MXT or Tejon?

[chopper]

This is probably my 5th "which is better post"....thanks for your patience.-
I was leaning towards the MXT, but saw a few bad reviews and am now looking for info from people who've had experience with both the MXT and the Tejon. Which will best discriminate out iron nails? Which has best depth? I've read that tejon users can really read what their machines are telling them, true?
I'm hunting primarily C.W. bullets, buttons, buckles but also want to hunt coins, too. What are the advantages/disadvantages with both machines? thanks

 

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[mag]

Scully can answer your question.

 

[Gribnitz]

You can never know 100% what your digging, everyone digs trash. The Tejon is great once you learn your DISC settings and where things start to DISC out with your particular machine. Once you figure out what DISCS out where, you can tell good from bad (depending on what your looking for). If your looking for coins, bad targets will start to get crackly sounding, or will not sound good when you sweep up vs sideways. Relic hunting is another ball of wax. You dig most everything but small iron anyway. Iron is pretty easy to tell once you get used to the machine, but you are still going to dig trash.

 

[Michigan Badger]

I know the Tejon and it's a great detector. As far as comfort goes, the Tejon has it all over the MXT. Just compare features and go from there.

I'd recommend buying used detectors when you're really not sure. Used MXT's are a lot easier to find than Tejons.

But if money is no object then go for new.

Badger

 

[EasyMoney]

I couldn't resist this any longer...

The Tejon L-O-V-E-S iron and nails! The MXT does not.

I had the MXT for a short while, long enough to learn how to use it properly, but it has some real serious problems in highly mineralized soil (Fe). It also has an even worse time with hot rocks. The Tejon though has an even MORE difficult time in high-iron soil, and in much of it the thing cannot even be brought (ground balanced) to a threshold closer than 2" off the ground.. The MXT can.

In spite of both of them having difficiencies, in both high iron or low iron soil the Tejon has the best depth and the MXT is the most versatile. The Tejon makes a lot of really annoying noise though that the MXT does not. Lots of pops and crackles, even at it's lowest sensitivity setting.

In this soil here I would chose the MXT over the Tejon. In other soils I would chose the Tejon only if I were to hunt mostly relics. It is a d-mn good relic hunter, much better than the MXT. The MXT is a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better discriminator than the Tejon, no matter what kind of soil it is used in. The MXT is a pretty good nugget hunter, almost as good as a Fisher Goldbug 2. The Goldbug 2 is the overall most preferred nugget hunter in the world, and especially in Arizona gold fields, by leaps and bounds.

 

[wildrider]

I've sold and used both. Both find good stuff.

The White's has the visual id if you like that (but you pay for it). The visual i.d. is great if you don't want to dig every little thing just to find out what it is.

In a junky place and limited time, I'd go with the MXT. In a non trashy area, I've done well with the Tejon.

Personally, if I had the money, I'd have both.

I use a Nautilus and although it's heavy, I don't leave home without it.
If I was getting another v.i.d. it would be the mxt or the dfx. The worst drawback to the MXT is the constant noise it makes. Reminds me of the "ultrasonic noice" things that scare roaches away. Sure makes shivers go up my spine.

Read easymoney's post just above. It's a good review too.

 

[BamaBill]

I was going to post this as a separate topic, but its so closely related I'll add it here. I too had this dilemma and chose the MXT. I'm starting to like my choice, but like somebody suggested I'm thinking I need to add the Tejon to my stable as a site finding detector and then use the MXT to clean house. Anyway, here's my question, it might help the original poster make up his mind as well.

One of the reasons I got an MXT is because it has a mixed mode where you can hear all metal and the high tones are potentially good targets and the low tones are usually trash. Can you run the Tejon in all metal, with an audible threshold and learn to differentiate the different tones, in order to discriminate and get the best depth? I have a Cibola and can hear the difference in targets, but it doesn't get the same depth as the MXT and can't run with an audible threshold, in order to pick out the deepest targets.

 

[EasyMoney]

Well said Wild..

I'm with you on having both, and a Nautie too. What a deal. I should have kept the MXT. How could anything get by all three of them?

BTW, how is the DMC 4 in nasty soil?

 

[EasyMoney]

Cane, I don't get an audio in discriminate with my Tejon at all.

It's a medium-to-somewhat-fast auto-retune to it's quiet null again. I get a threshold sound in all-metal though. In discriminate if it's overdriven or if the power is turned into the red I get a wavering tone from all the interference. The Tejon has a rather poor ability to cancel many things completely no matter which mode I've used. That's why it chirps and pops so much. After all, it is a relic machine. I would say "no", it's not the best thing out there to be able to tell the difference with just slight changes in sounds, all-metal or not..

One thing it does have though, and that's that it one of the very deepest detectors made if you use it in medium to mild soil. I have never seen a Minelab, White's or Garrett beat it yet for finding deep relics there, even brand new ones. It and the Fisher 1270 will air test nickels at 16-18 inches, depending on each individual detector! The Nauties beat it more often than not though and sometimes the cz-3d will match the 1270 and Tejon on coin depth.

 

[wildrider]

Well said Wild..

I'm with you on having both, and a Nautie too. What a deal. I should have kept the MXT. How could anything get by all three of them?

BTW, how is the DMC 4 in nasty soil?

I don't know. I use the 2b.