cutlass umax II

[kylonghunter]

I was wondering what you guys thought of this older model...It has worked great for me over the years...

 

[Scully]

but ended up using it more than she did. This is my machine of choice for competition hunts. Its very fast, light, and easy to use. I once pulled a mans 14K white gold ring at a club hunt, that was not planted by huntmaster. Great little machine.

 

[R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla]

My wife found a nice dropped sharps in the woods, made her day, she still tells people about it after +3 years. Great machine!!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Great little machine.

Bill

 

[akelley]

The Cutlass II uMax is a great machine. Bought mine in '96 and used it on the beaches in Singapore for about two years and I never came back with less than $20 in clad in 1-2 hours. My success was in part because Singapore dollars are slightly bigger than a nickel and easy to lose. But they are made of aluminum & bronze, so there was little choice but to work in All Metal or Discriminate below 3 to mask out iron objects, only. That wasn't much of a hassle on the beach anyway, but as a result I learned to detect the audio signatures of each coin and became fairly good at knowing what was underneath before digging. I tended to use more discrimination in parks though, and I think the killer feature of this an several other Tesoro machines is the ability to quickly rotate the Discriminate dial while passing the coil over the object. I feel this is a close approximation to a TID machine for a lot less money. Moreover IMHO I found its a lot more fun to use audio to narrow down the type the object than by using a meter.

I recently moved back to the U.S. and took it out for a spin in a tot lot in a local park. I immediately purchased a 4" coil for it expecting the area to be too trashy for the 8", and found $1.75 in clad (see pic) within 90 min. I'm going to try the 8" coil this week, as I can cover a lot more ground in less time.

In summary I felt the Cutlass II was a great starter machine for me, because it taught me the discipline of training my ears to listen for subtle tonal differences in both trash and treasure. I also admire the mission and business practices of Tesoro and therefore won't be switching loyalties anytime soon. On that note I just ordered myself a Vaquero so that I can hunt deeper and take advantage of manual ground balance, and threshold. The V is ranked very high in the forums, so I suspect I'll be using my Cutlass a lot less from now on. If so then I may sell it with the hope that it'll turn someone onto the hobby like it did for me.