Learning the language of Cibola

[CaballoDeOro]

I've had my Cibola for a couple of months now. It's my first Tesoro and I truly love it. I feel like I am starting to learn its language: the way the audio chops or rings like a bell depending on the target. However, I still find myself occasionally wavering on the "dig/don't dig" moments, especially at some of the trashier sites that I hunt. I did some air tests, getting used to the discrimination on a variety of targets and in those tests, the disc seems pretty clear-cut: Iron nail disappears just above iron, a nickel goes quiet as I move the dial past 5c. Just what I would suspect. But when I'm actually hunting, things get a little more vague. For example, I will get a rough-sounding tone, go back to it, scrub over it and pinpoint. Then thumb up the disc to try to determine what it is. I've noticed that on some targets, I'll still get tone with the disc way up, although the tone seems rough and choppy. When I dig, it's a pull tab or a large piece of iron.

So my question: Is this to be expected or am I doing something wrong? Should I be expecting discriminated-out targets to be completely silent or does this kind of choppy, stuttering tone mean "that's something below your disc"? I've noticed it also depends on swing speed. Smoother, faster swings generate little or no tone on these targets, but shorter, pinpointing-type swings will generate the stuttering, distorted tone.

I still have a long way to go on understanding what my Cibola is telling me, but I thought I would try to accelerate the process by asking for your advice and input. Thanks in advance!

 

[POLEWAGGER]

Use the pinpoint (AM) function on all targets. Call (guess) every target out loud. Dig every target until you get sick of knowing the next dig will be trash. Listen at different heights. See if the target X's out in the exact same spot in disc and AM. Comparing the steady AM tone to the short disc tones can really add lots of info

 

[cadman_us]

That rough or choppy tone is part of the language of the Tesoro. A good target will have a smooth tone, not broken or choppy.

As far as the bad target versus discrimination, it is usually a long time buried target that develops a halo around it. Cut nails are the worst for me in my ground.

I am sure someone with more experience than me will give you a better answer.

Joe

 

[REVIER]

I have found that dimes and quarters, and zinc and copper pennies all fall in line with where they should be on that disc knob area.
Nickels, they are usually at that 5 cent mark but I have dug several that disc out higher and lower.
Pull tabs can be all over the place and disc out way higher than that tab mark.
Trash is tricky, but the more you dig the more you learn.

I have noticed that bad targets like bottle caps and foil and can slaw and some tabs too have a real sharp sound on the end of that tone.
An annoying sound that I did not hear in the past but I can now.

Coins and good targets usually have a nice smooth sound that most bad targets do not.

A few weeks ago I ran over a signal and it made me stop in my tracks.
It disced out at the zinc level, about 3:00, but something in my head and my bones told me this is something different than a zincoln.
Maybe the volume was different, or the tone was somehow slightly different, I can't really say, but all I know is this sound was more...mellow than an ordinary zinc signal, and I did notice that before I dug it.
Turned out to be my third class ring, 10K and almost 15 grams.

In June I will have had my Vac 2 years, and every hunt I strive to learn something new...that will never end...still learning.
I have instincts about signals now and I can hear things that I never heard in the past, especially when we were a new team and all those beeps sounded the same.
It just takes time for those instincts to develop,some call it learning the language.
The more you dig, the more you learn and once you have those instincts, they will never leave you.