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Someone Convince Me...
- Thread starter Smudge
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digitaltim
New member
n/t
Well, for the $200 extra you get the backlight, the notch, GB in all metal and the SUM mode (multiple tones). Is that worth $200 to you? Only you can answer that.
As for the Golden, I had one, and a Cortes too. The Golden is a great detector, but the Cortes is definitely deeper. The Golden will clean out the top 6 inches of coins, and the Cortes will take care of the targets beneath that to 8" or so. That was my personal experience anyway. I covered an area with the Golden, then went back and did the same area with the Cortes. I got few targets in the first 6" but quite a few under that. I found a target in my yard with the Cortes, then brought out the Golden to see how it sounded. Not a peep. So I dug and it was a toy horse about 10" down in wet soil.
Hope this helps.
Dan
As for the Golden, I had one, and a Cortes too. The Golden is a great detector, but the Cortes is definitely deeper. The Golden will clean out the top 6 inches of coins, and the Cortes will take care of the targets beneath that to 8" or so. That was my personal experience anyway. I covered an area with the Golden, then went back and did the same area with the Cortes. I got few targets in the first 6" but quite a few under that. I found a target in my yard with the Cortes, then brought out the Golden to see how it sounded. Not a peep. So I dug and it was a toy horse about 10" down in wet soil.
Hope this helps.
Dan
amcjavelin
Active member
i've never owned the cortes but i do like the sum feature it has but i've owned sevral deleon and i likem alot just bought a SEF coil to try on ithoping it will work out!
joe dirt_1
Active member
Never owned a Cortes,but did own a Deleon and it didn't impress me that much. The meter was way to jumpy for me on the Deleon. My Silver
Diggler
Member
I had a Cortes and sorta regret selling it. The GB is nice, but only works when in all metal. The notch was nice too... wish it was adjustable like the Golden instead of just narrow or wide. The SUM was nice but I rarely needed it. Cortes did not like the 12x10 coil even with GB in AM. Some people complain that all coins show a VDI 95... Did they not see the little fine markers at the bottom of the screen? Was pretty darn accurate at determining linc/zinc/dime/quarter (and dollar a.k.a. CAN!) if you can see that small little marker. I have hit areas with Etrac that I cleaned out with Cortes and found NOTHING. I think I would get the DeLeon if I were to choose one of the 2 now. If it is a 95 I dig unless it is an easily determined can. I like digging more targets instead of trying to guess before I dig. Which is the reason I hunted the last 2 days with my CleanSweep equipped Silver Sabre and left the Etrac at home.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Some people talk down the Cortes. I think it is a great detector. The only reason I don't still own one is because I'm hooked on tones.
The Cortes has more depth potiential than the uMax detectors.
HH
MIke
The Cortes has more depth potiential than the uMax detectors.
HH
MIke
I found the 95 on the Cortes to be great for Canadian coins. If it flashed a 95 once or twice when swinging over a target, I dug even if it settled elsewhere. I pulled $140 in coins out of one school yard using that strategy. In high iron infested areas that trick didn't work quite as well.
As for the SUM mode, it's too bad that couldn't be turned on permanently (as in, remove that spring in the switch). I like the tones, but it never seemed that advantageous to hold the switch and keep scanning the same target. All that monkey business, and I could have already dug the target.
I found battery life to be incredible with the Cortes. I kept track that summer of the hours I had it on, and I went 60 hours before I had to change the batteries. Sometimes I used the back light too!!
Dan
As for the SUM mode, it's too bad that couldn't be turned on permanently (as in, remove that spring in the switch). I like the tones, but it never seemed that advantageous to hold the switch and keep scanning the same target. All that monkey business, and I could have already dug the target.
I found battery life to be incredible with the Cortes. I kept track that summer of the hours I had it on, and I went 60 hours before I had to change the batteries. Sometimes I used the back light too!!
Dan
I had one and didn't like it. It can't ID past 8" even though it will go deeper. Had poor TID number resolution, ie, I never detected anything that had a number between 85-95 it was always 95. Was extremely noisy in disc mode (falsed on virtually everything in the ground close to the surface). I spent more time trying to cypher what was under the coil than digging. Had it into the factory because of its symptoms and was given a clean bill of health. Got rid of it and never looked back.
I have the Cortes and the Golden. The soil in my neck of the woods in NJ is mild and have no problems with pre-set ground balance. The Golden is a great gold ring finder because of the tones and the adjustable notch system. Not as deep as the Cortes. The Cortes has notch system too. Both detectors notch systems can eliminate many pulltabs and still pickup ladies gold rings, but class rings and heavier mens rings are not detected in the notch system. If the Cortes had automatic tones it would be the perfect detector for me, I need to press the SUM switch to get tones. I use the SUM mode only to double check iffy targets. I also have the Fisher ID Edge. Its a hair deeper than the Cortes, has a good meter, has 4 tones and ground balances in both modes. I use it searching for deeper coins, the 4 tones along with the meter make it an excellent detector. I love all 3 and finding a used one for sale is rare.
Sven
Well-known member
I had a White's MXT when I owned my first Cortes, took them out and compared them at a school yard.
Whatever the MXT signaled on, the Cortes did also and I also used smaller coins on them as well to test.
After lots of testing and more testing trying to decide which one to sell. Made a decision to keep the MXT.
Because it had several more features that would be better for prospecting and the ability to GB in both all metal
and disc modes. Would have preferred to keep the Cortes, lighter in weight and better balanced. Eventually sold the
MXT, too noisey of a detector and hated the audio tones, they sort of triggered a "will wrap you around a tree" response
after about an hour or so.
Take a Cortes for a test drive at your local dealer, then decide if it's for you.
Whatever the MXT signaled on, the Cortes did also and I also used smaller coins on them as well to test.
After lots of testing and more testing trying to decide which one to sell. Made a decision to keep the MXT.
Because it had several more features that would be better for prospecting and the ability to GB in both all metal
and disc modes. Would have preferred to keep the Cortes, lighter in weight and better balanced. Eventually sold the
MXT, too noisey of a detector and hated the audio tones, they sort of triggered a "will wrap you around a tree" response
after about an hour or so.
Take a Cortes for a test drive at your local dealer, then decide if it's for you.
Willee - Texas
Well-known member
I am thinking that the Cortes will be my next Tesoro.
I agree,
The Deleone meter on mine jumped at bit also,so I sold it..THAT DOESNT MEAN ITS A BAD DETECTOR..
As far as depth,I know Dan B. commented about the Cortes being deeper than the Golden,this is definately true..
BUT the Deleone is NO SLOUCH in the DEPTH dept., air testing quarters at 11"!
One DEFINATE advantage the Deleone has over the Cortez, is THE SIZE OF THE METER READ OUT!
If only they'd make a perfect detector! Lol!
Dave F.
Clairton,Pa.
PS.. Just because I sold the Deleone,doesnt mean I won't buy another,it really is a good machine!
I'm on a mssion to TEST EVERY METAL DETECTOR I can get my filthy hands on,(within my meager budget of course!)
The Deleone meter on mine jumped at bit also,so I sold it..THAT DOESNT MEAN ITS A BAD DETECTOR..
As far as depth,I know Dan B. commented about the Cortes being deeper than the Golden,this is definately true..
BUT the Deleone is NO SLOUCH in the DEPTH dept., air testing quarters at 11"!
One DEFINATE advantage the Deleone has over the Cortez, is THE SIZE OF THE METER READ OUT!
If only they'd make a perfect detector! Lol!
Dave F.
Clairton,Pa.
PS.. Just because I sold the Deleone,doesnt mean I won't buy another,it really is a good machine!
I'm on a mssion to TEST EVERY METAL DETECTOR I can get my filthy hands on,(within my meager budget of course!)
BarberBill
New member
I have the DeLeon and like it a lot. The soil in my area is generally mild and the machine works well. It definitely is deeper than any of the beep and dig umax detectors I've used. Mine hits and IDs coins pretty accurately down to 8" or so. I don't mind the fact that copper pennies, dimes quarters etc. all come in at 95. That's nearly always a coin and I'm going to dig, regardless of denomination. Some of the posters commented that their DeLeon's displays were jumpy. I see some of that, especially over mixed junk etc., but it locks on solidly for true coin targets.
BB
BB
My DeLeon meter was the same way junk targets and wierd shaped pieces of metal would often have the numbers jumping around, and at times EMI would do the same thing. My soil is mild so I was able to hunt with the sens at 10 or all the way over into the orange and with the threshold maxed out (supertuned) 99% of the time, also I always thought it did well in the depth dept.