Tesoro Tejon
Street Price $700 - Coin, relic
Number of Reviews: 25
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Great machine all-around
Chris in Pennsylvania, USA -If this machine had tone ID (different tones depending on conductivity or ferrous content), I'd give it a perfect 5. So I gave it a 4. It's an absolutely great machine. I found a wheat cent at a measured 11 1/2 inches (with the stock coil) and am pretty sure the Tejon will detect even deeper coins. The wheatie was next to iron, no less. The machine picked up the coin over the iron. A lot of other machines would have just nulled out the whole thing.
Other Tejon users have told me they have found coins at 15 inches, and I believe it. The key is to ground balance it correctly. People who claim it loses depth are not balancing it properly. I hunt in some heavily mineralized soil, and this machine does quite well. If I had it to do over, I'd still buy the Tejon.
The only complaint I can think of is the 2 disc knobs are not calibrated identically on mine. For example, "Tab" on Disc 1 is actually a higher disc level than "Tab" on Disc 2. That is just my particular machine, though. Yours may be OK.
The only other "problem" is that the machine is so sensitive even to the tiniest bits of metal that you might as well forget all-metal mode when you're hunting a heavy trash area. You will get signals everywhere. I have dug some of these and found they're not the ground minerals, they're tiny, tiny pieces of wire, nail heads, foil specks, etc... some no more than 3 mm long. You could probably find a needle in a haystack with this detector. (The Tejon would be a great nugget machine.)
Jun 20, 2006
13 people found this review helpful.
problems with minerals, iron and auto-tune..
Larry D Gressel in Sweet Home, Oregon -
Well, I live in the PAC NW, USA, and in this country the Tejon is no better than most detectors.
I put my Fisher cz-70, Compass Scanner R&C, Minelab Sovereign Elite, White's Coinscanner di Pro, and my Tesoro Tejon in the van and went out to a lake to test one against the other.
The Tejon had some real bad problems discriminating steel and rusty iron (larger than a pencil). It also has too slow of an auto-tune to deal with highly mineralized soil. Even if I turned the sensitivity down to zero it has these two problems.
Of all these detectors the Compass Scanner Relic and coin did the best in depth AND in this extreme mineralization. This ground was very bad, and it read a #2 on the Fisher scale of 1-10, #10 being the best soil, and #1 being the worst.
In the air, the Tejon actually read 16 inches on a nickel, but in the ground, it detected about 6 inches, all-metal, or discriminate. In all-metal, it made so much noise and drifted so much, that I had to put it away for the duration of my tests. Again, out of all the detectors, the Compass did the best.
The Compass Scanner R&C (same as a Compass GoldScanner Pro) did the very best of all, no matter which mode I was in. The Compass also found more things (especially smaller-than coin-size objects) than did any of the other machines. On the Sovereign, I was using an Excellerator 12.5" coil, because it goes deeper than the stock 10 inch coil.
The Tejon fares a bit better in more neutral soil, but who needs something that only works better in moderate to gentle soil? Well, the answer is simple, it is lightweight, and someone who has poor health might like it, and maybe they live somewhere in the Eastern US or in Europe with gentle soil. But, of course they could Buy a Fisher ID Excel for $479 instead, and it would work better in all categories, and it weighs even less than the Tejon.
Right now, I would gladly trade the Tejon for a good Fisher Excel.
By the way, I was a detector repairman for a multi-brand firm for 10 years back in the 80's.
I hope this helps.
Mar 16, 2006
27 people found this review helpful.
Tejon THE BEST
randy329 in Anytown, AT 55555 -I have tried them all, DFX,MXT,CZ5,EXII,Quattro,DMCB2,xlpro,and many more the TEJON is the best bar none!
I have found more with the TEJON in the first month than I have in the last two years with all the others
It is simple and deep and can find the good items in heavy iron and trash
Jan 21, 2006
16 people found this review helpful.
Great coinshooter for trashy sites
GT in Florida -For me, the Tejon is a great detector for coin shooting trashy modern urban/suburban parks, ball fields, schools, etc. Time constraints limit my detecting to these types of sites and I have three criteria for successful coin shooting at these sites:
1. Trash separation--the Tejon responds very quickly and its 2" receive coil on the stock coil allows excellent target separation (the 5.75" coil is even better).
2. Depth---my unstable, low mineral soil results in targets sinking quickly so I've got to be able to go deep. The ID detectors I've used tend to lose accuracy (bouncing numbers/icons/tones) between 6" and 8". The discrim circuitry on the Tejon is useful out to at least 11" at my sites.
3. Square tab/nickel IDing---By far, the most important criterion for me. The sites I detect are absolutely loaded with square tabs and the ID machines I've used have not been good at all at telling the difference. With the Tejon's dual discrim feature, I can set discrim #1 to "crackle" on a nickel but hit solidly on a square tab (a touchy setting but doable); and set discrim #2 to "crackle" on a zinc but hit hard on a high coin. I now dig very few square tabs (bent ones still can fool), many nickels, and my good target-to-trash ratio is at an all-time high. The dual discrim feature also allows you to cherry pick a given target (e.g., only nickels) by setting the two discrims to "just accept"/"just reject."
I have several detectors for different purposes but the Tejon is the best I've tried for the combination of trash separation and deep, accurate ID's (although it can be fooled by, for example, rusted washers, clipped zincs, bent tabs, etc.). Until I find something better, the Tejon's my main coin shooting detector.
Nov 04, 2005
26 people found this review helpful.
Tejon for UK users
Gary UK in United Kingdom -Fantastic machine for Roman sites,chatters on iron but has the ability to pull small coins from next to nails.
Have found it to work very well in high mineralisation and under power lines. At the moment I am testing the 12x10 widescan coil which is suprisingly very sensitive to small targets.
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Sep 12, 2005
20 people found this review helpful.
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Bruce in Slidell LA -great detector very deep.
Feb 07, 2005
8 people found this review helpful.
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Bob Woods in VA USA -this is the best detector made for relic hunting I have been doing it for 22 years and have never had a detector this deep and sensetive not even the nauti.
Feb 04, 2005
13 people found this review helpful.