How to adjust to Tesoro from Minelab

[fwcrawford]

Although the Tesoros (or at least the ones I have used ) are monotone, there is some subtle differences in the quality of the tone on different types of metals.
A good pair of headphones helps a great deal with this.
I have a Vaquero and I use Killer B headphones which work great on this detector.
I also have the "high tone" model which is similar in pitch to the older

 

[cdsmith46]

Thanks for the info. I do miss my sov and its ability to give so much data. It's a tough transition, but with aging I can no longer use a heavier machine. It's either the Tesoro or nothing, and I can't live like that. I'm in St. Francisville, LA, not far from Port Hudson battlefield area. Needless to say, I'm an old relic hound...

 

[fwcrawford]

I also use my Tesoro (Vaquero) for relic hunting... it sure is nice carrying this little lightweight machine through the woods to old house sites.
I think you will love the Tesoro line for relic hunting due to their lightweigh, fast recovery speed, and performance.
Just make sure to get a nice set of headphones to go along with it.
Good luck to you in your choice.

 

[REVIER]

All great advice here about sweep speed and response time and tones...but nobody addressed the real issue and difference...weight.

Take your Tesoro and tie five one gallon ziplock bags filled with water at several places on the shaft, coil and control box.
Every 2 hunts take one off.
This will help you acclimate to the huge weight differential slowly.
If you don't do it this way and if you first take that thing out on a muddy, slippery day there is a great chance on the first swing it could get away from you and you might toss it halfway across the park.

 

[cdsmith46]

Thanks for the info, especially tones. I wear hearing aids and use detectorpro black widow headphones. Please tell me as much as you can about good vs bad tones. I know that most of that will come with much practice, but I'm just trying to cut the learning curve as much as possible. I, too am an old fart and may not have MUCH time left to learn anything. Also, I'm debating between a Vaquero vs a Twjon. Feedback there would be appreciated. Im in Saint Francisville, LA. not far from the Port Hudson civil war battlefield and am a relic hound. I DO miss my ML sov tones a lot, but the weight was berginning to kill me.

 

[Rainyday101]

The key to a good tone is a clean begining and end to the tone. By that I mean no scratchy or jagged audio. Next thing is getting that good clean tone from two directions, niney degrees apart. If you get this, DIG! No detector is perfect and you can be fooled by some objects. The fooler for me is metal twist off bottlecaps that have the sides crushed touching each other. They sound like a clean signal every time. After you have a good hit size the target up with the coil. If it is a small coin size target and has good audio dig it. Large iron can fool all detectors and Tesoro is no exception, but by sizing the target up you can eliminate it. The easiest way to learn is to spend a couple of days digging all targets you think sound good and the so-so ones and paying close attention to audio and the targets you recover. After doing this it becomes rather clear.

Tejon or Vaquero? Flip a coin. You won't go wrong with either one.

 

[cdsmith46]

Thanks for your come-back! Your answer has been one of, if not the very best of all! It's a real learning curve for because of hearing challenges, but I'm going to hunt as much as I can. Nothing else in sports appeals to me like relic hunting.

 

[wheatymike]

On my Vaqeuero. Iron that sounded good like a coin would always seem bigger and gave a single on the edges of the coil when I flipped it in all metal or hit the pinpoint button. A coin would stay small.