rfaatalrashid
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Took my Tejon "Honey Badger" out today. She was looking good wearing her 10x5 widescan. Went to an older elementary school playground / community soccer field that has produced the usual clad before with my old Cibola and 5.75 concentric.
Was digging everything above foil, as it's pretty clean. Still learning all the bazillion tonal nuances of the Tejon, but loving it all the same.! It's like the Cibola, but on designer steroids. GB and power balancing are a snap, as well. Also starting to see the benefit of the VCO tone too. Not only increases in volume proportionate to depth or size, but tonal pitch as well. Also the widescan is like a snowplow compared to the concentric, which is like a snow shovel lol. Found the usual clad, aluminum pieces, bullet casings, etc. After a couple hours had to pack up to go. Before walking back, I set it to cherry pick everything above tabs.! A hail Mary endeavor with a concentric, but more coverage with the widescan. Kinda scanned with it sideways, off to the side, on the sides of the path on the way to the car. Decided to only probe the signals that screamed in VCO like they were clean surface targets. It was kinda like fishing, but trolling a cherry picker behind you lol.! This technique yielded more keeper finds in 20 minutes than I got the whole 2 hours, including a silver earring. Thinking bout taking her back out tmrw to scan all the "edges" - trails, playground, parking, etc. Might even drop her down to nickels, as it's pretty clean of pull tabs. Anyway, point is - my new gig is widescan trolling with a Tejon. Put it in vco, with threshold and sensitivity tweaked. Locate near surface targets that scream dig, and just probe for em. Yields good quick recoveries, and covers ground like a snowplow lol. My new favorite technique.
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Was digging everything above foil, as it's pretty clean. Still learning all the bazillion tonal nuances of the Tejon, but loving it all the same.! It's like the Cibola, but on designer steroids. GB and power balancing are a snap, as well. Also starting to see the benefit of the VCO tone too. Not only increases in volume proportionate to depth or size, but tonal pitch as well. Also the widescan is like a snowplow compared to the concentric, which is like a snow shovel lol. Found the usual clad, aluminum pieces, bullet casings, etc. After a couple hours had to pack up to go. Before walking back, I set it to cherry pick everything above tabs.! A hail Mary endeavor with a concentric, but more coverage with the widescan. Kinda scanned with it sideways, off to the side, on the sides of the path on the way to the car. Decided to only probe the signals that screamed in VCO like they were clean surface targets. It was kinda like fishing, but trolling a cherry picker behind you lol.! This technique yielded more keeper finds in 20 minutes than I got the whole 2 hours, including a silver earring. Thinking bout taking her back out tmrw to scan all the "edges" - trails, playground, parking, etc. Might even drop her down to nickels, as it's pretty clean of pull tabs. Anyway, point is - my new gig is widescan trolling with a Tejon. Put it in vco, with threshold and sensitivity tweaked. Locate near surface targets that scream dig, and just probe for em. Yields good quick recoveries, and covers ground like a snowplow lol. My new favorite technique.
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