I've been out of serious detecting for a good while now, and didn't even know that Tesoro was history until yesterday. My 2 favorite machines are Tesoro, but I am thinking about getting an Equinox 6 or 800. Just wondering if the Equinox will outperform the old Tiger Shark. Oh, well. Decisions, decisions.
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Still Using Old Tiger Shark
- Thread starter Rick W
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The Tiger Shark I have is fun to use. I don't use it much since it is not very deep in salt water; although it does better in brackish, and it is very seldom I'm in fresh water. Sounds like a duck over targets and sometimes makes me laugh listening to it quack.
I don't have an Equinox, but have compared targets with both a CZ and Excal to other users with an Equinox. I suspect, once learned, an Equinox will do better than a Tiger Shark in most conditions. Tiger Shark is good on very small gold in fresh water (and very small foil too).
Thanks! I've been digging since 1979. And I've had many machines, but I rarely get to salt water. I've found lots of gold rings and things over the years in freshwater, and have found 6 gold rings in one day on 2 occasions, but about 6 years ago, the gold abruptly stopped, and then it was all tungsten carbide, stainless steel, and junk. Dont know what happened.
Yes, I dig those junk rings too. Seems to be the fashion now. One guy I used to work with lost his platinum ring at the beach one summer; replaced it with a white gold one; lost that at the beach and replaced it with a stainless steel one. Got to hit in front of higher end resorts and research for old beaches that are no longer used to get back to bigger gold counts. I just enjoy getting out on occasion and getting the old muscles some much needed exercise whether I'm in the gold or not.
bootyhoundpa
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I have both tiger shark and nox 800.. I never truly got proficient with the tiger shark but still did very well with it..in my opinion the 800 will out perform the tiger shark especially on the smaller stuff mainly due to the wide variety of adjustable settings..I did struggle quite a lot learning the 800.. I mainly freshwater hunt for micro jewelry.. I like using 40khz most when looking for the smaller stuff.. the main thing I like about the 800 over the tiger shark is all adjustments are on the outside unlike those few Tesoro put inside the box..
That makes a lot of sense. I got proficient with the Tiger, probably because I hunted the same areas over and over. The machine just "fit" the conditions where I hunt. For the last 3 years in a row, the water levels have been high, so that hurt my late season hunts.