Tesoro and Nickles........

[BusDigger]

Are they "as one" with these machines, touch & go.....or ? I've yet to dig a V or Buff.....but want to badly (though not badly enough to dig tons of trash to do so ). My current detector is not known for being Nickle Magnet.........

Give me your impressions/experiences with Nickles please. Heck, if'n ya want, feel free to post your best nickle found with your Tesoro.

Smitty

 

[jabbo]

Smitty, Tesoros can find nickles as easy as it finds gold rings and thats the truth. I heard Mr. Garrett is saving up to buy a Compadre.

 

[downeaster]

My Bandido II uMax and Tejon both have no problems finding nickles. How high are you running your discrimination? If you're not getting nickles, you're missing a lot of gold items also.

 

[tvr]

All the Tesoro detectors I've used find nickles if you don't discriminated them out.

Once I learned how to set it up, the Tejon will just absolutely nail nickles. First discriminator middle of foil, second discriminator to just crackle on the new style pop tabs ... the ones on the current soda and beer cans. With the second discriminator set to crackle on the pop tabs, pencil erasure ferules take a swing or two where they crackle then they go away. The signals that are strong hits on the first discriminator that cleanly go away on the first swing after hitting the second discriminator have a very high probability of being a nickle. It works for pretty deep nickles too.

If you drop the first discriminator to iron, you will dig more foil trash and increase your odds of finding gold.

 

[dixiedigger57]

I use an old buffalo to test my disc with. I have never been able to understand all the jargon, and simply throw a buff down and run my machine over it. I use an older big box eldorado and an amigo, and have found buff and a few V's with both. my area is trashy, and you have to dig a good bit of it, or just find clads on the surface. yuk! i did find 165 clads and one silver three hooped interlaced band on a volleyball court. bunch of clad nickles. was like shooting fish in a barrell. but a place for no disc.

 

[slingshot]

My Compadre absolutely nails them-even on edge.

 

[BusDigger]

jabbo, I'm glad I'j swallowed my coffee just prior to reading your post, don't do that to a guy 1st thing of a morning
(While I'm here, I recall reading your post about removing the coil cover...I'd read elsewhere about spraying it off with high pressure nozzle on a garden hose. Not sure if it'd work, just thought I'd pass it along.)

downeaster, I won't receive my De Leon until the middle of the week (shipping today, last one only took 3 days to receive, so I'm "hoping"). lol, just trying to make myself feel better about buying 2 new detectors within a months time.

Thanks for all the replies. I'm not saying my current MDs "can't" find nickles, but generally it's about 100 coins, and 1000 pieces of trash per every nickle dug. Seldom is it a nickle when it shows/audios nickle. I understand many other items fall into the same range (including some gold), but it's just too broad a spectrum currently. It'll be nice if the new Tesoro narrows that down a bit.

It's gonna be a loooong 3 days wait

Smitty

 

[dirt doctor]

My Golden Sabre 2 and Troy X-2 just love Nickels and gold jewelry .

 

[fenian13]

This works for me.... but the Tejon is known as a nickel killer.

Air test a nickel at about 4 inches and mark where it just breaks.

It will vary a bit depending on depth and halo effect but the key at depths that cleanly repeat any direction is to listen for the clean break.

Things that will get close to fooling the tejon then are the beaver tail half of a older pulltab, or also a alunimum pencil band, but even they are not "confident nickel" signals that I only dig cuz it's in the gold area.

Experiment and keep trying. Good luck.

 

[BarberBill]

I've found lots of nickels with my Tesoros. When coinshooting, I set the disc to where it is just enough below where a nickel crackles to give a solid nickel signal. I have the spot where a nickel cracks out, marked. If thumbing the disc past that still give signal you can pretty well bet it's a tab or foil. On my Deleon when the indicator bar is solid and consistent, it is a nickel nearly every time. You can also thumb the disc knob as mentioned to double checked.
BB

 

[Monkeywrangler22]

My DeLeon is a killer nickle machine. No old ones but that is due to where I hunt--mostly tot lots and grade schools. I even finally found a wee bit of the yellow stuff!

 

[Flintstone]

Hi Smitty, If you guys have trouble getting your coil cover off, try putting the coil in hot water for a min. or two. I got this from another guy and it works for me. I always wipe off my detector anyway, so just put coil in the hot water don,t need to be boiling, just real hot water you can put your hands in. TRY IT Good luck Dean

 

[BusDigger]

Appreciate the replies...except they just keep making me wanting that baby in my hands that much more This nickle "thing" has really got me curious, because with the 250 I've added very few to the count, and only a small percentage were 40s-50s, and no Buffs or Vs. It shouldn't take long to find-out. May even take a trip to a nearby park, clad could be dug there as long as you could stand to dig it. I'll bet I've taken 500+ coins out of it in 4 hunts (one hunt was around 175). You could set in 1 spot, didn't even have to get up, just kinda scoot-around. Point is, very few nickles, they pretty much had to be laying on the surface.

I'll know more Saturday, got a nice old site to take 'er for a test drive in.

Smitty