BEST AND WORST TESORO EVER MADE??

[Michigan Badger]

Howdy Michigan Badger
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, I have been in this hobby fourteen years,a short time i'm sure from the reports of some of you OL' Heads in the hobby. But i have become a student in the art form of Teckt'n, in this short time that I have been doing this hobby I have tried to glean everything I could learn. From reading W&E Treasures to books written by Ty Brooks , CJC , Robert Sinclair and others . Then I go out in the fields and OLD homesights and pratice. You have to swing your coil over old and historic ground to find the things that make treasure magazine articles, and I am working on a story to submit to some treasure mag. The item I found was found with a Tesoro detector...........the great Toltec II. This machine may not be the deepest , but it is the detector I seem to make my greatest finds with.This is the key to succesful detecting, get to know your detector......period. HH ....................Hombre

Hope your article makes it into the mag.

You're so right about location. Lots of people hunt the same old easy sites over and over again and then blame the detector because they're not finding much. To make the finds one must pay the price. That usually includes travel and it always requires guts. Most people who do this hobby are too fearful to make any really great finds.

And too there's a lot more to a good detector than depth. I own some that are mega deep and I rarely find anything of value with them. They get masked out too easily and/or are unable to separate targets well.

You might laugh at this but I've found more at some sites with a Silver uMax than with a Tejon, Nautilus IIB, Sovereign GT, or Minelab Explorer II.

 

[WilliamJB]

What is the point of haveing a huge target id display? I guess if you are legaly blind or are to proud to wear contact's or glass's if need be then a huge monster display might come in handy but for what I do not know. It is not like you are going to be watching TV on the LCD display while out metal detecting? How big of an icon does it take to tell you it is a nail,quarter,dime,nickle,foil or gold etc???????? In my mind consistent performance with better then average depth,discrimanation and excellent automatic ground ballance. I actualy prefer tone id over pictorial id tone id is much faster then looking for an icon or a series of numbers etc...... This is why we speak with tones and not numbers even when write we do not use icons we use letters to form words based on sound. Pictorial id is for lazy people that donot want to take the time to learn 4 different tones and what they corralate too. In fact target id is really only useful to coin shoots since gold often shows up as foil or nickles. It is an excuse not to get down on your hands and knees and digg. I think it is silly to but much faith in target id unless you are looking for coins that are not gold. Have you ever noticed that people with target id type units seem to find a boat load of coins and very little gold??? I do not think this is a mistake or a flaw in the machine or anything like that! It is because they are being to picky in what they dig for. They are ignoreing pull tabs and nickles and foil so they are missing a lot of gold items. In my mind the ability to deal with hot rocks and iron ore and heavily mineralized soil are far more important then a big target id screen. In fact I would rather have a device that vibrated a tranducer against my neck combined with audio any day over haveing to look at a screen and wait for electronic slot machine like sounds to figure out what it is under the soil! In fact how come they I cannot have Monty Paython,Or some Beety Boop voice like my GPS unit does. I mean it can not be that hard to have the machine just say the word "Gold,Foil,Iron,Nickle"etc........I have been looking really hard at Tesor lately and 3/4 of their line up is under $500 so I do not see where they are not a good value. They do all the important stuff really well they just do not give you an electronic circus to keep your eys busy!

 

[kered]

No mention of the Golden

 

[WilliamJB]

Is their such a thing as a bad Tesoro???? Is that like trying to pick the ugliest super model ever?LOL Tell you what anyone that has a bad Tesoro that is either not working,does not work the way you would like or you have just gotten tired of it can send it to me. I know I am being very generious offering to take you unwanted Tesoro's off your hands for nothing but hey someone has to be man enough to step up tot he plate and take one for the team!!!LOL If you need my address just PM me and I will send it too you. I you have any awful equipment from Minelab,Whites,Fisher,Tesoro feel free to send it my way. I promise that between me and my three boys it will have a good home and will be cheerished and well cared for!!!-

 

[Hombre]

Howdy WilliamJB

Hummm..... let me think awhile on your offer..................................No, I don't think so. Good try anyway!!!!!!!!!! Have a good'n......Hombre

 

[WilliamJB]

Hey you can not blame a guy for trying!!!! My cousin almost got a really nice sports car for $1 she did not call on it when she say the add! She thought it must have been a misprint of a salvaged piece of junk. When her Dad finaly made her call on it turns out the owner had just sold it! He came home from work early one day and caught the wife in bed with another man. So he was selling everything before filling for a divorce this way she would not get he hands on anything of value! So sometimes good deals happen for all the wrong reason!!! Never let it be said I was not willing to take one for the team!!!LOL

 

[Anonymous]

[size=large]the 'original' Bandido as the best, even though I am torn a bit between it and a few others. I liked the 'original' Eldorado, but the Bandido that replaced it had better balance and easy-to-reach controls, not to mention the excellent ED-120 discrimination. Another all-time favorite is the

 

[eddiem717]

I have a Tesoro Royal Sabre I bought in about 1983 and it is by far the best machine I've ever had. I have found everything from gold rings to silver rings, and lots of them, and thousands of coins> I just sent it in to get serviced then I'm off to Florida to hunt the beaches. If anyone else has an old Royal or old golden Sabre I would like to hear from you.
Thanks
Ed
Gilbert ,Az

 

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

Golden UMax (coins)

 

[Ray_Reed]

Worst made has to be the Cortes... quality control issues, I bought one and the discrimination was way off to block a nickel you had to go way past the nickel mark and the ground balance knob wobbled so I sent it back to the dealer and he sent a new unit...same problems! for that kind of bread it should work right when you purchase it...ended up selling it and got a Silver uMAX that works great had the new dealer check it out before mailing it to me, one more thing about the Cortes is the screen is so small the sun glare makes it all but useless. If I were to grade them the Silver gets a A+ and the Cortes a F bad luck maybe but you decide.