Pinpointing Question For Bounty Hunter Platinum

[TreasureHawk]

Any good advice on pinpointing using the Bounty Hunter platinum?
Wish it had VCO to aid in pinpointing.


PS....Many of today's metal detectors incorporate VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) into the all-metal pinpoint mode. VCO is driven by target voltage to produce varying audio pitch responses for target pinpointing and identification.

Thanks.

Robert

[Gunrunner]

Hey Robert there are a couple of informative videos on you tube. Just a heads up not to alarm you, I had a platinum that would remain on but stop detecting metal, saw a few others that had the same issue, so if you are swinging for an unusual amt of time with no signals, may want to take a look.

[Sub Dude]

The Bounty Hunter line doesn't get much love but I really like my Platinum although I really don't have anything to compare it to....this being my first real MD.

Do you have the manual? If not heres a link.

http://lghttp.5907.nexcesscdn.net/80...r_Platinum.pdf

The PP directions are on page 17. I haven't tried the "narrow it down" part yet but the basic pinpointing seems to work really good...but then again I'm a noob so what do I know? I've gotten to the point that I can tell the size of the target with the PP function. If it's really big it's probably a can and not a coin. Smaller targets make a smaller pattern.

I'm seriously thinking about planting a coin garden to practice in.

Good luck and HH.

[Sub Dude]

Originally Posted by Gunrunner

Hey Robert there are a couple of informative videos on you tube. Just a heads up not to alarm you, I had a platinum that would remain on but stop detecting metal, saw a few others that had the same issue, so if you are swinging for an unusual amt of time with no signals, may want to take a look.

I've had that happen a couple of times. I just turn it off and back on and I'm back in business. It can be a bit annoying...

[TreasureHawk]

After reading the manual better and testing outside with some targets, I was able to better understand the pinpointing with the Bounty Hunter Platinum.
Using what the manual said about narrow it down helped a lot.

Robert

Printed below comes from the Bounty Hunter Platinum manual.



PINPOINT
To activate this mode, you must first be in the DISCRIMINATION mode.
Press and hold the pinpoint button to activate pinpoint. This mode is equivalent to ALL METALS, but is momentary; pinpoint detection is only active for as long as you keep the pinpoint button depressed. Pinpoint is used to find the exact location of a target which was previously located and identified using the discrimination mode. As this mode does not require motion over the target, the user can move the coil more slowly and then narrow the detection field when near the target.

How to Pinpoint
Position the searchcoil an inch or two (2.5-5cm) above the ground, and to
the side of the target. Then press and hold the pinpoint button. Now move the searchcoil slowly across the target, and the sound will communicate the
target’s location. As you sweep from side to side, and hear no sound at the
ends of the sweep, the target is located in the middle of that zone,
where the sound is loudest. If the sound is loud over a wide area, the
buried object is large. Use Pinpoint to trace an outline of such large objects.

Narrow It Down
To further narrow the field of detection, position the searchcoil
near the center of the response pattern (but not at the exact center),
release the pinpoint button , and then quickly press-and-hold it again. Now you will only hear a response when the searchcoil is right over the top of the
target. Repeat this procedure to narrow the zone even further. Each
time you repeat the procedure, the field of detection will narrow further.

[Silversmith45]

You can narrow down a Propointer the same way.

[norbyx]

The platinum is a great machine, Unfortunately since it is branded bounty hunter it is not considered by many people.
The fact that there might have been machines out there that had some issues says nothing, I have seen more than one E-track go back to factory with issues, still it is considered a good machine.
So please, be confident in what you bought. You got yourself a very good machine for the money, probably the best one out there for that price.
And if people say they had problems with it, well just ignore, aparently they have nothing better to do than to spit on a brand or another just because...