Tejon question

[daddyflea]

Still thinking of getting a Tejon but I can not figure how to knock out those tabs.

OK if Descr 1 is set at Foil and Dectector finds a Signal Descr 1 Sounds off

I set Descr 2 at just above tabs Descr 2 will not sound off unless the coin is a penny or dime. How do I know if this is a Nickel or a tab?

Descr 1 is still going to sound if it is a tab or Nickel.

I think I may have to save my money and hunt with my Cortez.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Unfortunately in my neck of the woods a nickle and the tabs are mighty close so you might be better off with a metered unit and only dig numbers which most of your nickles come in when you airtest and yes some of the tabs have the same number or numbers. Keep in mind a nice gold ring may also fall in that area so when in doubt dig..
At first you may dig a lot of junk but after a while more nickles will go into the pouch as time in the field will produce a pattern to increase your odds..
Tabs indeed a hunters nightmare and darned if you dig and darned if you don't and some park area's will sound like a machine gun with multiple hits so patience is a virtue indeed...

 

[digginLa]

On my Deleon and Omega there was only one digit difference 98% of the time between a nickle and a pull tab and one number difference on the lower end between a nickle and a pencil eraser

 

[daddyflea]

On my Cortez Nickels hit at 24 and 25 where the square tabs hit at 31. Hard to knock out the square tabs but all the others hit much higher. Not sure about erasers but I dig everything between 14 and 25. gold rings hit at 14 to 18.

I was hoping Tejon had created a manual notch with the alternate discriminate settings but now that I think about it, it would take three setting to do this.

Looks like I will stick with my Cortez, Golden saber II, and maybe find another for a third detector. Maybe a Deleon since my Deleon was deeper than my Cortez but it was also much more noisy because it lacked the Notch.

Tesoro needs to put the Deleon screen on the Cortez. That would really be a winner.

 

[amcjavelin]

too bad there wasn't a way to take the golden umax and tejon and blend together and get the best of both worlds depth with notch settings

 

[amcjavelin]

n/t

 

[tvr]

My observations for the tabs I see the most on current cans, the tabs that look kind of like an 8, are that my metered detectors read the majority of nickles at between 29 and 30 and read these tabs at 33 to 34 (haven't tried a Cortez, but it sounds like the relative reading posted above have about the same relationship between nickle and these tabs).

With the Tejon, I can call one of these tabs most of the time by setting the first discriminator at iron or no higher than the low foil range, the second discriminator where the tab just starts to break up when on the second discriminator. When hunting, a nickle disappears as soon as the second discriminator is pulled and the tab takes a couple of sweeps over the tab for the setting to settle and the tab starts to break up on the sound. I can normally call nickles and tabs up to about 6 inches deep in mild soil with the Tejon. As they get deeper, or the ground gets uglier, it is a little harder to call them. Don't find many of the tabs deeper than a couple inches unless the dirt has been turned under or fill has been brought in.
Cheers,
tvr