Went to the county fairgrounds today where a good day is a couple of wheats and maybe a silver coin. I took the Cortes out and hunted an area where I have found many wheat pennies and buffalo nickles, but not much silver. I hunted in disc and checked every good signal in all metal. I just can't get use to the Tesoro threshold sound, but I now know the all metal ground balance is going to be helpful. First good coin turned out to be a 1939 mercury dime from about 7 inches. Read silver on the meter from all directions. Very impressive! Next deep signal was a brass cross with writing on it. An honest 8 inches. I also dug two wheats from 7 to 8 inches. I fooled aroung with nickles and took Ed and Drtecto's advice on digging fuller sounding nickle signals. I have experienced this before with Tesoros and their ablility to give a different pitch or shrill between pull tabs and nickles. I ended up with 5 nickles with one being a buffalo. Silver, wheats, nickles, and jewelery made for a good morning. Swinging a light, accurate detector makes hunting much less work that lugging a heavy detector . I am sure this detector is going to be a keeper! R.L.
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A Little Of Everything With Cortes
- Thread starter RLOH
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Good going RLOH
I got to try out the Cortes's little brother, the Deleon, for a couple of weeks and really I liked it. I think the Cortes and Deleon are similar in basic cicuitry and I really liked the depth indication in the discrimination mode. The on the fly depth meter is really sweet. I use a old fashioned Toltec ll that is an old friend that I know like the back of my hand, and did a little side by side comparison between the old and new technogy of these two detectors. There is'nt much difference in depth, and it comes down to what a person prefers and is experienced with. I'll stick with the old analog because that is what I am used to, and it's paid for itself several times over, but the weight is a little much...........the Toltec ll is a heavy beast! The newer tech. Cortes and Deleon are lighter than my old warhorse, but I think I can swing her for a couple of more years. HH
Hombre
I got to try out the Cortes's little brother, the Deleon, for a couple of weeks and really I liked it. I think the Cortes and Deleon are similar in basic cicuitry and I really liked the depth indication in the discrimination mode. The on the fly depth meter is really sweet. I use a old fashioned Toltec ll that is an old friend that I know like the back of my hand, and did a little side by side comparison between the old and new technogy of these two detectors. There is'nt much difference in depth, and it comes down to what a person prefers and is experienced with. I'll stick with the old analog because that is what I am used to, and it's paid for itself several times over, but the weight is a little much...........the Toltec ll is a heavy beast! The newer tech. Cortes and Deleon are lighter than my old warhorse, but I think I can swing her for a couple of more years. HH
Hombre
WTG RLOH. I went out yesterday to elementary school for an hour or so. Got 7 nickels(all newer)and $2.50 clad and cheap ring and was 99 % sure that 6 were nickels before digging from tone. The 7th sounded good but funny. Turns out was nickel and dime stacked together. Keep at it. HH.
Ed
Ed