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Newbie Needs Advice
Kauri  
Posted : Sunday, 4 March 2012 5:58:06 PM(UTC)
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Hey may be able to help you get you sorted with your machine. I work near the Hamilton airport. We could hit a park one night afta work.
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1864hatter  
Posted : Sunday, 4 March 2012 6:00:03 PM(UTC)
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Give me a yell if you ever wanted to go for a hunt with a fellow Dunedin detectorist.
P.S Im not one of the guys that make a mess of lawns
And now....On sandy beaches and muddy soil, rings and coins await my coil!
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Lammerlaw  
Posted : Sunday, 4 March 2012 6:19:28 PM(UTC)
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When I got my first detector - a Garrett Deepseeker I used to make a game of trying to pin point the object I had found using themethod I described above and place a little marker above ir - nine times out of ten I was right on the nail. I do think how ever that a pin pointer could be be good if a coin or other item has fallen into the bottom of a hole unseen and you are beginning to wonder where it is - I was just put off them the Christmas before last when a Belgium friend took one up to my place and I found a small gold nugget and he wanted to try his Garrett pro pointer on it - the pinpointer had to be just about sitting on top of the gold before it went off - that put me off it well and truly.
Each to their own I say!
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Kauri  
Posted : Sunday, 4 March 2012 6:26:58 PM(UTC)
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I use the same method Lammerlaw and finding 9/10 im hitting the target. Im not sure i will bother getting a pinpointer.
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Ash_T  
Posted : Sunday, 4 March 2012 8:52:00 PM(UTC)
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Welcome to the forum, and the hobby :)

Seems like another person has also just joined from Hamilton area too,
yas will have to get out on a hunt together!
Check out my BLOG : Its where i post my finds :D
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