Pinpointers are very useful tools, help you in many ways. I pinpoint pretty well with my main detector, but my soil is pretty much like beach sand, so a target can shift around some, if it's been dry. The handheld pinpointer helps me keep the hole small. You never know what else is in the ground with your target, some can be very sharp, and not made of metal (broken glass, plastic, wood splinters). Groping around in that fresh dug dirt, can get painful. Not a huge fan of gloves, but a good idea in some areas around here. No real need to break the bank on those $100+ pinpointers, unless you are in some sort of race or competition. Harbor Freight has a Centech pinpointer for under $20, much less, if you catch the right coupons, which they almost always have. Best ones are around the big holidays. Not real strong or pretty, need a little modification to make them work real nice. Not too bad out of the box, I just wanted a few minor changes with mine. They beep very loud, prefer silence, so swap in a vibrating motor. The switch is a pushbutton, which I felt was a little awkward, so put in a mini-rocker. All salvaged parts, simple. I bought a Garrett Propointer, couple of years ago, $127.50, but it only lasted about 7 months, before I had to send in for repair. Got it back, worked for another 6 months, developed the same problem, sits useless in a drawer, maybe open it up sometime, see if I can figure out the issue... Still using that first Centech I bought, no real interest in spend big money, on an over priced tool. A lot more choices now though, but most seem to have a few bad units.
