Which Tesoro Model with CleanSweep for Jewelry?

[Digga03]

have found many silver and gold rings with the CSC in moderate to high trash areas, but like you said the small coil will give better results like everything in detecting there are trade off's and i think Mikes strategy is a good one which i also use pick out everything with CSC then go back with a smaller coil and finish her off and then use another frequency machine over that area again finds may get less but may as well get the most out of a site?

 

[Diggler]

I would not use a clean sweep coil for jewelry. Poor choice, really. Aye. The expanded range of the clean sweep coil is very apt to pick up other nearby buried objects and thus mask out the jewelry, especially smaller pieces like toe rings, delicate gold bands and earrings, fronts and backs. If jewelry was my aim I would forget about covering wide swaths on a single sweep and concentrate on small areas with a small coil that can pinpoint smaller targets. This is why the humble Tesoro Compadre with its hard wired 5 something inch coil is such a great jewelry finder.

However if your heart aches for a clean sweep and your pocketbook can swing it, no pun intended, by all mean acquire one, but please post your results and conclusions here.

Good Luck. Happy Hunting.

I could not disagree more. Did you come up with this idea from actually using a CleanSweep coil? I have a nice little collection of jewelry from this summer alone that says otherwise. A couple gold rings so small YOU would not believe it. Earrings, toe rings, .177 pellets etc... Really is amazing how sensitive the CleanSweep is on a uMax, even more on a H.O.T. machine. Your information is WAY off base from my 3 or so years of experience with the CSC. If I am using a Tesoro to hunt, it will DEFINITELY have a CSC on the end of it. The 8x9 that came with my Golden has never even been screwed into the housing. Since I have been using the CSC, it has payed for every detector and piece of equipment I have purchased since...

 

[tailofdog]

[quote reason i sold the 2 Ace 250's i had was the tones. I hate those bell tones. And why is the notch an asset? I had a Vaquero and really liked it but messed up and sold it. I have never even seen a Golden though. Sure wish some of you fellas lived closer so we could maybe get together.[/quote]
I had an Ace 350 and the bells drove me crazy. Don't worry i, have an F5 and the tones are very different and informative.

 

[oldcoon]

A couple gold rings so small YOU would not believe it.

Hallelujah! At least you got one thing correct. I don't.

 

[cowtownkid]

A couple gold rings so small YOU would not believe it.

Hallelujah! At least you got one thing correct. I don't.

You may not believe what diggler said..But actually being there and watching his finds this past summer made a quick believer out of me. So much so I went and bought both the 5-pin for my Silver Sabre & Troy Shadow X2 and the 4-pin for my Tejon. I would suggest that anyone with a Tesoro unit give one a try. They do sacrifice some depth over the stock coils but that is the trade-off over the amount of ground that is covered.

 

[oldcoon]

I have no doubt the Clean Sweep coil works great in fairly clean ground but when hunting in trashy areas that long skinny 'coil' can't help but pick up multiple targets thus pinpointing any single target becomes a real bear. I'd hate to take one of them turkeys into at tot lot or beach. As for picking up small targets, well let's just say I'm from Missouri on this matter so it remains something I would have to see with my own two eyes. You take a Tesoro Silver uMax paired off with the round 4" concentric coil is a real jewelry finding rig under most applications. But hey, you can find plenty of jewelry using the stock coil without incurring any added expense.

 

[Diggler]

I have no doubt the Clean Sweep coil works great in fairly clean ground but when hunting in trashy areas that long skinny 'coil' can't help but pick up multiple targets thus pinpointing any single target becomes a real bear. I'd hate to take one of them turkeys into at tot lot or beach. As for picking up small targets, well let's just say I'm from Missouri on this matter so it remains something I would have to see with my own two eyes. You take a Tesoro Silver uMax paired off with the round 4" concentric coil is a real jewelry finding rig under most applications. But hey, you can find plenty of jewelry using the stock coil without incurring any added expense.

Tot lots and beaches are fairly clean ground, much cleaner than parks and schools, perfect for the CSC. Multiple targets under the coil is hardly a problem if you travel in one direction and clean out targets with the toe of the coil, or approach at a different angle if needed. I sold my 4" coil after owning the CleanSweep for about a year. 3" coil can get you closer to fences and bars since it is narrower and DD. I originally got the CSC for cherry picking silver from relatively clean sports fields, which it does work great. I would have never guessed that a few years later and after hundreds of hours swinging that it would become my little gold grabber and go to coil 90% of the time. I feel guilty sometimes letting the Etrac sit in the closet, but I can't deny the results I get with Tesoro, and I attribute most of that to using the CleanSweep coil.