How about your best Tesoro tips and tricks

[Idxpro]

Cmon guys, this place needs some exitement in here.

 

[dan b]

Here is my tip #1: Use quality headphones and listen and learn what the machine is telling you. There is a lot of information in that "single tone".

Here is my tip #2: Don't buy into the hype that you need a machine with visual ID. I find it hilarious that people hack on Tesoros because they are only audio, then give advice to not rely on their own displays and dig instead.

 

[Idxpro]

I like your #1 Dan. You know what sucks is I hunt alone either deep woods or suburban parks. Something eerie about using headphones in those circumstances, it truly makes a difference with headphones.

 

[Hombre]

#1 Listen to tabman with his tips on the Outlaw.

#2 Do not wear headhones in the piney woods, the boogey man might sneak up on you!

#3 Allways carry some toilet paper, just in case the boogey man scares you.

#4 Wear running shoes if you run into #3 or #4.

#5 Do like I do and give bogus advice to unknowing newbies.

 

[wheatymike]

SLOW DOWN !! LISTEN!! SLOWWW DOWWWNNNN!!!!!

 

[oneguy]

SLOW DOWN !! LISTEN!! SLOWWW DOWWWNNNN!!!!!

best one so far......(imo)

 

[BarberBill]

This tip is on setting discrimination. Started using it with a Silver Sabre

 

[REVIER]

I have found that instead of thumbing up to the fade out point to see where the target discs out, turning past this point and then turning down is a way more accurate way to figure out targets.
Also listening to how the target comes in can give you a greast amount of information.
Targets that come in with very little or no noise, clicks, crackles, breakups, can be trash but most good targets will act this way.
Targets that come in with a lot of noise are usually trash 99% of the time.

 

[dirt lizard]

I have found that instead of thumbing up to the fade out point to see where the target discs out, turning past this point and then turning down is a way more accurate way to figure out targets.
Also listening to how the target comes in can give you a greast amount of information.
Targets that come in with very little or no noise, clicks, crackles, breakups, can be trash but most good targets will act this way.
Targets that come in with a lot of noise are usually trash 99% of the time.

Those clicks,breakups and crackles can also be a coin spill as I found out one day bringing up a few very old coins that were all in one spot. Slow your sweep down and listen closely.

 

[REVIER]

I have found that instead of thumbing up to the fade out point to see where the target discs out, turning past this point and then turning down is a way more accurate way to figure out targets.
Also listening to how the target comes in can give you a greast amount of information.
Targets that come in with very little or no noise, clicks, crackles, breakups, can be trash but most good targets will act this way.
Targets that come in with a lot of noise are usually trash 99% of the time.

Those clicks,breakups and crackles can also be a coin spill as I found out one day bringing up a few very old coins that were all in one spot. Slow your sweep down and listen closely.

I go very slow swinging over targets doing this, I listen very closely and I actually have dug a ton of trash in the past and still check many targets even now just to make sure,
100% trash so far on every badly breaking signal...nickels can be weird, however, and break up a bit sometimes.
I use a sniper coil on my Vaq and I use a Compadre, too, so multiple targets usually have some good separation and I can tell, and a few coin spills have been solid no break up signals, although combinations of different coins can come in at odd areas on the disc knob.
That doesn't mean all of them will be solid all the time, deeper spills might be different so per your advice I will continue to check out some of these deeper not so solid signals and maybe a few shallow ones, also..

 

[slingshot]

Ever since I paid with my Compadre with just 4 finds, I have GOLD fever. Tesoro is SET for the right frequency for gold. Monte always reminds users that although the reset on the Tesoros are fast, the sweep speed should NOT be, especially in the more mineralized areas. I can't see going past iron reject on any of my Tesoros. Like Revier has posted before, I use the SOUNDS as a clue to dig or not dig. Since they are 2 filter machines, it is best to overlap the sweep as mineralization reduces the footprint of the coil. If the trash is that bad, I do as the previous poster and set it just below nickel reject, as was also suggested by Jack himself. One of my favorite "lazy" way of hunting high tab areas is just setting the disc to where the tabs slightly break up=also another "tip" by Jack. I have found coins under tabs and next to trash this way.

 

[Dancer]

n/t

 

[kaolinwasher]

I like to hunt in all metal . and if I am at a park looking for gowrld rings i like threshold AM and turn the threshold to about 11:00 oklock and this eliminates most junk

 

[lawbambam]

n/t

 

[Rdunzl]

Kaolin, I assume you are talking about the Outlaw. Could you please elaborate?
I just picked up an Outlaw, so I am learning ground balance and threshold. I wasn't
aware that threshold had an effect on junk targets like discrimination does, other than
making a weak signal sound off better. Wouldn't lowering threshold negate that effect?
I'm open to learning all tips and suggestions. After watching your videos, I admire and
respect your knowledge of the machine to be sure. Thank you.

 

[REVIER]

I like to hunt in all metal . and if I am at a park looking for gowrld rings i like threshold AM and turn the threshold to about 11:00 oklock and this eliminates most junk

I understand you have to draw the line somewhere so for you it is that 11:00 position, but I am sure you know gold rings, (and definitely small gold chains), can easily come in below that area on the disc.
I have dug many smaller ones, most of them came in between the L in foil and your 11:00 position.

 

[Idxpro]

Reiver, gun was refering to the threshold and not the disc. I too have found a lower threshold helps the disc do better at it's job on the outlaw.

 

[REVIER]

Reiver, gun was refering to the threshold and not the disc. I too have found a lower threshold helps the disc do better at it's job on the outlaw.

Yeas I see, my mistake.
I have never hunted with my thresh any lower then 12:00.
At that point it is pretty silent search and only sounds off if I go over a target.
Does lowering that thresh further do or enhance anything?
Curious minds need to know.

 

[hatpin]

When hunting in wooded areas and you get a slight signal, scrape the debris away with your foot and resweep. That signal may now be a sweet sounding signal. Found lots of old coins this way with my Vaquero.

 

[NMGold]

Use a DD coil for superior target separation, i.e., don't mask out those good targets with a concentric!