Eldorado or Bandido II or Bandido II umax ????

[Anonymous]

Hello to all,
I've never owned a Tesoro brand, but might possibly give one a try as my back-up. My hunting is mostly coin & jewelry, but small amounts of relic and also salt water beach is thrown in there also. The three models that I would like to know more about are the Eldorado, Bandido II and the Bandido II umax. What are the basic differences between them? Is one clearly better for the types of detecting I do? Why? As I understand it, the Eldorado is still a "current" model, but I'm not sure if it's "better"....
Thanks for any input...
-Greg

 

[Anonymous]

With the same size coils the Eldorado and Bandido II uMax have a slight edge in depth over the older Bandido II, but the Bandido II runs smoother, handles trashy sites better with less noise on rejected targets and I like the more modulated audio better. The Bandido's have some built in discrimination at minimum setting, what Tesoro calls 120 degree discrimination, the Eldorado has full range disc. None of them will work well in wet salt sand or salt water, you may be able to reduce the sensitivy and raise the disc high enough to reject the salt and get them to work to a certain extent but they still won't work well.
JB

 

[Anonymous]

<STRONG>"I've never owned a Tesoro brand, but might possibly give one a try as my back-up."</STRONG>.... As a 'backup' to what? What sort of performance are you looking for to compliment what you're getting now?
<STRONG>"My hunting is mostly coin & jewelry, but small amounts of relic and also salt water beach is thrown in there also."</STRONG>.... What type(s) of sites do you generally hunt for coins & jewelry? What sort of <EM>"relic hunting"</EM> do you do? Are you talking about hunting Civil War battle sites, or just hunting around old homesteads or ghost towns?
<STRONG>"The three models that I would like to know more about are the Eldorado, Bandido II and the Bandido II umax."</STRONG>.... How did you narrow it to these three manually ground balanced Tesoro's, and not include the 'original' Bandido or the Bandido

 

[Anonymous]

For coin <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> shooting cant beet an eldorado. Turn it on balnce and go get um.