Another Tesoro & Iron, What Iron?

[stupot]

There's one thing I prefer detecting on more than anything else, its detecting in iron. I mean - heavy thick & large. I don't really do beaches for modern losses, preferring old places that are under tidal stress!

I recently picked up a Laser Trident, The US equivalent would be the Tesoro Cibola, European models were sold with a different flavour. I also was lucky to find a 10x5 Detech coil - coils are really hard to find in England.

Straight down to the worst (but best) place I can think of to try it out. I picked an area that had as little make on besides the debris and junk. This gives you a chance, so the rest is up to you and the detector. If anything, the coil was a little long for this, but going very slowly and from all angles, it worked very well. Moving as much of the junk and blocks out of the way helped immensely.

Nothing fancy came out but often I think its how you find it rather than what it is. Eventually, you'll strike a good target, its always worth the effort. Set the detector the same as the Rapier (SS) sens was plenty on 4 and disc seems to be enough on 3. Good number of coins from the Victorian era until the 1960's trickled out, including a V Nickel... A really crusty coin I guessed as silver was carefully opened to see a paper thin young Victoria shilling from 1859. The reverse impressions easily seen. Another bit of scrap for the bag, it all adds up.

I normally hunt here with the Manticore and M8 coil, that's a very difficult combination to beat as I've put in a huge amount of hours with that unit in the last couple of years. So old Tesoro, well done, and much fun was had!

[dogodog]

Good GOD man, I thought I hunted in some iron patches!!! But if your going to hunt a spot like that, Tesoros are the machine you wanna run. Their ability to disc out iron is pretty magical. I still do pretty well with the one knob Compadre but mostly I use the Silver u-max. Maybe you should start collecting the iron for a year and see how much scrap money you haul in 🤣 Nice job with the finds, Well done!!!