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Teknetics G2 vs Tesoro Tejon/vaquero
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Big Boys Hobbies
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G2 has dual processors and VERY quiet in heavy iron. Add the 5" coil and its AMAZING in heavy trash. At 19 khz it will hit the smallest of small jewelry!
Some of the guys will chime in... its an amazing machine.
Holler if you have any questions or need great pricing! Thanks, Bart
Some of the guys will chime in... its an amazing machine.
Holler if you have any questions or need great pricing! Thanks, Bart
knack4iron
New member
Owned all 3 and the G2 is the one I kept. Loved the Vaquero but didn't have the depth or seperation, hated the Tejon(too unstable in AM). The G2 is killer amongst iron with great depth. I hunted a spot with a friend and him and another guy used the Troy X-5's. They did good but I still came in with him that day and found 5 buttons and some minnies with a token.Even dug a axehead in a gully around 16" and got a huge blowout signal although IMO its not a good shell digging machine due to the higher 19khz frequency. Seperation is awesome in DISC. I tested it on coins also, dug circles around a XLT, Troy X-3, and a DFX,I dug a pouch full of coins while they fiddled with controls. This machine is deadly and after some hours with it can be extremely deadly. For the money and for hunting campsites its hard to beat compared to the cost of other and the simplicity of the machine. Tek did good on this one. I remember the 80's when Teknetics first started showing up on the market, they where good machines then even with a tiny little 7 or 8 " coil and I remember they where hot on campsites and coins then.
Big Boys Hobbies
Well-known member
knack4iron said:Owned all 3 and the G2 is the one I kept. Loved the Vaquero but didn't have the depth or seperation, hated the Tejon(too unstable in AM). The G2 is killer amongst iron with great depth. I hunted a spot with a friend and him and another guy used the Troy X-5's. They did good but I still came in with him that day and found 5 buttons and some minnies with a token.Even dug a axehead in a gully around 16" and got a huge blowout signal although IMO its not a good shell digging machine due to the higher 19khz frequency. Seperation is awesome in DISC. I tested it on coins also, dug circles around a XLT, Troy X-3, and a DFX,I dug a pouch full of coins while they fiddled with controls. This machine is deadly and after some hours with it can be extremely deadly. For the money and for hunting campsites its hard to beat compared to the cost of other and the simplicity of the machine. Tek did good on this one. I remember the 80's when Teknetics first started showing up on the market, they where good machines then even with a tiny little 7 or 8 " coil and I remember they where hot on campsites and coins then.
GREAT honest report! Thanks!
cowtownkid
New member
I have both and both machines are very capable of coinshooting/relic hunting. Though when mainly coinshooting but mixing in some relic hunting I go with my Tejon. I love the dual discrimination and there are so many different ways to set this machine up. I also have the 4-pin CleanSweep and It is fantastic when covering my local lake which is currently 16ft. or more low. It covers a lot of ground fast. When I plan on mainly relic hunting with the hope of some coins at the sites. I go with my G2. The tone break is awesome not to mention the stability of the machine. I would suggest anyone who relic hunts a good deal, look into the G2. Great balance and so light you can swing it all day. I have found some very tiny buttons at some 1880's 1890's homesites that were pushing 5" deep. Both are great machines.
Maybe they are not identical units and the G2 has more depth than the Gold Bug Pro.?
T2 V G2
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T2 V G2
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MikeeB said:The g2 in no way is the gold bug just the processor , That was boosted up First Texas owns Fisher Bounty Hunter and Teknetics...
EtracTom-AdirondacksNY
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I just got a G2 from Bart here and all I can say is WOW is it ever screaming FAST processing things in the ground like you can literally see every little object even the tinest pieces of foil. Plenty deep too.
I went over an area I've been hunting all summer with my E-Trac and AT-Pro and I still after gridding it with the other 2 detectors first I used the G2 that arrived yesterday and re-went over half the area and found a buffalo rusty nickel 6in deep and a rusty silver war nickel 5in deep.
I also got an Omega8000 a couple weeks back from Bart and really like that too. I started to re-go over the rest of the area after switching from the G2 to the Omega and found 6in deep in the ashes with rust all over it and it was all black on the backside of it a silver 1944 washington quarter, hit hard rang in as 90-91 on the Omega like it didn't even notice the rust in the ground. The old days they threw out the backdoor all the coal and wood fireplace and stove ashes into the backyard with garbage.
I don't know but with the E-Trac and AT-Pro it must have been too trashy a signal and gave too much of an iron signal making me think large iron so I didn't dig it up when I was gridding with those detectors and I'm a slow and methodical detectorist.
I like to really clean up a spot before moving on to another one. This ballpark is just dowm the street from me couple hundred yards.
I went over an area I've been hunting all summer with my E-Trac and AT-Pro and I still after gridding it with the other 2 detectors first I used the G2 that arrived yesterday and re-went over half the area and found a buffalo rusty nickel 6in deep and a rusty silver war nickel 5in deep.
I also got an Omega8000 a couple weeks back from Bart and really like that too. I started to re-go over the rest of the area after switching from the G2 to the Omega and found 6in deep in the ashes with rust all over it and it was all black on the backside of it a silver 1944 washington quarter, hit hard rang in as 90-91 on the Omega like it didn't even notice the rust in the ground. The old days they threw out the backdoor all the coal and wood fireplace and stove ashes into the backyard with garbage.
I don't know but with the E-Trac and AT-Pro it must have been too trashy a signal and gave too much of an iron signal making me think large iron so I didn't dig it up when I was gridding with those detectors and I'm a slow and methodical detectorist.
I like to really clean up a spot before moving on to another one. This ballpark is just dowm the street from me couple hundred yards.
wielebny said:Teknetics G2 vs Tesoro Tejon/vaquero witch is better for coins and jewellery (silver/gold) ??
These are all a bit different models in their own way. Plus, you've asked this on a Teknetics Forum and will get mainly strong comments towards a Teknetics model. I'll just share my personal views as I have a G2, and have owned 3 Tej
Very good reports here, thank you Monte and Tom.
Dave J., correct me if I have anything wrong as I hope I have everything right here but Technetics-Fisher had Auto GB(Automatic Ground Balance) on the Fisher Gold Strike, the track button is for the Fisher Track AFS-Adaptive Feedback System to automatically tune to the changing ground mineralization. It auto tracks only on mineralized soils and hot rocks and not metal targets. A hot rock with a good gold target underneath then there is a second high tone. The Auto and Fast Auto Ground Tracking options are very good but people that prefer to do it themselves then the Gold Strike can also be ground balanced manually.
My question is why isn't there Auto GB installed on the T2(F75) and/or G2(GB Pro) .?? Thank you very much for your great service to the metal detecting community.
I do not know if you helped design the Compass Gold Scanner(great detector) but thank you if you did because I found the most gold in my life with that detector I have ever found being first on the spot on a rich surface vein(reef). Even though I have owned many detectors since then including 3 ML PI's.
Dave J. said:The Tek G2 and the Fisher GB Pro are the same machine internally, just different externals.
The Tek T2 is an entirely different platform.
--Dave J.
Dave J., correct me if I have anything wrong as I hope I have everything right here but Technetics-Fisher had Auto GB(Automatic Ground Balance) on the Fisher Gold Strike, the track button is for the Fisher Track AFS-Adaptive Feedback System to automatically tune to the changing ground mineralization. It auto tracks only on mineralized soils and hot rocks and not metal targets. A hot rock with a good gold target underneath then there is a second high tone. The Auto and Fast Auto Ground Tracking options are very good but people that prefer to do it themselves then the Gold Strike can also be ground balanced manually.
My question is why isn't there Auto GB installed on the T2(F75) and/or G2(GB Pro) .?? Thank you very much for your great service to the metal detecting community.
I do not know if you helped design the Compass Gold Scanner(great detector) but thank you if you did because I found the most gold in my life with that detector I have ever found being first on the spot on a rich surface vein(reef). Even though I have owned many detectors since then including 3 ML PI's.
I didn't have anything to do with the GoldStrike. If it had worked worth a darn, Fisher might have sold a few. After all, the Gold Bug 2 (an old-school machine without any fancy features) was introduced in 1995, before the Gold Strike. And15 years later, last year was its best year yet in terms of sales despite the fact we hardly advertise the thing (don't need to). This year's sales will probably top last year's.
Never did any work for Compass. I think John Earle was the engineer behind most of the Compass products, I suppose someone will correct me if I got that wrong. And yes, Compass machines were pretty good for their day. John went to work for White's in the late 1990's and I believe he's still there.
None of the products I've designed for the last nine years has phase based "ground tracking" because the products don't need it. The "grab" feature on most of our recent medium to high end products is quick and accurate and stable and doesn't tune out targets.
--Dave J.
Never did any work for Compass. I think John Earle was the engineer behind most of the Compass products, I suppose someone will correct me if I got that wrong. And yes, Compass machines were pretty good for their day. John went to work for White's in the late 1990's and I believe he's still there.
None of the products I've designed for the last nine years has phase based "ground tracking" because the products don't need it. The "grab" feature on most of our recent medium to high end products is quick and accurate and stable and doesn't tune out targets.
--Dave J.
Thank you Dave, exactly what I wanted to hear, I understand, and extemely well put.!
Prospectors love the Gold Bug 2 for finding the smallest gold possible and/or for scanning bedrock. One good suggestion is you should make about a 1/2" to 1" diameter probe that can attach to it for scanning bedrock cracks and crevices.
Then I should thank John Earle about my Compass Gold Scanner I had in 1990. I also thank Jim Straight for telling me where to drill a hole to adjust an internal pot screw on it. But that was not my first Compass as I had a Judge I Automatic TR in about 1975-76 having some great finds with that also being less modern trash and first one on the scene back then, and my first detector was a Bounty Hunter III BFO in about 1973 with no good finds with that one for me.
Whites MXT-GMT, Minelab X-Terra 705-Eureka Gold, Garrett GTI-2500, and Tesoro Lobo ST all have "Automatic ground balance(GB) tracking", but your products do not need it because your different innovative thinking and great "grab" GB system at Fisher-Technetics is just as good if not better for prospecting and relic hunting.
Prospectors love the Gold Bug 2 for finding the smallest gold possible and/or for scanning bedrock. One good suggestion is you should make about a 1/2" to 1" diameter probe that can attach to it for scanning bedrock cracks and crevices.
Then I should thank John Earle about my Compass Gold Scanner I had in 1990. I also thank Jim Straight for telling me where to drill a hole to adjust an internal pot screw on it. But that was not my first Compass as I had a Judge I Automatic TR in about 1975-76 having some great finds with that also being less modern trash and first one on the scene back then, and my first detector was a Bounty Hunter III BFO in about 1973 with no good finds with that one for me.
Whites MXT-GMT, Minelab X-Terra 705-Eureka Gold, Garrett GTI-2500, and Tesoro Lobo ST all have "Automatic ground balance(GB) tracking", but your products do not need it because your different innovative thinking and great "grab" GB system at Fisher-Technetics is just as good if not better for prospecting and relic hunting.