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Tejon Deep Iron

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Blank Planet

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anyone else have the deep iron problem with the Tejon in disc above iron ? it can sound nice like a coin etc...

any remedy's to this?

Blank Planet
 
Don't have a tejon but have other tesoro's. Most all have issues with larger iron. When you hit what you think is a good sound just keep swinging and lift you coil off the ground. If you can left up past 12" not a chance it's a coin or ring. Also if you have a pro pointer and it goes off at the surface of the ground then you dig down an inch or two. Stop because the pro pointer will only go and inch or so down on a coin sized target. it's large junk or could be treasure chest...:surprised:


Did I make any sense?


Mike
 
Are you using headphones? They help hear the sounds. Even on very large iron there is a sharper edge on the rise of the beep when using the discriminator. The other audio hint is the trailing edge of the beep; kind of echos or the tone lingers and booms. It will also pinpoint as a large object.
Cheers,
tvr
 
Thanks!! all valuable information to put to use :)

Blank Planet
 
:Left4Dead said:
Don't have a tejon but have other tesoro's. Most all have issues with larger iron. When you hit what you think is a good sound just keep swinging and lift you coil off the ground. If you can left up past 12" not a chance it's a coin or ring. Also if you have a pro pointer and it goes off at the surface of the ground then you dig down an inch or two. Stop because the pro pointer will only go and inch or so down on a coin sized target. it's large junk or could be treasure chest...:surprised:


Did I make any sense?


Mike
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I use my Propointer as a test but, have been getting fair depth. I am using a Preadator Little Eagle shovel and, all coins i want come in that depth range.
 
Try putting the VCO tone at the 3 o' clock position and use headphones. Changing the tone is tricky, but it can be a helpful
way to distinguish different types of targets

Usually, there will be some static or short blip at the end of the signal to let you know it's iron.

Hope this helps,

Justin G.
 
Are you relic hunting or coinshooting? If you're coinshooting I understand why you want to avoid deep iron, but if relic hunting you want to reconsider that approach, since a lot of the CW stuff left are iron that others didn't dig (gun tools, camp utensils, shell fragments, etc.).
 
thanks everyone for the tips been most helpful.

i am mostly coinshooting.

Blank Planet
 
If you are going to coin shoot with the Tejon, Turn your sensitivity down!
 
yes good advice had it on 1 hunting some trash for shallow coins last time out .
 
I say dig it! If it sounds good dig it! When relic hunting I want all the depth and sensitivity I can get. Unfortunately your gonna dig trash no matter what.
 
have to agree with that too, so in short dig dig dig find goodies and trash, keep the goodies toss the trash:clapping: its very simple when you think about this detecting capper.

blank planet
 
I have a little trick I use with my Tejon whenever I get a Hit That May be a Coin. I use this weather its a deep or shallow target and it has only failed me once! I pinpoint the target then move the coil off a foot to one side, pull the pinpoint trigger and slowly move the coil towards the target while in pinpoint. If its rusty iron the tejon will sound off well before you get to the target! Usually with my 5.75 widescan it will sound off about a coils width or more from the target and continue a coils width or more past the target! If its a coin, the edge of the coil will already be over the target when you hear it. Hope that makes sense.? A Tiny rusted washer fooled me once but so far thats it. Hope this trick helps! Its saved me alot of iron digging!
 
dmgadway said:
I have a little trick I use with my Tejon whenever I get a Hit That May be a Coin. I use this weather its a deep or shallow target and it has only failed me once! I pinpoint the target then move the coil off a foot to one side, pull the pinpoint trigger and slowly move the coil towards the target while in pinpoint. If its rusty iron the tejon will sound off well before you get to the target! Usually with my 5.75 widescan it will sound off about a coils width or more from the target and continue a coils width or more past the target! If its a coin, the edge of the coil will already be over the target when you hear it. Hope that makes sense.? A Tiny rusted washer fooled me once but so far thats it. Hope this trick helps! Its saved me alot of iron digging!
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The vco mode is one of the most overlooked and under rated aspects of metal detecting. Now that I have it and have learned it's importance and usefullness in the field, I don't know how I could ever go without it. I spend more time in AM mode coin hunting now than in disc mode, here in Canada I can go along listening to the threshold and pick up mostly Quarters, loonies and toownies and ignore the rest as long as it's not too overly trashy. For relic hunting, it finds me those baby signals every one else has walked over, and sensitivity!!! I never found small gold earrings till I used vco.
I use the Vaq and the disc mode never really did 'speak' to me, the AM mode does. I have begun to use the disc mode only to confirm what I think I'm hearing in AM. Many times I have dug a signal (often clad or deep relic) that would not register in the disc mode.
I have said before that the V is deeper than the T, I said this because the vco is stable on the V and thus it determines a signal from a fluctuating/unstable threshold that the T has. If the threshold could stay smooth on the T it would no doubt be an inch or 2 deeper than the Vaq.

I agree with what is written above, but for you that don't know, there is so much more to the vco/am mode.
Nice to see there are others besides myself that have learned the value of vco.:)
 
been at this mding stuff for over 20yrs and always dig every signal-ya don't know for sure what is buried there until ya uncover it.I found silver braclet at 10 inches and quarters at 14 inches. what is an extra few minutes dig time or one more piece of trash to dispose of.hunt slow-dig all signals-that way your sure not to miss something good
 
Hello,
Tejon can working on light negative GB mode from AM balancing, with no any bustle if change to disk mode and go. It is relic detector, and if you like dig, it is ideal engine. On the other hand, you will need any time for good understanding of Tejon language this "beeps", that "peeps", other "peebs" or "BEEEEbs" needs any experience. For DD coils you can use quick "iron" check. In the middle (pinpointed before) is sound OK and strong, digable... and from front of coil it is not clear signal. If you decided that target is not in upper part of soil, (3 inches max, surface pinpointer check),and front/middle beeps are not the same, I am mostly decide - let it be, boy.
Benefit is understandable light border sounds and signals from small silver or deeper coins in edge position. It this case sound what are still good from any direction, volume is changed only a bit from disk#1 (IRON to letter N) to disk#2 (FOIL to letter I).
Regards
 
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