Deleon or Vaquero?

[lorin]

Hi all, Thinking of getting a new detector for coins, jewelry, dry sand ocean beach. Anyone have any experience with one or the other of these two detectors? I have read all the reviews online and saw a few videos too. Still undecided. Own an old Lobo pre supertrac that has been excellent. thanks in advance..

 

[Monkeywrangler22]

The DeLeon is quite good on coins, killer on nickles, and so far has found some nice jewelry for me. I have not used a Vaquero. I use the Deleon on dry freshwater beach sand and it is fine.

 

[digitaltim]

I tried the Cortez and Vaquero... Eventually sold both to try other detectors, but came full circle back to a Vaquero.... If that tells you anything

 

[jabbo]

I had a Vaquero, goes deep, very nice detector, but sold it because it is single tone. Now have a Cortes and a Golden. The Cortes has great meter info, but no tones until you press the SUM switch. Not as deep as the Vaquero but I like it better because it tells me something about the target. I like the Golden too because of the 4 tones, tells me something about the target, not as deep as the Cortes but I don't have to look at a meter for each target. Actually, the Golden has more than 4 tones. If 2 targets are very close to each other the Golden will give 2 tones that blend together. And I have a Fisher ID Edge, has 4 tones and a great meter, goes just a hair deeper than the Cortes. I seem to like the Edge best because of the tones and meter combo. The tones on the Edge don't blend, you hear only the strongest tone when 2 targets are close to each other.

 

[hispanico]

Hello friends I have a Vaquero and works great hunting coins and relics, if you ride a 10x12 SEF Butterfly Coil you will be amazed of his long reach.
The cowboy is my hunting machine.
I send a cordial greeting from Spain.

 

[fwcrawford]

I have a Vaquero that I use while detecting around old home sites and it is great for this purpose.
I think it would also serve your purpose well while beach hunting as long as you stay in the dry sand... single frequency machines don't cope with the salt water well I am told.
One thing to remember is that most folks dig every signal while beach hunting since gold jewelry falls right in there with the pulltabs and bottle caps, so the visual ID and multi tone is not needed unless you are strickly coin hunting.
With that said, my choice would be the Vaquero... it is lighter, it only uses one 9 volt battery, and it does go deep.
It also has an adjustable ground balance which makes it more versatile for hunting in different ground conditions.
Hope this helps,
Felix

 

[BarberBill]

The manual ground balance on the Vaq would make it my choice unless you REALLY want the TID feature on the Deleon. TID is nice, but if you dig most targets regardless, you don't really need it.
BB

 

[calibil]

I have plenty of TID machines and the Vaq is the go machine if you need speed-depth, it finds great things.

 

[snoop & scoop]

I had a DeLeon, for a year. I used it weekly. I lived in Tucson at the time, and found that the screen was hard to read in the sunlight. It was a decent machine, but I find that I rely on the sound of a detector more than a read-out. I now have a high tone Vaquero and I like it much better. I have found a number of gold rings with it. It is a deep machine and very accurate. If it beeps you had better dig.

 

[jersey devl]

Simple...buy them both,but if you can only get one get the V.

 

[sqwaby]

The Vaq is deep and has good depth. Like all Tesoro machines it has great target separation, get the 5.75 coil and its gets even tighter. I use mine on gulf coast beaches with no problems, even submerge the coil sometimes. Run sens at 4-6, disc at foil, once in a while I hit some small isolated pockets of highly mineralized sand and have to turn the sens down to 2-3, but these areas are far and few between. Take time to learn what that one tone is telling you because it says a lot.

 

[lorin]

Thanks guys, I think that I will go with the Vaquero. I Appreciate your responses.