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Tejon not much deeper than Bandido II Umax?

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My new Tejon is just about 1 Inch deeper on my test dime than my Bandido II Umax.(In my New Mexico soil)Is that normal or do i have to send it to Tesoro?
The Tejon seems to have better disc because it doesn't click so much when it disc out a nickel.
I like it anyway because it has 2 great discriminators.
andy
 
That seems odd to me considering all reports have the Tejon going much deeper than other machines. I've not tried one yet but I would expect a significant increase in depth. I'd suggest contacting Tesoro to see if they feel it ought to be sent in. Let us know what you find out?
 
According to Monte's posts an inch difference is about all that should be expected.
 
Seems odd to me as well! It may have difficulty in some areas and soils?
I have Seen Doug-Iowa in many holes up to his elbow(He has long arms) and many great finds.
In our soil conditions I have no doubt it is deeper than my Eldorado.
I also ran one for about 2 hours once and it is a good machine and fun to use.
I bought a Cortes instead of the Tejon, because I wanted one TID machine to compliment my Eldorado.
Having two manual GB non Target ID machines did not make sense for me.
If I were to decide the Eldorado was lacking Tejon would get the nod.
 
The Bandido was anemic on coins and larger CW bullets. It was very good on brass and gold.
John
 
On the depth question - I tested a tejon against the Lobo Super traq, Tiger Shark and the Minelab Explorer. Since ground is so hard to use I went to a beach and used the sand and a ruler to measure depths and found I could get almost 11" on both a dime and gold ring. The tiger shark only got about 7" and the Lobo about 9 - the explorer came the closest and was probably within an inch of the Tejon, but I would have dug the tejon reading as it was very clear while with the bouncing of the explorers meter you wouldnt know for sure - I also noticed there was no greater depth between a dime or a half, both same clear signals but no greater depth on the half. These test were made in Pull tab discrimination, with just a very slight increase in depth with lower disc - very unscientific but I was impressed.
 
try it on one of the highly mineralized, black sand freshwater beaches I hunt around here and there are a few models that match or best the Tej
 
The Bandido was a good machine, the Bandido umax is even better as it is lighter, also I find this to knock the socks of all the other top rate machines here in the uk, after many many detectors I am back with the best. Tesoro Bandido 11 U/Max. Rob.
 
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