11 REASONS WHY NOT TO BUY TESORO

[snaps]

HF relic hunting is nothing new. Compass had several 100kz machines back in the 70's(ignoring iron and taking names!!!)

 

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[smokeythecat]

Calabash, I dug quite a bit of gold with my Cibola, which I still have. I have always had the discriminator on it set fairly low. The gold each time blew my ears off and some of it was over 10" down. Beats me. I seem to break all the rules metal detecting! Just ask Vferrari! He's seen it.

 

[Honest Samuel]

Too bad that Tesoro went out of business.

 

[bowser]

I have been detecting for quite some time with single tone machines to my mind single tone is more challenging and more fun, tones are more like cheating. Its like shooting animals with scopes on rifles. I have a compadre costing a little over 100 dollars that finds all kinds of goodies sounds like calabash needs all the help he can get

 

[Honest Samuel]

One reason is that they went out of business.

 

[birdman]

I love the simplicity of the cibola. Great back pack detector. When I bought it it replaced my Fisher cz5 and I could out hunt just about anyone I was with but now it just can't get super deep bullets like my equinox but I also bought it in 2005 for 360 dollars. In it's day it had a lot of bang for the buck.

 

[pepperj]

The only way I see it is to have the machines go head to head at the same site. Get a good iffy, does the other hear it, does changing the settings help. Nothing else is comparing apples with oranges in my books. I have upgraded to a bigger better machine-certainly. Gone back to the beat site and dug many targets and thought wow how great.
Then I have had the bigger and better machine gone to site dug targets-returned and dug more-returned and dug even more-conclusion I suck at detecting.....

 

[Woodsy]

It's like comparing a digital radio tuner to an analog one. With the analog tuner, you can tune in faint signals, but the digital tuner will just ignore them. Either way, nothing beats a good tuner. I have a Tesoro Tejon and it works well, but I'm thinking about buying a minilab 600 or a Deeptech X.