Monte,If You Had The Golden Opportunity To...

[candycane]

Metal detect in all the lower 48 states and Canada with a couple of close friends,traveling in a Motor Coach,all expenses paid with no time frame,what detectors [ past or present ] would you take....Exclude Gold & Water Detectors.

 

[Monte]

Monte,If You Had The Golden Opportunity To...Metal detect in all the lower 48 states and Canada with a couple of close friends, traveling in a Motor Coach, all expenses paid with no time frame, what detectors [ past or present ] would you take???

You didn't mention the type or types of detecting we might engage in. No problem with me NOT including a water unit (I'm not into serious water hunting), but by eliminating any gold nugget specific model you've eliminated one activity I/we might want to take part in. Certainly if there was no time limit and I was traveling where I want, a good gold nugget detector would be included in my arsenal.

Also, by not specifying what detecting I might do or the type of sites, I can only look at this in terms of ALL the applications I might have for a detector. While my most often preferred hunting would include working old homesteads, stage stations, pioneer & military encampments, lumber & mining camps & towns, recreation sites/picnic groves/etc. from the mid-1800s thru the mid+-1900's, and ghost towns ... I would always be looking for any active renovation work in old schools, parks, sidewalks or roads. Then, too, there would be the old-use park and school sites, especially in smaller-to-medium, out-of-the-way towns, and urban sites that were magnets for drawing people during the period of silver coin use.

The biggest omission, perhaps, was NOT putting a limit of the detector makes & models that I could take with me!

So, while I am a rather practical person, I will not include a rather lengthy list of the models that could work for my needs. I can assure you that there have been many Tesoro models that have served me well in all the above applications through the years, most notable the Inca, Eldorado (original), Bandido & Bandido II, and to a lesser degree the Bandido II