Tesoro Mojave - First Hunt With This Detector

beephead · Feb 11, 2017

I thought that I would tryout my new detector today see how it would do. Since it should excel as a jewelry detector I headed out to a nearby park. There's about a 50 yard section of sidewalk that I've detected along the edge of several times, so this should be a good test for the Mojave. I set the discrimination just high enough to discriminate out a nail and was able to run the sensitive to its fullest without any chatter whatsoever. That's amazing because this park is loaded with EMI.

My first target's audio was kind of broken sounding, but I wanted to see what were there. I dug down and popped a clad dime. I scanned the hole again and got a good audio signal and popped a junker ring that was just a few inches way from where I received the clad dime. This dog can hunt!

I worked the whole 50 yard sidewalk section on both sides and found several pieces of jewelry and to my surprise numerous clad coins that I somehow missed before. Also I found 9 nickels. This detector loves low conductors and small targets.

After finished up detecting along the sidewalk I left went to a couple of permissions that I've detected before. I managed to find 2 Rosie dimes, 3 Wheat Pennies and a War Nickel. The 2 Rosie dimes came out of the same hole. I popped the first silver dime, I covered up the hole, but check it again with the detector and got another good audio signal, so I dug again and found the second silver dime.

I really like this detector a lot and it's going to get a lot of use. It's way better than the Silver µMax and Compadre combined.

beephead

jwp1964 · Feb 11, 2017

Wow, nice first outing! Looks like a keeper.

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Leave-No-Coins-Behind · Feb 11, 2017

Congratulations with your new detector and the finds that it discovered!

cellrdwellr · Feb 11, 2017

This is great information thanks for sharing! Plus you can probably swing one for days and not get sore :grin:

beephead · Feb 11, 2017

jwp1964 said:
Wow, nice first outing! Looks like a keeper.

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Thanks! It's keeper alright.

Jak said:
Congratulations with your new detector and the finds that it discovered!

Thanks! It's a hot little detector and runs really smooth.

cellrdwellr said:
This is great information thanks for sharing! Plus you can probably swing one for days and not get sore

Thanks! Yeah it's light as feather. What gets you is the getting down and back up again. Oh my aching legs.

beephead

H Desert Digger · Feb 11, 2017

Did you notice any increase in depth? Were any of your targets obliviosly deeper than normal to you?

HDD

bibelot · Feb 11, 2017

Excellent post Beeps ! What is the tone characteristic ? Like a silver or a Compadre ?

NCtoad · Feb 11, 2017

Thanks for posting this! Just what I was wanting to see. Looks like a great little detector.

beephead · Feb 11, 2017

H Desert Digger said:
Did you notice any increase in depth? Were any of your targets obliviosly deeper than normal to you?

HDD

The Mojave is a lot deeper than the Compadre and is super sensitive to small targets. It loves gold!

bibelot said:
Excellent post Beeps ! What is the tone characteristic ? Like a silver or a Compadre ?

Thanks! The audio tone is like the Compadre except it has some audio tone modulation to let you know how deep or shallow a target is.

NCtoad said:
Thanks for posting this! Just what I was wanting to see. Looks like a great little detector.

It's a winner! I love how smooth and quiet it runs.

beephead

bibelot · Feb 11, 2017

beephead said:
The Mojave is a lot deeper than the Compadre and is super sensitive to small targets. It loves gold!

Thanks! The audio tone is like the Compadre except it has some audio tone modulation to let you know how deep or slow a target is.

It's a winner! I love how smooth and quiet it runs.

beephead

Thanks

relichead · Feb 11, 2017

beephead said:
I thought that I would tryout my new detector today see how it would do. Since it should excel as a jewelry detector I headed out to a nearby park. There's about a 50 yard section of sidewalk that I've detected along the edge of several times, so this should be a good test for the Mojave. I set the discrimination just high enough to discriminate out a nail and was able to run the sensitive to its fullest without any chatter whatsoever. That's amazing because this park is loaded with EMI.

My first target's audio was kind of broken sounding, but I wanted to see what were there. I dug down and popped a clad dime. I scanned the hole again and got a good audio signal and popped a junker ring that was just a few inches way from where I received the clad dime. This dog can hunt!

I worked the whole 50 yard sidewalk section on both sides and found several pieces of jewelry and to my surprise numerous clad coins that I somehow missed before. Also I found 9 nickels. This detector loves low conductors and small targets.

After finished up detecting along the sidewalk I left went to a couple of permissions that I've detected before. I managed to find 2 Rosie dimes, 3 Wheat Pennies and a War Nickel. The 2 Rosie dimes came out of the same hole. I popped the first silver dime, I covered up the hole, but check it again with the detector and got another good audio signal, so I dug again and found the second silver dime.

I really like this detector a lot and it's going to get a lot of use. It's way better than the Silver µMax and Compadre combined.

beephead

You seem to get silver every time out!! good for you

zach66604 · Feb 11, 2017

I wouldnt mind trying that machine out.

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Ricki7 · Feb 11, 2017

Sucks up the silver like a vacuum , Congrats. HH

pigEye · Feb 11, 2017

Awesome!

I've got one coming from Bart when he gets them in.

central joe · Feb 11, 2017

If you guys don't stop this you are going to force me to get one. joe

H Desert Digger · Feb 12, 2017

I've been looking at different pictures of the new Mohave and I have decided I would like to have the cable on the coil painted black. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :roll:

HDD

highball · Feb 12, 2017

Congratulations on the Silver. Tracking shows mine arriving on Tuesday

5 mile · Feb 12, 2017

Congrats on your new detector and finds! Can I borrow your Nokta Relic now?
15 hrs on a 9V, is that about normal?

5

beephead · Feb 12, 2017

relichead said:
You seem to get silver every time out!! good for you

Thanks! I've been lucky to find some good places to detect.

zach66604 said:
I wouldnt mind trying that machine out.

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You won't be disappointed.

Ricki7 said:
Sucks up the silver like a vacuum , Congrats. HH

That little puppy can hunt!

pigEye said:
Awesome!

I've got one coming from Bart when he gets them in.

Thanks!

central joe said:
If you guys don't stop this you are going to force me to get one. joe

I know were you can get one FAST.

H Desert Digger said:
I've been looking at different pictures of the new Mohave and I have decided I would like to have the cable on the coil painted black. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

HDD

That would look cool.

highball said:
Congratulations on the Silver. Tracking shows mine arriving on Tuesday

Oh you're going to be a happy camper when it arrives.

5 mile said:
Congrats on your new detector and finds! Can I borrow your Nokta Relic now?
15 hrs on a 9V, is that about normal?

5

Thanks! I'll be needing my Relic for deeper finds. I know that Tesoro detectors get long run times on a single 9 volt battery. I use rechargeable batteries and I don't keep up with run time now because I always keep them topped up and ready to go.

beephead

robren · Feb 12, 2017

Always amazing how you can come up with more finds after you've gone over an area multiple times. Always enjoy seeing the bucket top of new finds!
Congrats on the new rig. Looks like the arsenal is expanding.
GL&HH

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