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DeepTech

Tejon Deepest For Brass/Copper/Lead/Gold

M

Michigan Badger

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There's a place in our yard where someone a long time ago must have burned and buried an old tarp.

I found it years ago with my first Tejon. The brass eyelets gave it's location away.

The first time I found the spot I dug about a half dozen eyelets at about 10-15 inches deep. The eyelets are a little under 1" in diameter.

Ever since that day I've made it my habit to run the coils of all my detectors over that very spot to see if any more could be found.

To my knowledge no other detector ever found another eyelet. I owned several Nautilus IIbs, 2 Minelab Explorers, 1 Minelab Sovereign GT, 1 Minelab Excalibur, and most recently a Fisher F70. I also owned many cheaper machines which I won't mention.

Today with my new Tejon I returned to that spot as always and right away got a good loud signal. Yep, up came another eyelet from a good 12 inches down.

Tesoro is best and Tejon is the best of the Tesoros. :thumbup:
 
MB, may I ask if you tried that particular badger test with the infinium?

and, are you sure you gave the explorer stop Do you think you gave the Explorer a good chance? they really make funny noises!

Thanks
rmptr
 
Granted--all tests of this nature are very subjective.

To me it convinced me. Maybe it wouldn't someone else.

This is why we must all discover these things for ourselves.

I always tell everyone who PMs me to check things out for themselves and don't take anything posted on any forum as absolute fact.

In my post I was just sharing a personal experience. Maybe someone else will come to a different conclusion.

All I know is I'm convinced.

Badger
 
Michigan Badger said:
There's a place in our yard where someone a long time ago must have burned and buried an old tarp.

I found it years ago with my first Tejon. The brass eyelets gave it's location away.

The first time I found the spot I dug about a half dozen eyelets at about 10-15 inches deep. The eyelets are a little under 1" in diameter.

Ever since that day I've made it my habit to run the coils of all my detectors over that very spot to see if any more could be found.

To my knowledge no other detector ever found another eyelet. I owned several Nautilus IIbs, 2 Minelab Explorers, 1 Minelab Sovereign GT, 1 Minelab Excalibur, and most recently a Fisher F70. I also owned many cheaper machines which I won't mention.

Today with my new Tejon I returned to that spot as always and right away got a good loud signal. Yep, up came another eyelet from a good 12 inches down.

Tesoro is best and Tejon is the best of the Tesoros. :thumbup:
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Sounds like youve got the best detector for your area then, especially when you go hunting for brass eyelets:clapping:

They all have their places they excel at thats for sure, been through most of em myself. Just picked up a Vaquero and looking for a good used Tejon for some areas but certainly not my main detector for depth. I hunt beaches mostly and besides a pulse Ive found nothing to touch an explorer, etrac or sov in both depth or ID at depth. Yes they take a little time to understand, longer for some than others, and they are both heavy and slow hunters. Minelab has never said they were light and fast. But they do well on both low and high conductors.
I found more gold chains and earrings with a Tejon and X5 I had previously and competition at beaches has become fierce anymore I thought Id try doing that type of hunting again. I know I will be digging alot of garbage but Im hoping the small stuff is still there:detecting:
heres one explorer and one etrac find from this year, those both do pretty well even if they arent tejons.
HH
Neil
 
I agree that minelab's cant be beat on the salt beach. I have used a sovereign elite on beaches for years and I wouldn't use any other. I didn't have much luck with it relic hunting though because it doesn't like air between the target and the coil such as leaves, pine straw and freshly plowed fields. You have to pick the right machine for the right circumstances!

Best Regards,

VaRelics
:tesoro:
 
That's great to know. Just bought a Tejon this past winter and want to put it to work. Glad to see you're getting great results with it.
 
padiggin said:
That's great to know. Just bought a Tejon this past winter and want to put it to work. Glad to see you're getting great results with it.
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deep machines it takes some learning.

Just don't do like I did. I jumped from one brand to another and there's really no need to leave Tesoro. Nothing out there is significantly better than the Tejon. Most are much worse due to being far too slow in recovery time or other reasons.

Just make up your mind you're not going to get caught up in brand/model jumping.

Let the Tejon speak to you. Don't tell it what to say.

I learned this lesson with the Minelab Explorer XS. I was ready to toss it into the trash can but one day I decided to allow it to teach me. I did very well with it during the summer I used it. I really liked it but the Tejon is better. It's lighter, faster, just as deep (maybe deeper) and really the Tejon gives me more target information.

If you let the machine do the teaching you'll discover it has a word for rusty nail and pull tab and beer can and foil and gold and silver etc., etc.

Badger
 
Michigan Badger said:
padiggin said:
That's great to know. Just bought a Tejon this past winter and want to put it to work. Glad to see you're getting great results with it.
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deep machines it takes some learning.

Just don't do like I did. I jumped from one brand to another and there's really no need to leave Tesoro. Nothing out there is significantly better than the Tejon. Most are much worse due to being far too slow in recovery time or other reasons.

Just make up your mind you're not going to get caught up in brand/model jumping.

Let the Tejon speak to you. Don't tell it what to say.

I learned this lesson with the Minelab Explorer XS. I was ready to toss it into the trash can but one day I decided to allow it to teach me. I did very well with it during the summer I used it. I really liked it but the Tejon is better. It's lighter, faster, just as deep (maybe deeper) and really the Tejon gives me more target information.

If you let the machine do the teaching you'll discover it has a word for rusty nail and pull tab and beer can and foil and gold and silver etc., etc.

Badger
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Im gonna have to pay more attention to this next Tejon Im getting. I would never have guessed that its audio can give more info than what the explorer offers.
I did some beach hunting tonight with my Vaquero, its got a little audio variance but not much. Pretty easy to tell when its crackling over iron but other than that, a pulltab, bottle cap and hot rock sounded the same. But I am new at using it so I cant judge yet.
hh
neil
 
about understanding the Tejon.

It's not so much the tone but it's more the signal quality.

The machine communicates as you change discrimination levels, coil direction, and check the size of the target in all-metal.

Sometimes just raising the coil a couple inches says a lot.

This is the type of thing I was referring to.

I just wanted to share this.

Take care and enjoy that Tejon.

Badger
 
Thanks much Badger. Im gonna pay a lot of attention to that, I think there is something to be heard there that helps in IDing as you say. I should have my Tejon in about a week. Its coming with a small coil as well as the stock coil.

Why are you leaving here for good, are you getting out of detecting?

HH
Neil
 
Good luck with the new Tejon.

I'm leaving all the forums not just this one.

Lets just say it's time to leave the forums.

No sour grapes, it's just time.

Take care and enjoy the hobby.

Badger
 
Hay VA RELICS,Pick the right machine,thats going way overboard isn't it,i do it all with vaquero,except water hunt,getting a tiger or sand shark for that!no junky closets here!Chuck.
 
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