Cibola

[cwdigger]

Just wondering how the depth and accuracy of pinpointing is on the cibola I am looking at getting one b/c it is very light so I herebut I need a little more insight?

 

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[stoney56]

The Cibola is great on pinpointing as well as depth but if you're in more mineralized soil, it tends to lose a bit of depth. The wife uses it because of it's light weight as you stated and finds it handy in cometition hunts with the frequency shifting. Was in NW Arkansas, and on a test target of a mimi ball at 6", it sounded off on it but wasn't a loud tone. Depending on what you're using it for, you might take a look at the Vaquero which is very similar but has the ability to manually ground balance. Just my opinion.

 

[Sandman]

Stoney is right about the Cibola. A lot depends on where you are located. The detectors with ground balance are more versitable as to getting good depth in bad ground and it is only couple ounces heavier.

 

[Digginman]

I use one in Virginia. I heard good things about it, that turned out to be true. It gets good depth here, pinpointing is a snap. You will enjoy it, but it does depend on your soil.

DM

 

[sqwaby]

If mineralized soil is an issue, get a vaquero, don't let the manual ground balance worry you, its a breeze. The retune on the Vaq and Cibola is very quick, you really don't even need to use the pinpoint feature, just X the target. With the V I hit targets in the 6-8" range no problem, my deepest find so far on a non ferrous coin size object has been a little over 10 inches, on large iron or a aluminum can you had better get a shovel type digger.

 

[Steve in Cali.]

The Cibola is a great machine.

Pinpointing is easy. Forget about the "pinpoint" button. Weird thing is that actually makes it harder to pinpoint!

Great depth too. It is as good as my Sovereign was and the Sov is a deep machine.

The Cibola chokes on wet, salt sand though so don't expect to use it near the surf. It loves dry to damp salt sand though and works great as a wading machine in fresh water.

As for ground balancing, unless you are using it in an area that has bad ground that fluctuates in mineral content the GB of the Vaquero isn't an advantage. One of the reasons I got the Cibola instead of the Vaquero is that I have some spots I detect that have so much mineralization with bits of metal mixed in ground balancing would be impossible.

 

[metalmolly]

I agree with most of what everybody has said. The Cibola is an excellent detector and I love mine for all the reasons that have been mentioned. The pinpointing is the easiest of any machine I've used and the retune is really fast. It runs really smooth is light as a feather and is totally enjoyable to use. What everybody says about the preset ground balance is true. The soil in my area is not especially mineralized so it works fine for me but someone with heavy mineralization would probably be better off with the Vaquero which is a very similar machine but with manual ground balance. Depth is decent, but certainly not great. 6-7 inches on a coin seems to be about the maximum. You would probably get a little more depth on a Vaquero because you can ground balance the machine perfectly whereas the preset ground balance on the Cibola is by definition pretty much never going to be balanced perfectly. Also don't underestimate the value of the Tesoro lifetime warranty and unsurpassed customer service.

 

[metalmolly]

One more positive thing I forgot to mention about the Cibola and Vaquero is that it if you look at the prices for used ones you can see they hold their value extremely well, better than most detectors. If you decide you dont want to keep it you can get most of your money back when you sell it. They are very popular overseas as well. They say in Great Britain Tesoro pretty much sells the same machine with a different name and a higher price so the Brits are really keen to buy the used units from the USA.

 

[EddieR]

The Vaquero is an awesome machine! I got one when they first came out and I am still amazed sometimes at the depth on small targets. Plus, you just can't beat the lifetime warranty.


Eddie

 

[Planet1mars]

i love my cibola the people from tesor company e-mailed me back about information and told me you can find a quater at 16 inches.... pinpointing took me some time to understand the machine but now its simple

 

[bluesalt]

I bought a Cibola largely on the strength of online reviews. It is a lightweight but sturdy detector with good battery life and effective discrimination.

However, many estimates of its depth appear to be inflated. When I first got it, I tested a clad quarter in the air. with threshold sensitivity all the way up ("super tuned") The max depth was 7.5 inches. Since I'd read reviews of people claiming to find small coins at 10+ inches, I emailed the company. They told me to use the "super tuned" mode for best depth, which of course I already was.

Detecting a quarter at 16" sounds like hogwash to me.

 

[tabdog]

Hay Blue Salt,

That sounds like a wimp Cibola.

My Cibola would air test a quarter around 9". My V is
about tha same.

I just tested my Vaquero out side and it got close to 9"
with a 5.75" concentric coil.

But when I brought it inside, I had to turn tha sensativity
down a little and could only get 7 1/2" max.

Happy Huntin,

Tabdog

 

[gregl01]

Air tests with the Cibola are amazing. I really do get 16" on a quarter which I too found unbelievable. In ground depths will vary due to mineralization, but mine seems to get 6-8" on most coins. I did dig down almost 2 feet once only to find a small ball of copper wire, i was both disappointed and impressed!!!! I purchased the 5.75widescan DD coil and thats all I use anymore, its an amazing machine with this combo. You can't go wrong with this "little" detector with "big" performance.

Greg