Cibola VS Vaquero

[birdman]

I do not know much about Tesoro' s so I figured I would ask.What is the main difference between these two machines?Would a Vaquero be worth the extra money? My next purchase may be a cibola (as long as my wife don't know)LOL Just looking for info. Thanks and happy holidays.

 

[Les in the UK]

The Vaquero is the same detector as the Cibola except that the Vaquero detector has manual ground balance and the Cibola has fixed GB, some people prefer the manual GB over the fixed because on sites that have a lot of minerals on them the manual will get you a little more depth on some targets. It is also said that if you set the GB wrong you can also lose depth so tell the guys where you live and what your soil is like and if people live near you they will tell you what they use and what detector is best to use in your area.
All the best from the UK Les

 

[Anonymous]

The Vaqueros Disc control can be set (clicked) to All Metal and the Cibola just to min. Disc.

HH,
Andy

 

[Monte]

They both provide similar ranges of discrimination from very minimal (accepting most metals) on up to reject zinc cents and a little more. They are basically the same detector except for:

1.. The Vaquero has a conventional threshold-based All Metal mode. It does require some coil motion due to the autotuning to mainthain the Threshold, but you can hunt in that All Metal mode.

2.. The Vaquero has a manual GB control to properly set the detector for peak performancer depoending upon the ground mineral environment, and for the particular coil in use.

Do you need it? Hard to say, but if you are hunting in highly mineralized ground that is more aggressive than the GB is set for with the Cibola, you can have falsing and very poor performance.

Good ground conditions and you probably wouldn't notice a difference in performance, other than the fact that you can select the All Metal search more with the Vaquero.

Monte

 

[Les in the UK]

Tesoro could have put a togle switch on the Cibola instead of a push button pin point so that you could put it in all metal just like the old Silver sabre models had, many thanks for telling me about the lower disc - all metal setting on the Vaquero i never new that it could do that.