Flintstone
Well-known member
Lobo S.T., dose anyone use this detector for coin hunting in parks ? How about the beach, Is it good there ? I was told it was good on small gold. Thanks for any reply.
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LoBo ST,
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Flintstone
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I can,t belive no one has ever used the Lobo Supper Track to coin hunt. I know it is good for gold but it will coin hunt to I think.
BarberBill
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I've heard that it does a passable job on coins etc. in parks considering it's primarily a gold detector. In the disc. mode, it operates as a factory preset so the perfomance would vary in areas with heavier mineralization.
BB
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in 1999 and 2000 for a while. As with any make or model detector we need to match the settings used with the search coil we choose for the site environment we are hunting. It was just one of the detectors in my arsenal at the time and, fortunately for me, that was a brief period where I was a bit more mobile after some back surgery and could get along for almost half-a-day without my cane on favorable ground.
At the time I had a White's XLT and 6000 Pro XL that I used with either a 950, 8" or 6½" coil in more open areas, a modified White's Classic ID w/6½" coil for trashier places, and a reliable favorite, my 'original' Bandido and a Bandido II µMAX, both with 7" Concentric coils and an 8" coil for back-up. I was curious how the Lobo ST would perform as a Coin Hunting unit since I had enjoyed the 'original' Lobo in the past.
For Coin Hunting sites that were not too terribly trashy, I opted for the brown 8" round Concentric coil for the LST, and it worked pretty well for me.
I made an early morning drive to be there and start hunting early Friday morning, but it was about 6:45 AM and workers were arriving to get a 7 AM start for their 12 hour-a-day shift. I normally would have grabbed one of my Bandido's for this type of renovation work, but wanted to give the Lobo ST a try. This was the start of what I called my 'Oh-Four' day, and it got off to a great start. I parked on a side road to the city park and walked across to where the sidewalk used to be.
Now it was just a bunch of graded-up dirt from part of the sidewalk, edge of park lawn, and a good bit of the old dirt road that was under the removed pavement, all pushed up in a pile along the side of the work area. As I began to turn the Lobo SuperTRAQ on and get the settings adjusted as I normally did, a road grader was backing up to the edge of the torn up road and the driver was ready to start a new day of work. He gave me a serious look as he backed past me and a nod, acknowledging what I was out to do.
LST w/8" Concentric coil. Turned on and then a 'proper' Threshold audio adjusted, I briskly bobbed the search coil over some metal-free dirt to get the All Metal mode Ground Balance. I then went in to the Discriminate mode with the Disc. level set at the minimum setting and, again, bobbed the coil toward-and-away from the ground from about 6" to 1" and back up. Very carefully, I increased the Disc. level from the minimum setting, which was responding to the bare soil, just to the point where I rejected the ground mineral signal at about the 1½ mark. That's how I always ran the LST.
I made a glace to my right to make sure the grader wasn't started on his first run as that would have been within a foot or two of the edge of the dirt mound I started to hunt. With settings made, I started sweeping the coil, but not for long. After a tiny step forward to advance and overlap the coil sweep I got a good signal and once again non the repeat sweep from the right. I toe-scuffed the loose plowed dirt mound to get down to the target, which was easy-to-spot, and I picked it up. Gently rubbed some loose dirt off, then glanced back at the grader driver as I put the coin in my back pocket. He seemed rather interested in what I just did.
I made a few sweeps over the spot in case there were other targets still around, but heard the advance of the equipment. As I did, I turned my direction to parallel the road and dirt mound and maybe 3 to 4 feet away I encountered another coin, then a few more. From the multi-coin discovery I retrieved several early date Wheat-back Cents, all while kneeling at the area. This would have been under the old removed sidewalk. Just then the grader came to a stop by me and I looked at the driver as he curiously asked, "What did you find?"
I pointed at the ground by me as I said, "I just got several 'teen's Wheaties' right here." He grinned and said, "No, I mean what was that first coin you dug and then gave me a glance?" As I reached in my back pocket for coin I asked him, are you the fellow who has been hunting this every night after you shut down, and he said 'Yes.' I said, "Well you missed one" as I held out my first find of the day, a 1904 Morgan Silver Dollar.
He climbed down and admired it, told me congratulations, and said he hunted 'til dark, but down on the south-end of the torn-up work area. I hunted the east side of the road, hitting the former sidewalk areas and graded road dirt until I decided to take a lunch break about noon or so, and the last coin I found before I took my lunch break was a 1904 Indian Head Cent, the same year as the first coin that started my day with the Lobo ST. After lunch, and being stopped repeatedly throughout the day by local business owners, passers-by, and other members of the work crew who wanted to see the big ol' silver dollar [size=small](the word spread in a hurry!!)[/size], I continued to hunt until almost 7 PM as I still had about an hour's drive to get home for dinner.
I found cents, nickels, dimes and quarters, the oldest being an early 1880's 'V' Nickel, and as I finished up hunting on the west side of the road to head back to my rig I decided to hunt until I found just one more coin. It was another shiny silver coin, a1904 Barber Dime to wrap up my '1904' day, to start out, to break for lunch and to finish the day.
You might wonder now what I thought about the Lobo ST as a Coin Hunting unit for a long summer's day [size=small](it was July)[/size] of hunting and I can tell you it went well. I liked the typical Tesoro-like response and recovery. I generally enjoyed the day, but at day's end I also 'felt' the results of the day. I have a bad back and have been dealing with it since an injury in 1987. Weight and balance were issues for me back then and are much more so today.
The Lobo ST uses the slightly longer/larger under-slung control housing and 8 AA batteries in two battery holders compared with my original Bandido's shorter housing that uses 2 9-Volt batteries. I was using the brown 8" Concentric coil, whereas I very seldom used the standard or larger-size search coils, preferring coils in the 5" to 7" size range because I usually hunt in dense trash conditions. I felt the results of that day-long search with the LST & 8" coil and left it in the vehicle when I returned, bright and earlier the next morning on a Saturday. Unfortunately, they were working then, too, to get this highway project completed as soon as possible and would be rock-filling the road on Monday and start pouring sidewalks and new highway that next week as well.
I grabbed my 'original' Bandido with 7" Concentric coil and rehunted a lot of the areas I searched the day before, then moved on southward to work areas I hadn't hunted yet. Today, I can feel the difference if I spent half a day with my Bandido, Bandido II or Silver Sabre II, then switch to the Silver Sabre µMAX or Bandido II µMAX for the second half of the day due to the weight reduction. Back then, I felt the same kind of relief using my Bandido w/7" on Saturday compared with using the Lobo ST w/8" on Friday.
I didn't use the Lobo ST all the time or for all of my Coin Hunting, but for about a year I carried in my vehicle with the other detectors and used it quite a bit before I sold or traded it away. I preferred my other Tesoro's to the LST for the types of Coin Hunting I generally do.
Monte
At the time I had a White's XLT and 6000 Pro XL that I used with either a 950, 8" or 6½" coil in more open areas, a modified White's Classic ID w/6½" coil for trashier places, and a reliable favorite, my 'original' Bandido and a Bandido II µMAX, both with 7" Concentric coils and an 8" coil for back-up. I was curious how the Lobo ST would perform as a Coin Hunting unit since I had enjoyed the 'original' Lobo in the past.
For Coin Hunting sites that were not too terribly trashy, I opted for the brown 8" round Concentric coil for the LST, and it worked pretty well for me.
I did use it for Coin Hunting during that period, and put it to the test when I was informed they had already been doing highway and sidewalk removal in a small, Central Oregon town. A friend had driven through the town and had to detour around it, but he stopped and talked with one of the workers. That fellow would grab his detector after they shut down for the day at about 7PM and hunt the recently uncovered dirt where the sidewalks and road used to be, finding old date coins. That was on Monday thru Thursday evening when I was informed about the work.Flintstone said:Lobo S.T., dose anyone use this detector for coin hunting in parks?
I made an early morning drive to be there and start hunting early Friday morning, but it was about 6:45 AM and workers were arriving to get a 7 AM start for their 12 hour-a-day shift. I normally would have grabbed one of my Bandido's for this type of renovation work, but wanted to give the Lobo ST a try. This was the start of what I called my 'Oh-Four' day, and it got off to a great start. I parked on a side road to the city park and walked across to where the sidewalk used to be.
Now it was just a bunch of graded-up dirt from part of the sidewalk, edge of park lawn, and a good bit of the old dirt road that was under the removed pavement, all pushed up in a pile along the side of the work area. As I began to turn the Lobo SuperTRAQ on and get the settings adjusted as I normally did, a road grader was backing up to the edge of the torn up road and the driver was ready to start a new day of work. He gave me a serious look as he backed past me and a nod, acknowledging what I was out to do.
LST w/8" Concentric coil. Turned on and then a 'proper' Threshold audio adjusted, I briskly bobbed the search coil over some metal-free dirt to get the All Metal mode Ground Balance. I then went in to the Discriminate mode with the Disc. level set at the minimum setting and, again, bobbed the coil toward-and-away from the ground from about 6" to 1" and back up. Very carefully, I increased the Disc. level from the minimum setting, which was responding to the bare soil, just to the point where I rejected the ground mineral signal at about the 1½ mark. That's how I always ran the LST.
I made a glace to my right to make sure the grader wasn't started on his first run as that would have been within a foot or two of the edge of the dirt mound I started to hunt. With settings made, I started sweeping the coil, but not for long. After a tiny step forward to advance and overlap the coil sweep I got a good signal and once again non the repeat sweep from the right. I toe-scuffed the loose plowed dirt mound to get down to the target, which was easy-to-spot, and I picked it up. Gently rubbed some loose dirt off, then glanced back at the grader driver as I put the coin in my back pocket. He seemed rather interested in what I just did.
I made a few sweeps over the spot in case there were other targets still around, but heard the advance of the equipment. As I did, I turned my direction to parallel the road and dirt mound and maybe 3 to 4 feet away I encountered another coin, then a few more. From the multi-coin discovery I retrieved several early date Wheat-back Cents, all while kneeling at the area. This would have been under the old removed sidewalk. Just then the grader came to a stop by me and I looked at the driver as he curiously asked, "What did you find?"
I pointed at the ground by me as I said, "I just got several 'teen's Wheaties' right here." He grinned and said, "No, I mean what was that first coin you dug and then gave me a glance?" As I reached in my back pocket for coin I asked him, are you the fellow who has been hunting this every night after you shut down, and he said 'Yes.' I said, "Well you missed one" as I held out my first find of the day, a 1904 Morgan Silver Dollar.
He climbed down and admired it, told me congratulations, and said he hunted 'til dark, but down on the south-end of the torn-up work area. I hunted the east side of the road, hitting the former sidewalk areas and graded road dirt until I decided to take a lunch break about noon or so, and the last coin I found before I took my lunch break was a 1904 Indian Head Cent, the same year as the first coin that started my day with the Lobo ST. After lunch, and being stopped repeatedly throughout the day by local business owners, passers-by, and other members of the work crew who wanted to see the big ol' silver dollar [size=small](the word spread in a hurry!!)[/size], I continued to hunt until almost 7 PM as I still had about an hour's drive to get home for dinner.
I found cents, nickels, dimes and quarters, the oldest being an early 1880's 'V' Nickel, and as I finished up hunting on the west side of the road to head back to my rig I decided to hunt until I found just one more coin. It was another shiny silver coin, a1904 Barber Dime to wrap up my '1904' day, to start out, to break for lunch and to finish the day.
You might wonder now what I thought about the Lobo ST as a Coin Hunting unit for a long summer's day [size=small](it was July)[/size] of hunting and I can tell you it went well. I liked the typical Tesoro-like response and recovery. I generally enjoyed the day, but at day's end I also 'felt' the results of the day. I have a bad back and have been dealing with it since an injury in 1987. Weight and balance were issues for me back then and are much more so today.
The Lobo ST uses the slightly longer/larger under-slung control housing and 8 AA batteries in two battery holders compared with my original Bandido's shorter housing that uses 2 9-Volt batteries. I was using the brown 8" Concentric coil, whereas I very seldom used the standard or larger-size search coils, preferring coils in the 5" to 7" size range because I usually hunt in dense trash conditions. I felt the results of that day-long search with the LST & 8" coil and left it in the vehicle when I returned, bright and earlier the next morning on a Saturday. Unfortunately, they were working then, too, to get this highway project completed as soon as possible and would be rock-filling the road on Monday and start pouring sidewalks and new highway that next week as well.
I grabbed my 'original' Bandido with 7" Concentric coil and rehunted a lot of the areas I searched the day before, then moved on southward to work areas I hadn't hunted yet. Today, I can feel the difference if I spent half a day with my Bandido, Bandido II or Silver Sabre II, then switch to the Silver Sabre µMAX or Bandido II µMAX for the second half of the day due to the weight reduction. Back then, I felt the same kind of relief using my Bandido w/7" on Saturday compared with using the Lobo ST w/8" on Friday.
I didn't use the Lobo ST all the time or for all of my Coin Hunting, but for about a year I carried in my vehicle with the other detectors and used it quite a bit before I sold or traded it away. I preferred my other Tesoro's to the LST for the types of Coin Hunting I generally do.
Never tried it in the wet ocean beach surf, but on the damp to dry coastal [size=small](salty)[/size] beaches it did okay, and on the freshwater beaches of rivers and lakes it worked quite well.Flintstone said:How about the beach, Is it good there?
If you're referring to small gold nuggets and small gold jewelry, yes, it does pretty well, but that's what it was designed for. I preferred other detectors for gold nugget hunting I used to do when I could and had the LST, but it was 'OK.'Flintstone said:I was told it was good on small gold. Thanks for any reply.
Monte
Flintstone
Well-known member
Thanks Monte, I just traded for this detector, and have never used one. I also have a broken back, and know your pain. I broke mine in 93 and tried to keep working till 2005 it got so bad I had to take disability. I can,t just stop and set down. I try to detect as much as I can, sometimes I just lay under a big tree and think. Thanks for the reply. Flintstone
Flintstone
Well-known member
Thanks Bill,
hardrockminer
New member
Flintstone said:I can,t belive no one has ever used the Lobo Supper Track to coin hunt. I know it is good for gold but it will coin hunt to I think.
Steve Herschbach on the Prospecting Forum used to have a forum akmining where he rated gold metal detectors in the past & he posted about using the Super LOBO coin hunting in local parks I believe. Don't know if the Alaska forum is still in there.
HaRM