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<blockquote data-quote="Crow Terminator" data-source="post: 322657" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>Thanks guys!! It sure is fun getting out there and it's something the whole family can get into. I should know...I somehow have got my parents into it, got my cousin and uncle into it, and my wife is into it, and not my inlaws are too. </p><p></p><p>Someone asked about the Tesoro Tejon. Well...I've had 3 of 'em so I'll tell you what I think anyway. $485 is a high price for them BTW. Last one I bought was $325 but it was used, and still had a blank warrenty card though. </p><p></p><p>But for the nitty gritty on them. They come all different from one another. What I mean is, one will be hotter than the other and it may be colder than this one. Of the 3 I had, I got one that was just awful, and had one that was considered a "hot" one. The difference between my "cold" one and "hot" one was about 2 1/2" depth wise, set up exactly the same. Might not sound like much but believe me, it is. Make no mistake about it, they will find stuff but I don't believe they are the best you could have got for the $. I live in Southeast TN and our dirt varies quite a bit. But I've hunted with them in and around here, and in north GA quite a bit. For red clay and well, any kind of clay for that matter, they don't do well at all. They like sandy dirt the best for the best performance. You are looking at around 10-11 inches on civil war bullets in sandy dirt. I have a few sites I could take you to right now though with clay, that you wouldn't hear a bullet 5" in the ground no matter how the machine was set up. So they are a decent machine, but VERY hit and miss with where they work tolerable and where they work GREAT. You might be wondering why I had 3 of them if I didn't like them so well. Well..the first one I got when they first came out. That was the "cold" one. After a while I decided to try another one and that's when I got the good one. I hunted it for a year or so and traded it off for an ID machine. Decided later on if I found a cheap used one that I'd get it for a backup to my ID machine and I could tell right off it wasn't as hot as the previous one. </p><p></p><p>My uncle from Rome, GA has a Tejon and a Whites XLT. The XLT is an old machine...been around for years now. And he was hunting a site down there with his Tejon. Wasn't finding anything much but dug an iffy signal because of lack of signals he was getting and found a drop minie ball a few inches down. He went to his truck and brought out the XLT and went back over that little area and came up with over 20 more drops he'd missed. That red clay struck again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crow Terminator, post: 322657, member: 220"] Thanks guys!! It sure is fun getting out there and it's something the whole family can get into. I should know...I somehow have got my parents into it, got my cousin and uncle into it, and my wife is into it, and not my inlaws are too. Someone asked about the Tesoro Tejon. Well...I've had 3 of 'em so I'll tell you what I think anyway. $485 is a high price for them BTW. Last one I bought was $325 but it was used, and still had a blank warrenty card though. But for the nitty gritty on them. They come all different from one another. What I mean is, one will be hotter than the other and it may be colder than this one. Of the 3 I had, I got one that was just awful, and had one that was considered a "hot" one. The difference between my "cold" one and "hot" one was about 2 1/2" depth wise, set up exactly the same. Might not sound like much but believe me, it is. Make no mistake about it, they will find stuff but I don't believe they are the best you could have got for the $. I live in Southeast TN and our dirt varies quite a bit. But I've hunted with them in and around here, and in north GA quite a bit. For red clay and well, any kind of clay for that matter, they don't do well at all. They like sandy dirt the best for the best performance. You are looking at around 10-11 inches on civil war bullets in sandy dirt. I have a few sites I could take you to right now though with clay, that you wouldn't hear a bullet 5" in the ground no matter how the machine was set up. So they are a decent machine, but VERY hit and miss with where they work tolerable and where they work GREAT. You might be wondering why I had 3 of them if I didn't like them so well. Well..the first one I got when they first came out. That was the "cold" one. After a while I decided to try another one and that's when I got the good one. I hunted it for a year or so and traded it off for an ID machine. Decided later on if I found a cheap used one that I'd get it for a backup to my ID machine and I could tell right off it wasn't as hot as the previous one. My uncle from Rome, GA has a Tejon and a Whites XLT. The XLT is an old machine...been around for years now. And he was hunting a site down there with his Tejon. Wasn't finding anything much but dug an iffy signal because of lack of signals he was getting and found a drop minie ball a few inches down. He went to his truck and brought out the XLT and went back over that little area and came up with over 20 more drops he'd missed. That red clay struck again. [/QUOTE]
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