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how well does the tejon do on gold compared to LST?

amcjavelin

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just currious how well does the tejon do on small gold vs the lobo ST found on ebay a lst with manual ground balance was thinking about grabbing it
 
this is one time when an air test can really tell you something.

Take a 14k ring, and once the Tesoro has been set according to the manual (yes there is a setting for air testings), air test the ring.

All Tesoros are HOT on gold.

Since the Tejon is (according to Jack Gifford) much deeper than the LST, the Tejon will detect gold deeper.

The LOBO Super Traq really isn't all that deep of machine according to what the owners have told me over the years. It's probably the same or a little deeper than the Silver uMax.

The rest has to do with coil type and size.

While a good machine I personally never understood the LST's great following with coin hunters.

Badger

P.S. The Tejon is lower cost, deeper, and will find microcopic pieces of metal if the sensitivity is set high.

With Tesoro Tejon you have advantages of ground balance in both modes and a much more comfortable design. I've read a lot of the LST reviews and most seem to say the discrimination mode works best for them. But in discrimination mode the LST is factory preset ground balance only just like the Silver uMax.

The Tejon is now being widely used in Austrialia and is considered to be a HOT gold nugget machine. Read the Austrialian forums.
 
Great post Michigan Badger!! The only advantage of the LST is it has Auto GB in the All-Metal mode and a soil switch. I have said before why don't they put Auto GB on the Tejon, with that Auto GB working in both the All-Metal and Discrimination modes, like the X-Terra 70 and MXT Auto GB works in both modes. Then you would have a machine that I would want to buy on my top list. It is a TOP machine right now as it is anyway. I have run manual GB machines(Compass Gold Scanner and Gold Bug) for gold prospecting, they work of course having to work much harder with them but by miles and miles ahead I prefer Auto GB for gold prospecing. BUT for coin hunting in grass turf lawns and in very little variable mineralization the manual GB machines work great and so do preset GB machines.
 
I had an MXT and Xterra 70 and one disadvantage to auto GB is that it "tracks out" smaller/deeper targets. I saw this at the beach, deep gold or even coins that are on the fringe of detection can get balanced out and you loose them or go back over to manual GB and relocate them. It has a dark side sort of. It doesnt happen on the stronger hits but the weaker ones you have to take extra steps not to loose the target. Ive no idea if its this way with the Lobo ST, never had one of those.

Neil
 
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