Tesoro Compadre Metal Detector
- Designed for All Ages
- Lifetime Warranty – for real!
- Silent Search All Metal and Discriminate Modes
- Quality built American Made metal detector!
- 3-Piece Knockdown Pole
The Tesoro Compadre Metal Detector was designed with the idea that less is more. This modest metal detector 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 Tesoro Compadre metal detector 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.
List Price: $ 189.00
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Garrett Sea Hunter II Metal Detector
- Microprocessor Operation System
- Advanced Pulse Discrimination capability
- Three (3) piece stem design with diving attachments
The Garret Sea Hunter Mark II metal detector can be used underwater with a short stem or on the beach with its long stem configuration. Its electronic housing may be mounted above, below or under the cuff in either short or long stem configuration. It may also be carried in the belt pouch provided.Dredge up your own piece of history and take up a hobby that could very well pay for itself with a few good finds: metal detecting. The Garrett Sea Hunter II metal detector is submergible, allowing the user to take the search for treasure into the briny deep, where shipwrecks and sunken treasures await discovery. The detector’s design allows for four different stem configurations: long stem with the ScubaMate box attached at the hip, long stem with the ScubaMate attached under cuff, long stem with the ScubaMate attached at top, or short stem configuration intended for convenience while diving. The versatile ScubaMate box includes a jack for the included headphones (submergible up to 200 feet) and knobs for adjusting the device’s sensitive trash elimination, threshold, and power level settings. Included with the detector are various straps for attaching the ScubaMate to a wetsuit, an instructional video, treasure wipes, and a Garrett baseball cap. –Benjamin Reese
List Price: $ 749.95
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A truly fantastic machine.,
Very rarely am I a ‘brand loyal’ kind of guy, but I’m rapidly becoming that with Tesoro. In addition to my other machines, I now own 2 Compadres and will probably branch out into a couple other models in the Tesoro product line.
Lets look at both the practical and functional advantages that the Tesoro Compadre enjoys over other machines.
Practical Advantage #1: Lifetime Warranty.
This just cannot be overstated and really speaks to the quality levels that Tesoro is putting out. A manufacturer who is sincere about making a high quality product will stand behind that product. If you buy a Tesoro machine and 20 years later it breaks, send it back and they fix it, no charge to you. There isn’t any other MD manufacturer who offers a warranty service that is in this same universe. Most all of them pad their bottom lines with profits from repair services. Tesoro is smart enough to realize that the consumer goodwill generated by a no BS lifetime warranty sells more detectors than whatever margin they might make on scalping consumers for repairs on an unreliable product.
Practical Advantage #2: Cost
Not much to say here. As of today, $151 shipped is the ‘universally lowest online price’ you’re going to find on a new Compadre. You are getting a high-performance, serious machine for toy metal detector price levels. Why did I buy a second Compadre when the first has a lifetime warranty? Quite simple. I’ve seen this sort of thing before with other products, where very high quality is offered for a ridiculously low price. In time, prices will rise- sometimes, drastically so- and I wanted to lock in a spare of my beloved Compadre before this happened.
Practical Advantage #3: Entry Level Issues
Metal Detecting is one of those hobbies that draws a lot of people in with big dreams, until they actually get a MD, do it for a while and realize that you don’t find the ‘good stuff’ all that often. In the Compadre, you get a machine that does whatever a metal detector can be expected to do for a price that does not break the bank, in the event you try it out for a while and decide it isn’t for you. Unlike other machines where the low quality and low performance of the gear itself might cause disappointments for the beginner, if you buy a Compadre and decide metal detecting isn’t your bag, you can make that decision confident that it isn’t a question of having the right equipment. Further, while these are dirt-cheap to begin with, the hold resale value very, very well. List a lightly used Compadre on craigslist for a small bit of a discount off the new price, you’ll sell it.
Lets look at some functional advantages.
Functional Advantage #1: Performance.
There’s another review on this page that talks about how the machine ‘found lots of trash’ and lamented about it being ‘barely able’ to pick up a gold chain buried a foot beneath the dirt. Clearly, that was written by someone who was very, very new to the hobby. Yes, you’re going to find trash when you metal detect, irrespective of what machine you use. In time, you will learn how to read your signals and set your discrimination accordingly. On the issue of the gold chain buried a foot down, though, that’s really the big tell the person was new to this. Ya see, a metal detector doesn’t “read” a gold chain as a larger piece of gold. It reads it one link at a time. There are machines costing SIGNIFICANTLY more than the Compadre that wouldn’t stand a chance on a gold chain a foot deep. This is one area where the Tesoro is a super high performer, regardless of price. Small gold. There’s a lot of discussion about why this is- general consensus seems to be most of it has to do with the unusually high frequency the Compadre utilizes being favorable for gold- but let there be no doubt. The Compadre is a small gold killer. I own a few MD’s and have owned more over the years. If I were entering a MD Contest with the objective being a small gold ring, I would leave behind other machines costing $700, 800, 900 and grab my trusty $160 Compadre. Seriously. They are just *that good* on small gold.
Functional Advantage #2: Light weight.
In metal detecting, when you’re carrying and swinging the darn thing all day, you want light-light-light. The Compadre is an absolute gem in this regard- light as a feather and beautifully balanced. It truly feels like an extension of your arm.
Functional Advantage #3: Simplicity, or, The KISS Theory
This is one that loses a few guys, since lets be honest. DRO screens are *so cool* and all Star Trekky. It’s almost like an irrational hubris, similar to “Gear Superiority Syndrome” as seen in golf, the shooting sports, or anything else where people like to show how serious they are about the hobby by proxy of paying a lot for their gear.
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|First Metal Detector,
This is my first metal detector, and I chose this model based on excellent reviews on other sites and the ease of use with this detector. I love how lightweight it is (i’m a short, petite girl), so you can just grab and go. I found a very old pair of pliers in the yard on my first day out with it. It beeps a lot in our yard, so I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to best use it and decipher the signals. Overall I’m quite happy with it. I love it’s lightweight and sleek design, and the price can’t be beat for something this cool.
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|Ok for the money but you can do much better….,
I got this metal detector about a month ago and tried it a couple of times. You can find alot of trash with it. I used at the beach and the only thing I found was a bunch of cans. I buried a gold chain about 12” deep and yes it found it but the signal wasn’t strong. Another thing was that the closer to the water I was getting the more beeps I was getting but as I was digging nothing was coming out….weird! I shopped around for 2 months before I got this metal detector and I don’t think was the right choice.
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