So when I got the Outlaw I thought, if it's even nearly as good as my Vaquero, it's going to be an excellent detector. I've been evaluating my Outlaw now for about a week and thought I'd take a couple hours and compare the depth of my Outlaw to my Vaquero. Although these tests are controlled, they're not perfect, so I perform the test multiple times and average out the individual results. I used a quarter as the test target. The settings on both detectors were - discrimination set to minimum, threshold at 3:00, I then incrementally increased the Sensitivity from minimum, to 8, 10 then max.
Here are the results in inches:
--------------------Outlaw-------Vaquero
Sens at min------7.0-------------7.0
Sens at 8---------8.0-------------8.0
Sens at 10-------9.0-------------9.0
Sens at max----11.0-----------13.0
I really impressed and somewhat surprised with these results. I truly thought the "V" would have an edge in depth, if it does, it's slight. The linearity of the Sens range on the Outlaw, as you can see, is excellent. The Outlaw is also very stable at max sens, where the Vaquero was doing a good bit of chattering. The remarkable depth in the "red zone" on the Vaquero gives it the ability to be "Super Tuned", nice to have when your going for extra deep targets in Disc mode. I also did the test with the Disc set to just accept a nickle (cherry picking mode) and again with the disc set to just reject a pull tab. In both tests there was no loss/change in depth - very impressive. I also used a dime as my test target and there was decrease in depth by an inch +/- on both detectors - no surprise there. Again, under critically controlled conditions there may indeed be a difference between the two detectors, but from what I'm seeing with my test conditions, within the numerical range of the detectors disc control, no discernible difference. Nice job Outlaw, nice jobTesoro!
Here are the results in inches:
--------------------Outlaw-------Vaquero
Sens at min------7.0-------------7.0
Sens at 8---------8.0-------------8.0
Sens at 10-------9.0-------------9.0
Sens at max----11.0-----------13.0
I really impressed and somewhat surprised with these results. I truly thought the "V" would have an edge in depth, if it does, it's slight. The linearity of the Sens range on the Outlaw, as you can see, is excellent. The Outlaw is also very stable at max sens, where the Vaquero was doing a good bit of chattering. The remarkable depth in the "red zone" on the Vaquero gives it the ability to be "Super Tuned", nice to have when your going for extra deep targets in Disc mode. I also did the test with the Disc set to just accept a nickle (cherry picking mode) and again with the disc set to just reject a pull tab. In both tests there was no loss/change in depth - very impressive. I also used a dime as my test target and there was decrease in depth by an inch +/- on both detectors - no surprise there. Again, under critically controlled conditions there may indeed be a difference between the two detectors, but from what I'm seeing with my test conditions, within the numerical range of the detectors disc control, no discernible difference. Nice job Outlaw, nice jobTesoro!