For those that can't decide on which Tesoro to get....

[Sven]

Get a catalog cut out the pictures, paste them to a board that rotates, take an ice pick in one hand, close your eyes, spin the wheel when it stops, press the ice pick to the board.
That's the one you'll buy first. They all work excellent and get the job done.

If you have the xtra cash, spin again......

 

[artzstuff1]

That sounds like a good method to me!!!,, I have 8-9 laying around here somewhere.

 

[Sven]

Must be tough deciding which one to use...........I could easily fall into that trap myself.

 

[D&P-OR]

Must be tough deciding which one to use...........I could easily fall into that trap myself.

Oh well, that's a SIMPLE decision!------Just use the same "procedure" as the initial post here---only substitute "buy first" to "use first"---and ya got it!------If you're ambidextrous & can use one in each hand--spin board again!

 

[Woodchuck]

Yeah except you forgot the part where I got the D - - - - - as my first ever Tesoro ! and it was no good in soil here.Theres a major flaw in your logic.How about we pick the one we want and you pay for it.and if we don't like it theres no money out of hour pocket if it doesn't perform well in our neck of woods?,sounds fair to me.

 

[wltdwiz]

sven
well said

 

[Sven]

Yeah except you forgot the part where I got the D - - - - - as my first ever Tesoro ! and it was no good in soil here.Theres a major flaw in your logic.How about we pick the one we want and you pay for it.and if we don't like it theres no money out of hour pocket if it doesn't perform well in our neck of woods?,sounds fair to me.

Ahhhh, the plus side, if the Deleon or any other Tesoro you choose is not a happy camper in your soilage, you can easily sell it FAST and buy another Tesoro without losing too much cash.

 

[oldcoon]

Theres a major flaw in your logic.How about we pick the one we want and you pay for it.and if we don't like it theres no money out of hour pocket if it doesn't perform well in our neck of woods?

The flaw is the operator didn't take the proper time to learn his machine. Many take a machine out one, two or three times, don't do well with it and proclaim it doesn't do well in our soil. The soil is a good, convenient thing to blame. Nobody is going to defend the soil. You never blame the nut behind the handle grip. They never learned how to properly use their machine.

Any recognized brand machine will do well enough in any soil if you take the time to learn how to use it. I hear a lot about the red soil conditions in Virginia but yet there are guys there using Tesoro Vaqueros with the manual ground balancing feature that learned how to defeat the mineralization and are making credible finds.

I have been in this game since the 1960s and I am here to tell you there's one thing I've learned that you can take to the bank and back and that is it doesn't matter how good of a detector you have but how good you can use the detector you have.

 

[finnfoto]

Well I've eliminated 5 whites units. 2 garretts and now am holding on to 3 tesoro's. a silver saber in an otter box. a cibola in an otter box nd a sweeet little compadre.

 

[jmaryt]

dispenser of sage wisdom!. yes! indeed!
"dead nuts" accurate!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[Sven]

You can hand me any detector old or new, cheap model or expensive and I will find coins.
Buy a detector use it for several months get about 100 hours on it and you'll find what you thought was a not so wonderful detector,
maybe a hot number to hang on to. You can't really make a expert decision unless you give the unit a good try out.
I have a Fisher Edge that I wasn't too impressed with at first, after reading posts that many have a hard time with it they sell them fast.
Kept on using it, every time out with it started to like it more and more. Was not used to multi tones and the Id was not so good with modern Canadian clad.
After much trial and error, it turns out it's a very nice unit and does very well with our clad. It's a toss up sometimes whether to use the Eldorado or the Edge.
Depth wise they are on par, which makes the choice a bit harder. The Eldo comes out when I don't want to listen to multitones. The Edge makes a good cherry picking machine looking for Loons and Toons. I have now learned both machines and have taken what I learned from the Edge and applied it to my Tesoro for coins on edge.
So I suggest buying a detector and learning how to use it completely at least for a summer, before deciding on a new detector. What I have done in the past before selling a detector I knew how to use well for something everyone raves is a new better unit. I would buy the newer unit use it for several months. Then if I felt it was a better unit would sell my older unit. Or keep it as a back up. The grass is not always greener on the other side.

As a added note, it might take you some time before you settle into one unit. Something about some detectors you will find not appealing. No matter how much better the unit might be, you'll hate using it. I had a MXT and couldn't stand the tones, the pitch I found irritating, besides being a noisey detector. Almost wrapped it around a tree. But, will say it was a great unit overall. Just didn't appeal to me, liked the Cortes better.