new vaquero

[bhough31]

ordered the vaquero, does anyone have any input on this machine. Read alot of reviews but I dont know if they are (bs) or not there are very few negative comments. I am really excited to be getting a detector that will actually work and is easy to understand. Thank you so much

 

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[Jerry Ga.]

You made a great choice. Ground balance is important, check it often. Keep your discrimination as low as you can tolerate.

Dig the smooth repeatable signals and have FUN !

 

[rodbuster]

Great choice, you will be very happy with the Vaquero.
Ground balancing is easy, and unless the machine starts to act erratic there is no need to worry
about the ground balance. Check it when you feel the need, it's easy to do.
It has good depth and you find plenty of goodies with it.
Good Luck and happy digging.

 

[vaquero44]

the vaq is a very nice machine and with the higher freq of 14khz it will hunt the gold jewelry easier and depth is really good with it you can get 10" 3 ring bullets easy with this!

 

[birdman]

I love mine. No bells and whistles just ground balance and go. It will go real deep and also you can hang with the 1000.00 machines . Enjoy.

 

[bhough31]

thank you all for easing my mind, it arrived today cant wait to take it out

 

[ok2raise]

iIs a great machine ive used one here in GA. several times it seam to like silver & also has good depth to it

 

[sekypaleo]

I just got a Vaquero recently and was able to try it out head to head against my Teknetics Omega this weekend. Here is my post on another forum of my results:

I was a die hard CW relic hunter for many many years up until 10 years ago, at that point I got out of it but came back last December. My main detectors years ago were a Fisher CZ-5 and a Tesoro Sidewinder for the really iron infested trashy areas. When I got back into relic hunting last December, I found alot had changed in the detecting world...namely DIGITAL! I tried a couple of Minelabs but found them way to heavy and just a bit to confusing and expensive...I opted for a Teknetics Omega. I took it first into a Union camp site that I discovered many years ago and had considered "hunted out" the Omega surprised me by producing quite a few nice relics out of areas that I KNOW my CZ-5 coil had gone over in the past. The problem is that many of my signals with the Omega were barely signals and with not alot of depth to be that weak, and TID's everywhere. I came to the conclusion that it seemed the cut-off point for the Omega is about 8". Out of curiosity I bought a used Vaquero based upon what I read about its depth and the fondness I had for my old Sidewinder. Yesterday I was able to put them to the test side by side. My wife and I went back into the old campsite and focused on the most hard hit area. My wife was using the Omega (stock coil, Sens at 95 and disc at 16) and found nothing, I was using the Vaquero with disc just above iron and supertuned. I got a signal in some Rhododendron that was LOUD...problem was there was a great big root that looked like it would be right where I would have to dig. I gave serious thought to skipping it, but decided to ask my wife to scan it and see what numbers she could get......the Omega didn't even sniff on it! Not a beep, NOTHING. I decided to dig it...at about 10" down I got a brass tag. It is definitely CW but don't have an id on it yet. Two feet away another good loud signal..again the Omega gives no indication of a target. At the same 9-10" level....a 69 cal roundball. These are the facts. I still love my Omega for it's light weight, feel and easy use of controls...but it does not get the depth of the V, at least on lower conductive targets. Now, if just Tesoro would come out with a detector with TID that gets Vaquero/tejon depth!

 

[sekypaleo]

I just got a Vaquero recently and was able to try it out head to head against my Teknetics Omega this weekend. Here is my post on another forum of my results:

I was a die hard CW relic hunter for many many years up until 10 years ago, at that point I got out of it but came back last December. My main detectors years ago were a Fisher CZ-5 and a Tesoro Sidewinder for the really iron infested trashy areas. When I got back into relic hunting last December, I found alot had changed in the detecting world...namely DIGITAL! I tried a couple of Minelabs but found them way to heavy and just a bit to confusing and expensive...I opted for a Teknetics Omega. I took it first into a Union camp site that I discovered many years ago and had considered "hunted out" the Omega surprised me by producing quite a few nice relics out of areas that I KNOW my CZ-5 coil had gone over in the past. The problem is that many of my signals with the Omega were barely signals and with not alot of depth to be that weak, and TID's everywhere. I came to the conclusion that it seemed the cut-off point for the Omega is about 8". Out of curiosity I bought a used Vaquero based upon what I read about its depth and the fondness I had for my old Sidewinder. Yesterday I was able to put them to the test side by side. My wife and I went back into the old campsite and focused on the most hard hit area. My wife was using the Omega (stock coil, Sens at 95 and disc at 16) and found nothing, I was using the Vaquero with disc just above iron and supertuned. I got a signal in some Rhododendron that was LOUD...problem was there was a great big root that looked like it would be right where I would have to dig. I gave serious thought to skipping it, but decided to ask my wife to scan it and see what numbers she could get......the Omega didn't even sniff on it! Not a beep, NOTHING. I decided to dig it...at about 10" down I got a brass tag. It is definitely CW but don't have an id on it yet. Two feet away another good loud signal..again the Omega gives no indication of a target. At the same 9-10" level....a 69 cal roundball. These are the facts. I still love my Omega for it's light weight, feel and easy use of controls...but it does not get the depth of the V, at least on lower conductive targets. Now, if just Tesoro would come out with a detector with TID that gets Vaquero/tejon depth!

Update: the brass tag is actually off of a shoulder scale or epaulet.

 

[oldcoon]

I use a Vaquero as my principal machine.
It is a very good, deepseeking machine.
I generally run my discriminator no higher than 'iron.'
This means I dig a lot of targets.
I find a lot of things.
To use this machine as I do is not the for lazy and wanna-bes.
Learn to 'read' the quality of your tone.
It can tell you a lot about what is in the ground.
I most always dig the targets anyway.
I like to confine my operations to a relative small area,
say no larger that the average living room.
Before I move to another area, I like to clean the old one out.
I know it can be frustrating when you dig your 15th consecutive pulltab
in the last 15 minutes but it is necessary to find out if there is
anything more valuable down there at a deeper depth.
Good luck and happy hunting.​