Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

DeepTech

Best Lobo ST Coils for Coin Shooting...

W

Woodstock

New member
Hello Everyone. I'm expecting to get a Lobo ST in the near future. I would like other Lobo owners advice on the best coin shooting coil available. And I'd like to know what Tesoro coils work on the Lobo.
I hope to use the Lobo ST for future prospecting but at the present time would like to use it as a backup to my Explorer SE and as a turn on and go coin shooter.
This is my second Tesoro. I still own my first, a original Silver Sabre from the spring of 83'. It retired now but still kicks butt. Tesoro makes the most sensitive and best balanced machines in the industry and I'd like advice on the best coils to use with it and any tips you'd like to share with me.
Best Regards and Happy Hunting to all, Woodstock
 
I had trouble pinpointing when using the standard elliptical coil on my LST. Also had the same trouble with the big 10x12 coil. When I put a 9X10 concentric coil on, the targets were dead center in the middle of the coil and didn't move around as you dug the hole. If I still had the LST I would certainly get the 5.75 coil. I feel small coils are a must have. I find many more items with the small coil because target 'masking' is not as big a problem with small coils. And of course pinpointing with a small coil is a snap. I'm now using a Fisher F2 with a small coil and it kicks!

All the best

CliffHanger
 
The standard eliptical is better in trashy areas than the 9x10 altho it requires a,different pinpointing techneque and handles hot ground better. The bigger coils are not good in trashy areas.
 
www.tesoro.com..If You Want To Specialize In Coins, Why Are You Buying The Lobo S/T?? Yes, It's A Good Coin & Relic Machine But It Is DESIGNED For Gold Nuggetts! Max
 
I'm using it as an "all around" machine and the Lobo ST is designed to be a all around machine, not just a nugget picker. If it designed only for gold it would not need any full range discrimination. At the current time there are no nuggets where I live. But if I ever decided to do some prospecting I have a detector that can do both. I guess your trying to say if I wanted to look for coins I should look for a coin detector. But they don't make coin detectors, they make metal detectors and a Lobo ST is one of the best metal detectors around. But it's "old school" without the fancy ID's to tell you what the detector thinks it is. The problem with that is a detector only analyzes and doesn't think, we think. And it's not designed with a fancy screen or imaging coil that shows you an image of the size of the object it analyzed but doesn't guarantee it's a coin. It may be only a brass ring or washer that's conductivity is similar to a coin. So there really isn't metal detector that only finds coins and you don't know what's down there till you dig it up and look. Thanks for your advise Max but if you think I have the wrong detector for coins that's your opinion. Before ID's and Imaging you had to rely on the sound and knowing what your detector was telling you. It was your decision to dig or not, not your ID or Image having you make the choice. All in all I think it's the right choice for those seeking a "all around" detector that fits "all" situations. It's higher frequency makes it sensitive to smaller objects, not just nuggets an gold objects..coins and jewelry too.
Thanks to everyone who advised me about coils and thank you Max for your opinion on what it's supposed to be used for, but after 27 years of detecting I knew that already. I just wanted opinions on good coils and I received what I needed, that's it.. Happy Hunting, Woodstock
 
3x18" Widescan (COIL-3x18W-SW-G-LITE; comes w/first scuff & lower pole) $199 $16
5.75" Round Concentric (COIL-5.75RC-SC-G; includes scuff) $129 $8
5.75" Widescan w/long cable (COIL-5.75W-LC-G; comes w/scuff) $129 $8
5.75" Widescan w/short cable (COIL-5.75W-SC-G; comes w/scuff) $129 $8
8" Round Concentric (COIL-8RC-LB-G) $129 $8
8
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top