What did you use before your Tejon?

[RushinPA]

I had used an XLT, a Exp II, a CZ-5. I came to try the Tejon, due to 1. its reputation and 2. simplicity. I have had limited success with the other machines in the area of depth. If it was shallow (3-6 inches) I was finding it. If it was trash, I was definitely finding it. I keep swinging away, but fell victim to the.....the other machine gets deeper syndrome. I do like the simplicity of the Tejon, however........nothing of any depth has yet to be found. I have found small items to perhaps 6-8 inches. I have also been the trash collector for most sites. Recently I have had the recurring "I think I need a different detector" thought. My friend has a F-75 and swears of its dominance of searching deep. He will not dig a shallow target (has been burned once by that one) but he does find significant relics, gold, silver, and copper coins. So we are working this site that has produced old coin and relics, and has been hunted quite hard. I have a signal that is very very light. He checks with his and says.....silver dime at 8 inches.....with a good strong signal. Much better than mine. If I did not have his input I would have likely not dug. Sure enough a 1763 reale. What is with the stories of the Tejon depth I saw on youtube someone air testing a coin that was way over 12 inches, more like 15. I don't get that. From that point I was OK I think to find anything I will need to get the 75. Tried his one day the following week. It was typical TID machine. A little difficult to get set up, (was working alone). After some time I decided to keep trying with my Tejon. I have a different tactic, and supertune whenever possible. I hunt with almost no discrimination, and the second at foil. I Will use the primary desc to determining if the light beep will do so at silver. I generally dig anything that beeps solid though light at a foil desc. In trashy areas this can be trying. What are your experiences with techniques. I wish I had the confidence to say I searched to a foot or so like the others claim. I don't see that happening. I do have a 10,12 widescan, but was thinking of getting the smaller coil for the trashy areas.

 

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[BamaBill]

Uh, supertuning your threshold on that machine may be doing more harm than you realize. The Tejon is already ramped and if you overextend any settings it makes things worse, not better. When you groundbalance your threshold needs to be barely audible. Groundbalancing is crucial to getting decent depth and this machine doesn't really handle bad ground all that well. I'm using my second Tejon (got it new this time) and I'm amazed at how much better it is than the used one I used to have. This Tejon is more stable, gets deep signals and is not squirelly with noise, like the first one was. Do you know anyone else that uses a Tejon or do you belong to a detecting club that has someone with one you could compare yours to? With a beep dig it may not be completely evident that something is out of whack until you find something to compare it to.

 

[RushinPA]

Ok so when you air test your Tejon, how far does a quarter register. No BS answers like every machine is different. I was told about supertuning by a tesoro user, made sense. To me the tejon is not a MD deathstar. Mine was bought new out of the box, assembled by dealer. I just don't by the "super depth" claims made on this site and others. I have altered my search methods, and just today found a large cent on that same site, depth over 8 inches. So perhaps there is more time needed till I pass a judgement. This site though had beaucoup rain the past two days. That is why I went there, hearing that the Tejon would get great depth in these conditions. The site has been bone dry most of the summer. Still not seeing basis for the claims.

 

[Dan B]

A couple of years ago I was bored one day, so I made a little testing jig for air testing my Tejon. I'll attach a couple pictures showing the depths I achieved. I know this doesn't prove anything conclusively, but maybe it will be of interest.

Dan

 

[Swartzie]

Being fairly new to the hobby, I started with an Ace250. Great starter machine. Found a lot of cool stuff with it actually. I bought a Tejon mainly to deal with iron around old cellar holes. It does a wonderful job discriminating out iron. But, I also bought a Tejon to hunt old trails and wooded areas with history to them. So, I needed a simple relic machine to run wide open and dig every signal. It does me well at that too.

As far as depth goes mine will air test a dime to about ten inches which doesn't really concern me much because all the old (19th c) coins I have ever dug have been less than six inches. The least shallow (and oldest) was an 1808 1/2 Reale. It was only 2 inches deep. But, these are coins dug in the woods. From my experience coins in the woods are much more shallow. At least around here they are. To get extra sensitivity in the open woods when there are very few targets, I hunt in all metal with the threshold tone. I recently had two 1/2 inch rifle balls that were 6-7 inches deep. In all metal with the threshold tone the Tejon had no problems finding them. But as soon as I turned the knob to kill the threshold tone the signal barely made a click. So, my machine has much more sensitivity (to smaller objects at least) when searching in all metal with the threshold tone.

-Swartzie

 

[Sandman]

I have used many detectors over the years and in my business I also like to learn all of them. Sometimes it is hard to choose which one to take with me. For land hunting for relics I used to use the DFX because of all the settings I could run it "HOT" and get good depth. I also liked the Sov GT for the great depth and outfitted this one with a inline probe which is proving to be a great idea. I am not able to hunt salt beaches anymore so I never did get the WOT coil for the Sov GT.

The Tejon is my detector of choice for land hunting now because its operation is a lot like the C&G Bobcat I had in the early days. I like the light weight, depth and ease of use of it now. If only I could take it underwater.................