got a cortes coming on trade

[calabash digger]

any suggestion on how to set it up for relic hunting? I found out you cant ground balance the thing except in all medal mode whats up with that?

 

[D&P-OR]

Same as it always been with that detector.----When you gb in am--it doesn't carry over to the disc side.----The Deleon is the same way.-----The Lobo ST is the same way also---I found that out the hard way in AZ about the LST.

any suggestion on how to set it up for relic hunting? I found out you cant ground balance the thing except in all medal mode whats up with that?

 

[Mike Hillis]

The thinking behind the lack of manual ground balance on the Disc side of these Tesoro macchines....1) The ground balance setting will shift your target id numbers. This is true as I've had 4 or 5 Cortes units and each of them where a little different in TID numbers, which I attribute to each of them having a slightly different ground balance point selected.

.....and 2) if the ground is hot enough to sink the Disc side preset point you are better off hunting in the no-motion all metal side with target ID anyway as the Target ID isn't going to be reliable in Disc mode.

My nickel.
HH
Mike

 

[calabash digger]

gotcha I was just thinking in my ground a little negative gb would make that thing really look deep into the ground.

 

[Welgund]

The Cortez isn't the best Tesoro for relic hunting. The Tejon or Vaquero would be the best for that. They are both far deeper and run with the best relic machines. Very few machines in mild ground can beat a Tejon with the 5.75 concentric in carpet of nails. The Vaquero in more mineralized ground is deeper than most machines with lightning fast recovery speed. My 4 machine rotation for relic hunting is the Feus, Nokta relic, Tejon and Vaquero. Them 4 machines are the best I have been able t9 find in my soil.

 

[D&P-OR]

Welgund-----Would you consider/classify your soil as being mild---moderate---or heavy mineralized?

The Cortez isn't the best Tesoro for relic hunting. The Tejon or Vaquero would be the best for that. They are both far deeper and run with the best relic machines. Very few machines in mild ground can beat a Tejon with the 5.75 concentric in carpet of nails. The Vaquero in more mineralized ground is deeper than most machines with lightning fast recovery speed. My 4 machine rotation for relic hunting is the Feus, Nokta relic, Tejon and Vaquero. Them 4 machines are the best I have been able t9 find in my soil.

 

[Welgund]

I live in southwest colorado in some of the nastiest soil you can imagine. The Vaquero is deeper than the Tejon in my soil conditions but with the high desert conditions and lack of any real moisture the targets are never real deep. The Tejon has a little better seperation and is sparkier in the iron and with the higher khz likes small brass and lead a little better. Ground conditions in the upper mountain mining camps, homesteads, are more forgiving than the valley where the old rail camps and homesteads are. Alkali has a tendancy to bleed up through the soil after some rains when we get them leaving these white patches all over.

 

[woodchiphustler]

When the machine just came out it was field tested at DIV 1. This site was low mineral. My friend had no problem digging relics .