Bandido II owners, need some pointers

[Stoof-tabsallday]

So I love tesoros as you can see in my signature.

This one is a bit different. Seems like I'm just starting to get good with my other tesoros disc knobs, when I get this one lol. Instead of the usual modern ones having the iron, 5 cent, foil (not on my cibola), and tab, and zinc it has numbers.
I downloaded the manual with the numbers, but it's a little confusing.
Just wonderin what you guys set yours to and how to do the "Tesoro Roll" with it and know what the numbers mean.
On my compadre nickels disappear at nickel, zinc at zinc, etc.
It will probably take time but just wondering what your guys' styles are and I can make an amalgam style of my own.
Gonna do my bench testing more in depth today and take some notes.
Does a nickel fall out at same point t even when in the ground?

I know I'll love this detector and my new poles arrive today so I can actually swing it.
Thanks.

 

[iqwozpoom]

2 or 3 for foil, 5 for nickles, 7 for pennies. Or there abouts.

 

[amberjack]

coins are easy lay them out and see the other stuff at digable sizes will be below zinc.

AJ

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

The gent I bought it from said it will disc out dimes at the end and only show quarters.

 

[steve1357]

The gent I bought it from said it will disc out dimes at the end and only show quarters.

I would venture to say there is an internal adjustment for discrimination to set it for whatever limits you like.

 

[JJdigs]

I have set internal disc before on one of my tesoros, nickels were reading up near pull tabs, it was easy to adjust.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

Haha I just did the cibola mod, but I'm not messing with the bandido lol. If it needs work, I'll send it in. Took too long for me to get my hands in one.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

Posted in my other thread but wanted to show here.
With the new poles, she sure is pretty. Looks like the day she was made!!

 

[Kmaz]

My silver discs out dimes.... Am I missing something?How does that help?

 

[Hombre]

Here's some pointers:

...I run the ground balance neutral, sensitivity into the red zone, and as little discrimination that is tolerable and will not drive ya crazy

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

My silver discs out dimes.... Am I missing something?How does that help?

Not necessarily helps per se.
It will disc out a dime but still hit on a quarter. Many times quarters and dimes will either both ring or both be gone.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

2 or 3 for foil, 5 for nickles, 7 for pennies. Or there abouts.

What area (s) for gold?
Trying to figure the highest I can put it while still allowing gold in.
I'M GONNA FIND THAT RING lol

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

Here's some pointers:

...I run the ground balance neutral, sensitivity into the red zone, and as little discrimination that is tolerable and will not drive ya crazy

Thanks hombre!!!
I'm just trying to set it high enough to still find gold but as little trash as possible.... I know oxymoron. But that's the idea.
Alot of people aRe saying to run negative gb but glad to see someone saying neutral.

 

[Hombre]

I relic hunt therefore I let my shovel be my discriminator, Min disc. is what I run, if the empty .22 cal. casings get too thick, out comes my Toltec 100.

 

[amberjack]

want gold disc out nails etc.. and start digging sure there are other ways to do it but none I have tried successfully , just got back from a 2hr dig it all as its that time of year, this had me going for a bit cause I am disced so low never know whats going to pop out.

anyway its 925 and have pulled a few silver rings out of here so has to be some gold in there somewhere so I will just keep digging and I will get that dirt out the switch also. sure I have some boots to put on there somewhere, anyway got a little near buzz for the day and some exercise.

AJ

 

[steve1357]

2 or 3 for foil, 5 for nickles, 7 for pennies. Or there abouts.

What area (s) for gold?
Trying to figure the highest I can put it while still allowing gold in.
I'M GONNA FIND THAT RING lol

Again, get your wife's jewelry out and test. I have a small 14k plum ladies band that disappears at "foil" on all my Tesoros.

There's no shortcut brother. You want gold, dig everything. Maybe knockout small nails and paperclips, that's it.

Good luck

 

[Mega]

I would also agree no quick short cut,still reckon one of the best methods is place many common objects that you are after on say a lawn and keep going over these finds and remember what each item signal gives off and then its still not that easy,in the UK our silver hammered coins vary by a massive margin silver content wise as do gold hammered coins,gold jewellery also has various added metals so once again not a uniformal signal.

Knock as as little as possible and dig the rest,if we knock out silver foil then bang goes any chance of finding the prized hammered coins,these days i use as little discrimination as i can.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

I don't have any gold to check. :-(
That's why I'm looking for it.
A gent here did tests with the compadre and vaq and I have the pics where they fall out.
I can use the compadre then and set to lowest point one fell out.

 

[amberjack]

golds going to come in from iron to zinc, its not so much detector or settings its spot hunt a spot that you have a chance to find gold, set disc low and dig and when your sick of digging crap dig some more and after your sick of that dig some more.

reality is not everyone is cut out to hunt gold 99% of people with a detector don't know the disc goes below zinc.

so spot, disc low, dig ! it is that simple.

I hunted most every day last winter for 3 to 4 hrs a day for 9 gold rings , I dug many thousands and thousands of pull-tabs and assorted crap , get some nice by catch too, gold costs a lot cause its hard to find.

AJ

 

[steve1357]

I don't have any gold to check. :-(
That's why I'm looking for it.
A gent here did tests with the compadre and vaq and I have the pics where they fall out.
I can use the compadre then and set to lowest point one fell out.

Detectors discrimination circuitry is calibrated for coin sized objects. A larger piece of steel may ring up as a silver quarter. A smaller piece of gold jewelry may ring up as a nail.

Small ladies gold rings can ring up as low as foil. Gold ear rings even lower.

On my Fisher GoldBug, I have an mens gold ring that rings up identical to an old beavertail pull tab (VID66). I have a ladies gold ring that rings up identical to a new coke can tab someone broke off(VID33).

The conductivity reading the detector comes up with on say a silver quarter will also change from one quarter to another based upon depth, soil, moisture, time in the ground, etc.

No shortcuts old buddy.

Garrett has made millions off convincing people their detectors will let you see what's in the ground before you dig....