Vaquero

[twotap]

I have been using my Bandido 2 umax and Silver Sabre umax for years with great results. We hunt mostly old Mi lumber camps looking for coins and old stuff. Would I gain much if anything by upgrading to a Vaquero or Outlaw.?

 

[dirt doctor]

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[ToneTime]

Outlaw is basically the same thing as your bandido ll micromax just reconfigured. The Vaquero is not that much of an upgrade unless you are finding things at the limit of your depth range. You may gain some depth but at the cost of some audio quality. You have two fine machines there already but it is fun to use different Tesoro. I have the Outlaw and the V and use them for different purposes but would not feel bad about the two you have.

 

[twotap]

Thanks for the reply.

 

[twotap]

Forgot to mention I am running the 9" Shadow x2 coil on the Bandido. with great results.

 

[Monte]

I have been using my Bandido 2 umax and Silver Sabre umax for years with great results.

If they work for you and you have great results, what more could you ask for? Note that those two models are some of my all-time favorite Tesoro's and are in my personal detector-use inventory.

We hunt mostly old Mi lumber camps looking for coins and old stuff.

I also look for older coins, trade tokens and small period artifacts. I used to hunt old logging camps/towns in Western Oregon, but I have "headed East until I got Out West" [size=small](something my older brother Ed said he wanted to do after we moved to the wetter west-side or Oregon back in 1959, and I agreed)[/size] where I tend to favor old RR sites, mining camps and towns, and any older place I can find that seems to abound in iron trash. My Bandido II, Bandido II µMAX and Silver Sabre µMAX, each with a 6" Concentric coil, each work very efficiently in any of those trashy environments.

Would I gain much if anything by upgrading to a Vaquero or Outlaw.?

I have owned both the Vaquero [size=small](three of them)[/size] and Outlaw, and of them I found the Outlaw to provide similar performance, in general, to my favorites, but it never really bested them, so why change? To me, an "upgrade" is a move to, or adding, an additional model that provides some functions that are different, such as visual Target ID or audible Tone ID.

I have those as well in my personal arsenal, but they are simply ADDITIONS to my Tesoro models, not REPLACEMENTS for my Tesoro's. For hunting very trashy old sites with iron, in deserts, fields, urban renovation or in the woods, the better models out there with "modern" features come close to doing what a good Tesoro does, but they don't surpass or even match what a good Tesoro can do. The better ones I use are close, but fall just a wee bit short. So if you have an urge to spend shopping dollars, keep your very good Tesoro's and simply add an additional model or two, any brand, that you feel rivals what performance you now have and maybe provides a useful function or two .... but keep the two Tesoro's you have.

Monte

 

[twotap]

Short and to the point.

 

[twotap]

Thanks for the replys. My Bandido and Sabre will never be sold traded or abused. Here's just some of the results I have had with these two.

 

[88junior]

The Vaquero super tuned would get you a little more depth but if there's iron I'd stick with the two you already have.