Tesoro Outlaw did it's Job well today.

[Bill G]

I've never found a gold coin yet. Do you remember what detector you found it with and the circumstances about the find? How deep? If it was located in nails etc?
Nice write-up.
Tony

Tony,

The gold coin was next to an old tree stump behind where an old library was at one time in a corner lot. It was in the old oil field town of Fellows Ca Midway Sunset oilfield. The town was booming late 1900 through the late 1928 or so then dwindled off throughout the years and only has a few houses and an operating post office and school left today.

The coin was about 6" down and was amongst a lot of trash nails, foil and decomposing iron bits. I would faintly get a good signal while sweeping between the bad ones so I started cleaning out and removing the junk items. Finally the 1906 five gold coin popped up.

The detector I was useing was a White's XLT with the stock round concentric coil. If I recall correctly I was hunting in a modified coin and jewelry mode. The ground was hard and dry and medium mineralization.


Also about six months ago I pulled this old LA Nuit Co Fellows Ca token out of the same area a few blocks over at an old house site (house was tore down years ago). On this find I was useing the Vaquero with the 5.75" concentric coil on it.

See pic's bellow.

Happy Hunting,
Bill G

 

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[Tony (Michigan)]

Tony,

The gold coin was next to an old tree stump behind where an old library was at one time in a corner lot. It was in the old oil field town of Fellows Ca Midway Sunset oilfield. The town was booming late 1900 through the late 1928 or so then dwindled off throughout the years and only has a few houses and an operating post office and school left today.

The coin was about 6" down and was amongst a lot of trash nails, foil and decomposing iron bits. I would faintly get a good signal while sweeping between the bad ones so I started cleaning out and removing the junk items. Finally the 1906 five gold coin popped up.

The detector I was useing was a White's XLT with the stock round concentric coil. If I recall correctly I was hunting in a modified coin and jewelry mode. The ground was hard and dry and medium mineralization.


Also about six months ago I pulled this old LA Nuit Co Fellows Ca token out of the same area a few blocks over at an old house site (house was tore down years ago). On this find I was useing the Vaquero with the 5.75" concentric coil on it.

See pic's bellow.

Happy Hunting,
Bill G

That is a really nice $5.00 coin! Good thing you didn't rick it with your digger! I bet you were stoked when you popped that baby out of the hole.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Hello Bill G,

This year I have used my Tesoro Outlaw exclusively for school play and the surrounding grass areas. My friends are using Minelab and AT Pro detectors. Now, I’m not bashing their machines since I also own the same ones, but for this application Tesoro wins. Now for many weeks now, I’ve been finding more coins and jewelry than both of them in the same areas. I know they may have missed the targets or decided not to dig after looking at the VID. I simply set the Outlaw at a discrimination level on the “L” in foil and dig everything above that setting. Do I dig more trash, probably, but my machine isn’t talking me out of digging. I really believe that this is the key! My Tesoro machines say “there is something under your coil that fits within your discrimination level – dig or not dig …your choice”.

I use Grey Ghost NDT headphones with the Garrett Z-link wireless with the Outlaw – great fun!

GL & HH

Doc