Tejon For Coin Hunting and Coins At Depth

[RLOH]

A couple of days ago as I was hunting one of my regular spots, I found a couple of wheat pennies at a section of the park where I have not had much success. Today I went back and gridded this end of the park and vowed to myself to slow up and see if more good finds were here. I started where I found some of my old plugs and stuck some twigs in the ground as reference points to start the grid. I immediately started finding some clad coins that were shallow(two or three inches) The ground was very dry and hard which usually kills depth on any detector. On the third or fourth pass, I got the "whisper of a signal that repeated when I checked in alt. disc. From 7 inches comes a silver roosie. I will repeat myself again to stress that coins at 7 inches plus on the Tejon will be a whisper and good headphones are a must. I was shocked to find silver in this part of the park. With renewed optimism, I continued gridding and started hearing many more of these deep ticks or whispers. I ended up with four wheaties and one more silver dime. This dime was a mercury and had a somewhat "muddled" signal. It would repeat from different angles in alternate disc, but it was not as clear as the other deep coins. I quickly found out why. The first thing I found from about seven inches was the mercury. I rechecked the hole with my pinpointer and got a signal slightly off to the side. It was a small rusty nail. For the doubters who say Tesoro is "old technology" and not capable of finding good targets with rusty iron close, I will say you are wrong. It is always a good feeling to find enough deep coins and finally get that signal imbedded in your memory. A couple of weeks ago, I would have probably walked right on by these types of signals. For the record, some of the wheaties were in the nine inch deep range which in my ground is as good as it gets. R.L.

 

[Wooden Nickel]

RL,

Can you describe those whispers a bit more. I'm just starting to use a Tejon and have been digging only the mid to strongest signals. Maybe I have been passing on some good stuff.

I get a lot of clicks, chirps or whatever you want to call them. Plus, I have been working a lot of trashy areas. I assumed they are trashy because of their history, and I heard a lot of sounds like clicks, etc.

I know more experience will help too.

mike.....

 

[RLOH]

Mike, I can best describe a deep signal as a very faint whoosh. Try this: put a dime on the ground and lift the coil while sweeping over it very slowly. When you get to the height where the signal is just about gone, this is what you will hear. It will not be nearly as loud as it is when the coil is closer to the coin. If it is a crack or pop, it will probably not repeat when you check it from a different angle and will most of the time be a junk target. Just about all of these deeper coins I have found will repeat when checked from a 90 degree angle, faint as they are. I have found that you can sweep the Tejon very slowly and still get a decent signal. As I said before, good headphones are a must to be able to distinguish these faint signals. The only problem I have had with the Tejon is with very small pieces of gum foil. They are faint just like a deep coin and I have dug many of them. One characteristic of them is when you check from different angles, these small foil pieces will not repeat. Just about every brand of detector I have ever used has had problems with some kind of trash. My Explorer loves aluminum screw caps and most of the newer Fishers have trouble with rusty bottle caps. I guess the only solution is to keep digging everything questionable.