What's the best Tesoro to sniff out gold chains that others miss?

[Sven]

What machines have you had success in find the chains, old or new models. And what depth
were you getting?

Thinking about building a new water machine to sniff out the gold chains after the big stuff is removed.

 

[amcjavelin]

you might laugh that compadre is quite a contender, i've gotton a few with mine before and maybe 2 or 3" deep

 

[slingshot]

you might laugh that compadre is quite a contender, i've gotton a few with mine before and maybe 2 or 3" deep

Phew! I thought I was the Lone Ranger on this topic. I might add that my Compadre found a gold chain WHILE I was rejecting paper clips and small iron! It's totally unbelievable and I thought everyone was kidding when I ran across my first gold chain in a tot lot. I took it home and had to RUB IT ON THE COIL of my Silver umax to even get a scratch.- in ALL METAL! It was just under the pea gravel and since I've only had it a month or two, I haven't had a chance to obtain depths-they don't come all that often.

 

[amcjavelin]

when i had my silver a couple years ago i got a very fine silver chain at a ski area parking lot once and the signal was quite broken but i dug anyways and could'nt believe that i had found it

 

[ToniSteve]

The Tiger Shark is a great chain machine. At fresh water beaches go right from the dry sand to wet and then in the water. It is a thing of beauty. I have a Minelab Sov and Excal that cannot touch the chain finding ability of the Tiger Shark.

Best regards,
Steve

 

[Mainer]

Have to go with the Compadre on this one too. My Bandido uMax gives a scratchy signal on small gold chains but the Compadre is much more consistent and a more positive signal.

 

[Neil]

if your talking tesoros in disc mode you would best look at modding out a Tejon. that and the shadow X5 are the two I found the most small gold earrings with.

if you dont have to have a waterproof detector, just want to wade, the Vaquero with the lobo coil(control box wrapped in plastic and put in a small bag to hang around your neck) is an excellent option and hits small gold almost as well as the Tejon, just not as far away.