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I was one of the first to get a Legend in the U.S mine came from the very first shipment that hit the shores of the U.S, I loved the Legend up until I installed the 1.11 version and everything went south after I installed the 1.11 version
I got my Legend a few years ago and it is the 1.05 I believe and dug it out on Saturday to charge the batteries . the few test I was doing is in my floor in my bar as it has nails and iron in the floor and only few detector can get a signal when I put a coin on top on top of a nail I find in pinpoint. Some of them is hard to ID, but being used to the Sovereign and the X-5 the tones sound out good.
I had three Legends at one time the first Legend I started with was a 1.04 version and I so disgusted with the Legend I traded off two for different detectors, still have one but it see's very little love anymore, as I really like using a beep and dig more, I love the simplicity of the beep and digs I currently own which is five, my biggest issue with the Legend was never knowing whether I had it set up correctly for the ground I detect and 75% of the time I never felt I had the Legend set up correctly for the ground I detect it just made detecting not so fun for me, (Detecting is supposed to be about having fun)
Concentric coils seem to work best on the Tesoros.----That has been my experience anyway.
Dont know what it is but I super tuned my Vaquero and it still cannot hit as deep as either one of my Golden Mask Detectors 4WD and GM7 running the 9.5 DD coils on both My X5 will hit the same targets as My 4WD and GM7 and the X5 will do it with the 7 inch concentric mounted on the X5
that is what is on my Vaquero the Stock 9x8 Concentric
I was doing some testing with my Vaquero not long ago that I have had for quite a while and noticed it would not air test a civil war bullet more than about 5-6”… I know when I got bought it, it would air test much better.
If I super tune my Vaquero it will hit a quarter at 13-14 inches in my test bed so it is getting good depth its just my GM 4WD, GM7 and even the X5 will hit a quarter at 16-18 inches deep in my test bed my Legend will not hit anything over 8 inches deep in that same test bed, my test bed has been in the ground for over two years so its not like the targets are freshly buried targets
Yep… I was aware of what happened to the coil you ordered.
The way things are in this day and age U.S customs probably has my name on a black list because of the battle I am in with them, and if i order something and they see my name on the package they would probably damage another coil, or a detector I just cannot take that risk at all, even though I would like to order that 13x11 fighter s coil for my 4WD I am just unwilling to take the risk that U.S customs wouldn't damage it like they did that 18 inch coil, guess i should consider myself lucky because that package that contained the 18 inch coil also contained my 13x11 Fighter S 7 coil that was also for the GM7 they never touched the 13x11 just the 18 inch coil
The little 5.75” concentric coil is a great coil too if you have an interest in a small coil… that is mostly what I used around old house sites.
One thing I have figured out with all these beep and digs is you do not have to have a large coil on them to achieve great depth every one of the beep and digs I own I am running small coils and they are all hitting targets at great depths with the small coils that X5 with a 7 inch concentric coil gets unbelievable depth the 4WD and the GM7 with a 9.5 coil gets unbelievable depth the vista X with a 8 inch concentric gets great depth and the Vaquero with a 9x8 concentric gets great depth, yes I have ran that 13x11 coil and the 12x11 coil on my GM7 and GM 4WD and the depth is even greater but I would rather have a coil mounted that is smaller and makes the detectors lighter
I have been trying to locate one of those 5.75 for sale ever since I purchased the X5 but have been unable to find one someone is willing to part with
I wonder about the new Tejon I bought a year ago.
I can only say my experience.----I have had several Tesoro detectors over the years with both concentric & DD coils for them---and the concentrics have ALWAYS worked the best on the Tesoros I have had.
I have heard that it is important to tune the coil from the factory if the detector has a fixed ground balance, but not one with an adjustable ground balance.
good question Terry
I will say my favorite coils on these beep and digs are the concentric coils, unfortunately the Golden Mask detectors they only produce DD coils for them, I keep asking Golden Mask to produce a concentric coil for the 4WD and the GM7 but Golden Mask keeps telling me they have seen no advantages to having a Concentric on their detectors which tells me at one time Golden Mask did try to produce a concentric for their detectors, personally I do not agree with golden Mask because of what I have seen with my other 3 Beep and Digs running concentric coils on the ground I detect, although both my Golden mask detectors run great on my Ground with the DD coils, I would still like to try a concentric on my two Golden Mask Detectors
I always thought it was just a matter of readjusting the internal GB trimpot on a fixed GB detector which is sometimes necessary when changing coils to get best results.? Maybe Rusty was thinking you had a fixed GB detector...not sure why?
I talked with Rusty before sending the detector in, so he knew what model it was…also, it was the ground balance control that I was having trouble with.
