For those that have use a modded cibola and a vaq...?

[Stoof-tabsallday]

Haha I guess ill have to find out ....
Conflicting point of views. ..
This is what makes this place great and make me wonder more at the same time....
Awesome.
What I take from the is is they both will find gold!!!
That's gents!!

 

[Sven]

My Bandido found this tiny gold ring. I set disc so the small gold rings like this are not disc'd out.
But you'll dig foil. You want gold, you dig lots of junk

 

[walnut]

I can't shake the feeling I have that a Vaquero is just a Cibola with GB.

Or put the other way, a Cibola is a Vaquero without GB. And a green sticker.

 

[Hombre]

To get the best performance, the Bandido has to be set up right with a neutral GB, at least 10 on the sens. setting and minimum discrimination. The Bandido series were the first ED-120 expanded disc. machines, that means running with minimum disc. it is still knocking out small nails and that is what is needed to get the gold. The first thing to be considered with is LOCATION, if it ain't there, you ain't gonna find it. Popular swim beaches, sports fields, volley ball courts, basketball courts etec are the likely places to find gold, just be trash tolerant and carrt away your trash.

 

[steve1357]

Haha I guess ill have to find out ....
Conflicting point of views. ..
This is what makes this place great and make me wonder more at the same time....
Awesome.
What I take from the is is they both will find gold!!!
That's gents!!

Got any neighbors? Try her gold ring and report back.

I have a Silver uMax I can compare with, but I dont know how it compares to an obsolete Bandido.

It's all good.

 

[pinenut]

I wouldn't swap my Vaquero for any modded Cibola, unless I could open it up and inspect the work...and I got the Cibola with a $100 bill taped to it. My Vaquero is the first detector I grab, almost every time I go out. If I find a Cibola cheap enough, I'd pick one up just to have. I'm sure they don't work any better (or worse) than the Vaquero, though I do like those green stickers on the sides. ^_^

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

My Bandido found this tiny gold ring. I set disc so the small gold rings like this are not disc'd out.
But you'll dig foil. You want gold, you dig lots of junk

I'm sure it was some time ago, but where did you set your disc for that hunt?
Dont mind setting it low, just don't want to go too high to miss small things.
How did it sound? How deep did it end up being?
I get "fainter " signals sometimes so I'm just curious.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

If it's the 5.65, I'll buy it. But with the loss of the lifetime warranty, it will have to be at a loss to ya.
Otherwise I can buy it new and have a warranty forever

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

To get the best performance, the Bandido has to be set up right with a neutral GB, at least 10 on the sens. setting and minimum discrimination. The Bandido series were the first ED-120 expanded disc. machines, that means running with minimum disc. it is still knocking out small nails and that is what is needed to get the gold. The first thing to be considered with is LOCATION, if it ain't there, you ain't gonna find it. Popular swim beaches, sports fields, volley ball courts, basketball courts etec are the likely places to find gold, just be trash tolerant and carrt away your trash.

Haha I noticed that on my bench test!!! Nails don't even register!!!
Kind of a nice break in a small way. Can toll it way back and still doesn't pick up ALL the garbage.

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

To get the best performance, the Bandido has to be set up right with a neutral GB, at least 10 on the sens. setting and minimum discrimination. The Bandido series were the first ED-120 expanded disc. machines, that means running with minimum disc. it is still knocking out small nails and that is what is needed to get the gold. The first thing to be considered with is LOCATION, if it ain't there, you ain't gonna find it. Popular swim beaches, sports fields, volley ball courts, basketball courts etec are the likely places to find gold, just be trash tolerant and carrt away your trash.

I agree... if it isn't there, you're not finding it.
Also, if you don't dig, you're not finding it
But first part is more important. If Noone goes there to drop things they won't be there.

 

[amberjack]

well you guys have been having fun

did my 2hrs V line above iron, no gold today, but that's the life of a gold hunter hey

found gold with all my Tesoro's last winter except the 7" mono Compadre which is a wall hanging and the silver which i didn't use all the others found gold have to look in my book to tell you which coil but the outlaw found 3 i think so yep it finds gold.

today.

AJ

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

That ratio looks about right, but here in the states in my area we find whole cans lol.

 

[amberjack]

yeah guess its similar where ever we are to some degree, i am only in pre season training hunting 2hrs when i get fully fit i can do 4hrs like mid winter, so the odds of finding gold increase as more targets get dug.

yeah some parks have half & full cans they are a challenge to detect but are a good place to learn to detect as target listening, coil lifting etc all skills that we need and will serve us well through out urban coin / .jewellery hunting , its a sometimes very hard place to learn to detect, those that learn in the hardest environments end up becoming very good detectorists, its like any skill the harder we work at it and time spent doing it make us better at it.

reality is i can go weeks without finding gold do i do it for money (hell no) go to work if i want money, its something that i enjoy , maybe cleaning up local parks is not everyone's idea of fun, but for me its a great thing as my mind is in the right here right now and that's healthy

so summer time i night detect but i have other things i do in summer , but winter is gold season and well its a challenge and sure isn't for everyone, my mate lasts 20 mins he just cant disc at iron and dig, and most people cant or don't want too, so most of the gold remains and am sure the US is no different to here.

so it takes a special kind of stupid to park hunt gold

AJ

 

[Sven]

I have a Silver uMax I can compare with, but I dont know how it compares to an obsolete Bandido.

It's all good.

Bandido obsolete, no way. Tesoro still sells it, rebadged as the Outlaw. The Tigershark also has the Bandido circuitry inside it.
And the Tigershark is one of the best fresh water machines if you want to find small gold and silver jewelry.

 

[REVIER]

so it takes a special kind of stupid to park hunt gold

AJ

I KNEW IT!!!
I keep telling my wife this, that I am special...not the stupid thing which I kinda think she believes anyway.
Sure doesn't stop her from taking lots of my park hunting gold away from me, however.

 

[Sven]

My Bandido found this tiny gold ring. I set disc so the small gold rings like this are not disc'd out.
But you'll dig foil. You want gold, you dig lots of junk

I'm sure it was some time ago, but where did you set your disc for that hunt?
Dont mind setting it low, just don't want to go too high to miss small things.
How did it sound? How deep did it end up being?
I get "fainter " signals sometimes so I'm just curious.

Like Hombre said run disc at min. I take the smallest gold ring I have and set disc to not reject it, which is probably just above iron.
The ring was found just a few years ago.
I dig anything that the detector says is good target. Depending upon the Tesoro model, deeper or smaller targets can sound fainter.
Harder to tell how deep something is in disc mode with the C or V as deep target audio is amped up so it sounds similar to shallower targets.
One thing I didn't like about them. I would always switch to all metal mode and check the target and compare.

You have to get out there and just dig, after a week of digging trash, you'll get a good understanding of how the detector responds to good and trashy targets.
Talking about it won't help you, actual hunting will. If you just starting out and don't want to dig a ton of trash. Set your discrimination so it will accept a US nickle.
Your trash count will be down, you'll pick up most coin, silver and larger gold jewelry. Unless there's a disc'd out nail next to the good target which you won't hear as the nail will
be masking out the good target.

Once you learn how to properly use "one" of the Tesoro units you have, the others will be easy to set up and operate. If you try to learn all four at once, you won't master one.

 

[Sven]

If it's the 5.65, I'll buy it. But with the loss of the lifetime warranty, it will have to be at a loss to ya.
Otherwise I can buy it new and have a warranty forever

Too bad used Tesoro detector and coil prices stay stable or increase as the years pass. Warranty or not.
The Cibola is the one model everyone tends to give away cheaper than others. Deleons are a sleeper.
Usually found priced reasonable, a little more than a newer used Cibola, performs better, a bit deeper and has a meter.

If you have a Bandido (or current Outlaw), Deleon, and Vaq. you basically have a great coin and jewelry hunting team
and the Vaq doubles as a relic hunter.

 

[Sven]

Amazing how they want to see your gold finds, then see if the ring fits their fingers, look up at you and smile, then say thank you. Then expect you to go away so they can finish watching their TV show.
Preferably go back out and find some more.

 

[amberjack]

so it takes a special kind of stupid to park hunt gold

AJ

I KNEW IT!!!
I keep telling my wife this, that I am special...not the stupid thing which I kinda think she believes anyway.
Sure doesn't stop her from taking lots of my park hunting gold away from me, however.

love the big nose dog !

yeah we are special , or something similar

thanks for the smile !

AJ

 

[Stoof-tabsallday]

If it's the 5.65, I'll buy it. But with the loss of the lifetime warranty, it will have to be at a loss to ya.
Otherwise I can buy it new and have a warranty forever

Too bad used Tesoro detector and coil prices stay stable or increase as the years pass. Warranty or not.
The Cibola is the one model everyone tends to give away cheaper than others. Deleons are a sleeper.
Usually found priced reasonable, a little more than a newer used Cibola, performs better, a bit deeper and has a meter.

If you have a Bandido (or current Outlaw), Deleon, and Vaq. you basically have a great coin and jewelry hunting team
and the Vaq doubles as a relic hunter.

As long as my modded cibola counts as a vaq I have that department covered!! Lol

I'm having lots of fun. Even with digging trash.