Tesoro Vaquero and Cibola "notch" question

[fltacoma]

I was speaking to a dealer over the phone earlier today about possibly getting a possibly brand new in the box Golden Umax (who he thought might have had one) just for the notch aspect of it. What he told me though, I never really thought about though.

He said that there is a sweet spot where it will beep four inches to either side for a pull tab, kind of as if it were on both sides while still retaining some nickels and still hit gold pretty well.

Have any of you guys/gals ever done this? for the Cibola, I tested this method with the disc just a hair to the right of the nickel where the line directly points to the "cent" symbol. Sure enough it worked.

Where do you guys/gals usually set the disc to cancel out pull tabs and still be able to obtain the gold?

 

[REVIER]

There is no area where you can notch out tabs and still get all gold.
Sure, you might get it exactly right where some tabs will disc out and some gold just above it will stay in, but gold comes in all over the place at every conductivity all over tabs.
All over the complete nickel area and pretty much most of the foil range too.
If you disc out anywhere in tabs you would miss all of thosel lower ones and I have found way more gold in foil and nickel than I ever have in tabs.
I use other methods to tell tabs from gold in the tab area and I have done pretty good but there is always the chance I could be wrong, too.

Dig everything to get all the gold, get your X-Ray vision working and that would be a second way, figure out behavior differences between tabs and gold if you can might be a third way or set your disc where you have to for your sanity and hope for the best.

 

[Dereck]

I have tested gold on my Vaquero same as the Cibola but with manual ground balance medium size gold discriminates out before the Nichol mark on my Vaquero
As I roll it up it is solid then just gone no scratchy half signal at all

 

[REVIER]

I have tested gold on my Vaquero same as the Cibola but with manual ground balance medium size gold discriminates out before the Nichol mark on my Vaquero
As I roll it up it is solid then just gone no scratchy half signal at all

I have found many gold targets with my Vaq and my Compadre.
They have ranged from that knob pointing to some letter in the word foil up to the 3:00 position zinc for a couple of gold class rings.
They can go higher and lower than that range too.

I never thumb up to the fade out point on any target but always go past to the silent area, (except on high conductive targets that don't disc out, of course), and then back down to the fade in point and listen to exactly how they come in.
How much noise, crackles, chatter and all that.
This is how I make digging decisions and I have successfully succeeded in cutting down the amount of trash I used to dig by a huge amount and still manage to find way more than my share of great treasure.
Using this method I have found gold, specifically because just as on your thumb up method so far every piece of gold I have found with these things, no matter where they were in the disc knob range, have always come in solid, loud with no noise...they just appeared.
This was in pretty clean areas but also a few with some very heavy trash really close by...long live the disc ability on Tesoro units!
Again, just so far and all of the gold I have found so far has been 5" or less in depth.
Other's mileage may very.

 

[slingshot]

There IS a notch "sweet spot" on all Tesoros. Find the spot on the dial where the old style tabs just break up and carefully mark that spot. Remember, they MUST audibly break up- just a noticeable ALMOST good target. Then, when you hunt say in iron/small foil reject, rotate to this spot when you hit a target. If it goes silent, it's in the nickel/large foil area. If it breaks up-tab. If it still beeps- the coins area. You get to hear ALL targets and their response in the low disc search mode, and ID them- and it's only ONE move of the dial. Works great- I once had a flip switch setup connected to the disc pot and only flipped the toggle on my Silver umax before I became serious about gold.
Almost forgot. Make sure you don't use the statab that falls in the nickel range on ALL detectors to set with. Must be a tab that is old style, or the newer statab that DOES fall in the tab area.