My Take on the Tesoro Tejon & Tesoro detectors in general

[Bill G]

My Take on the Tesoro Tejon & Tesoro detectors in general

I really like the Tejon detector a lot.

I like the duel disk and the weight of the detector is still good no problems swinging it all. I have found no issues at all with the touchy ground balance of the Tejon. I have always understood the ground balance thing and never really had any issues understanding how it works. I know some guys really struggle with understanding it. I should have got another Tejon detectors sooner. I made the mistake of selling my last one a few years back, big mistake. I have tried a lot of detectors over the years and have found the VID meters to not be accurate at depth (example you hit a dime at 7" to 8" or 10" it will likely read iron on a lot of VDI units and the VDI will be way off). VDI tend to be very jumpy with trash and multiple targets making them of no real use. VDI meters on the other hand tend to be accurate at more normal or minimal depth when you pass your coil right over a particular target only and are very nice in these situations.

Tone units & VDI

Tone units with lots of tones don't make it any better either sometimes and tend to do the same thing in trash. The tones become erratic and tend to run together.

On the other hand though say the Tejon was set up as a two tone machine with the break at were you set the disk & the option with a toggle to turn this feature on and off. I think would be fantastic not only on the Tejon but any other Tesoro unit for that fact.


With all that said,

The analog Tesoro detectors are more accurate and give me more accurate info on a hole by just thumbing the disk knob. Also the disk is more accurate at depth on the Tesoro and tend to be spot on in comparison to any VDI machine I have used to date. The analog sound is also better than any digital unit out there and it gives more information. Again, I have found quite often with a VDI unit you will go over a deeper target and get a bad VDI on it and the Tesoro unit without a meter will be accurate just by thumbing the disc on this deeper target. I think a lot of guys with metered VDI units miss deeper targets because of relying on a VDI meter to tell them what's in the ground.

Just my 2 cents..

So my Tesoro detectors are my little top secret weapon.... Lol. I hope Tesoro keeps making them the way they always have. Also the truth is really until there is a massive breakthrough in VLF technology it's going to be hard to beat a good old Tesoro. I learned this little lesson the hard way over the years, again....Lol

Happy Hunting All,
Bill G

*Tesoro Tejon
*Tesoro Vaquero
*Tesoro Sand Shark
*Whites M6

 

[Mega]

Thats a good write up,this is why its good that us detectorist are lucky that we have a wide range of detector brands and models available too suit all budgets,skill levels and site scenarios,must admit although i do own a few Tesoro machines and have done for many years i very rarely use them,the last new Tesoro machine i bought was the UK based Vaquero called the Trident 11 Extreme,its a Vaq but on steroids last christmas.It performs OK but much prefer to use other detector brands,must admit these days i am not a brand loyal person like i was with Whites as i always used these machines and have done for years but they even seem to have been derailed of late.

I will agree with you a TID machine is only good for a certain depth use,so even when i use my Deus i carry the controller in my pocket so that i can alter a few settings in the field but mainly use it as a audio only machine,most machines are far more reliable audio wise the deeper a machine goes over a screen.

I wont part with any of my Tesoro machines but saying that i dont use them alot either,i do like occasionally using the Vaquero mainly due to the detector being so light,of course as usually these are only my personal opinions and nothing else.

 

[Rick N. MI]

I agree completely. I've tried a lot of detectors and Tejon is still my main detector. It out hunts everything I've tried.Goes deep. Separates great. Single tone detector that tells you a lot about a target. It hits on larger iron and you can usually tell its iron and your decision to dig or not.

I like the dual tone and the tone adjustment.

The iron tone would be nice if they didn't mess up hitting high tone on larger iron. There are some great iron relics and this is why I really like this detector.

I sold it once but had to get another one when I found out about power balancing. I will not ever get rid of it again.

I really like the 8" concentric coil in my mild ground.

Rick

 

[Dereck]

I agree I have had a couple of VDI machines and have found two silver rings with my Tesoro's after I had combed the area with a VDI machine
both mine are single tone Cibola and a Vaquero
The Cibola will be sold so I can get a beep and dig water machine

 

[bigtim1973]

I like them just because they bring back the fun of what got me into metal detecting. Now I do like a vdi machine too but when it comes down to just having fun metal detecting, I have always went back to a tesoro of some kind. I prefer the older out of production units for the most part. One day I think I will get a deleon or cortez. I have not tried the tejon out but just air testing. I have had 2 vaqueros and a cibola. You can tell alot by the single tone of the tesoro units. I have noticed when I used a detector with multitone and display, I did not find old tokens or toys as much either. That was another reason to go back to tesoro from the other name brands. Although the one I go to is a turn on and go machine for the most part, they have a learning curve as well. It is all about audio. The analog circuits in my opinion will always have a certain feel and sound that the digital units will never be able to produce. When you get a good signal, it always makes me excited. More so than with a digital unit. You just never know what it is until you dig it. That is probably the main reason I use tesoro. It reminds me of when Inwas a kid out with my older brother and metal detecting together.

 

[Oldguy]

I have run my Tejon for almost 5 years now, nothing but good things to say about this machine. My best suggestion for Tesoro users is to get a good pair of headphones made for metal detecting. I use Grey Ghost originals, but I would think you will notice a difference with any brand of high end metal detecting headphones. Headphones made for stereo systems don't cut it, I've tried a high end Sennheizer stereo headphones on the Tejon. While Sennheizer can reproduce music very well, it's response is not fast enough to produce the small nuances that a good pair of metal detecting headphones produce.