Couple hours detecting. Dime(1924)& Nickle(1943) in same hole at 7 inches. Pennies 1918-1940. Thimble rang up low silver but haven't checked it yet. Old knife had something like tiger eye slabs. Using the old 7" coil but will go back with larger coil. Not much trash but some deep iron. Previous post on Tesoro's discriminating out copper pennies, this Toltec II will discriminate them out on a 8 1/2 setting of the 10 dial.
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TOLTEC II finds today
- Thread starter Jim MO
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Hi Jim
Nice mercury dime, one of my favorite coins to find. I never get tired of seeing silver coming out of the ground. Have you had your Toltec ll for awhile? I bought mine when they first came out with them in 1994 and still have it now.......great detector! My Toltec ll discs out a silver dime at the same disc setting as yours in an air test, but loses depth. I run mine with minimum disc and let the meter show how conductive the target is, but mostly I am a beep-dig detectorist. I have found nice small gold rings in the red zone (iron-foil) range,,, medium size gold rings in the nickle and pulltab range and (10Kt.mens class rings) in the screwcap range.Good Hunting.
Randy
Nice mercury dime, one of my favorite coins to find. I never get tired of seeing silver coming out of the ground. Have you had your Toltec ll for awhile? I bought mine when they first came out with them in 1994 and still have it now.......great detector! My Toltec ll discs out a silver dime at the same disc setting as yours in an air test, but loses depth. I run mine with minimum disc and let the meter show how conductive the target is, but mostly I am a beep-dig detectorist. I have found nice small gold rings in the red zone (iron-foil) range,,, medium size gold rings in the nickle and pulltab range and (10Kt.mens class rings) in the screwcap range.Good Hunting.
Randy
Yes they are a great machine I think. One of the best discriminating machines made. They have one down side though. Like on the deep silver, copper the meter won't read silver or copper. Have too check the depth, if it's deep(6 1/2 to 7 plus) and small, better dig because the meter will probably be reading iron. I've found the Tesoro's excel for discrimination in WY along the Oregon Trail where there is lots of iron and old tin can pieces. Most everything is on top or close too the top there due too the rocks. Have picked up bullets and buttons right off the top there before. The Toltec II isn't a real deep seeking machine but for that type of hunting it's great. Want too go deeper I use my X-Terra 70.
Hi Jim
Your Toltec ll may need the meter recalibrated, I just got mine back from Tesoro last year and the meter reads a silver dime down to 6" correctly, any deeper, it drops to high screwcap. I run my sensitivity to about 9 on the dial and it is running hot at this setting, and stable, but my ground is not too mineralized. With the sensitivity adjusted high and properly ground balanced, the Toltec ll is (about) as deep as any detector I have tried ( XLT, DFX. Explorer ll, 6000 Pro XL and 5900 Di Pro SL (CB)). The only detector that beats it in depth is my CZ5, but it is not too good in the iron nails and trashy places. I like the modulated signal tone on the Toltec ll, if the tone is soft, small and repeatable, and the meter is reading upscale from bottom of the red iron zone it is a signal worth investigating.
Randy
Your Toltec ll may need the meter recalibrated, I just got mine back from Tesoro last year and the meter reads a silver dime down to 6" correctly, any deeper, it drops to high screwcap. I run my sensitivity to about 9 on the dial and it is running hot at this setting, and stable, but my ground is not too mineralized. With the sensitivity adjusted high and properly ground balanced, the Toltec ll is (about) as deep as any detector I have tried ( XLT, DFX. Explorer ll, 6000 Pro XL and 5900 Di Pro SL (CB)). The only detector that beats it in depth is my CZ5, but it is not too good in the iron nails and trashy places. I like the modulated signal tone on the Toltec ll, if the tone is soft, small and repeatable, and the meter is reading upscale from bottom of the red iron zone it is a signal worth investigating.
Randy
I like it for it's discrimination capabilities although it does get decent depth. Wish you luck finding one. Would probably have better luck advertising WTB on the forum for one. May look forever at garage sales. I'm also running the 7 inch solid coil on this machine. Like it better than the 8 inch donut coil
"Previous post on Tesoro's discriminating out copper pennies, this Toltec II will discriminate them out on a 8 1/2 setting of the 10 dial."
Thanks Jim MO! With the Toltec II, can you knock out(discriminate out) copper pennies and at the same time still get(pick up) silver quarters ??
We both have X-Terra 70's and I can do it with this machine, as I sometimes do this.
Thanks Jim MO! With the Toltec II, can you knock out(discriminate out) copper pennies and at the same time still get(pick up) silver quarters ??
We both have X-Terra 70's and I can do it with this machine, as I sometimes do this.
OK, just gave it a try. A 1956(copper) penny on 8 1/2 setting was basically discriminated out. If slid across the coil could get a chirp out of it. At. 8 3/4 setting totally out. Would reset machine each time I passed coin so everything was always the same. At that setting It would pick up a silver(1964) dime at around 4 inches. The silver quarter(1954) would pick up at least 6 inches. I could still hear a faint signal at 4 & 6. My hearing is pretty bad so know it could go more. These were in the house without headphones so with them sure I could get more depth. Hope this helps.
Jim MO said:
Thank you very much Jim MO, so with a Toltec II it can knock out a copper penny and still get a silver quarter, good! People were saying with their Silver uMax and maybe Vaquero that even at Maximum Disc. a penny is still picked up, so this technique is not possible with these machines.
Why bother? Because I use this method sometimes in trashy areas also loaded with many pennies that I do not want to dig up, but I can still dig up silver quarters and some silver dimes.
Very briefly Jim MO, 1) does the Toltec II have ED-120 or a more expanded ED-180 discrimination??
2) Does the Toltec II have pre-uMax circuitry(before the uMax circuitry came out)?? (Like the older the Bandido, Bandido II, and original Lobo has. Why? Because pre-uMax detectors are better at handling 'iron', according to Monte.)
Using the square nail test I believe mine in the ED-120 which should be a preU-MAX It will knock out S-M-L square nails at a 0(zero) disc. setting. Does handle iron very well. It may sound off on some iron but a glance at the meter will tell the truth. Stay tuned
may have more for you later.
may have more for you later.