What is next for Troy?

[Ralph Bryant]

It took alot of convincing that the IIb could be used as anything more than an awsome relic machine. But when they finally got around to introducing the 6 inch coils, that changed my mind in short order. It hunts and finds coins and jewelry right up there with the best of the non-I.D. machines. IF they ever decide to make a smaller version with surface mount technology, or can manage to go digital without losing their performance edge, some of the big dogs of the industry would be in for some serious competition.....

Ralph

 

[Daniel Tn]

While the Tejon is a good machine (I've had three) I've just not seen any evidence to suggest it can touch a Nautilus in the hands of somebody that knows how to use it. It's a 10 turn GB vs a 3 3/4. So the versitility goes to the 10 turn right off the bat.

My hunting buddy has a Nautilus IIba and a Tejon. The Tejon only gets pulled out when we are hunting trashy sites. When depth is the factor, the Nautilus comes out. Points to ponder. Most recently we were hunting a yankee camp that has been hit hard. I was hunting with my Tejon and he had his that day. We got a few bullets and buttons out of it...but to get them we were having to dig pops and clicks. My buddy was real confident in his Tejon from all the forum talk. He was real disappointed when I showed him what a good signal sounded like on one here. We hunted around some more, and the next time we came, he came back with his Nautilus. We hunted the same fields we had hunted with the Tejon (at this time I had my X5) and he brought home the bacon in nearly the same tracks he had covered with the Tejon just a week before. He was digging bullets 10-12 inches that the Tejon wouldn't even make a peep on. I think they've won the GNRS like 3 years now and by far if you go to the N/S Hunt, you'll see more Nautilus machines than you do Tejons or atleast that was the case in '05. I'll be at this years as well...expect to see much of the same. Lots of Nautilus and Minelabs.

Now what I do agree on is the target seperation factor. It takes a real experienced person to be able to listen to the all metal and discriminate sides and be able to hunt a Nautilus in the trash.

 

[Bob in ms]

We all have the right to agree & disagree. I`m not trying to put the nautilus down by any means. it`s a deep-seeker & very well built machine. I use to own a IIb. I bought the tejon when it first came out. I`ve had & used many tesoro`s over the yrs. (always kept one for trashy sites). I hunted for several yrs with a cz5 & found lot`s nice relics however in our ground here & hunting with a buddy thats had yrs exp over me with a IIb i find the tejon to go as deep as i care to dig. I honestly went to an old C.S. picket post about a week after i bought the Tejon & had a couple of hrs spent learning it.
This picket post had 1 whites, 2 fishers, a treasure baron, & a IIb in it. keep in mind the area of all signals was within apx a 40x60 ft area. outside of that no signals were found. i carried a measuring tape with me just incase i found a deep target i would know how deep. after about 20-25 min`s of hunting slow (finessing it) i dug a sharps at almost 13 3/4 in" . about 15 min`s later, dug a damaged williams cleaner at almost 12".

So thats what i`m saying, the tejon proved itself to me with the depth so thats about all i`ve really used since. Our ground here in North ,Ms has next to No mineralization so i know that helps & i`m thankful for it..

I`ve always said as long as you spend the time to learn your machine
of choice, you`ll be sucessful. With todays technology producing deeper seeking detectors we do have an advantage that might bring up some finds that detectors 15-20 yrs back just weren`t capable of.

Bob