The Tesoro Cortes Goes Deep On Dimes:tesoro::usaflag:

[tabman]

Here are my finds from a couple of short hunts with the Cortes using the 8 inch doughnut coil. At one site I set the Cortes discrimination just high enough to knock out foil caps from sports drinks and used the narrow notch to get rid of the pull tabs. I ended up digging around 8 nickels, several dimes and quarters from a site that has been hunted to death. I left there and went to a soccer field that I've been over several times. I set the discrimination to its minimum and hunted without using any notch. I was digging dimes at 8 and 9 inches deep. I got signal that was smearing on the bars in the silver ID range. I dug down around 7 to 8 inches and found a nickel. That made me scratch my head. I went back over the hole and got another good signal in the silver range. I dug a quarter, another quarter and finally a dime. I ended up finding an old junk ring, a foreign coin, a dollar coin and two recent coins spills. One of them had 6 quarters, 2 dimes, a nickel and couple of zinc pennies. Nothing special, but I did enjoy swinging the Cortes. It just amazes me how deep it will go.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab sounds like the Cortez is a nice machine, thats good depth for shure you really dig like a badger I see. man thats alot of gear

 

[oneguy]

lots of work there Tab......did you get any silvers?

 

[tabman]

lots of work there Tab......did you get any silvers?

No silvers. The sites that I hunted aren't good places to search for silver coins. I've found 3 gold wedding bands and a bunch of silver rings at those locations before though.

When you're looking for gold jewelry you have to do a lot of digging, but the payoff is big when you do score.

tabman

 

[wheatymike]

Are you using the brown 8" donut coil?

 

[tabman]

Are you using the brown 8" donut coil?

Yes sir! I love that coil!

tabman

 

[Idxpro]

Nice work Tab. Dime at 8" is pretty darn good. Not as good as my really cool Radio Shack Booger, but impressive..

 

[mudpuppy]

Now THATS a junk shot! nice report and good job on the multidenom spills! I think a lot of those get missed by most detectorists since they can and DO sound so crappy...
Mud

 

[BarberBill]

I've written it before and probably will again. If you get confusing or bouncing displays on either the DeLeon or the Cortez that mostly indicate coins, dig - 3 or 4 times out of 5 you'll be looking at a coin spill or at least multiple coins fairly close together. It's happened to me quite often.
BB