Happy_Hour
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Was this detector made for the U.S or the U.K.
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Euro Sabre
- Thread starter Happy_Hour
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As it uses the Tesoro as the main brand name rather than the Laser brand name which is aimed at the UK market,then i would say that it was aimed at the general European market in general.Of course i would think that you could still buy the machine in the UK like other Tesoro detectors.
However, it fell a bit short on acceptance at the time . It was then offered with a bigger coil here in the USA and directed towards the Relic Hunting market, most of that being in the SE USA to Civil War era hunters or any market that might have an interest. I live way 'Out West' but Relic Hunt old iron infested sites most of the time and, being a Tesoro Dealer at the time, figured I ought to give one a fair try. I did. Matter of fact I gave a couple of them ample time afield as I ordered in two or three and worked them against other Tesoro's in my arsenal and some competitor's brands.
The first thing I noticed was that they didn't really work all that well with the oversize 10X12 coil. I believe it was the 8X9 they offered it with on the European market and felt that might have been better. So I also worked the Euro Sabre with the 8X9 that came on my Eldorado. Better, in some ways, but still not impressed with it when hunting in dense iron contaminated sites, and trust me, those are exactly the tough challenging sites I spend most of my time in.
My better performance was with the Tesoro 7" Concentric coil. But when I say 'better' I am referring to how it worked compared with the other size search coils. Spending an equal amount of search time with the Euro Sabre, Eldorado, Bandido II and Bandido II µMAX, all using the 7" Concentric coil or an 8" 'donut' Concentric coil, I looked at the percentage of good finds made for equal time spent and the winner was the Bandido II µMAX, closely followed by the Bandido II, and the Euro Sabre and Eldorado were about tied for 3rd. Of the two, there were things I didn't care for in audible performance and I let the Eldorado go. I hoped that, in time, the Euro Sabre & I would get along better. We didn't.
The Iron audio only worked so-so and only on targets within a more limited depth range. Also, I didn't ever feel I was getting satisfactory depth of detection on coin-sized targets. In a matter of months I parted with the better of the two which I had kept in my detector battery. Note that I said the "better of the two" which is something I came to learn with a loot of Tesoro models, especially earlier offerings, that there could be what I call 'hot' or 'cold' specimens out of every batch.
I wondered if maybe I didn't give them a fair enough shake at the time and in early 2014, I believe it was, I came across two ads for Euro Sabre's and bought them both! I used a 6" Concentric, 7" Concentric, 8" donut Concentric and 8X9 Concentric on them and worked both Relic Bunting sites as well as a number of urban Coin Hunting locations. Again, better with the smaller size coils when it came to classifying probable iron, not very impressive depth compared with the Tesoro's I had at the time, and didn't work nearly as well as I hoped when it came to iron/non-iron audio response performance. It took a while but I finally managed to get rid of them.
A nice concept that didn't go over well in Europe and obviously didn't get appreciated much here in the USA, either. If it would have worked really well, I think it would have stayed in production and there would be more satisfied users. Maybe they can get an engineer who can figure out how to make a few of their past models better?
Monte
The first thing I noticed was that they didn't really work all that well with the oversize 10X12 coil. I believe it was the 8X9 they offered it with on the European market and felt that might have been better. So I also worked the Euro Sabre with the 8X9 that came on my Eldorado. Better, in some ways, but still not impressed with it when hunting in dense iron contaminated sites, and trust me, those are exactly the tough challenging sites I spend most of my time in.
My better performance was with the Tesoro 7" Concentric coil. But when I say 'better' I am referring to how it worked compared with the other size search coils. Spending an equal amount of search time with the Euro Sabre, Eldorado, Bandido II and Bandido II µMAX, all using the 7" Concentric coil or an 8" 'donut' Concentric coil, I looked at the percentage of good finds made for equal time spent and the winner was the Bandido II µMAX, closely followed by the Bandido II, and the Euro Sabre and Eldorado were about tied for 3rd. Of the two, there were things I didn't care for in audible performance and I let the Eldorado go. I hoped that, in time, the Euro Sabre & I would get along better. We didn't.
The Iron audio only worked so-so and only on targets within a more limited depth range. Also, I didn't ever feel I was getting satisfactory depth of detection on coin-sized targets. In a matter of months I parted with the better of the two which I had kept in my detector battery. Note that I said the "better of the two" which is something I came to learn with a loot of Tesoro models, especially earlier offerings, that there could be what I call 'hot' or 'cold' specimens out of every batch.
I wondered if maybe I didn't give them a fair enough shake at the time and in early 2014, I believe it was, I came across two ads for Euro Sabre's and bought them both! I used a 6" Concentric, 7" Concentric, 8" donut Concentric and 8X9 Concentric on them and worked both Relic Bunting sites as well as a number of urban Coin Hunting locations. Again, better with the smaller size coils when it came to classifying probable iron, not very impressive depth compared with the Tesoro's I had at the time, and didn't work nearly as well as I hoped when it came to iron/non-iron audio response performance. It took a while but I finally managed to get rid of them.
A nice concept that didn't go over well in Europe and obviously didn't get appreciated much here in the USA, either. If it would have worked really well, I think it would have stayed in production and there would be more satisfied users. Maybe they can get an engineer who can figure out how to make a few of their past models better?
Monte
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I bought one, really nice shape, nice looks, worked great but lacked depth to my liking. Probably one Monte once owned and tried. Sold it, bought it back cheap and resold it.
Does find Canadian clad nickels. Had it one out one year with my Pi. Hunted with both that day, had less time on the Pi as the battery died. Everything was found within 1- 5" at this site.
Found a lot less junk with my Pi. Like Monte tried hard liking it. And did try 3 different coils on it. I would have preferred the Eldorado I had a few years back.
Does find Canadian clad nickels. Had it one out one year with my Pi. Hunted with both that day, had less time on the Pi as the battery died. Everything was found within 1- 5" at this site.
Found a lot less junk with my Pi. Like Monte tried hard liking it. And did try 3 different coils on it. I would have preferred the Eldorado I had a few years back.