Tesoro Tejon Getting A Little Runtime

[tabman]

The more I use the Tejon the better I like it. It just amazes me how deep and hard it hits nickels and how well it separates targets in high trash areas. It works great with the 8 inch doughnut search coil attached, but it's like a different animal when I attach the 5.75 inch concentric search coil. I can see why people say that once they put 5.75 concentric search coil on they never take it off.

With the discrimination set just above iron it would be hard for a target to hide from that combo. Yesterday I found 17 nickels including a war nickel and a buffalo nickel. Most were really deep and it was at a site that I've been over a couple of times. The way I figure it, with the Tejon being so hot on nickels I can see it doing really well on gold rings.

tabman

 

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[NWMP]

Cool. I plan to give the old girl a whirl or two again this year. The last time I took it out I scampered tiredly through a small tot lot then went home. That winter I took a closer look at a small bent ring that I grabbed that day from that small play swing set area. It turned out to be gold. I remember how strongly it hit, but then it was in shallow sand. It was still a delightful surprise though.

 

[smokeythecat]

I just got a used one. First, it was clean, I mean spotless. I cannot say it is spotless now. Went to a new Civil War permission and after bounding aimlessly through the woods awhile decided to explore a rock pile - that is a collapsed Civil War chimney. After getting what's left of a bullseye canteen, dug 5 gorgeous eagle buttons, a brass kepi buckle, a lot of nails, a nice porcelain button and after I dug a bunch of junk iron scattered through the woods pulled out a csa plate. I'm keeping mine. Also had it in a field I have worked 2 years yesterday, and the little bugger was pulling many more smaller targets out of the ground. Nothing spectacular though.

 

[tabman]

I just got a used one. First, it was clean, I mean spotless. I cannot say it is spotless now. Went to a new Civil War permission and after bounding aimlessly through the woods awhile decided to explore a rock pile - that is a collapsed Civil War chimney. After getting what's left of a bullseye canteen, dug 5 gorgeous eagle buttons, a brass kepi buckle, a lot of nails, a nice porcelain button and after I dug a bunch of junk iron scattered through the woods pulled out a csa plate. I'm keeping mine. Also had it in a field I have worked 2 years yesterday, and the little bugger was pulling many more smaller targets out of the ground. Nothing spectacular though.

Nice going! In the right hands Tesoro detectors are deadly.

tabman

 

[NWMP]

I just got a used one. First, it was clean, I mean spotless. I cannot say it is spotless now. Went to a new Civil War permission and after bounding aimlessly through the woods awhile decided to explore a rock pile - that is a collapsed Civil War chimney. After getting what's left of a bullseye canteen, dug 5 gorgeous eagle buttons, a brass kepi buckle, a lot of nails, a nice porcelain button and after I dug a bunch of junk iron scattered through the woods pulled out a csa plate. I'm keeping mine. Also had it in a field I have worked 2 years yesterday, and the little bugger was pulling many more smaller targets out of the ground. Nothing spectacular though.

The Tejon was a huge learning curve for me as my first machine after an ACE 250. I did have a couple of years with it and did really well on an old fur trade site, and yards of one room school houses out in the country. I never felt that I got everything out of it though as it was always a touch more capable than my abilities. But some water has gone under the bridge and I feel more up to the machine now. I love my AT Pro for its diversity but I kept the Tejon for its sensitivity and depth.

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab you are right on , it loves those lower conductors - good digs bro

 

[supertraq]

Tejon is one bad machine, 2 tone v-break would have been icing on the cake