Garrett Pro-Pointer Discrimination Tips

My attempt at a YouTube video, lol.

THE GARRETT PRO-POINTER

USING DISCRIMINATION

                I know there have been a thousand reviews on the Garrett Pro-Pointer and its search capabilities. The Pro-Pointer’s capability of finding truly small objects is renowned all over the world. So, instead of writing another article praising this pointer’s capabilities in the field and repeating what others have already said, I will go in depth on the Pro-Pointer’s often forgotten about functions. I will truly test the Pro-Pointer’s discrimination, and “Narrowing the Search” functions. We are going to find out just how good the Garrett Pro-Pointer really is.

                The Garrett Pro-Pointer is capable of discriminating one metal out while still being able to recover another. This feature is easy to set up and to cancel after you are finished. Simply turn the Pro-Pointer on and place the Garrett Pro-Pointer directly on the type of object you want to discriminate, like a nail, then while touching the item turn the Pro-Pointer off and then back on. This eliminates the nail from the detection of your Pro-Pointer, after finding the intended object, turn the Pro-Pointer off and it will resume to normal function the next time you turn it on. (Remember, if you do not want to discriminate, hold the Pro-Pointer away from all metal when turning it on.) This is extremely useful in trashy iron areas; I use it to cancel out nails in yards and parks. But, how effective is the Pro-Pointer really? I set up some test to determine just how accurate the discrimination is.  Pull tab over a nickel? Bullet over iron? A nail over a penny? In most cases these are situations I would like to use discrimination.

                Nail discrimination was very accurate, I was able to pass over the nail and still detect the wheat penny with the nail as close as a half an inch. However the Pro-Pointer had to be closer to the penny compared to the standard air test before it started beeping, still an advantage when hunting a trashy yard.

                The Nickel couldn’t be detected after the pull tab was discriminated, looks like the dreaded pull tab digging may have to continue, but, one day that pull tab will turn to gold.

                With Iron discriminated a three ring bullet was able to be detected with a small loss of distance from standard air test. A round ball also was able to be detected with Iron discriminated out, both with the nail up to a half inch away.

                The Garrett Pro-Pointer was very successful at discriminating out iron and still detecting other types of metal. In circumstances that call for this function, I know The Garrett Pro-Pointer has the capability to save me time and energy. Eliminating iron objects in the hole, will allow me to extract the treasure and move on quickly to the next one.