GoneBushForever

I'm guilty then. Have an Equinox 800 on order..........

What I really want is a dry land SDC in a light weight package at a lower cost, with accessory coils! Mate, you and everyone else. Can you imagine the SDC abilities in the Equinox form factor for a price point of $1999.00! I predict that would be the worlds best selling gold specific detector

Steve, Thank you for the detailed reply. I guess reading endless posts about the GM1000 and not much about the SDC I started to convince myself that maybe the SDC was past its use by date. The SDC is my most used detector. Many years of hunting the gold fields has taught me that there is very little known gold producing land that has not been seriously and heavily detected. Therefore in theses areas I rely on the SDC to at least get me fuel money! Attached is a picture of a location we where invited to detect last Christmas. This is the location Syd found his 4kg lump. https://www.9news.com.au/good-news/2017/06/14/16/05/man-digs-up-whopping-4kg-gold-nugget-near-bendigo In all the years this property was surrounded by extensive diggings, the previous owners never allowed a single person to detect the property. One corner of the property actually pushes out into a very famous and rich leader. However, the property only has your normal 3 foot, 5 wire cattle fence so by the time we got there and hit every square inch with the Z and 17 inch coil, fence jumpers had made sure there was not a single nugget left to be found within the Z's detecting range. This is usually the time to drag out the SDC and get that previously mentioned fuel money but obviously I am not the only person with an SDC so that also proved fruitless. However the excavator in the picture has found good gold at depth, biggest being Syd's lump that was actually in the wall of an excavation, regardless of what the reporters say. And it was found with a modded 4500, not a Z as claimed. My Z was the first one on the property (with owners permission anyway!) Point is, any land that is reasonably accessible and not too remote has already been hit harder than George Foreman in Kinshasha with either a GPX with mods and big coils or a GPZ with big coil so the only real way to guarantee finding something is patience and an SDC. As big as this country is, in my experience, the only way to get good gold is either with mechanical excavation in known producing areas or being prepared to travel to very remote locations. Therefore the Z really only comes out when I make my way to a remote area that has never had a coil on it. THEN the gold rolls in :-)

Ok, so I have noticed that Steve no longer has a SDC2300 but does have a GM1000. I would be very interested to hear not only Steve's but everyone's current thoughts on the SDC? Has it been overtaken by newer detectors? Steve, why did you sell yours?

Hi Steve and Everyone, This is my first post so please go easy one me Below is a list of my current detectors and my brief opinion on same: GPZ7000 with 17” coil – Best gold machine ever - paid for itself many times over GPX5000 with 5 coils – Old but gold however don’t use now have Z SDC2300 – Awesome constantly used - also paid for itself CTX3030 with 3 coils – Don’t use anymore - Tech great but heavy and to complicated for me Makro Red Racer – Good bang for buck but don’t use anymore Makro Racer 2 with 4 coils – Excellent use frequently Nokta Impact with 3 coils – Not as good as the hype - don’t use anymore ATX with 3 coils – Good on beach - don't like on gold - Heavy - don’t use anymore Garrett Sea Hunter with 2 coils – Awesome on beach and underwater AT Pro with 3 coils – Old don’t use anymore AT Gold – Don't like for anything but silver coins - don’t use anymore AT Max – Nothing special - don’t use anymore Tesoro Silver Umax with 2 coils – Basic but good beginner don’t use Tesoro Vaquero with 2 coils – Basic but awesome - use regularly Tesoro Tejon with 3 coils – Awesome but not much better than Vaquero - don’t use anymore Tesoro Cortes with 2 coils – Couldn’t be bothered learning this one - don’t use Whites MX Sport – Disappointing - don’t use XP Deus with 3 coils inc new 54 khz oval coil– Excellent most frequently used relic & coin machine Others that I can’t remember Yes, I know, I have a disease. Remember, these are ONLY MY OPINIONS based on both my style of detecting and the locations I detect. Parks, Cobb & Co stops, abandoned mining town sites, beach's (dry and wading) and of course the gold fields. I no longer work so travel around Australia and detecting are what fills my days. Point being, for the first time I am actually excited about a new detector. Currently I travel with GPZ, SDC, Racer 2, Sea Hunter, Vaquero and Deus. While I will never have the understanding of the tech that Steve and others have, the Equinox 800 is looking like the only machine I will need to load for each trip (along with the Z and SDC of course!). So I have ordered an 800 from Nenad and am delaying my next departure until I have the unit to take with me. I just cant believe that everything that I want has been put into one unit. Had hoped the Impact was that unit but not being submersible kind of ruined it for me. Anyways, time will tell but I think this thing is going to be a winner.