outlaw or tejon

[garrybk]

Hi
I own both a compadre and a outlaw. I've only had the outlaw for about 4 months. Right now the ground is frozen so no metal detecting. Obviously after only 4 months i'm still learning the outlaw. I'm currently planning several short backpacking trips to ghost towns in the mountains this next spring and summer. We've had a lot of fires in the past years so quite often the buildings are gone. So you have to find the nails etc left from structure. Will the outlaw do the job or should I be looking at the tejon? Just looking for opinions.
Thanks
Garry
Frozen s. Idaho

 

[Sven]

Tejon and Outlaw are different animals. You may as well own both.

 

[John (Ma)]

I love my Tejon, but I am sure the Outlaw will do well once you learn it. The Tejon would go deeper and I like the audio better, but it's a preferance and it's all about learning your detector. Unless you have extra money, try the Outlaw. If you have the coil package containing all three coils, you have plenty of options. Good luck and have fun!

 

[garrybk]

n/t

 

[garrybk]

Re: outlaw or tejon
Thanks for the input. The outlaw intentionally doesn't like iron much in disc. But I
Should easily be able to detect iron in all metal and fairly deep. I don't want to be digging down a foot anyway.
One of the places I'm hoping to find was rustler's cabin. The cabin was built with easy getaway. The rustler and his friends preyed upon the Oregon trail.


Garry

 

[mojotrout]

Hi Garry,

I live here in sw Idaho as well and owned an Outlaw for about a year. You will have no issues finding smallish iron like nails in All-metal or even disc for that matter. In my experience with the Outlaw, you simply cant disc out bent nails all of the way all of th time-- you will almost always get some sort of response. However, knowing the sound of that nail is the trick if you dont want to dig it. If you're just trying to find a foundation, the Outlaw should do you just fine. Even in Disc, Ive had bent rusty square nails fool me at 8 inches so it should pick 'em up even deeper in AM.

Your Outlaw hunt for an Outlaw hideout sounds both poetic and exciting! Let us know how you do!

 

[garrybk]

I'm not sure the cabin had a foundation. It still existed in the 80's. But there have been at least two fires in the area since. I'm not sure what I will find. But assuming the worst, nails and if I'm lucky charred wood maybe all I find. But im hoping people are more careless with someone Else's money and a few coins got lost. I plan on going in June. I let you all know how it goes.
By the way I live in mountain home.
Garry