Tesoro Metal Detectors

[ArcherUSA]

Looking for a little hep with Tesoro detectors, bought years ago and never put in the time to learn the ins and outs. I have the following: Tesoro Golden µMax and the Tesoro Cutlass II. Bought the Golden uMax for my father 7 years ago and never really figured out all the workings of the Golden uMax. Is there a video or books out there to help with this detector. I have signed up for a Civil War Relic hunt in December and would like to be proficient with it. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[Fletch88]

There are many videos on YouTube on how to setup the Golden. 53 Silver has a couple of good ones.
Does the hunt happen to be in Virginia? I'm planning on going to one then also, but the Golden is a fixed ground balance machine and will not run well in mineralized ground.

 

[tabman]

Here you go:





Mike does a great job explaining how the Golden µMax works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple of videos that I did. The first one is with my high tone Golden and the other one was my older audio tone Golden.

tabman

 

[ArcherUSA]

Thank you for the responses, Yes Fletch88 it is in Virginia in early December. I have been reading about the Golden and have come across several articles about not running well in mineralized ground. Thank you tabman for posting the videos, they will help me a lot to enjoy the Golden even more. Now just need to pick up a good relic detector that can handle the soil in Virginia which they said could be highly mineralized soil.

 

[Fletch88]

I have hunted 2 different types of soil in this area. One was the highly conductive red soil that a VLF just will not cut through hardly at all especially one without GB. The other was blackjack soil which my MXT ran pretty smooth in. I thought about using it until a guy that carpooled with me buried a 3 ringer about 2 inches deep and his properly GB CTX 3030 would not make a peep and my MXT on said "hot rock" and sounded like crap. IMO a PI with GB is the only way to hunt around there. A TDI SL can be bought
with plenty of transferable warranty left for around $7-800. Big box TDI's can also be had for just a little more $$$ and punch a little deeper than the SL, but they are a little heavier.