Nad
Senior Member
I have been reading up on the Discovery Treasure Barron metal detectors and wanted to compare depths with my old VAQUERO. Went to my very dry garden and buried a silver dime at 6 inches exactly.Almost did not find the coin??????.Got the watering can out and wet down the area..Silver dime pops up at 7.5 inches,,,No headphones, good signal...Off center might be "iffy"..Well, let's try a clad dime,....good signal at 6 inches buried in dry soil..Watered the area, and we get a flying 7.5 or better inches.. Took a seated Liberty dime wiggled it around in air and am at the 7.5 to eight inch mark..About the same laying on ground surface. Everyone mentions a nickel at nine inches in ground..I wiggled a nickel in front of the coil and got nine inches solid, going to ten inches ,and got a " so so" signal from speaker......Sold the Black Widow phones I had, due to a case of near strangulation when they hung up in the woods. I think that with phones, the outer limits would come in better,My hearing is poor...,.. For reference. Vaquero, 8 by 9 concentric stock coil. setting threshold in blue,sensitivity at 9, discrimination at just a hair above iron....I screwed up...Have a Cibola, could have done a comparison..How does your Tejon stack up against the "Mighty V"?..Back in a couple of days with the Cibola tests, Thanks for stopping by, and I hope this post is of some help, cordially Nad