Tesoro Cibola vs, Old White's Eagle

[Anonymous]

My old detecting buddy has been out of comission for 8 years, but we went digging Sunday. I had my new Cibola, he has his old Eagle. I hunted with a Spectrum for 10 years, and found alot with it. But, I used to think that the White's wouldn't go very deep. Well, I had the Cib's sensitivity on 9, and threshold on about 90%. Discrimination was on 5cent. I "whooped" him with finds, finding a Zouave button and harmonica reed plate(I know, this ain't much). He did have a couple of deep signals, however, that my Cib wouldn't pick up. I was surprised. I'm wondering if the Tejon, or Vaquero would have gone alot deeper than the Cib? I do like my Silver and Cibola, though........

 

[SkiWhiz]

I would guess that the Cibola is as deep or deeper than the White's. You said you had your discrimination set at "nickel", maybe the hit he heard and you didn't was a target with a composition lower than a nickle. What was his discrimination set at compared to yours? Steve.

 

[kdc]

the best thing to do is dig the target and get your depth measurements and see what it is so you know fer sure.

 

[tabdog]

Steve is probably right.

The Cibola will go deeper if you turn the sensitivity up into the red. All the way up if you can. Called super tuning. You have to turn it back down to use the pin pointer properly.

All so if you have the discrimination turned up you'll loose depth. With the Cibola you can hunt shallow or you can hunt deep, but you have to push it if you want max depth.

Where did your friend have his settings?

HH,

 

[SkiWhiz]

I hate to disagree with our friend Tabdog when he said: The Cibola will go deeper if you turn the sensitivity up into the red. All the way up if you can. Called super tuning.

I think he meant to say that to "super tune" the Cibola you have to turn the threshold all the way up not just the sensitivity..

 

[Monte]

give you virtually identical performance.

As was commented on, I am curious why you used that much discrimination, as well as why the Sensitivity was set at '9'?

If it was set at '9' because there was too much RF interference if set any higher, then your friend might, or might NOT, have been experiencing problems and could use a higher gain setting.

You left his settings out of your post, so that eliminates some ways to compare, and you also didn't mention the search coils in use by both of you. That, too, can make a difference.

I used a White's XL Pro to search a park with some friends, and I would mark the deeper, potentially coin targets that I could hear AND identify. I had coin hits from 6"-9", 5

 

[Monte]

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[Anonymous]

I asked my hunting buddy what his machine was set on, and he said sens. was on 4, and he was hunting in "all metal' with the "belltone" feature on. I think that's just mixed tone audio. I know that he has a stock coil.

 

[Anonymous]

That's a good point. I know that my Cibola air-tests better than the Eagle, and I should have thought of the discrimination factor at the time. If I had been in all-metal, I'd have probably picked it up, too. But, I did "whip" the Eagle in terms of finds. And, I've used White's machines since 1982, with no complaints, other than having Rheumatoid Arthritis for a few years, needing a lighter machine. I would like to own a "Cadillac" Tesoro for relic hunting, though. Maybe a Tejon? What do y'all think of them?

 

[Anonymous]

Well, Monte, as I have noted before, you DO know your Tesoros, and I'm thankful to be able to view your posts. They have helped me in the past. My buddy's Eagle was set on sensitivity "4", and he was in belltone all-metal mode. The soil was red(acidic). So, in light of that, I may would have gone deeper had I been in all-metal. He was impressed at the air-test ability of both my Silver and the Cibola. His machine wouldn't do as well in that department. I just called him prior to these recent posts to see how his machine was set. Perhaps this will shed a little light on the technological aspects of the
"duel". And, I did find more good targets than he did...And, my machine never "chirped" when I increased the sensitivity. Could I have gotten more depth if I had incresed it past 9? Just curious.............Thanks again........

 

[tabdog]

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