Which models are newest?

[cmag]

Which of the current Tesoro lineup are the newest models? When were they released?

 

[Michigan Badger]

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[Scully]

The Vaquero and Cibola were both the last "new" machines introduce, at the Onalaska GPAA gold show in 2005. Two years before was the introduction of the Tejon. Before that I beleive the DeLeon is next and then the Cortes.

The 'Three Amigos' (V, C, & T) are based on the new High Output Technoolgy (HOT) and have monolithic shielded coils, and are considered the deepest detecting machines in the Tesoro line up.

 

[lurksalot]

the original Bandido come out? Believe it or not mine will hit a 9" deep penny buried in our sandy soil (S.E. Va.). I had to replace the white coil with the brown 8" donut coil.

 

[markg]

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If that's the order, what about the Lobo. It's older, but the hot coils work on it as well.

 

[Monte]

March, according to Tesoro. I had a couple of hot 8" white coils that I used for years. Most of the time I had a 7" concentric coil mounted, but when I wanted to go with an 8", I had better overall performance with the white coils than from the brown 8"

The brown 8" coil was the one when I recall Tesoro first using their reference to "monolithic shielding" etc.

A great performing 'original' Bandido is, in my book, one of the best metal detectors ever made by any manufacturer!

Monte

 

[lurksalot]

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[Scully]

The Super Traq Lobo came out around 1997 but the original Lobo goes back even further. When tesoro developed the Tejon/Vaq/Cibola line up they purposely designed them to mate with existing Lobo technology and coils. A wise move since there was already a good array of coils in production.

 

[Monte]

on the Lobo (original).

The original Lobo uses different coils and shouldn't be confused with the LST when considering the newer, wide assortment of search coils.

Monte

 

[RobRcer]

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[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I wish I still had mine. A real coin thumper. Used to get targets so deep the signal was just a whine spread over a large area and I had to whip the coil over the target to get an audible signal to pinpoint with.

Bill