is this normal depth for tigershark?

[kingvegan]

I have now used my new Tesoro tiger shark on about ten hunts or so. It seems like if it detects anything deeper than approx. 3.4 to 4 inches , it will be a piece of metal the size of your palm. Yesterday hunting a river, I used my Garrett carrot to push a good size silver ring exactly 5 inches down and the tiger did not hit it in disc. mode even with it turned down to zero. It did hit it in all metal mode but very barely. I have not tried to adjust the sensitivity. and I am carful about ground balancing. Does this sound like normal performance for this machine?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Sounds like a Chinese "Tiger Shark" off of Ebay

 

[CincinnatiKid]

8inches on a quarter in good conditions.
GL
Peace ✌

 

[kingvegan]

well guys, thank you for your responses. I guess the machine is just is what it is. I think I am going to sell it quick and look for something with more depth. but this time I am not going buy on the internet, I am going to find a dealer that has a test garden.

 

[CincinnatiKid]

May I dare ask where you purchased and for how much?
Peace ✌

 

[G.I.B.]

I think I am going to sell it quick and look for something with more depth. but this time I am not going buy on the internet, I am going to find a dealer that has a test garden.

Crap- I guess I'm going to have to put you on ignore until you get it sold. I don't want no stinking Chinese piece of junk...

Remember- you have to be a Charter member to see on TN.

 

[SusanMN]

That is unusually low depth for a Tiger Shark. I use mine in the sand and in the water and have dug many coins in the 6-8 inch range. I would give Tesoro a phone call. Any issues with ground balancing it?

 

[CincinnatiKid]

I like what SusanMN says.
Although, I personally would forego calling Tesoro and call Minelab immediately!
GL
Peace ✌

 

[kingvegan]

May I dare ask where you purchased and for how much?
Peace ✌

With the coil cover it came to around 680. I got the 10.5 coil. I got it from metaldetector.com. They are great guys , and I have bought other stuff from them as well, but next time I am going to have to do a side by side comparison and I think it would be really rude to use a brick and mortar store to make my decision and then buy from someone else. I figure I will do side by side and just trade my tiger shark in with the dealer on my new machine if I decide to buy. There is a dealer a couple of hours from here that sells all the machines I am thinking about and Tesoros as well so I guess we can work something out.
I suppose I could experiment with the sensitivity screw but I have read on TN that getting it back to factory preset is a real pain so I think I will just leave that for the next owner to play around with.
And I am not bashing Tesoro since the other machines I will be looking at are twice the price or more. But I think I would rather hit the ring at 8 inches and miss a tiny gold something at one or two then miss the ring entirely at five or six. I just thought the tiger could do that in rivers. I am not digging in sand,it is more like sand and rocks so that may be having an effect.

 

[Terry Soloman]

It's not the machine. You need to buy sensitive electronic gear, especially underwater equipment, from a dealer that KNOWS how to set it up and get you out there detecting. The Tiger is a fully capable freshwater machine.

 

[SusanMN]

What I have heard over the years is do NOT mess with the sensitivity. Seriously, if you send it to,Tesoro, they will,check it out and have it back to you in a few weeks.

 

[kingvegan]

What I have heard over the years is do NOT mess with the sensitivity. Seriously, if you send it to,Tesoro, they will,check it out and have it back to you in a few weeks.

Thanks Susan, but the thing is brand new, surely Tesoro test these things before they box them. The store I found on the internet has a guy there that supposedly has been a detector ubergeek for thirty years, so I am hoping he will be able to tell me something when he sees it, they do sell tesoros. I really don't want to lose three weeks because by mid august my job will move to 10 to 13 hours a day seven days a week and stay that way till December. by then it will be dark by the time I get off work and too cold to get in the water anyway. It may just be the streams and rivers I am hunting, this aint pretty sand, hopefully he will know.

 

[Boatlode]

A) Theres something wrong with the machine.
or
B) You are not operating it correctly.

Either way, call Tesoro and they will fix it.