First Bandido finds.

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Well in the last 16 1/2 years. Went out in the yard today to try out the Bandido. Nothing old but still cool. oldest 1963 penny-1965 dime.
1-dime
1-nickle
9-Penny's
Lots of junk.
The Bandido did a good job on iron but I dug just about everything to try and learn. I found the nickle next to a nail and after picking the nickle checked the hole and didn't pick up the nail. I have a lot to learn but am trying.
Thanks for everyones help.
Jack

 

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[Monte]

[quote tabdog]My Silver Saber Umax doesn't pick up all nails. It has an ED 120 discriminator which doesn't go as low into iron a the ED 180 as on my Cibola. I like them both.

Even though the SS Umax doesn't quite pick up nails sometimes, I can usually tell they are there because when it rejects them it makes a scratchy sound. Then to better identify and locate it I use the VCO all metal mode which doesn't reject iron so much. I even picked a steel BB that was half rusted away.[/quote]That's right. The models with a true ED-120 discriminate circuit are set above most iron nail rejection when at 'minimum.' Because of that, most iron nails will be rejected and not heard, but they are there. Some will give a good signal off the end of the nail, depending upon the mineralization, the nail's position and any possible deterioration and the amount of moisture present.


The Silver Sabre

 

[Monte]

[quote action]The Bandido did a good job on iron but I dug just about everything to try and learn. I found the nickle next to a nail and after picking the nickle checked the hole and didn't pick up the nail. I have a lot to learn but am trying.[/quote]Jack, thanks for the photo of one of the absolute best Tesoro's of all time!


That was a nice shot of the detector with the finds. Most Tesoro's can do reasonably well on iron trash rejection, but only the Compadre today rejects iron nails as cleanly as the circuitry used then when set similar to the Bandido. It might have been possible to get a response from the nail, if it had sufficient size, or off from the end of the nail (mainly before it was exposed and the soil disturbed by it),

After Tesoro introduced their Inca I immediately switched over to using Tesoro's as my primary use units, and continued doing so for over a decade before I added some other models to my regular battery. The main reason was because they had excellent performance in the Disc. mode, and handled iron trash quite well. Too much discrimination at the minimum setting with the earlier models, but when the Bandido came out in early '90 with the new ED-120 discriminate circuitry, it became my #1 old-coin producing unit as I reworked the same old town sites.

With a minimum discriminate setting that's just above iron, and lacking some of the noisier operation of latter models, it made the Bandido a pleasure to use in those iron-littered old RR ghost towns, and with much less target masking, my finds-in-trash really increased.

Keep enjoying your Bandido, and posting such great photos!

Monte

 

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And you dig everything to try and learn - well as far as I am concerned, your sure doing it right.
And Bandido - WTG

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah my all time favorite detector. Tough to beat that old war horse.

Bill