Tesoro DeLeon
Street Price $500 - Coin, relic
Number of Reviews: 13
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damon abernathy in cartersville ga 30120 -
This has to be one of the best out there. I have 26 years of experience and have tried most of the top of the line machines. This is a light weight unit that will not fail you. This tesero deleon has more depth then most of the more expensive machines. Also, a great competition machine and very easy to pinpoint with. Went heads up against my friend for fun, found 20 something coins to his 2 coins. Folks, I am not brand loyal, but if a unit performs, except the facts. And this unit does, plus you cannot beat the life time warranty. Do you wont to spend 800 or 1300 or 400 on something that will perform as good or better? As for me, I like to save money.THIS IS TO ME THE BETTER DETECTOR MADE IN THIS PRICE RANGE EASY. AND IT WILL BEAT MOST OF THE HIGHER DOLLAR ONES TO.
Apr 27, 2008
1 visitor found this review helpful.
Deleon/kept it simple
CHARLES GLISSON in BAINBRIDGE GA -I've had my Delon for about 4 month. I love this machine to the pont I bought another one. This is my first ID detector. With the different size coils you can use, it makes a very versatile detector. I use the 5.75 coil for trashy areas, 11 inch wide scan for deep coins and relics and the 3*18 clean sweep coil. The clean sweep I recommend to use all metal mode with the threshold to the min to the point of just hearing a hum. You will detect extreme depth of about 12 to 14 inches. To pinpoint with the clean sweep. Use the very front end or the heal to pinpoint. I was about to buy a whites for about a thousand dollars but after using my Delon, why waste the money..
Mar 24, 2008
9 people found this review helpful.
Best Bang for your buck
Phil Trujjillo in Rapid City' SD. USA -I have been using this dectetor since it came out a few years ago. I never even look at my older Bounty hunter anymore. I dont know what others have done to their De Leon's but the doors on mine have never come open once the batteries are installed right and closed well. This machine has found me lots if clad coins over the years if I were to guess in 350-400$ range not counting hundreds of penny's. I have pulled silver dimes at 8-9 inch range out of a park that is well hunted and still get mercury dimes from one area on a regular basis. To date I have dug 12 mecury dimes ranging from 1924 to mid 1940's one looks like it just fell out of a new roll, along with sevral silver quarters and halves. This year has been my best yet I have found 7 rings two of which were gold one with a diamond, all the rest were silver one in the same area of the park that keeps giving up the merc's at about 6" deep. I have yet to dig up any real old silver coins but living in the Black Hills of South Dakota I'm sure they too will be found. I am very happy with this unit. I would, and have recomended it to anyone who asks I guess I am very biased as it is a great machine.
Nov 13, 2007
8 people found this review helpful.
Tesoro De Leon Metal Detector
Daniel in Rochester, MN ,USA -
I bought this Tesoro De Leon detector use on the internet. I tried it for 2 days, no luck. This Tesoro De Leon doesn't seem to be silent discriminate detector(it chatters all the time)very similar to The Tesoro Cortes. Next there is no pinpoint button on this Tesoro De Leon. To pinpoint you move the toggle switch to "all-metal mode",and sweep back and forth. Next if a coin or object is near the surface of the ground or shallow depth, the Tesoro De Leon's ID reader shows arrows up,and says "Lift coil up". It does this because there is too much imformation for the De Leon to process, because the object/target is too close to the surface. Also the Tesoro De Leon has trouble breaking down with the metal poles. Also there is no backlight on the ID display,ONCE THE SUN GOES DOWN,PACK UP THIS DETECTOR,IT'S USELESS. Also the battery door compartments open up all the time,I HAD TO PUT A LARGE RUBBERBAND AROUND THE BATTERY DOORS,TO KEEP THEM CLOSED! I've gone back to using my old Tesoro Silver Sabre U-Max metal detector (audio tone amchine,with no target ID) comes with a pinpoint button,I've found more old coins & relics with my Silver Sabre than this Tesoro De Leon detector. P.S DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS TESORO DE LEON , BUY THE TESORO SILVER U-Max..
Aug 01, 2007
6 people found this review helpful.
Good machine, once you get used to it.
Mastereagle22 in Cape Girardeau, MO -I purchased a Tesoro Deleon and received it Monday of this past week. I assembled it turned it on and went out in my front yard and was digging coins out of the ground within minutes. I have used it for a week now and I have finally gotten the hang of the machine. The TID is very accurate once you understand what the numbers mean. I have found over 200 coins, one ring, a hot wheel car, copper pipe, several pieces of aluminum and some steel. My deepest target was a piece of steel band someone had folded over and over, it was roughly the size of a half-dollar and it was dug out of the ground at 12 inches, measured with a ruler. The deepest coin was a quarter pulled out between 8 and 9 inches. I have not found any silver coins yet but all of the above items came out of my yard! The machine is perfectly balanced. It has so far run over 18 hours on one set of batteries and I still have over half the battery strength left. Pinpointing with this detector is dead on and easy. Once you have the target in the center opening of the coil whatever you found will be right there. The machine finds iron targets without difficulty and I have so far dug half-a-dozen nails, a couple of washers, some screws and a couple of peices so rusty I couldn't tell what they were. I plan on taking this detector to a couple of civil war sites, and an old slave shack. I did go to the park for an hour and found a ton of pull-tabs and 12 pennies in an hour in an area about 20ft x 20ft. I purposely dug everything to get a feel for the detector. My only two complaints are: One no backlight, Two I don't like where the headphone jack is. Otherwise this machine is awesome!!! I have gone with a friend who has an XLT and found coins that his more expensive machine missed. Sorry for the long review but this detector is truly awesome and Tesoro has a lifetime warranty. I will buy another detector soon and I'm pretty sure it will be a Tesoro
Apr 29, 2007
12 people found this review helpful.
DeLeon with a useful target ID
Harry Prothero in Vancouver Washington -I have had this unit for several years and it is my grab and go machine. It's lightweight, balanced and no pin pointer is needed as the coin is always located in the small hole in the middle of the coil. The target ID can be useful and I attached the following as a guide after air tests: Small gold 20-30. Nickels 33-39. Ladys gold ring 35-41. Mens gold ring 41-54. lead bullet 58. Rifle brass 62-68. Zinc penny 66-78. Coins all 95. I started with a Tesoro Inca and I find that I often dig regardless of the Id when the sound is right. In parks, I often run with the discriminator level between foil and nickles. But when the tabs are real thick, I put the discriminator on zinc where unlike the clear tone of coins, tabs give a short chirp. Just Raise the coil 6-8 inches above the ground to Identify and eliminate aluminum cans that register at 95. I once found a clad quarter at 12 inches (it had oxidized the soil for a couple inches around). Only negatives: Not good at the beach and I hold the battery cover closed with a large rubber band. A great unit for the money though.
Apr 24, 2007
7 people found this review helpful.
Not bad
Joseph in Midwest -I have used the DeLeon for a few months now. The target ID seems to be pretty accurate. Like all TID detectors it can be fooled sometimes but most of the time is is right on when it comes to identifying coins. It will seperate the zinc pennies from the copper and silver coins. This is great if you do not want to dig the zincs. They usually display a mid 70's reading while all the other coins will hit at 95. I like the fact that it has a toggle switch to switch to all metal mode instead of a button like some of the other Tesoro models. Pinpointing with the DeLeon is right on. Probably the easiest to use of any detector I have tried. It seems to get good depth and the target Id seems to work decently even on deeper targets. The only thing I don't really care for is it seems to overload quite easily on shallow targets. It may only sound off with a small static or broken sound on a good target if it is real close to the surface and you have to lift your coil to get a better reading. Not really a problem if you are working slowly and listening. With the lifetime warranty and the great service that Tesoro is known for I definately plan to keep this one around.
Aug 29, 2006
16 people found this review helpful.
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