As Terry said, you have that Tejon for major depth and 180ED sensitivity, a long range driver if we put it in golf terms...now you want a super accurate putter.
All Tesoros are fun to swing, find the good stuff and have enough different features to keep the boredom away, but something about that Compadre is a little extra special.
I also have a Vaq but when I am in a Tesoro state of mind I pull out my Compadre more often then not if just for the shear joy when swinging it.
To this day it still seems to sniff out the goodies and never ceases to amaze me.
No depth monster but it sure can find great targets in so many different situations and has a few superpowers that others just don't...and that many can't believe.
I have said for years no matter how many different detectors you have in the arsenal, different brands, types, screens or no screens, adding a Compadre to the mix is a no-brainer, even if you only use it in a few situations.
Those superpowers...
Many veteran hunters that use all kinds of top end brands and units go back over their well hunted iron and junk infested fields and other iron infested sites and still find more.
Hyper sensitivity is its middle name and the speed and target separation abilities are legend.
Tiny targets like studs, chains of any type, size or material...I have never swung anything that can find these things so effortlessly.
Below is a pic of the smallest and thinnest silver chain I have ever found.
At the O in iron it was there clear as a bell, at the N it was gone but it still hit hard on the tiny clasp like it was a shallow silver dollar.
Not the end with the ring...the other side.
That small silver ring sitting on that dime for size comparison pic...I found that in a super trashy site next to a picnic pavilion and it was closely surrounded by trash but it still picked it out like a red flag was sticking out of the ground to alert me.
This ring weighs .3 grams...not three grams, POINT three grams.
On one of my first outings with mine I found a target so small my Propointer could not see it unless I was touching it with the tip and this was the first time of many it blew my mind.
A single bead from the kind of chain that comes on a nail clipper and this was no fluke, Compadre owner Slingshot once found the tiny ball that is inserted into the nub of a ball point pen...not the whole assembly, just the ball.
One important reason to have one of these amazing machines handy is for hunting next to big metal...tot lot iron, fence poles, metal bench legs and the like.
In my experience and as far as I can tell there is nothing on the market that can identify targets close to or even leaning...and I do mean literally leaning on big metal like this one can, nothing, and it does this task so very easily and effortlessly once you learn how.
Any Compadre, any coil, any sensitivity setting because I can also do this with my 7" coil model and that sense is turned up internally to the max.
We call this listening for the double beep, triple beep if the target is very shallow and that vid link below with a borrowed 8" coil unit shows how easily I do this.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MmWzTo4GCak
I used to live in the Midwest and even though I did very well in the SE. hunting tot lots when I moved I found just about every tot lot site I visited suspiciously absent of targets.
It was like whoever was hunting in my area targeted these sites often, but at every one I still found more than my share of coins and jewelry between 0-4" away from all that big metal at every site.
Those people hunting these places might have thought they were getting it all near those big metal posts and legs but they were definitely not using a Compadre.
There is a cult built up around this thing and for so many good reasons.
Church of the Compadre... - Friendly Metal Detecting Forums
For the price of a decent coil you get a whole machine with abilities that can amaze.
Plus...did I already mention that fun part?
