Have a Vaquero. Thinking of getting a Cortes . Hoping

[jabbo]

the meter will offer some help ID'ing shallow gold rings in trashy parks. Anyone have both these detectors that you use in this type of hunting and is the Cortes better at it. Deleon is considered too.
Really don't want to add another detector unless it's a big improvement.

 

[rentasquid]

is that you cant look at a number and say "that is a gold ring". Gold falls into such a wide range of ID #'s that it is probably the hardest thing to ID. The only way you can be sure is if you dig it. And if you are using a V and digging most any good repeatable signal, you will have as good of chance of getting a gold ring as you would if you had a Cortes or DeLeon. That is just my opinion, and maybe someone has an example that would prove me wrong, but that is still my story and I'm stickin with it

J.

 

[Michigan Badger]

[quote jabbo]the meter will offer some help ID'ing shallow gold rings in trashy parks. Anyone have both these detectors that you use in this type of hunting and is the Cortes better at it. Deleon is considered too.
Really don't want to add another detector unless it's a big improvement.[/quote]

This is a bit tuff to answer. I've used the Tejon and DeLeon at the same sites and I still can't honestly say one was far better than the other.

The Tesoro discrimination is so good that one doesn't really need TID (in my opinion).

But does the meter help? Well, yes maybe sometimes. I once found a gold jewelery piece (massive bracelet & charms) buried in with square nails because I noticed a strange reading on the DeLeon meter. The sound was that of deep large iron but the TID indicated the possible presence of metal within the gold range. The readings kept bouncing from iron to the gold range and back again.

Boy was I shocked when I saw that yellow gold in the sunlight! This was the last thing I expected to find that day in that place.

Well, for whatever value that's my message.

Badger

 

[jabbo]

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[Ivan]

The key here is not to try to identify gold targets.............but rather to learn where the junk numbers are. For example if you know the number values of some pull tabs and other "junk" you can avoid those "junk numbers" and spend more time on the more likely good targets. I specialize in hunting picnic areas for gold jewelry and the Cortes is excellent for this task .............because all coins are at #95 and iron at "0" so the middle range is much more "expanded " than on other detectors. It's the mid range where most of the low conductive gold shows up!!!I got rid of a Whites M6..............the Cortes beats it in high trash target id capability!!I buy what works best....in this case it's the Cortes.

 

[Scully]

no matter where the ring up, whereas junk/pop tops, odd shaped targets tend to jump around a bit, numbers change, bar-graphs change, but rings are solid and steady.

 

[DavHut]

...Learn to ID trash - even specialize in it. Coins are easy, iron is easier, for either VLF units (like the Cortez) or PI's.
Here's some food for thought, however:

I think it was Wallace Chandler who said that 90% of all gold found with detectors is uncovered either within 10 feet of - or actually IN - the water.

Knowing that really changes your focus. It

 

[jabbo]

After reading all the responces to my question, sounds like the TID should help eliminate pulltabs. I don't search for the few remaining deep silver coins, but for the shallower gold jewelry dropped during the past years.

 

[Ivan]

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