It's a thankless task around here.

[Mike(Mont)]

Here's one you can try. Place pistol locator on a table or whatever so the coil is facing upwards. Wait five to ten minutes then circle it with an L-rod. Look for a response when you are in line with your target. Or you might try to just pick up the locator and aim at your target, see if you get a response after you have charged the target field. Usually the signal line will remain for a couple minutes. Now I've never tried this since I don't own a pistol locator. It might be you get a sky response, in which case this won't work. So the other way would be to point it at your target and just wait for five minutes. i suppose your arm will get tired so maybe you can set it on a chair or something. This is just an experiment to try . Don't know what results you will get.