deepest tesoro

[jspeedy]

Couple questions...any opinions on which tesoro is the deepest, best in trash for coins? I hunt parks, schools, homes, plowed fields and the woods.
Thanks

 

[jspeedy]

Any opinions on the gold umax.

 

[John (Ma)]

I have tried the Silver Umax, Vaquero and Tejon and I personally think the Tejon is the deepest. However if you want a good all around detector for the areas and items you mentioned with good depth, I would go with the Vaquero. I like my Tejon for woods and fields.

 

[tvr]

Tejon is deepest in most conditions ... it loses depth in wet salt and black sand beaches (won't ground balance over wide enough range seems to be the primary issue). Tejon is very good in trash with the 5.75 inch concentric coil and can set the dual discriminators to do pretty well on determining if you are looking at most US coins or something else.

In very trashy and tough conditions others have their preferences in many of the older Tesoro detectors, but a small coil gets it done in trash no matter what detector you are using. Got to watch sweep speed; can't go too fast.


Try the search feature to search for Golden in the "search messages" line and go back 90 days or a year and you will find some opinions and observations with the Golden.
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[sqwaby]

If its just coins you want, turn the disc up on the Vaquero and you'll dig plenty of coins in those trash areas. Besides parks and home sites I hunt plantations(relics) and salt beaches with the V, It does it all, quite well, deepest coin was a clad dime at 10+ inches. Tried the golden, didn't like the tones and the notch setup wasn't for me. My nickel % did go up with the golden though.

 

[AUDuke]

Where I live the Vaq is twice as deep as the Tejon.

 

[Denar]

AUDuke this is impossibile, Tejon is the deepest.

 

[silversmith]

I'll bet a Lobo ST 'll give it a run for the money. Although the discriminator might be inadequate, for your usage.

 

[jabbo]

The Golden uMax, a very nice simple detector. Good for jewelry in parks, just go by the 4 tones, no meter to bother with. However, the 95 numbers on the Cortes meter is more precise than the Goldens 4 tones. I have both detectors. They each has 2 Notch systems, good for knocking out tabs (except broken off beaver tails, tabs broken in half, and smaller pieces of shredded cans) and still able to detect all 8 ladies gold rings that I tested when using Notch. Both Notches reject mens and class rings tho. Can even use the regular disc control along with the notches, so iron and even foil can be tuned out. If regular disc and Notch is used together, then the detection range would fall between disc setting (say foil) and tabs, thats where the ladies gold rings are. And will still get coins but zinc pennies can be notched out too if Wide Notch is used. Wide notch goes a little higher than Narrow notch so that zincs and screw caps can also be tuned out, not only tabs like Narrow notch does. The Golden also has a knob for adjusting the Notch beyond the factory preset.

 

[amcjavelin]

as much as i like the golden it's not that deep well at least not in my ground anyways, just my 2 cents worth

 

[jspeedy]

Good info.

Thanks All

 

[AUDuke]

AUDuke this is impossibile, Tejon is the deepest.

Come on out to my magnetite infested soil and you will see, A Tejon will hit a quarter at 5" tops.

 

[tab-nabit]

Been the Tejon for me.
As a side note - I have Super-tuned my Cibola at times so it can squeeze down a little extra from it's stock setting.

 

[Coinzappa]

Hey Guy, Happy New Year.

Just want to comment on that question also. For highly mineralized soils with the Tejon. To find deeper coins, you have to lower your Disc.1 down to a little lower than foil. Remember, to much Disc, you loose depth on any machine! So keep it below foil. Next, 2 Disc. you will set it up where it cracks on Nickel. If you get a good and stable hit on Disc.1, in both directions, side to side, up and down, but a crackle on Disc.2, does not mean it's not clad of silver. high Disc. did not allow you to detect deeper coins in that soil. So, as a matter of fact, you just might have hit on either one or even gold! Remember you said it only finds quarters five inches deep. Now with the Dic. lowered, you goona get better depth. The deeper the coin you gonna loose depth at higher settings.
In this video, I had my Tejon set all the way up, but that's because I was using th 5.75 widescan. But I'll show some other vid's with me using the Tejon in lower settings with standard coil going deep on silver!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKA9jpfC4Y

 

[lurksalot]

coil with the disc. maxed out. Sounds good for copper & silver.

 

[sqwaby]

Don't max out the disc, set to 2-3 oclock position. Any more than that and you might lose wheat pennies.

 

[AUDuke]

Nonsense, If you have to lower your disc to foil, what good is a discriminator? I can run my Vaq with high disc and still hit a deep quarter, and even with the disc set at foil on my Vaq it is still deeper than my Tejon on foil.

 

[Coinzappa]

Is your soil highly mineralized? If so, maybe your right with you vac, but not with the tejon! in low mineralized soil, the the tejon will blow every other unit out of the park! That's all she wrote!!!

 

[tvr]

AUDuke,
Does the Tejon actually ground balance to your dirt or do you run out of range and never get to a good ground balance? I've run into that occasionally and it sure does have an affect on the Tejon.

I've read before that the Vaquero has more ground balance range. Have not personally verified that, as I haven't used a Vaquero.
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[tab-nabit]

I've read before that the Vaquero has more ground balance range. Have not personally verified that, as I haven't used a Vaquero.
tvr

I'd like to know also if the V has a wider GB range than the T.