I used my original stingray in NM and AZ for land hunting. You can hunt the desert sands with it or walk up the shallow creeks and nugget shoot with it without worrying about dropping the detector. It is more sensitive to small conductive targets like jewelry and small gold nuggets than the classic III, probably because of its higher frequency. Like all the Tesoro's of the early 90's designs, it is a little quieter in iron and trashy sites than the later Umax series. Great discrimination. One drawback is the ground balance control is internal and in variable hi mineral ground, cannot be easily adjusted.
