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Hey guys, you have any problems pinpointing with the MindLab Equinox 600 or 800
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If you do, you want to stick around and watch the video because I have a couple little tricks to show you
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Stay tuned. Hey guys, Scott here from the Mental Metal Channel and mentalmetaldetecting.com and today
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we're going to talk about pinpointing. I know a lot of you guys out there are probably like pinpointing. What do you want to talk about pinpointing for? I mean, it's pretty straightforward
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right? Not exactly. There are some folks out there, maybe you're one of them, that have some
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issues with pinpointing with this machine. It's the Equinox 600 or 800 and I just want to show
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you how I pinpoint with the machine. There's a couple different ways or techniques I use
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The second technique I'll show you is something that will take you a little bit of time to get used to
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But once you get used to it, you're almost guaranteed to not ever have to hit the pinpoint button
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But you'll see for yourself. So we'll get started with that. The video is courtesy of my friend Brian over on my Patreon page
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below they'll take you right over there and show you all the stuff that you can do all right so
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let's get started with pinpointing on the equinox 8 or 600 okay all right guys so pinpointing with
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this machine is super super easy. I've used a lot of machines in the past and every machine does
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things a little different but the Equinox I think in my personal opinion is one of the easiest
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pinpointer easiest machines to use and pinpoint with that I've ever I've ever used. So if you're
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having trouble with it it's probably because you just don't know where the sweet spot is your coil
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and I'm going to show you that today but it could be maybe you got something going on with your
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machine you might have to have checked out but for the most part this is one of the easiest things
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to do, it's a snap to learn, and I'm gonna teach it to you
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in like 10 minutes, okay, and then you're off and running. All right guys, just to show you what I got on the ground
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I put a Civil War that is a sharps bullet on the ground right there Civil War bullet and I have a silver quarter now we not really focusing on the items per se we just focusing on the target at hand and how to pinpoint
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it when you get over a target all right so we're in park one we're going to try to go over the
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target get a signal so i got a good signal here coming up 16 15 on the equinox
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got thunder in the distance let's put it in in pinpoint mode by hitting the
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middle button going over the target now remember when I said we're looking for
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12 o'clock when the horseshoe comes together at 12 o'clock that is where you
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are completely pinpointed over the coil and if you look down your coil it's
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it's going to be right under it. See
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Where it comes together at 12 o'clock, it's right under the coil
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Let's try the quarter. what's first let's listen to it sweet 31 sound silver for sure put in pinpoint mode
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so i'm off the i'm off a bit but i'm getting it i got a hitting right in the middle here
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move the coil away i'm right under right over top of it so now there's another way to do it
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let me show you that okay guys another technique i want to show you is the the ability to kind of
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like not hit the pinpoint button if you don't want to use that button and you get pretty good
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at pinpointing um it's just all relative and how you kind of see the target below the coil
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now because i see the target it's going to make it a little difficult for you guys to kind of
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picture this so I'm gonna put a leaf over the target so you guys aren't gonna
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see it but you'll be able to hear it so what I do typically is I come across the
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target in this case I hit the bullet hit the bullet I can pinpoint it sure figure out where it is that way which works really well or sometimes I don even use that option I just hit the target hit the target and start coming off of it backwards and so I don hear it anymore and when I don hear it
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anymore I have a visual in my head on where I think that target is hitting
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under the coil and once I understand or have an idea I usually dig my plug right
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in front of that coil because it's going to be typically right here where that arrow is on the
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coil so if you see that arrow here i'll show you this is kind of your your arrow if you haven't
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noticed there's an arrow on here there's one back here too in the back of the coil but if you hit
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the target and you back off of it enough the signal will go away and that's usually at the
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point where it goes away that's at the front of the coil and when you if you dig your plug right
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front of that coil that is probably where you're going to get your where your targets going to be
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at not 100 of the time because it is you're kind of like you're kind of doing a guess on it but as
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you do this more often and have more practice with it you do get a lot better with it and nine times
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out of ten you won't need to pinpoint it sometimes when you take the plug and it's not in there you
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may want to try your pinpoint feature just to make sure you didn't miss it by a little bit a lot of
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it'll be in the sidewalls so there you go let's try it over here at this with the quarter so i'm
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hearing it hearing it hearing it so this one's going to be a little bit off if you noticed if i came off of it i'm about maybe
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three four inches away so if i were to dig that plug i would probably catch it on the sidewall
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but it would probably it would be really close so just keep that in mind it's not it's not 100
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absolute so a lot of times you just don't need to dig or you don't need to hit that um pinpoint
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button you don't you could just back off your target so you don't hear it and then dig your
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plug right in front of the coil what i like to do is when i when i when i know where i think the
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target is i come off of it with the coil what i like to do is mark it with my foot put a little
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dent in the ground and start my start my plug there guys that's those are the two techniques
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i use on my equinox and how i pinpoint uh the pinpoint feature on the equinox is really good
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it's really accurate sometimes it doesn't engage right all the way it's one thing i will point out
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when you hit the pinpoint button sometimes it will not engage right away and you might have to
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i might have to push it twice uh turn it off turn on again um don know why it does that it just This does it for me I had it happen on the Deus as well so I not really sure what what happens with the circuitry or whatever but just know that because maybe that maybe that one of the reasons why some of you guys are having problems pinpointing the machine because it
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doesn't engage right when you hit the button the second technique is tricky but the more you
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practice with it the better you'll get at it it's just a matter of understanding where that sweet
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spot is on the coil and then knowing that when you find that sweet spot which is right here
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and your coil comes off of it when it's right here, you know that if you dig in front of your coil
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at this point, you're probably going to catch it in the plug. If you dig a big enough plug
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you'll probably catch the target. But if you don't and you miss it, you still have the pinpoint
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option on your machine. But I've really come to the point now where I don't really use the pinpoint
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option too much on a machine. I just dig a plug and usually it's in there. If it's not, I'm just
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smidge off not really off too much though but just usually a smidge it's in the sidewall so if you
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guys enjoy these kind of videos let me know hit the like button if you learned something today hit
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the like button and send me a comment and tell me what you think and what you learned and if
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something became clear to you pinpointing is not hard it's just practice and practice that's all
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and you know share this video with somebody who's having some trouble and clear them up for you and
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And that's really all I got today. I hope you enjoyed it
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Like I said, if you did, hit that like button. Join me on Patreon. And check out mentalmetaldetecting.com
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We're doing some reviews and stuff over there. And a lot of Equinox stuff over there as well
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Usually, I write up a how-to article on what I do in these videos
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and put over on there as well. Not so sure I'll do one on pinpointing, because it's pretty straightforward
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But there's still a lot of other good stuff over there. And check out the other five micro-session videos I've done
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This is number six on the Equinox. some really good stuff out there for you. If you haven't checked them out, I'll list them all in the
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description below and make sure you watch each one of them all the way through, okay? Because they
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really aren't that long. That's all for me today. I just want to say thanks for watching. I want to
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thank all my patrons out there on Patreon and especially Brian who actually gave me this idea
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to do this video today. So thanks again, Brian, for giving me this idea and I'll see you all later
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in another Mental Metal video. Oh wait. Big footage for you. See ya
