pinenut
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- Joined
- Mar 15, 2016
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- Location
- where bigfoot roams
- Detector(s) used
- Various Tesoro - mostly Bandido II μMAX
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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While I’ve been lurking around now and then, I hadn’t actually done much detecting lately and decided today was a good day to get out to a place just up the road from me, the abandoned campground. I found my very first silver ring there shortly after getting my first Tesoro. It’s not nearly as find-rich as other spots I’ve frequented, but there’s still stuff there, if you’re willing to swing for a while. Took my favorite Bandido II μMAX with the little 5.75 concentric - and surprised myself by finding a tarnished ring in the first 15 minutes. After about an hour of zincs, a few copper pennies, dimes and a couple nickles, I finally dug a wheatie (‘48D). A few minutes later I dug a Mexican 100Peso thinking I found treasure.. Turns out it’s not worth but about .50¢.
After a few more recent pennies, I dug up a kid’s ring that looked a bit golden.. Wow! A two ring day, after not detecting for months! Putting my glasses on, I see 925 and 10K on the two rings.
Love my old Tesoros.
Even though we may feel a bit left out by Tesoro having closed up, it doesn’t diminish the fact that they made some great detectors over the years - and they still work perfectly well, thank you. BTW - almost missed the little gold ring; had the Bandido disc set at “4½”, which is where it’ll hit nickels well but ignore steel bottle caps.. This ring was nearly disc’d out. Not sure why I dug it but glad I did. It was only ‘bout an inch down and had it been deeper, I wouldn’t have gotten a diggable signal with disc set there. The silver ring was down ‘bout 3” and hit hard.
After a few more recent pennies, I dug up a kid’s ring that looked a bit golden.. Wow! A two ring day, after not detecting for months! Putting my glasses on, I see 925 and 10K on the two rings.
Love my old Tesoros.
Even though we may feel a bit left out by Tesoro having closed up, it doesn’t diminish the fact that they made some great detectors over the years - and they still work perfectly well, thank you. BTW - almost missed the little gold ring; had the Bandido disc set at “4½”, which is where it’ll hit nickels well but ignore steel bottle caps.. This ring was nearly disc’d out. Not sure why I dug it but glad I did. It was only ‘bout an inch down and had it been deeper, I wouldn’t have gotten a diggable signal with disc set there. The silver ring was down ‘bout 3” and hit hard.
