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Cibola or Vaquero - Can't decide. Please help!

G

Gopher

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I live in northern Calif. and i'm told the soil in this area is pretty mild. The Cibola seems so easy to just set the threshold and go to it. I have a Whites M6 and have to find a clean spot to ground balance each time I use it which is not always easy to find around this old house I live in. Is there that much difference in depth between the Cibola that's preset and Vaquero that would be balanced to the ground being searched?
The easy set up of the Cibola appeals to me but I don't want to give up much depth to get it. Thanks for any help and experiences you can offer. Mark
 
See if I can be of any help. The Cibola will work just fine provided the ground matrix (mineralization) isn't really bad. If the ground isn't too nasty the depth would be roughly the same. What type of hunting are you planning to do? Are you planning to travel some distance from your home to detect? Obviously the manual ground balance will give you more versatility to search areas without the concern of "bad" ground. Another thing worth mentioning. Manual ground balancing isn't a highly technical procedure. There is a video of the procedure on the Tesoro home page that shows pretty well how to do it.
Speaking from a personal viewpoint I have used both manual and fixed ground balance not only in my home area but on some pretty dicey areas and while I have found that manual was a little deeper I could hunt in fixed ground balance without too much concern. Given the choice however, particularly if this will be your only detector, I probably would go with the Vaquero.
One other thing which may be open to discussion is purchasing a used Tesoro. That is if you feel comfortable doing so.
Pap
 
Hi,
I'd like to add that if you purchase the Vaquero you will have tha option of the manual ground balance in the areas where you truly need it and it doesn't hurt a bit in the areas you don't. And, as Pap says, it's not a complicated procedure. My two bits,
Bill
 
Gopher I'm not sure where your at in NorCal (I'm up here too), but Northern California soil is complex,the turf ranges from mild to wild, and beaches are altogether another story. It just depends on where your hunting, lots of minerals in some areas and the glacerial and volcanic activity up here has left a kalidoscope of soil conditions. I'm finding this out as I hunt different areas. Anywho, just something to keep in mind.
 
Gopher, I'm with Cal... my central cal soil is usually great, but there's a few spots that I must use a GB detector.
Some of the saltwater beaches have lots of black sand minerals & hot rocks...
HH
 
IMO - Even though the Cibola is a great machine which will work well in mild to moderate soil conditions, if I had to choose between the two I would go for the Vaquero just for the added assurance of being able to maximize the machine for a variety of soil conditions.
My first Tesoro was the Cibola which I still have. I wanted the Vaquero but my son was learning metal detecting and he would be using the Tesoro at times. He felt that he wasn't ready for a manual ground balance machine, otherwise it would have been the Vaquero. So I leaned towards his way to keep any discouragement from using a Tesoro. Well afterwards I fixed that - I have added five more Tesoro's since :blink:
And I still have the Cibola :detecting:
 
It doesn't surprise me that the Vaquero is the favored machine over the Cibola and rightly so. Thanks everyone for your opinions. Mark
 
Went out with my new Vaquero. I pondered the night before about the ground balancing, but it was actually pretty easy. Hunted a soccer field for about 45 minutes and got 9 coins. Just for the heck of it I checked my ground balance when I finished and I feel it was still the same. I had my disc. set 2 marks above iron and it ran pretty quiet. Much quieter then my MXT did over the same ground.Some guys will say that GB is overblown, I personally don't know. But the Vaquero was sure much, much quieter then my MXT.
 
Here's my two cents worth. Went out with my new Vaquero a couple of days ago. I found 9 coins in an area where I had hunted before with my MXT. I had my Disc. 2 marks above the iron mark and it was much, much quieter than my MXT had been over the same area. I must say I was rather preplexed about the manual GB procedure but me thinks I got it right. Practiced some more today in my test garden and the GB procedure got easier as I went along.
 
Hay Xwyokid,

I don't know how you go about ground balancing. But,

Monte advises that ground balancing may be easier if

the sensitivity is set lower for the procedure.

He said that this applies more for the Vaquero and the

Tejon with H.O.T. technology.

Hope this information is helpful for some one.

HH,
 
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