Prospector
New member
Just dropping a line to thank those who responded to my post. I just received the Silver U-max in the mail and tried it out in my back yard. First of all let me say I have some really bad ground in spots. I recently buried a penny, nickle and quarter at 6" and a dime at around 4". I also buried a penny in another spot at 8" deep. A Whites XLT Spectrum could get the targets with a weak signal but had a hard time with correct I.D. My Minelab X-terra 50 could get some targets, but had some trouble on getting a repeatable signal. Neither machine could get the eight inch penny buried by itself. Keep in mind that my ground is really bad. I have dug quarters in sand at 10" plus with the Minelab with no problems and dimes at six to eight. They just could not do a good job in my yard. Remember both have a manual ground balance. I have read a ton of post before I purchased this new Tesoro. I owned an older Silver Sabre (Not U-Max) years ago. It was a well built machine, but did not get a lot of depth for me. After trying the other two machines I tried my new Silver U-max with the stock eight inch coil. Got a good signal on the penny, nickle, had trouble with the dime, and got a strong signal on the quarter. Now for the penny I had buried at eight inches that neither of the other two could get. The Silver hit it hard with the coil skimming the ground, I kept raising the coil until it was at least four or five inches above the ground and it still got it. I guess I should mention that all these test were done in all metal mode. I really like hunting in this setting. Now I am not trying to say that one machine is better than the other, I really like my Minelab, I just thought some of you would like to hear how much I am impressed with this Tesoro. One thing before I quit rambling, my unit came with a coil cover. It goes on kind of loosely, and dropped off a couple of times. Anyone have any suggestions. Thanks for all your help.
