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[Carolina Phil]

My relic hunting buddy talked me in to buying a 705. It is a nice detector however with the DD searchcoil it is very heavy.

Well, he didn't have to use the 10" DD coil. Did he try the stock coil? It's a good coil and gets good depth, and is the coil that I use most in target sparse areas. Does your friend use the 11" DD coil on his Tejon?

My Tejon easily out hunted his 705, six small round balls, one dropped .69, one dropped .58 to his one fired, and this guy is a pro with relics.

Did you and your friend compare the signals on those targets with each machine before digging? If not, then it could have been a situation where you were fortunate enough to have swung your coil over more good targets him.

The other feature the Tejon has over the 705 is that the Tejon will find iron objects with the main discriminator set just above iron. It will cancel out nails, or make a squeaking sound over a nail, but I can tell the size of an object by running the search coil over the area and if it large, I did. Many times it is a horseshoe, but I have found one small pistol and a number of gun tools which all of my friends who detect with me have never found with their iron canceling out machines. I know you can use the 705 in all metal and then switch over to discriminate, but in civil war camps where the iron is everywhere, that is hard to do.

I don't have a 705, I have a 70, but I believe the discrimination scale is the same on both. You have me wondering how many segments on the low end (iron) of the discrimination scale you are rejecting with your X-Terra. I reject only the first and second segment (occasionally the third maybe), and that is enough to reject a small iron nail lying on the surface, but larger iron is still detected (horseshoes, plows, etc.). I've not found any old pistols though (are they made of iron?). The prospecting mode on your 705 is excellent for sizing and shaping targets. I use it for pinpointing and you can get an estimate of depth with its modulated signal. Also, if your searching in areas where "iron is everywhere", then you would probably want to use a small coil, and not that "very heavy" 10" DD.

The Tejon is a great relic machine but for coins it does lack. It is highly responsive to iron, the 705 cancels iron out, the Tejon does not have a target ID, the 705 does.

Don't get too caught up in target ID numbers when relic hunting. I mostly ignore them on my X-Terra 70 and just dig everything that gives a good audible signal.

 

[morelic55]

Well, I've hunted with jhettel and he is a super guy. Yes he favors his Tejon and he is good with it. He has seen the results of a 705 with the 10.5 DD coil. It's all in what machine you have used for awhile and how you hunt. And Phil, the stock coil in our area does not go as deep as the stock coil. I leave mine at home, unused, hanging on the wall. This pic was taken the day I hunted with him.........Deep .69 3 ringer, I got 4 more that were not more than 10' from each other..........MO

 

[nugget71]

Ummm Mate how long has your friend been using his 705? I have the 70 and Its hard to fault with anything it does. Every time I hunt with the 70 I learn something new and I have owned mine now for a few years now. It will go deep, I know for a fact. Keep at it and you will find the 705 to be a very good detector.
Cheers!

 

[Shenandoah Digger]

Yep the Tejon is a very good relic machine. And maybe one day Tesoro will come out with something more up to date with the rest of the detecting industry. I've used a Tejon for years, know it well, and make great finds with it. The Xterra out of the box is a very easy machine to use. But to get really good with it, and make finds similar to what you've made with the Tejon you've been hunting with for years, you of course have to spend time with it. Just like the Tejon. If you can't make good finds with the Xterra you either 1-have limited experience with the machine, or 2-don't have a clue how to use it.

 

[Digger]

Great post Chuck. thanks for sharing your thoughts and pics of the "proof"! HH Randy