I currently use a Mojave and Vaquero. Paul B metal detecting on Youtube. I tried a At Pro and Fisher F series and the different tones get on my nerves in trashy parks...lol. When I park hunt I dig almost everything from foil up anyway so I don't need tones.
I’ve been the same way about the F Series. I’ve owned Whites, Minelab, Fisher(when they were really Fisher), new Fisher’s, and always owned a Tesoro. I don’t have one at the moment, but one of these days I’ll find me another nice used Vaquero. I don’t care what anyone says, that machine there would pull some super deep lead out of the ground, and it absolutely loved the brass. It’s a non-ferrous loving machine. I owned three of those puppies, also a modded Cibola, one that I modified so I could manually ground balance it. My brother, and everyone else use to make fun of me because my detector cost half as much as theirs, and didn’t have a display screen, but guess what, ground balance it where it’s a little on the positive side, you learn those tones, you keep the coil to the soil, go at a steady even pace, and you’ll pull stuff out of previously thought of hunted out sites, and they will absolutely surprise the heck out of you, by the little amount of trash you dig with one. I used to watch others with me detect with their AT’s, and they’d make fun of me when mine turned on, had no screen, but guess what, they were on the ground more than I was, theirs had a harder time in mineralized soil than the Vaquero, and at the end of the day, my finds pouch was less full of trash than theirs, and I had more buttons, bullets, and pieces of artillery that they had gone over, but all 3 had relied on their VDI numbers instead of what the detector was telling them. I use to wear a shirt around just to piss my brother off that said “Tesoro means Treasure”.. he hated that shirt, and I wore it everytime we went.
