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My First Yard Testing With The Tejon

MarkCZ

MarkCZ

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Well, it didn't go so well and I'm not sure why.
When I got the Vaquero I spent several hours in my front yard seeing how well it would move around small rusty iron, I know my yard has an abundance of that. I was amazed at how it would sniffed around the iron and hit on stuff around it, basically it didn't hit any iron unless it had something else attached to it.

Well, this evening I tried the same thing with the Tejon, I was figuring it would better at this or at lest as good.
I set it up, set the disc at foil and started hunting, it seemed like the ground was alive with targets. I started out and it hit some pull tabs, then a nail? then another nail,? then three or four nails???? I even tried to thumb the disc up to see if I could disc them out even up to tabs, more nails. Now the "V" was over the same area and it didn't have any trouble with the nails.

So, should the Tejon be better at disc'ing out iron than the "V" or at lest as good?

Or, I'm I missing something?

Mark
 
I loved my Tejon more than the V, I sold the V. The Tejon got better and better with every use. Once you learn its language, it's an animal! Hang in there, the Tejon is one of the best detectors I have ever had. :cheers:
 
The little I have used my Vaquero I am finding that it seems to hit on iron more than other Tesoro's that I have had & I set the disc. a bit above iron. The Tejon I had was great at disc'ing out iron, nails,etc.
 
SkiWhiz said:
The little I have used my Vaquero I am finding that it seems to hit on iron more than other Tesoro's that I have had & I set the disc. a bit above iron. The Tejon I had was great at disc'ing out iron, nails,etc.
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Thanks "Ski" one thing I noticed today was I had a lot of interference from the airport. That interference at times is so bad that I can even run some of my detectors! so maybe it was knocking the Tejon around a lot more than I thought it was.

My findings with the "V" was it seem to have a HUGE detection field coming off the coil, maybe twice the distance it had for discrimination. That's not conclusive, but seemed to be the case. Just to throw some numbers out there for illustration and not anything real!
Its would discriminate to 6' to 7" great! but it would hit rusty nails at 8" to 10" at the same time, it was kind of like it just goes more all metal at depth. But, in my yard. nothing is much past the 6" range so it worked GREAT!

Mark
 
That is interesting, I would have thought the V and T would be somewhat the same. Have you run the disc up to see if it for sure works? If you still have those nails maybe some air testing is in order. So far I have had any small iron issues with my Tejon, now big iron it will pick that up no matter the disc setting.

Brother Ron
 
WV62 said:
That is interesting, I would have thought the V and T would be somewhat the same. Have you run the disc up to see if it for sure works? If you still have those nails maybe some air testing is in order. So far I have had any small iron issues with my Tejon, now big iron it will pick that up no matter the disc setting.

Brother Ron
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I know the disc control works great on nickels because I was able to calibrate it to them with no problems, they hit solid right at the 5, turn to the cents symbol and they drop off pretty quick.

Mark
 
Mark is that trigger acting normal again? Are u saying that it picks up nails as good targets? That doesn't sound like how it should be at all. It does false on big iron, but nails ? Got me scratchin my bald head. Where do you have disc at?

LittleJohn
 
LittleJohn said:
Mark is that trigger acting normal again? Are u saying that it picks up nails as good targets? That doesn't sound like how it should be at all. It does false on big iron, but nails ? Got me scratchin my bald head. Where do you have disc at?

LittleJohn
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Testing today I was running the discrimination just above foil.
I'm still thinking it may have been airport interference.
Yea, "LittleJohn" the trigger seemed to be okay, even when it did stick a bit it still changed modes okay.

Also, today was the first time I had it to the dirt and not just air testing. So, in the next couple of days I'll get it back out again and see how it goes. Today the interference kept the detector trying to break silence a lot, like it was trying to false signal.
One day back when I had a Fisher F2 I walked out on the porch and turned it on and it WENT nuts! couldn't do anything with it at all, so that may have been what was going on today, I have also had the problem with other detectors as well.

Mark
 
I got into some interference problems with the my Tejon the other day and what I noticed was when adjusting up the sensitivity it would not overload, I could run it up to max and it was still stable. But I while hunt it was unstable and hard to PP. I got my F75 out and it was pretty much useless.

I didn't see any black helicopters out so I can't blame it on them.:rofl:

Brother Ron in WV
 
And this threw you off between using the two.I believe higher freq detectors are more subject to detect rusty iron.You may find you have to run the disc up further than the vaq.Some say the vaq disc is not as wide a range as the Tejon.Try going close to the nickel,you will still be in a good jewelry range.I think you will get it Mark.There is so much give and take on each type detector.No dought you got a great jewelry detector.With a tone detector i would not feel comfortable hunting for gold.I think as you do more test things will pan out.The high freq in the yard threw you off.I hope it works out for you. :-D
 
I suppose the best way to be sure is to take it away from the airport and give it another test.
 
Sven said:
You can download the pdf file off my website. It's at the bottom of the page:
http://www.treasurelinx.com/tesoro.html
It maybe of help to you
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I just downloaded the tip sheet, I've not come close to reading it all yet, but I did get to the V-nickel.
I have nickels buried at,
3"
4"
5"
6" and (I actually have two 6" nickels)
7" (this one is still seasoning, or to say its not working yet.)

The 3" and 4" read or disc out the same, the 5" and the 6" reads and disc out much higher. On most of my metered machines the 6" hit more in the zinc penny range.
Now, to the why nickels do this I don't know, but they do! I've started topics about the allusive, evasive nickels.
With my Fisher 1266 the 6" nickel is really high on the discrimination before it drops out.

I have an 8" test garden that has other coins in it, but they don't act anything like the nickels. The reason I have so many buried nickels is because I've been trying to figure them out! They are strange in deed.

Some people say that V-nickels read higher, but I'm pretty certain its because most times they are being found deep enough to start reading in the upper range, or above the normal discrimination setting for them.
Why a copper penny will on its conductive range to 8" or more and the same for a US quarter, but the nickel does something stupid is beyond me?

I'll read more of the Tips later on.
Thanks for the link.

Mark
 
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