper tone. WOnder why the manufacturer doesn't improve it? martin