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May 17th, 2009 | 
Author: Tesoro Metal Detector Reviews And Specifications On Vaquero, Cibola and Compadre
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Tesoro Vaquero
The main part of the Vaquero’s versatility is its three and three-quarters manually adjusted ground balance. This will give the detectorist the power to set up his machine to best suit the mineralization conditions that he is working in and his personal treasure hunting style. The Vaquero adds an ED180 discrimination feature to filter the trash from the treasure and a Push Button Pinpoint that makes digging up the goodies that much easier. The discriminate knob is also used to switch into a threshold-based All Metal Mode.
MicroMAX Design
VLF 14 kHz Frequency
One Drop-in 9V Battery
Variable Threshold
3 3/4 Turn External Ground Balance
Ultra-lightweight Design
9×8 Monolithic Coil
3-Piece Knockdown Pole
Lifetime Warranty
“I just fell in love with this detector and I own a garrett GTAX 550, garrett ace 250, and a whites dfx but the vaquero destroyed them all 
I went back to my old detecting spots like the park and beach hear in avila beach,CA and got results. I found a mens superbowl(raiders) ring at 15″ inches deep with a clear noise. To make the story short I did returned the ring and I got a reward of 200 dollars for it because I believe I did the right decision. Besides the ring had the name of the original owner. This detector is so good it will want to make you scream YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAW!”
“I have used all of the high end TID detectors and wanted a non TID detector for relic hunting, after a lot of research I picked the Tesoro Vaquero.
The Vaquero weighs 2.2 lbs, it is like a walking stick with a search coil on the end of it, I can swing it all day with one arm and not get tired, it has one of the best discriminator that I have ever used and it is as deep as any detector on the market today, it runs off of 1 9-volt battery, and has a manual ground balance. I can turn it on and be hunting in less than one minute, and I don’t have to memorize a bunch of menues and sub menues, or study DVD’s to learn how to program it,the Vaquero has a very short learning curve, about one hour and you are good to go.”
Tesoro Cibola
The Cibola’s main search mode is an ED 180 Silent Search discriminate. A threshold-based All Metal is accessed by the Push Button Pinpoint mode. The ease of use for the Cibola makes it the perfect detector for both the metal detecting novice as well as the treasure hunter that has been around for a while.
Operating Frequency 14.3 kHz, 14.5 kHz, 14.7 kHz
Searchcoil Type Monolithic (Carbon Fiber)
Searchcoil Size 9 x 8
Cable Length Approx. 3′
Audio Frequency Approx. 293 Hz or VCO
Audio Output 1 ½” speaker and headphone jack
Headphone Compatibility ¼” stereo plug
Weight (may vary slightly) 2.2 lbs
Battery Requirement One 9 Volt DC (alkaline)
Battery Life (typical) 10 to 20 hours
Operating Modes Pinpoint All Metal
Silent Search Discriminate
“I am an intermediate level coin/ treasure hunter, and have spent about a week testing the Cibola. It is finding alot of coins that another detector I have had missed,, (and it aint no slouch),, The target seperation, and depth are super in the dry central Texas soil. I am positive the CIBOLA will pay for itself in a very short time. RUN to your nearest Tesoro dealer and get you one!!”
“I bought my like new Cibola last summer at a garage sale. The woman who sold it to me was really bitter at her ex husband who had left her for a much younger woman. She said he had used the detector one time and since then it had gathered dust in the garage and he didn’t take it when he moved out. You don’t care about this and I really didn’t either, but I let the woman vent and wound up getting this amazing detector (and accessories including a bag, digger, pouch and apron) for $50!
I’ve been detecting for a little over 3 years now, and it’s a rare week when I don’t get in at least 10 hours. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I feel like I’m getting pretty good at this.
When I bought my Cibola, my original intention was to use it a couple times to check it out and then sell it for a nice profit. New Cibolas go for over $300 so I knew I’d come out well. At the time I bought this I had 3 other detectors (and had sold off 2 others) and I couldn’t imagine using a detector without a visual ID.
But a funny thing happened the first time I used the Cibola. I found some really good stuff and was having some major fun. Without a screen to look at I discovered sounds and the more I use the Cibola the more I learn about its nuances. I’ve gotten to where before I dig (or don’t dig) I can call a pulltab of either type as well as a bottle cap or screw cap. With the Cibola, coins hit hard and make an unmistakable sound. It’s also a ring magnet – I’ve found 9 rings with it in about a year compared to 4 that I had found in the two years before with other detectors.
I’ve used Garrett, Minelab, and White’s as main detectors. I’ve found good stuff with them and they all had their good points, but since I invariably kept going to the Cibola and I’m not a wealthy person I went ahead and sold my other units a couple months ago and bought a small coil for my Cibola. I haven’t regretted my decision.
The Cibola is the lightest detector I’ve ever used. On those occasions when I’m able to get out for a full 8-10 hour day with my best buddy and hunting partner the lightness and ease of use is really appreciated. My buddy uses a Garrett GTI 2500 which is Garrett’s top of the line and a very good machine with tons of bells and whistles. Before I got the Cibola I considered getting one but at almost a thousand dollars the cost was prohibitive. He always found significantly more than I did until I got the Cibola and since then I’m actually slightly ahead of him!
The Cibola has the best trash separation and pinpointing of any detector I’ve ever used. I have the 8X9 stock coil and recently added the little 5.75 concentric coil which is not as deep as the stock but is absolutely amazing in trashy areas and tot lots.
As I’ve gotten more experienced with this unit, I’ve become more proficient at running the unit “hot” in older areas I detect with the sensitivity turned up to 10 or higher and the threshold turned way up too. This gives me a lot more chatter, but it also seriously increases the depth of this unit. If the area is too trashy or the ground too mineralized, I still have to turn it down. But in moderate to lightly trashy areas I crank it up. Doing it this way last weekend I made my deepest find yet. With the sensitivity just past 10 and the threshold most of the way up I got a light but repeatable signal that wouldn’t discriminate out. I supertuned the Cibola (turned the sensitivity and threshold all the way up) and the signal got stronger. As I kept digging deeper I kept prodding with my pinpointer and not getting any signal but when I waved my detector over the hole the signal stayed strong. When I got to about 9 inches I pushed down into the soft ground with the pinpointer and finally got a vibration. As I carefully kept digging I pulled out a 1928 Mercury dime at a measured and unexaggerated 10 inches! Although I got a quarter before with my Xterra at 10 inches, the Cibola is the only machine that has gotten me deeper than 8 inches on any coin smaller than a quarter. Admittedly, we had several inches of rain the week before so I’m sure that helped the Cibola get deeper. But a dime at 10 inches is impressive and says a whole lot about the surpringly deep power of this machine.
I would highly recommend this machine to anyone – newbie or experienced. They call detectors like this without an ID display “beep and dig” but that’s really a misnomer. This machine should be called a “beep and dig or don’t dig” machine because once you learn what this machine is telling you, you won’t be digging much trash unless you want to remove junk that is possibly masking good targets.
One more thing I love about this machine. I like to use a fast sweep speed and this machine handles that perfectly without missing anything. It has lightning fast recovery time.
I try to never say never, but short of another garage sale bargain for resale, I don’t see myself buying another detector for a long long time.”
Tesoro Compadre
The Tesoro Compadre was designed with the idea that less is more. This modest machine can do a lot of the same things that its bigger brothers can do. It works great for coin hunting, competition hunting and relic hunting, but it does it without any excess knobs. Switch on the detector and you’re working in a silent search, motion all metal mode. The farther you turn the knob, the more discrimination you can bring to bear on those trashy sites. The Compadre now comes standard with a 5.75″ round concentric coil. The depth is equivalent to the original 7″ concentric, plus the new coil reduces the likelihood of target masking in extremely trashy ground. It also gives you the ability to get into and around natural obstacles like bushes, fences, and playground equipment.
The Compadre has it all. One knob simplicity for the beginner and high gain circuitry and the famous Tesoro ED-180 discrimination for the advanced user. If one detector can do all of this, maybe less is more.
Operating Frequency 12 kHz
Searchcoil Type Round concentric, hardwired
Searchcoil Size 5.75″
Cable Length Approx. 3′
Audio Frequency Approx. 630 Hz
Audio Output 1 ½” speaker and headphone jack
Headphone Compatibility ¼” stereo plug
Weight (may vary slightly) 2.2 lbs
Battery Requirement One 9 Volt DC (alkaline)
Battery Life (typical) 10 to 20 hours
Operating Modes Silent Search Discriminate
“This has got to be the easiest and best metal detector to use. I bought this for the wife and 7 year old but will spend a lot more time with it myself. Plenty deep enough for most situations. I’ve used it in a trash infested park and it did great! Its deepest find so far…a 50 cent sized piece of aluminum 8 inches deep in my neighbors garden. Not bad tesoro.”
“Even after nearly 35 years of metal detecting, I still find myself looking back on the “good old days” when simplicity and fun was the name of the game in metal detecting. The Tesoro Compadre just may be Tesoro’s best kept secret when it comes to dollar value performance, and remains one of my first choices in a “grab-and-go” machine when I just want to go out to the local park or school to do a little coinshooting. Much like the simple detectors I remember from the 1960s, the Compadre is pure enjoyment to use, and even with its single knob design, leaves little to be desired for many uses in comparison to units costing several hundred dollars and more. The newer 5.75 inch coil version combines excellent target separation with good depth of detection, and weight and balance are as good as they get, topped off by Tesoro’s great lifetime warranty. Hard to beat for the money”
Tesoro Detectors – Gold
Lobo SuperTRAQ
The Lobo SuperTRAQ is the pinnacle of electronic gold prospecting technology. No other gold metal detector gives you the fast,accurate and reliable ground tracking in normal and severe soils like the Lobo SuperTRAQ. Tesoro’s famous discrimination circuitry lets you relic and coin hunt too.
The Lobo SuperTRAQ is simply one of the finest gold nugget metal detectors you can buy. Tesoro’s SuperTRAQ Computerized Ground Tracking System solves the detectorist’s greatest problem-ground balancing. No matter where you hunt, the Lobo SuperTRAQ will quickly self-adjust to eliminate minerals letting you find more gold with ease. Discrimination circuitry with instant pinpointing at your fingertips takes the awesome power of the Lobo SuperTRAQ into every type of metal detecting you do.
Operating Frequency 17.8 kHz
Searchcoil Type Elliptical, widescan
Searchcoil Size 10″ elliptical (length)
Cable Length Approx. 8′
Audio Frequency Approx. 330 Hz to 550 Hz
Audio Output 1 ½” speaker and headphone jack
Headphone Compatibility ¼” stereo plug
Weight (may vary slightly) 3.5 lbs
Battery Requirement Eight AA cells (alkaline)
Battery Life (typical) 20 to 30 hours
Operating Modes All Metal (motion required)
Silent Search Discriminate
All Metal Tuning Mode Fast Auto Tune
Pinpoint Mode No-Motion All Metal (no Auto Tune)
“I took my LST down the beach for the first time and the LST works fantastic in the dry sand. I was in all metal mode and pulled up some trash from good depths so I was happy with it’s performance, no goodies though 
However, when I went down on the wet sand I did have trouble getting the ground balance to settle, so I stuck to the dry sand.
Another time I did some coin hunting around the in-law’s farm and found it a very trashy site so I set the discrimination on. How I set my discrimation is to bury a 5 cent peice (Australia) a couple inches, and then adjust the discrimination to just accept the 5c coin. It should then reject most small iron and still pick-up all decimal and pre-decimal coins. On and off over a couple days I pulled out about 60 decimal and 2 pre-decimal coins……but we won’t talk about beer tops, my father-in-law didn’t mind a beer or three.
I must comment again on this detector having it’s own “language”. Now I’ve got some hours use under my belt, a lot of the time I can guess correctly what I’m going to dig up based on the sound. Pinpointing is excellent once you have a few hours practice.”
“I won’t go into a lot of detail here. Just want to point out that to this day, the Lobo ST remains one of the best offerings available from Tesoro.
There are detectors that will outperform it in some categories but as an all around machine the LST gets it done. Some say it has a language that will speak to you when you learn it but I never did “learn it” I can’t hear anything other than a beep on non-ferrous targets.One big plus I did find about the audio is that it is very distinctive on big heavy iron. If you relic hunt or hunt old logging camps, ID’ing large iron like axe heads ect is a snap with the LST. I like digging that kind of stuff and can tell it with a high degree of accuracy.”
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