Tesoro DeLe

[Anonymous]

I'm not a Tesoro user, but some of my friends are. Just a comment though, about the new DeLe

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Had fully intended to get a DeLeon, but got a chance at a nice used Cortez. So thats what I will be swinging next year. Yes I think it kind of got lost in all the Tejon Hype. But having spent a season with the Eldorado(nothing wrong with it and I will keep it), I would highly reccomend the DeLeon to a new user or a veteran. TID may not be neccesary but I think it will build confidence more quickly. And It don`t matter what you swing if you swing it with Confidence and skill.

 

[Anonymous]

Santa bunny left a Deleon under the tree for me. I had limited time to try it out due to frozen ground, brief thaw, holidays, etc. My initial impressions are favorable with some glitches. My favorite spot to detect is an old park that has seen activity since the late 1800s. It is loaded with trash and has some real nice goodies in it. The Deleon goes nuts in high trash areas due to the amount of junk metal and the wide coverage offered by the stock coil. I am finding that the disc doesn't seem to work as well as my trusty GS2. It would be impossible to dig through all of trash and I often set my disc to cherry pick through the trash to find the old silver. The Deleon gives me positive silver ID on pull tabs that have been mangled and some other junk. Granted, I have to dig ALOT of junk in between goodies, but I did expect better than that based on my GS2 which almost never gives me false info when cherry picking in full disc. The test in W&E is pretty accurate in their assesment of the machine. I haven't been skunked yet with it but I can see that it is going to take some gettin' used to under these conditions. A small coil is going to be ordered though I am not sure which would be best, 4" or 7". The 4" would give me the seperation in the real dense areas but I need depth to get the old stuff and I am not sure the 4" isn't going to get it. I used my 8" on it and was dissapointed as it seemed to make the disc even less accurate. Also on a foggy day my threshold got stuck wide open and all metal (pin-point)was unusable. I suspect the switch was water shorted as it works fine now. The weather has turned to poop again and it will probably be a couple of months before I can detect again. It is my hope to add the smaller coil and get this machine set up to weed through the trash. Battery life is amazing! I was prepared to go rechargeable but may not as alkalines seem to last very long. Right now I can't say as I would recommend the Deleon or not for hunting these kind of conditions. The little bit I got to use the machine in clean areas was an eye opener. I am preparing a test garden in my yard. The GS2 could find nothing left in this area and the Deleon beeps like it is in a traffic jam. I dug many pieces of construction debris that were positively IDd with the exception of brass door hinge that IDd silver. Come on Spring!

 

[Anonymous]

I had a Cortez that acted kind of buggy in real close together trashy sites. Did not discriminate well and continuously flashed the "LIFT COIL" sign on the meter. Sure enough, lifting the coil to about 3 inches above the target gave much better discrimination and less noise in the trashy stuff. All detectors tend to do this to some degree but my Cortez seemed overly sensitive. Had Tesoro replace a bad switch on it and slow down the auto-tune for me and Rusty wrote me a note saying the discrimination was OK. Im assuming the DeLeon has that "LIFT COIL" indication on its meter too so you might try hunting those trash piles with the coil just far enough above ground so the lift coil indication doesnt flash at you.

 

[Anonymous]

I get the "lift coil" pretty frequently. I have noticed that sometimes when I do, even an inch or two, I lose the signal altogether. There is no doubt that this is a sensitive machine. The old coins in this area take some work to get to and because of the high amount of trash the other detectorists in this area turn tail and run because it is just overwhelming and that leaves this mess all to me. I find that using headphones in this area is no fun because of the constant signals and often use the speaker. I have recovered a few coins from the turn of the century here. After mucho research this seemed like just the machine to use. In the clean area I tried, it rocked! I am going through the learning curve with TID and know it is going to take some time to use it accurately. I think that with a small coil I should have a coin hunter for sure. The disc on it does seem out of whack and it may get sent in for tuning. Unfortunately it is very cold here now and the ground is getting harder than chinese arithmetic. Cleaned and waxed my machines yesterday and am getting ready for some intensive air testing to try to get some settings, numbers, etc. put together for the next thaw. Until now my machines have been dual disc. and notch disc. which I have gotten comfortable with. In my limited time with the Deleon I find myself not watching the meter but listening for the audio and have to remind myself to watch! I frequently get good visual signals with no audio. Is this a problem with my machine? I have also noted that when either verifying or pinpointing a target the tuning seems awful slow and often erratic. I spent a few hours just reading the display without digging while trying to learn the best way to stabilize readings for accurate ID. I have the best success with sharp, slower swings of six inches or less. Anyway, it is bought and paid for so it will become a topnotch trash hunting coin buster! I am ordering a small coil as soon as I figure out which one to start with. The neat part of that is I am paying for it with the modern coins I found last fall. I hope to get that kind of performance from my Deleon also!