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got my first Tesoro
- Thread starter qicpic
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I think you'll love the Vaquero. I use the ACE 250 also. I bought one of those cheapie 4x6 photo albums and make my own 4x6 cards to put in it. Getting forgetful in my old age so now I don't forget nothing. I review this booklet often. Keeps me focused. That other card is a 4x6 card I made that shows where different things "fall out" when you turn the disc knob to the right. That card is laminated (done at Kinko's). I have another laminated card I make for the ACE.
Other than a Garrett Propointer, good headphones REALLY help by 1. blocking out the outside sounds and 2. hearing your target sounds MUCH better and 3. seems to keep people from asking intelligent questions like, "are you finding anything?" "Well I found 3 human skulls but only one of them had 2 gold teeth!"
Other than a Garrett Propointer, good headphones REALLY help by 1. blocking out the outside sounds and 2. hearing your target sounds MUCH better and 3. seems to keep people from asking intelligent questions like, "are you finding anything?" "Well I found 3 human skulls but only one of them had 2 gold teeth!"
Qicpic. Indeed the Vaquero is a fine machine. I've had mine about a year now, and I'm very impressed with it. Good depth and super light to boot.
I've used it on the beach a few times. Dry sand it was great, very sensitive to coins and to small gold (that day found a small open-faced gold crown with it that weighed about 0.8 grams).
That convinced me that it was sensitive enough to gold.
Wet beach (at least for salt water), the machine only worked fair - a lot of chattering from the salt, and some loss in depth. I ran the sens down a bit (at 6) and seemed to calm down then. It wasn't that great on the wet sand unfortunately - but that is to be expected from a single frequency Vlf machine - most aren't that good around salt water.
Dry land - you won't have any issues unless your ground is heavily mineralized. I'm from Florida, all we have is sand mostly, no mineralization to deal with.
I personally recommend the 5.5" coil as a great accessory - especially for park hunting, or anywhere that is trashy. It separates targets very well, is super light, and still gets good depth.
I can still get 6-7" on coins even with the little coil, which is pretty good. The stock coil will get better depth that the little guy, of course, but I just love the little guy and use it almost exclusively now.
I think you'll soon see that you made a good choice with the Vaquero. Good luck and happy hunting.
Mark
I've used it on the beach a few times. Dry sand it was great, very sensitive to coins and to small gold (that day found a small open-faced gold crown with it that weighed about 0.8 grams).
That convinced me that it was sensitive enough to gold.
Wet beach (at least for salt water), the machine only worked fair - a lot of chattering from the salt, and some loss in depth. I ran the sens down a bit (at 6) and seemed to calm down then. It wasn't that great on the wet sand unfortunately - but that is to be expected from a single frequency Vlf machine - most aren't that good around salt water.
Dry land - you won't have any issues unless your ground is heavily mineralized. I'm from Florida, all we have is sand mostly, no mineralization to deal with.
I personally recommend the 5.5" coil as a great accessory - especially for park hunting, or anywhere that is trashy. It separates targets very well, is super light, and still gets good depth.
I can still get 6-7" on coins even with the little coil, which is pretty good. The stock coil will get better depth that the little guy, of course, but I just love the little guy and use it almost exclusively now.
I think you'll soon see that you made a good choice with the Vaquero. Good luck and happy hunting.
Mark