Questions for Tejon users..

[Dan-Pa.]

At max on second disc. will it disc out a zinc penny and just give you copper pennies-dimes up?
Ballpark depth on a silver dime? Thanks ahead of time as have used many Tesoro models over the years and found them to be excellent units liking gold jewelry but not the deepest units around and one wonders about the depth of a Tejon....

 

[BOB/TUCSON]

Yes it will Dan. Same as my 1266. BOB/TUCSON

 

[tvr]

Tejon air test

Dan,
A pleasant surprise to see you here.

The link is to Sven's air tests on the Tejon. My Tejon air tests the same as his tests show. In Disc mode I have the first discriminator between iron and foil when I do the disc air test and when I hunt. My hunting is mostly done set up close to what Sven's set up number 4 is.

Note that it air tests deeper on nickles than it does on silver half dollars. My experience with the Tejon is that, properly ground balanced, it is a nickle, lead and brass magnet. Does very well on gold jewelry too. I've dug nickles to around 9 to 10 inches. I don't think I've dug a dime deeper than about 6 or so inches when using the Tejon. I have dug a couple of quarters that exceeded expectations at about 12 inches in real loamy top soil. Couple of brass buttons in the 12 inch range.

I have a couple of areas that I pounded with the Cibola and the Tejon with 5.75 inch and the 9 x 8 coils and with the CZ6a with the 5 inch coil. There is enough iron in these places that I really struggled with apparent masking with the 8 inch coil on the CZ even working at a crawl with it set to disc 0. Went back to those areas with a XL Pro and dug pretty much nothing but dimes in the 5 to 7 inch deep range. I can still go back with the Tejon working slowly with the sensitivity in the red above ten, running a little chatty and pull out nickles from those areas but not much else.

I have never tried max discrimination. I tend to keep the first disc low and the second disc where tabs start to crackle and nickles disappear cleanly.

In my opinion, the Tejon's strength is low to mid conductivity targets and it can go pretty deep on them.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[Neil]

Hey Dan,

Completely agree with tvrs comments and Bobs as well.
I use my Tejon mainly for jewelry as low conductors is its real strength. I set my 1st disc just at foil and the second disc all the way up so Im digging foil to zinc penny range when I jewelry hunt.
tvr: I ran some tests in my yard on some gold rings near iron in the ground and the DD coils I have performed a lot better than the concentric stock coil. the 12X10 really gets excellent depth and seperation and the 10" DD gets excellent seperation but not the depth of the 12X10. keeping the coil cover off the 12X10 really lightens it up, thats one heavy/thick coil cover!
Love those widescan coils

Now on the beach with little trash I can get those dimes and quarters down near a foot deep, but thats some beach sand, not like inland hunting.

Neil

 

[jhettel]

I always understood that the Tejon was Tesoro's relic machine. Although it can be used on coins.

I only use the Tejon for relic hunting it really goes deep. May be because I live in Missouri and don't have many soil problems.

I have tried the Tejon for coin hunting and it was just too noisy in trashy areas. I broke down and bought a Minelab 705 to coin hunt with and can tell right now that although it may be good on coins, cannot stand up to the Tejon on relics.

Also, please explain how you can use the second discriminator turned all the way up. I would think that it would discriminate everything at that level, but it looks like I am wrong?

 

[tvr]

Neil,
I have one place that is nearly a 4 hour drive that I have permission to hunt that produced some nice finds. I only made it there one day so far and hit it with the 9 x 8 coil. Now have a good feel where on the property I want to take and use the 12 x 10 and where I need to use the 5.75. Probably won't use the 9 x 8 there again. It has some very distinct areas that are characterized by either small and defined spots with lots of iron litter or by very open area with very little trash.

Harvdog,
I did a quick air test on the Tejon with the second discriminator all the way up, sensitivity at 10 and the 9 x 8 coil. Zinc penny is gone entirely. Since most Indian Head pennies I've found have been right where the zinc pennies are, they are gone too. Dime and copper penny could see at about 6 inches and quarter at about 10 inches. So there is some depth loss too. First discriminator tracks the same too.

Could use it like Neil suggests and only dig what is between the two discriminators as foil to zinc penny is pretty much the gold range.
tvr