I just got a new tejon a couple weeks ago,so far I have hunted about 2 1/2 hrs and found 3 colonial buttons,a 3ring bullet, a3 cent piece,a bridle rosette and a small shoe buckle-not bad.I like the machine but am wondering,why the need for two disc. modes.I have been digging everything with a decent or iffy reading and several times I got good redings on disc. 1 (set on nickel) and switch to disc 2(set just a little under tab) and get nothing or a very choppy iron type reading and it would be a shotgon shell or small piece of brass that should definately be a DIG every time.I hate digging shotgun shells but on my whites blue and gray they give the same signal as a button.when I dug the bullet,it even disced out as an iffy,irony signal when I went to disc 2. so why even use disc. 2, seems like if I listen to this alternate disc. I am gonna be leaving some nice relics/coins in the ground. any help appreciated.
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- Thread starter nkdigger
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LittleJohn
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All depends on what you are hunting for. It is not always needed, but if you are coin shooting for clad in a park, it will save you a lot of trash diggin, as well as give you the opportunity to make the choice whether to dig the iffy stuff.
The dual disc is nice when coin hunting, and few other applications, but if you are primarily searching for relics, set your disc just below nickel and dig everything that sounds good. Shot shells are a pain, but a necessary evil if you hunt relics. Set the Freq knob at about 3:00 and you will eventually be able to "call" an iron target just by the sound (you will need good headphones).
LittleJohn
Member
I am gonna have to get better headphones Scully, I have been trying that 3 o'clock setpoint and still not quite getting the different crackle you mention.
LittleJohn
Member
Here are a couple old coins I found this past weekend with the Tejon.
Scully said:
Took me a while to start hearing it and I first started hearing it with cheap headphones; but good headphones make it much more pronounced.
For those not hearing it, listen to the edge of the beep, not the middle. Partially discriminated out targets or those on the verge of being eliminated ... like iron, when the discriminator is set above iron, have a sharp edge to the sound. The tone rises very quickly and goes away very quickly on the edge, even if the middle sounds strong. Sometimes the middle part of the beep is shortened, but it is the edges that really give it away. Sometimes all you get is a little clicking and that is easier to figure out. Good targets, above the discriminator setting, sound smoother on the edges.
Can hear it in vco mode too. My preference is running vco.
Cheers,
tvr
If they are $25 phones, the audio quality is relatively poor and you wont hear the subtle characteristics of the Tejon language. I use Killer B's, but there are a number of high-end phones of equal quality. With good phones you will hear a distinct "snap", a real sharpness to the beep on iron. Coins/buttons/rings, and other good targets have a nices smoothness to the audio. With a little practice you will be able call iron. I still occassionaly get fooled, but its usually and iffy target that I THINK is iron, but I have to dig it to be sure. Better safe than sorry.