Vaquero - As Good As They Say?

[saginawian]

Hello,

I own a Tejon, is there any reason that I should purchase a Vaquero? I want to see what everyone is raving about. Vaquero owners, what is your favorite thing about it?

Ian

 

[findit]

i hunt in parks and old home sites mostly, and i think the v is more stable for those type areas just my opinion. if anyone thinks different let me know. also some prefer the dual disc, that really doesn't matter to me as i tend to dig just about everything.

 

[jabbo]

I have a Vaquero, not raving, not complaining either. Things I like: light weight, sensitive to small gold (tested it against my Fisher CZ20 and Compass Coin Scanner Pro) the Compass picked up a girls small gold chain bracelet almost as good as the Vaq., the Fisher did too, they all have the same (15khz)frequency. Very stable and easy to use. Would like it to have a meter even tho you can't rely on them. Goes deep but haven't detected any silver yet.

 

[DavHut]

I have had many a uMax models and the Vaquero is hands down deeper. It is also quite stable and a good discriminator, with that wide span ED 180 discrimination. It is easy to ground balance and stays that way, too. It is everything the Bandido or Eldorado was and more. It is hands down a great relic machine.

Of course it is lightweight, yet solidly built and is downright miserly on batteries, so those things dont hurt, either!

It makes a great park hunter or school yard whipper, too, as it has sharp fast target response. I keep the 5.75 coil on mine most of the time, and it makes a dandy trash hunter in such places. Even with the smaller coil it has good depth with the SENS turned down, allowing you to get in close to metal structures.

I am not in love with monotone, beep-dig detectors, on the other hand. I would ask Tesoro to change only thing on the V - add selectable tone ID, like on the Golden. They could mount a selector DIP switch to one side of the battery compartment and a small CB with the audio filtering circuitry below the battery, or on the back of the main board.

Another option would be to redesign the Golden, using the Vaquero circuitry... that'd be near perfect, IMHO.

 

[saginawian]

thanks for the replies. i probably will purchase a vaquero, i think its the simplicity that is drawing me to it. with the 5.75 coil that thing would be about 2 lbs with 1 9volt battery! i think that it would be a cool detector to back pack into the woods with.

Ian

 

[waterhunter]

Why both with the Vac when you have the Tejon unless you have trouble with ground balancing - about the same weight and depth of detection, but I have found with the Tejon you have to be near the iron mark to get some of the lighter gold earrings, but it seemed to pick up stick earrings at a little higher setting.

 

[tab-nabit]

I think the Vaquero would make a fine backup. I have the Tejon and Cibola. The GB on the Vaquero would be an advantage over the Cibola unless it is set way off. Otherwise - fine machines... Ones i know who use the Vaquero have nothing but good to say about it.

 

[DavHut]

... all this wrangling over a 1/4" of depth is incapacitating you! It's called 'information avalanche'. The Tejon is that, the Cibola is this and something else may be, well, something else. You want to be thorough and get good value, and you have already mentioned your deciding issues:

"...I think its the simplicity that is drawing me to it. with the 5.75 coil that thing would be about 2 lbs with 1 9V battery! I think that it would be a cool detector to back pack into the woods with."

After that, analysis paralysis starts setting in. There are things to be found awaiting you, so go ahead and get it.

Consider this:
1. Its a Tesoro, with all that implies.
2. They are selling tons of them and dealers can hardly keep them on the shelf.
3. They are well received by the toughest critics in the world - detectorists.

You can hardly go wrong!

If for whatever reason you want to get rid of the V later, you wont take a pasting selling it, either.

Do it, man, do it!

 

[Pap]

n/t

 

[birdman]

I have a vaquero and a cibola and after I hunted the heck out of my yard with my cibola I bought the vaquero used and went back over the yard with the vaquero and found a lot that my cibola missed . I know I walked right over the same areas . I was pretty surprised.