tesoro vs whites spectra v3i

[Hombre]

Don't pay any attention to that nonsense. Chances are he has his machine set up to cherry pick silver coins. He's leaving plenty behind. You need to keep using your Compadre and dig all the repeatable signals. He might find a few silver dimes but you'll get the gold.

The attitude comes from the mistaken idea (and believing all the hype) that you have to spend a lot of money and have a zillion options in order to be successful at detecting. My Compadre has paid for itself twice over with a single find. Wonder if that guy can say the same with his $1500 machine?

As far as your question as to what Tesoro could go up against his V3i? Take your pick, and learn it well. And dig.

Yep he's probably leaving plenty crap To compare a compadre to a V3i is like bringing a stick to a gunfight. However if he V3I user is a newbie to his V3i then you would have a chance against him..otherwise

It depends on the location on whether one detector will out hunt the other and if both machine operators are equally experienced. The V3i will do better with it's higher gain at finding deeper targets in a less targeted area with little iron to deal with. The Compadre will do better with it's 2 filter quick response and fast recovery speed in a nail littered areas like around old building/old house... relic type sites where there are a handfull of nails to every sweep. Use the right tool for the job at hand, there are no perfect detectors.

 

[Southwind]

It's all about the right tool for the right job. You wouldn't use a sledge hammer to take the hinges off a door, and you wouldn't use a screwdriver to knock down a concrete wall.

Oh, and I've paid for my $1000+ detectors many many times over. I bought a V3i, a CTX 3030 and a E-Trac with just the goods I found with my DFX and sold. I'm sure I could have probably found the same goods with a Tesoro, but it would have taken longer in my opinion. The DFX allowed me to be very selective on what I spent time recovering.

 

[cladcanada]

Guess i was just supprised at the attitude i got from this detectorist . I was thinking hey maybe i found a group to hunt with but now i think he didn't want any competition .
And thank you to all that can get top line machines it does help the r&d so we all gain from that
I would swing any brand /model/price machine just to be out detecting
Thanks all

 

[mudpuppy]

This is a sport that tends to be for "loners" I guess some guys look at any and all as competition, and I dont blame them...thinking back, I have met more detectorists that DONT want to talk than those that do..I have 3 great buds i met afield that swing the high end...they know what I swing, but we help each other none the less...I guess we are just those kind that get a kick out of a good find that one of our 'comeptitors" makes and it spurs us all on to hunt harder.. They are pretty dang good though, I wish they all would move!
Mud

 

[Idxpro]

Here is my 2 cents..
I have been to a new spot with my Outlaw maybe 5 or 6 times and thought I got it all. Then I try it with the whites and find a whole crap load more. I've also been to a new spot with my whites and thought I found it all, then hit it with the Outlaw and find a crap load more. Hell, I've even found stuff with my Elcheapo F2 that the whites and Tesoro missed! I just think each one has it's strong points in certain situations. The latest experience was hunting an old WW11 camp with a buddy which was swinging my F2 and I was swinging my Whites. I hit an area full of iron "junk". I tried slow, fast, medium, different disc settings, you name it, hoping to pull something from that iron, but my whites told me junk. I walked away. He then wanted to try my whites. I said sure and took over with the F2. I decided to go back to the iron patch and found 4 prop with wing buttons all next to each other in the iron. I was baffled!! There was no mistaken on the F2 that there was something there that wasn't iron.
Then there was a time hunting alone in a square nail infested cellar hole with the F2 and nothing but, well, square nails. I dug so many holes hoping it was wrong but sure enough, all square nails. It looked like a ground hog had gone crazy. I fiqured what the hell, switch to the Outlaw with the 12x10 DD. Found a very cool LHE button and an indian head with ease!! You just never know.

 

[tabman]

Idxpro I've been back to the same location with the same detector and still find stuff that it missed.

tabman

 

[CladDog]

Gotta wonder if some of these guys with expensive detectors are trying to compensate for something...

The V3i is a top rate machine, no doubt.

But if he was not overlapping his swings, he was missing targets.

He was probably walking too fast anyway because he was concerned how cool he was looking to people who were paying absolutely no attention to him at all.

Don't worry too much about his comments.

Go anywhere he went and you will find targets.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

My guess he will probably leave a lot of zincs and jewelry behind if he's your typical hunter.Good Luck Ron

 

[tab-nabit]

I have the Compadre (getting another this weekend), and a V3i among my detectors.
I'll keep the Compadre for sure. Simplistic, turn on & go and just flat out works. Fun to use.
V3i, I haven't put much time into it although I bought it sometime in 2009. For the times I want to mess with a detector, it has loads of settings to tweak. So far no desire to let it go, but anything can happen in the future.
No one detector is going to get it all and re-sweeping an already worked area can bring in more finds. If I hit an area real good with the Compadre and seem to clean it out, especially deeper good finds, then I wouldn't mind hitting it again with another detector for the deeper targets and then my V3i would a good pick.
So for now I'll keep both and I know I want to keep the Compadre for sure (getting another).
I plan on putting more time on the V3i this season (my season is fall, winter and some spring), but I always find it hard not to grab the Compadre.

Following behind another swinging a detector - I've done that a couple times behind my local detector dealer when we go together and always find goods he missed. But he's fast and I'm slow. He says I'm the slowest he has ever seen. He's the fastest I've ever seen. He doesn't overlap coil swings well (sometimes no overlap, gaps) so no wonder I always get digging behind him.
When I take other friends, half of the time or more I'll work behind just to see if I can find anything they miss... seems I always find things they miss.
Couple times strangers telling me the area is cleaned out because they worked it over. That's when I'll really work the area because they either don't want me detecting a good spot, or they just think they got it all. That's when I will find out myself.

 

[sprchng]

I have a couple of friends that swing Tesoros very successfully but they always apologize when they show me their finds because they don't have any tones or meters or numbers etc.
I think the hidden extra that comes with a Tesoro is an inferiority complex

 

[Elton]

Successful metal detecting is not only depends on what detector we use, but most important is how much time we can spend detecting.

and " Where" you detect. !!

 

[yowow#1]

It's all about the right tool for the right job. You wouldn't use a sledge hammer to take the hinges off a door, and you wouldn't use a screwdriver to knock down a concrete wall.

Oh, and I've paid for my $1000+ detectors many many times over. I bought a V3i, a CTX 3030 and a E-Trac with just the goods I found with my DFX and sold. I'm sure I could have probably found the same goods with a Tesoro, but it would have taken longer in my opinion. The DFX allowed me to be very selective on what I spent time recovering.

I don't think i have ever come close to paying for any of my detectors monetary wise. Mainly because i am a relic hunter and most of the relics i find have very little value to anyone but me. If they did i wouldn't sell them. Even the clad i have found over the years are piled in my display cabinet. But i have been repaid many times for the cost of my detectors because any hobby that gives a person pleasure in this world is paying you back for your monetary investment. GL HH

 

[Southwind]

I don't think i have ever come close to paying for any of my detectors monetary wise. Mainly because i am a relic hunter and most of the relics i find have very little value to anyone but me. If they did i wouldn't sell them. Even the clad i have found over the years are piled in my display cabinet. But i have been repaid many times for the cost of my detectors because any hobby that gives a person pleasure in this world is paying you back for your monetary investment.

Well said yowow#1. I can't put a price on the enjoyment this hobby returns many many times over. But, for those who do care about the monetary returns I just was making the point I have indeed paid for my high dollar machines many times over in just gold. Here is just one season of gold from schools and parks.

 

[cladcanada]

Have my compadre less than 2 weeks and i have paid for it more than twice with gold finds. .
Love this hobby

 

[tabman]

Have my compadre less than 2 weeks and i have paid for it more than twice with gold finds. .
Love this hobby

That little ole Compadre will find just as much or more gold jewelry as detectors that cost many times more than the Compadre does.

tabman

 

[yowow#1]

Is he a findmall sponsor, if not then i don't think he's suppose to be getting advertisement on findmall.

 

[cladcanada]

Wow 1900 views ! hope i didn't ofend anyone , i was just wondering what tesoro would be equal the v3i . I may be looking for another detector now that i sold my gold found with the compadre. Might wait and see if tesoro has a new model??????

 

[cladcanada]

Well I have had the compadre for about five months now and still learning the slight differences in sounds it makes and guessing what it is before I dig . Would I rather have a high tech machine with a screen ? I don't think so . I still see videos on fancy machines and they dig pull tabs too. I will be looking at another detector as a spare or loaner for friends to use but will it have a screen.........nope

Simple means more fun!

 

[Southwind]

Simple means more fun!

Enjoy it while you can.

20 years ago I used to feel the same way. I used to make fun of the people who used those fancy screens and stuff. Then in 1991 all that changed. I bought a White's Eagle Spectrum and for the first time understood why people used these fancy machines. Been using them ever since and never looked back.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Simple means more fun!

Repeat as often as necessary to convince yourself you are right......

Simple is simple.......... I'll take a V3i or CTX 3030 anyday.