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DeepTech

First Hunt with Cortes

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Well finally made it out with my new Cortes yesterday! Went to a County Fair Grounds. Was mainly a learning how the machine works. Found it to be quite a bit more sensitive than my Bounty Hunter - chattering quite a bit. Was a little concerned but my buddy was using a Garrett Ace 250 and he was noticing the same thing. Turned down the sensitivity and it settled down and did quite well. Found 4 quarters, 3 dimes, 1 nickel , 10 pennies and 2 token. Seems like there was lots of trash as it was picking up signals on every swing. I think I will like this machine but will need to learn how to understand what it is telling me. Looking forward to getting more hours on it. It does seem to pinpoint well also.
 
problem is owners get impatient and give up.

One thing I've always liked about all Tesoros is the good targets usually just pop out at you.

All deep machines make a little noise as you sweep the coil. The detector is reacting to ground minerals and/or discriminated out trash. Thus the popping, crackling, etc.

Personally I don't care for a detector that's always dead silent.

To learn the Cortes I'd recommend digging anything that you think might be good. Do this until you learn the language of the machine and the associated meter readings.

All of us get so taken up with depth but the truth is today most any VLF detector goes deep enough to reach 95% of what's worth digging..The real issue today is target separation--being able to tell treasure from trash.

Tesoro excels in this field. I've used the Explorers and they are great but heavy and slower. Other brands are also very deep and good in their own ways. But, when it comes to quantity of keeper finds--nothing beats a Tesoro. This is true of all their models not just the Tejon.

I'm big on ground balance but if it came down to some other brand with ground balance and a Tesoro model without it--I'd go with the Tesoro. Why? experience has shown me that Tesoros produce better than any other brand.

Badger
 
Badger is telling you straight. When you can get a smaller coil for the trashy areas, I've been using the 5.75 concentric on my DeLeon and have been quite surprised at the depth for a smaller coil and it does help separate the goodies from the trash very well.
HH
BB
 
Just a thought. Power lines above and below ground will cause chatter. Smaller coil helps but
that's like painting a barn with a one inch wide brush.
My thought.
Willard in Spokane
 
The Cortes does has its on language, It sounds silly but some days I feel as if I'm one with it :)shrug:) where I can move at pretty good clip and pick out a coin a mile away and other days I'm just not in sync with it. I have hunted around some big underground powerlines and it still does fine, you just have to contend with the interference and listen through it.
 
I am certainly not dissapointed, I know I have a learning curve. I was acturally quite pleased with my results for the first time out. Thanks for the advice and input, I am new and will accept any pointers and advice, not to proud to know I have a lot to learn.
Thanks
 
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