Fisher F75SE-DST Beats Modded Tesoro Cibola Two To One.

[tabman]

Just teasing. The Cibola tied with a Indian Head Penny find at the last moment before leaving.

I headed out this morning to a detect the yard of a home that was built in 1951. The site looked good and I was expecting to have a good day. I first pulled out the F75 with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. My settings - 9.0, 0 discrimination, 4H tones, DE mode and full sensitivity.

It didn't take long before I started finding wheat pennies. That's always a good sign. Finally, I cornered a couple of Rosie Dimes (1952, 1963). Both times, I was pretty sure that I had silver under the search coil before I even dug.

The F75 was having a little trouble with thin flat pieces of metal about inch square. The stuff was all over the yard and causing the F75 to give high tones and high VDI readings. I could tell that it was not a good target, but it was getting kind of frustrating to listen to so I decided to switch detectors.

I pull out my modded Cibola with the NEL Sharpshooter coil attached. I set the discrimination just a little higher than where a iron nail discriminates out, a very slight hum on the threshold, a little negative on the ground balance and full sensitivity.

I found a few wheat pennies and a junk earring, before I got a audio tone that just stops you in your tracks and says dig me. I was under a very old magnolia tree and the audio tone was rich, loud and smooth. I popped a 14k gold ring. I always get excited when I find gold.

After going over the front yard again I got a soft audio tone and dug down around 7 inches and popped a 1900 Indian Head Penny. It must have gotten lost back when the land was a plantation, before they built the subdivision. You just never know what you're going to find until you dig it.

tabman

 

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[Welgund]

Gratz Tab on the gold ring. It's something that on all my detectors the tesoros do the best on gold.

 

[Pointman]

Interesting story. I had a Cibola for a long time and it is interesting because I've not hear anyone talk about using a modded one, although I've hear about them. I also noticed your in Memphis and sometimes I detect about in Brinkley AR, not too far from you. I've done well under old magnolia trees. My biggest silver/old coin spill was under one. If you go to Nashville to a place call Travelers Rest, they have some of the biggest/oldest Magnolia trees I have seen (180 years +). This past December I dug a 1903 Barber dime under a 75 year old magnolia I had to kick 5 inches of dead leaves aside and it was 7 inches down. I also detected with a high school kid that month and I told him to skip the yard and get to the magnolia tree before I did and he dug his first Indian head penny under it.

 

[tabman]

Gratz Tab on the gold ring. It's something that on all my detectors the tesoros do the best on gold.

Thanks. Yeah Tesoro detectors are gold magnets.

tabman

 

[tabman]

Interesting story. I had a Cibola for a long time and it is interesting because I've not hear anyone talk about using a modded one, although I've hear about them. I also noticed your in Memphis and sometimes I detect about in Brinkley AR, not too far from you. I've done well under old magnolia trees. My biggest silver/old coin spill was under one. If you go to Nashville to a place call Travelers Rest, they have some of the biggest/oldest Magnolia trees I have seen (180 years +). This past December I dug a 1903 Barber dime under a 75 year old magnolia I had to kick 5 inches of dead leaves aside and it was 7 inches down. I also detected with a high school kid that month and I told him to skip the yard and get to the magnolia tree before I did and he dug his first Indian head penny under it.

Actually, a modded Cibola is just a fancy Vaquero. I do like the trigger switch for the all metal mode on my Cibola. I own 140 acres that I lease to deer hunters near Casscoe, Arkansas. I always remember taking the Brinkley exit when I was coming from Germantown TN to go hunting. I got tired of deer hunting and took up metal detecting.

tabman