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Vaquero or Tejon?

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CousinEddie

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Hey now!!! I have a Vaquero as a back up to my F75 and LOVE it!! I am curious about the Tejon as well. Just curious as to the depth difference between the Vaquero and Tejon? I know it can vary due to soil. I have moderate to highly mineralized soil and lots of small iron mixed in. What kind of depth have Tejon users experienced as opposed to the Vaquero? I ask this because depth is what I need at the sites I have been hitting. These are Colonial era sites and the items are below the 6"- 7" range. The F75 does a great job, but I find that the concentric coil of the Vaquero can out perform the F75 in certain ground conditions, but kinda' lacks the depth I need that I get from the F75. Even super tuned, the vaquero kinda' fizzles out around the 7" range in my soil/site conditions on dime sized or smaller objects. Is there a gain in depth with the Tejon? At least enough to make it worth while getting a new machine? I'd go for getting a bigger coil on the Vaquero, but I don't want to miss the smaller stuff.
 
With a big DD coil you would really do good with the Vaquero.Really before getting a Tejon i would get 12x10 DD on the Vaquero.I don't really think you will gain anything over the Vaquero.The concentric is your enemy right now.You try a 12x10 DD.The DD coils do not loose sensitivity to small targets like a concentric does.You will go deeper in bad soil with the DD.
 
Just a little test with the Tejon.The Vaquero runs so close with the Tejon.Some say the Tejon is not as good as the Vaquero in rough soil.If i ran the Tejon in bad soil i would run a small DD in the worst ground.The 10X5 Elliptical DD coil is another good coil for the Vaquero in bad grou[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx70m7IcU4Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]nd.
 
As far as good depth along with GOOD discrimination abilities (working around Iron) my vote is for the Tejon and by a long shot!
When you push the Vaquero for its max depth range its starts to like rust nails, screws and other like types of Iron. So far the Tejon doesn't suffer with this problem.

Mark
 
Even though i don't have a Vaquero right now i will defend that detector to the end.The Vaq is special.The Tejon is special.Heck,they are all special.
 
To get the depth of the Tejon I found the Vaquero had to be supertuned. This is when the Vaquero would get squirley in iron. To get it stable again you have to cut back on the supertune-then its nowhere near the depth of the Tejon. IMHO.
 
Tejon is my go to detector now!
 
I had the V and the Tejon and the Tejon was my go to detector unless I was only coin shooting at a park. That does not mean the V is not capable, I just prefered the tejon for many reasons and I could understand it's language better.
 
Both have the same discrimination circuitry. Both can use the same frequencies. Stock config, I'd give the Tejon the nod. Bigger DD coil, I'd give the Vequero the nod.
 
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