Part 2: Lovin the Tesoro

[Hightone]

Well, I got a chance to play around with my Bandido uMax I got off of Ebay. Quite impressive. I have a small coin garden I made to use my Ace 250 on. One dime was buried at 7" on it's side, and the 250 will not pick it up. The Bandido picks it up in Discrimination set at 6, and it comes in loud in the AM mode.

The Ace has been so stable (no chatter even at the highest sensitivity), but not the case with the Bandido. If I am close to the house, it picks up some frequency and the threshold tone chatters until I move out into the yard. It's touchy, but that must be why it's so deep. The Ace has the ID feature, but the Bandido definetly has the better ability to find metal and much deeper.

If the newer H.O.T. Vaquero and Cibola are even better, WOW.

......much better! Gotta tellyou Hightone, any metal detector that has the capability to go deeper, will chatter some, around electrical interference (EMI). That's because they are SO-O-O-O sensitive. But, you don't dig the chatter, you dig just the solid tones!

Originally Posted by Hightone

Well, I got a chance to play around with my Bandido uMax I got off of Ebay. Quite impressive. I have a small coin garden I made to use my Ace 250 on. One dime was buried at 7" on it's side, and the 250 will not pick it up. The Bandido picks it up in Discrimination set at 6, and it comes in loud in the AM mode.

The Ace has been so stable (no chatter even at the highest sensitivity), but not the case with the Bandido. If I am close to the house, it picks up some frequency and the threshold tone chatters until I move out into the yard. It's touchy, but that must be why it's so deep. The Ace has the ID feature, but the Bandido definetly has the better ability to find metal and much deeper.

If the newer H.O.T. Vaquero and Cibola are even better, WOW.