Bought a used Golden a few months ago. I like the four tones and the depth is close to my Cortes. In my 3 year old test garden I have a quarter buried 6", dime 5", and penny 6", plus 4 other coins at lesser depths. The quarter and dime always gave a bad signal, sort of iffy. Today, testing the Golden, I was getting a low tone where I thought the dime should be buried. I dug a plug and scanned it. The plug gave a low tone, and the pinpointer indicated metal in the plug. Found a very rusted 1/2" long piece of nail in the plug. And 5 - 6" from the spot where the quarter is buried I dug a plug and found a very rusted piece of nail there too. Both rusty pieces were found because I got mixed tones from the Golden. So, after removing the rusty stuff, the Cortes and the Golden detected and ID'd those two coins very nicely. For 3 years I thought the Cortes and my other detectors should detect that 6" quarter easier. I guess when I was making the test garden the Cortes didn't give me an audible signal from the nails and thats how I missed them. The Golden fixed up my garden right. Tones rule.
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Golden
- Thread starter jabbo
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amcjavelin
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yes they do i got a golden and love mine but i got to ship it back to tesoro so they can fix the speaker in it, if your using head phones it works fine but i cant stand the cord wiggling back and forth on me all the time drives me nuts, but other than i run it so i can hear everything in the ground and usually do pretty good
I don't plug my headphones into the back of the control box, the swaying cord would drive me nuts too. So I added a short cord, plugged it into the box and has a female end that is solidly anchored under the armcup, can be seen in the photo. Now the headphone cord plugs in under the armcup and hangs straight down my side like it should.
The Golden is my all time favorite Tesoro. It doesn't go as deep as some of the other Tesoro models, or four of my several other detectors, but it's great for coin hunting, has adequate depth and is fun to use. In my mild ground I've got dimes at 6 to 6.5 inches and quarters at 8 to 8.5 using the Shadow X2 "Super 7" coil, and it weighs next to nothing compared to my other detectors. The dime in the photo was the first coin I found with the Golden when I first got it in 2003. I was testing a Time Ranger upgrade for BH at the time, but the Golden came in and on the first hunt with both it and the Time Ranger I let a friend, Jim, use the TR so I could try the Golden. I got the signal, had Jim check it with the TR to see if it could get it and what the meter would show, then dug the dime and carefully measured the depth so I could record it for the TR test. It was dead on 6 inches down, and although the signal was fairly weak I have no doubt the Golden would have got it a half inch or more deeper. The quarter was the last silver coin found with the Golden, it was a tad over 8 inches down, directly under a wrist size root. In almost 40 years of detecting I've found thousands of coins, and have used a lot of detectors that would go deeper than the Golden, but would bet I haven't found two dozen coins that were beyond the depth capability of the Golden. I just need to use it more
. One thing I've noticed about my Golden that might be of interest to other Golden users, when the battery gets down to four beeps it loses a little depth, loses more at three beeps and at two beeps it only gets maybe half as much depth as it does with a fresh battery.
Link:Time Ranger Test
. One thing I've noticed about my Golden that might be of interest to other Golden users, when the battery gets down to four beeps it loses a little depth, loses more at three beeps and at two beeps it only gets maybe half as much depth as it does with a fresh battery. Link:Time Ranger Test
Just got a golden, wanted to try the tones. Had a ace for a while and liked the tones, the display I didn't care for. So why not try the golden since I like my Vaq so much. I've been using a vaq for over a year now and really like it, good target separation and especially the depth. The Vaq is the same way when the battery gets to 4 beeps, a little depth loss. The other thing is that it doesn't run as smooth at high sens(8 or 9), I have to drop back to 6 or 7. I never run a battery till 2 beeps. Hope I like the golden as much as the Vaq.
amcjavelin
Active member
Wow jabbo that's quite the set up you got there, that battery pack, does that add alot more weight?