My friend has a Tesoro Silver he picked up new for $299.00 and I can go just as deep with a used $88.00 Bounty Hunter Tracker IV. I just don't think it will go anywhere as deep on coins. Not to say the Tesoro isn't a good detector. A used Fisher 1266x (around $350 - $400.00 on Ebay in good cond.) seems to hold it's resale value for around what it cost when it was new in 1991,92.
Maybe the $600-$1500.00 Minelab detectors and newer $400.00-$900.00 Fisher detectors will beat it as far as deep coins goes but I don't think the Tesoro Vaquero would even come close to this hotly sought after, and hard-to-find detector. Not even many of the 'gee wiz' computerized $800.00 units can come close to the 1266x's sensitivity on very deep coins. If you find one on Ebay, you better grab it up. It's like comparing a Buick to a Rolls Royce. The Fisher 1266x is in a league of it's own if it's working properly. I would like a 1270 too, but I just spent $600 on a new Garrett Sea Hunter. That could have been your 1265's weakness. This loose coil situation is the first and most likely thing that causes damage to a detector, just short of battery corrosion eating away at the internal parts. With it running it should not make noises just because it is shaken or slightly bumped against a rock either. A good shake (while it is running) will let us know if the windings are already detached, because it will sound off even if we can't detect it rattling around inside, and that looseness can create less depth easily. Normally if we shake a coil hard it will not loosen it, unless if it is already somewhat loose or if we shake it TOO hard. At 5.6 Khz it does a great job, even if its in-ground depth only reaches 4 or 5 inches. Other detectors just pass by those coins, and for no apparent reason either. I have no brand loyalty at all, and one of my favorite is made in China, it does the absolute best at finding old copper coins in rock parking lots/play fields. To me the Vaquero is the best Tesoro ever made, period. For me, I like the Vaquero, the Cibola, and the Silver uMax best of all the Tesoros. All metal detectors are not equal, even if the same model, the same mfg date, and the same price. I do sometimes like to help people with tech problems too.
Most of the time I like just being out there for all the reasons people can list, and the finds become secondary. And we like to share our info with other 'tector warriors like ourselves. Hey Greg, no apologies needed, we are on here for the same reason, simply because this is a great hobby.
The 12 demand almost as much money not because they are scarce, but because people like them and seldom sell them. Kell圜o has a Compass for $899.95 right now, and a Compass TR for $399.95, and a GSP nugget machine for $724.95. And almost like the old Compasses the 12 demand big money too. It appears that you had a 1265 that needed a bit of work and a Cibola that simply worked well, I'm convinced of it now.īTW, I can still get electronics parts for nearly every detector I want to repair. On our high black sand/salt ocean beaches they all lose about one inch more than in bad soil, unless they are a PI. For example, an F-75 gets 7" right outside my front living room, a 3030 gets 6", a Sovereign gets 6", a CZ gets 6 1/2", and my Compadre gets 5". But I have never seen more than a 3" difference in depth between a $300 vlf or multi-freq detector, and a $1500 vlf or multi-freq detector, UNLESS it was being used in a (low) Fe situation, or it needs serious repairs.
People buy Cibolas here on the west coast mostly because they are cheaper, and easy turn-on-and-go machines. Most Fishers and Whites do a tiny bit better in harsh soil than other brands though. The Tejon suffers tremendously in this dirt here but not in milder soil where it a DEPTH BEAST. Federal regulations regarding transmit power limit their power and depth anyway, so as to not interfere with pacemakers, x-ray clinics, police/fire radio transmissions, microwave power, and military communications, etc. There should in most cases be a slight (1/2") depth advantage for the 1265 and slightly more with the 1266 over the Cibola in average soil. From my personal experience and what you wrote here, I am firmly convinced that your old 1265x needed a tuneup. Well, df, I began this hobby back in 1971 where I designed my own detectors.
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