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almost traded tejon with extra coil and lower shaft
- Thread starter obolusman
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Sven
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One thing I learned before switching to a new detector completely, don't sell the one you currently own.
You may be regretting the sale of it after you use the new detector for a while and wish you didn't sell the first one.
By the way once you have owned a Tesoro, eventually you'll own another.
I would suggest you keep the Tejon unless you need to sell it to finance a new one.
You'll need at least two detectors to cover all bases anyways.
The Tejon will cover most hunting situations.
Former Tesoro owners will eventually gravitate back to owning another Tesoro, so you may as well keep the Tejon.
Your already at the top of the hill with it, you just need a second detector to compliment it to handle other hunting
situations.
You may be regretting the sale of it after you use the new detector for a while and wish you didn't sell the first one.
By the way once you have owned a Tesoro, eventually you'll own another.
I would suggest you keep the Tejon unless you need to sell it to finance a new one.
You'll need at least two detectors to cover all bases anyways.
The Tejon will cover most hunting situations.
Former Tesoro owners will eventually gravitate back to owning another Tesoro, so you may as well keep the Tejon.
Your already at the top of the hill with it, you just need a second detector to compliment it to handle other hunting
situations.
If you don't ever want to hunt a salt water beach, then keep the Tejon. I could not get near the wet, salt water sand and suds with the Tejon, but the Gold Bug SE hunts the salt, wet sand and suds with ease.
That is the ONLY reason I sold my Tejon...the fact I was hunting beaches about 85% of the time and could never give the Tejon it's fair share of hunting time.
The Tejon is one hell of a detector on land and in the dry sand.
That is the ONLY reason I sold my Tejon...the fact I was hunting beaches about 85% of the time and could never give the Tejon it's fair share of hunting time.
The Tejon is one hell of a detector on land and in the dry sand.
There are some tricks to let you hunt the wet salt sand and suds with the Tejon ... but depth is roughly half what you can get over clean, low mineralization dry sand.
Use the 5.75 inch concentric coil. Try two different ground balances (and the reasons for them)
1) full negative; does not adjust far enough to balance to the conductive wet salt, but full negative is as close as it gets.
2) ground balance to the dry sand near the wet sand (not the damp transition area); if there is mineralization, this sets the ground balance to the mineralization rather than to the conductive salt.
Then, set discrimination to low to mid foil. This discriminates out the conductive wet salt; also discriminates out small gold jewelry.
Reduce sensitivity to around 8 or even a little lower if you get frequent false chattering that does not repeat like a target would.
Try to run the discrimination as low as you can and the sensitivity as high as you can without too much falsing and try both ground balance settings to see which works best where you are hunting.
You can hunt the wet salt water beach areas like this with the Tejon or other detectors that do not fully ground balance to the wet salt, but a detector that ground balances to the wet salt will work the wet salt beach areas much better.
I like to take the Tejon with the cleansweep coil to cover dry sand at high tide and a different detector (or two) to cover the wet sand and in the water when the tide is lower.
Cheers,
tvr
Use the 5.75 inch concentric coil. Try two different ground balances (and the reasons for them)
1) full negative; does not adjust far enough to balance to the conductive wet salt, but full negative is as close as it gets.
2) ground balance to the dry sand near the wet sand (not the damp transition area); if there is mineralization, this sets the ground balance to the mineralization rather than to the conductive salt.
Then, set discrimination to low to mid foil. This discriminates out the conductive wet salt; also discriminates out small gold jewelry.
Reduce sensitivity to around 8 or even a little lower if you get frequent false chattering that does not repeat like a target would.
Try to run the discrimination as low as you can and the sensitivity as high as you can without too much falsing and try both ground balance settings to see which works best where you are hunting.
You can hunt the wet salt water beach areas like this with the Tejon or other detectors that do not fully ground balance to the wet salt, but a detector that ground balances to the wet salt will work the wet salt beach areas much better.
I like to take the Tejon with the cleansweep coil to cover dry sand at high tide and a different detector (or two) to cover the wet sand and in the water when the tide is lower.
Cheers,
tvr
My Vaquero goes crazy in the wet salt sand and on the salt marshes. I will try your suggestions tvr as I am surrounded by salt water hunting grounds that I have not been able to hunt do to salt. What is your salt water detector?amcjavelin
Active member
hey there TVR do you think running a 5.75" wide scan coil or any wide scan coil would help or pretty much the same result?
The salt water detectors I use are CZ-20 and Tesoro Sand Shark ... and I just got an Excal, arrived today, the batteries are charging.
Over the wet salt sand with single frequency detectors, I have found the concentric coils handle things better than the wide scan (DD coils). If there is a very high level of black, pink, purple or other highly colored, mineralized sand, then that may not be the case. In the black sand conditions on the east coast of the US from the mid-Atlantic and south that I've hunted, I'll take the concentric on the single frequency detectors, or use one of the water detectors.
For more insight on concentric and widescan over the wet salt sand read what Mr. Bill and SteveP(NH) say in this thread:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,1244559,1244559#msg-1244559
My first forays over wet salt sand and knee deep into the water were with my Cibola. It screamed over the wet salt sand until I learned to tame it with a little less sensitivity and a little more discrimination and the smaller concentric coil. It still squawked on the wave flow, but I could detect between the in-rush and out-rush. It found coins and pendants in the shallow water and wet sand and got me hooked on wanting a water proof detector.
Cheers,
tvr
Over the wet salt sand with single frequency detectors, I have found the concentric coils handle things better than the wide scan (DD coils). If there is a very high level of black, pink, purple or other highly colored, mineralized sand, then that may not be the case. In the black sand conditions on the east coast of the US from the mid-Atlantic and south that I've hunted, I'll take the concentric on the single frequency detectors, or use one of the water detectors.
For more insight on concentric and widescan over the wet salt sand read what Mr. Bill and SteveP(NH) say in this thread:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,1244559,1244559#msg-1244559
My first forays over wet salt sand and knee deep into the water were with my Cibola. It screamed over the wet salt sand until I learned to tame it with a little less sensitivity and a little more discrimination and the smaller concentric coil. It still squawked on the wave flow, but I could detect between the in-rush and out-rush. It found coins and pendants in the shallow water and wet sand and got me hooked on wanting a water proof detector.
Cheers,
tvr