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DeepTech

Happy With the Golden UMax

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LittleJohn

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Got off work late tonight but stopped by a local county park where a friend and I had hunted hard about a week ago. My goal for today was to dial down the discrimination and learn the tones better, and really listen to the machine and what it was doing.

Had a few questionable signals right off the bat, but they were repeatable, so I dug....and in an area we had already covered, I found 13 pennies, two dimes, one quarter, and the one I am most proud of....a NICKEL! My first "buried" nickel, I have found a few surface nickles, but this one was down 3 inches. I also found a silver necklace pendant, which was a dolphin with a stone in the middle of it....my best find of the day!! I did dig an old soda can, and a square piece of iron that sounded like a quarter....kinda.


I do wish I had some more depth.....as most of my finds so far have been less than 6-7 inches, but I am very happy with this machine, and the better I learn it, the easier it is to find the good stuff. I would recommend this detector to anyone who is a park/tot lot hunter....it would be all the detector you would ever need!


I have found a couple of pieces of jewelry so far, but still waiting on the big golden ring full of diamonds....lol.

The Tesoro Golden UMax is a detector that I will always have at my place...it'll never be for sale, it's just one of them that will always have a home here with me....earning it's keep as time permits.

LittleJohn
 
Just put a 12X10 coil on the Golden and did some air tests....then went in the yard and did some testing. This is a nice coil, and it adds some depth....so it will go to the county park on the next clad/jewelry hunt. I'll post pictures of the results.
 
Are you happy now ?:crylol::rofl: Actually Little John I have been watching all these threads on the Golden uMax with great interest . I'm getting on in years and good tones with not so deep digs sounds pretty darn good to me .I'll be watching to see your hunt results . I used to swing a Golden Sabre2 with great results back in the day .:thumbup:

Good luck and HH ,
George
 
I got another 12x10 for ya that i hardly use... if ya want to buy it you could use em as a set of snow shoes lol. Actually I never saw much more benifit between the 12x10 and the 9x8 coil on most umax units. it just sits in the closet and never gets used really. As far as using it in a park? I dunno about your parks there but here there is just too much trash to be using such a large coil.I think the 5.75 is the best coil for parks, or the 7" concentric....... Maybe just maybe the 9x8 if there's a run with less trash in the ground.
 
I took it out in my front yard last night to give it a try and I found a quarter and a nickel that I had previously missed. When I have it "notched" and I use that 12x10 everything is crisp and clear, and very easy to pinpoint with. Not sure if I like the extra weight, or the fact that it looks like a hubcap on the end of the pole, but so far it seems to go a little bit deeper and the coin hits are VERY crisp and strong. I did also notice that it picks up the "trashy" signals better as well.
 
Never used one on the Golden back when I had one, sounds like you might have a good combo going there John.... I'm anxious to read more results from your hunts.
 
Took it out tonight in a TRASHY area....big mistake. I did manage some clad and a button, however it was going bananas most of the time. In a clean area, wide open, big field...relic hunting...where there isnt a ton of trash.....this 12X10 would probably be the perfect coil. Park and Tot lot hunting, where there is moderate to heavy trash.....FOOOOOOOO.....GET about it!!!!! I Put the stock coil back on, as it has done an excellent job for me....and I will just be satisfied with it....and keep learning it. After another couple months, I think I will have this machine pretty much figured out. Every time I take it out now, I learn something different about it...and learning is good.
 
My Golden will give a high tone on a dime deeper in the dirt than in the air. Yesterday, found a well worn 1893 Barber quarter 3" deep under a large tree, no grass there. In the grass found only memorials and clad, they were much deeper than the quarter, go figure. Used the 7" concentric coil. Love this detector. Love the 4 tones, makes it great in trashy places.
 
I love the 4 tones. I had it out again last night at the local county park doing some coinshooting, and was near a soccer field, and kept hammering the "peel foil tops" off of sports drinks....that place is loaded with them. I did manage a "cache". kind of.....it was 3 quarters and a dime stacked neatly together, about 3 inches down....haven't see that before, it looked like it had been purposely put there....go figure. The more I use it, the more I am figuring out the little nuances and differences in tones and what they produce.

The Golden UMax is definitely a keeper.
 
I've ran the golden for a while as well. I got an etrac last year, but still find myself picking the golden up for park hunting. I got a 5 3/4" concentric coil that stays on it. I don't remember the last time I put the stock coil on. It's a good one in totlotland.
 
One of my favorite coils for the Golden is the 3x18 CleanSweep. It zips me thru totlots in no time and is good in large grassy parks. In air tests, will give proper tone on a ladies gold ring up to 4.5" and mens gold ring up to 6". Is lightweight and pinpoints easy with front tip.
 
Try that 5.75 and slow down with it in a trashy area John... you'll like it I think....
 
to hear you guys talk about this detector,one would get the impression it is only good for shallow coins and shallow jewelry!
doesn't this tesoro get good depth?..just wondering!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
it's not the deepest machine but great on coins & jewelry in parks..... it's not a Manual GB machine.
 
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