What Would You Do?

[Smudge]

Ok, this Tesoro thread has been too quiet lately.

Now, we all love our Tesoros, right?

What I want you to do, if you would, is to list your favorite Tesoro, and then tell us what non-Tesoro detector you would use to replace it if you absolutely had to. And why.

Don't tell me another Tesoro, or a used version or what you already have. It has to be a completely different brand. 8)

So put your thinking caps on.

I'll go first.

My favorite Tesoro is the Compadre, because I love it for jewelry hunting. If I had to replace it with another brand, I'd probably get the Teknetics G2, because it runs at high frequency, obviously hits on gold, and is reportedly a very good coin shooter as well. Of course, it is about $500.00 more than the Compadre...

 

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[Okie Hillbillies]

smudge, I think I have all of my area covered, I own a 1265 fisher, a tejon , and a white xlt. I think I have all of my area covered.


OkieHillBillies

 

[Keppy]

Smudge .. I have been thinking about the Tek G2 or the new Fisher Gold Bug ...From what i am told they are the same detector............. Good on Gold and Jewlery and coins with that high frequency........Don't have either and never saw one at work.............. To get off the subject you have the Ace 250 and the Tesoro ............. Does the Ace slow you down with that slow recovery?......... You use the Tesoro that is fast on the recovery........ Does that Ace bother you at all?

 

[Smudge]

I do find the recovery on the Ace to be very slow. And it does bother me. :P

 

[artzstuff1]

smudge, I think I have all of my area covered, I own a 1265 fisher, a tejon , and a white xlt. I think I have all of my area covered.


OkieHillBillies

I would say you pretty much got-er coverd!!!!

P.S. which detector do you use the most,, out of the three you named,, they are all "killer machines",,,imho,,,


wayne co.
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[Keppy]

Then there is the Minelab X-Terra 705 light weight and it runs at 18.75 kHz with the gold coil............and you can get coils for it so it will run at 7.5 or 3 kHz .......... and you can also get a 15 inch colteck WOT coil for it...... .................. So the 705 has a lot going for it.........

 

[Smoogle]

Although a noob, after a month with silver umax fun....I already gaze out to the damp sand & sea - the shallows here are so inviting - so I'm already in the market for a pulse...I live in a belt of extremely rich mineral sands...black sand is common and is there is sandmining in several areas here...if I couldn't have the sandshark I would have to be after the Seahunter. I'm not confident that even an Excal would handle some of the sands here without expert tuning...there is a River just near me where in the late 1800's the black sand deposited on the beach adjacent to the mouth was sluiced for payable gold.
The bit I like best is that the components of the black sands have travelled from far inland gold / gem fields / mineral deposits to arrive concentrated on the beach...amazing. Deciding between the Sandshark and Seahunter is going to be difficult.
Already a Tesoro fan as it does everything they said it would!

 

[Adrian SS]

Tesoro LST and if I had to I would replace it with an Whites MXT

 

[mudfoot]

My favorite is the Vaquero that I just got in July.

To replace it I'd probably lean towards a Garrett AT Pro for its water capabilities.

But, that little Gold Bug Pro is a temptress too. I bet it would be sweet in the tot lots.

 

[froggy38383]

My favorite Tesoro is the Cibola, I have owned two and they were/are great. Tesoros are hard to beat.

As a replacement I would like to try the C Scope Newforce R1 which seems like an interesting detector (includes two coils, has inland and beach modes, is also programmable, has an interesting interface).