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    Axiom At The Beach

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    I took the Axiom to my local beach for a 2.5 hour test spin to see what would happen. Staying in one spot, I just gridded the area to see how the detector behaved to different targets. The ground was moderately mineralized from some weather we are experiencing; no sugar-hip white flow sand here....
    These are my observations:

    • The 11 x 7 mono is too hot and will not work at my beaches
    • The 13 x 11 DD can be used but it picks up too much EMI when turned to pinpoint.
    • While using the 13 x 11 DD, most targets scream, even at depth.
    • While using the 13 x 11 DD, you will detect high-conductor targets that are so deep you might pass on digging them (clad coins).
    • The Axiom is a beast run amok at the beach and has to be de-tuned to operate effectively.
    • After-market open coil designs will only help the Axiom's performance at the beach.
    • My wish-list beach coil would be a 12 x 10 DD open design.
    • It's a bitch keeping a beach scoop and the 13 x 11 DD coil apart when digging a target.
    • The Axiom out-performs the White's Big Box TDI on the wet sand.

    Here are the settings I came up with:

    SENSITIVITY.................2

    MODE............................Normal

    SPEED...........................Medium

    THRESHOLD................5

    GROUND BALANCE....Manual

    These settings put the Axiom in a poor man's "silent search mode". There is more work to be done with adjustments, but I think it was effective in eliminating some of the chatter whilst not giving up detection to subtle tones. Will have to bring a slew of high and low conductor targets with me the next time I put the machine to the test.

    The photo is the result of 2.5 hours of testing. Sorry, no gold, but let's play for keeps the next few days and see what happens....

    Questions welcome!

    -Jerry

     

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    Axiom Killed The Monkey.....

    in Garrett Metal Detectors

    Posted

    .....well no, actually, I killed the monkey that was riding my back for the last 15+ days detecting (3 years) without joy. The Axiom lent the assist that was needed to get back amongst the living. First time out with the Axiom in tough ground, this modest .60 grammer saw the light of day, from 5" down. This is a big step up from the PI I was using previous. I used the 11 x 7 mono and was impressed with the hot top corners. Started out at sens 4 but got a little conservative and fell back to a stable sens 3. I can see that once you get some time on the Axiom, you will be more comfortable in pushing its limits. My confederates who run 2300's were impressed with how hot the 11 x 7 was. 

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    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This V.2

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    After finding the David Yurman Bracelet I took weeks off detecting in order to recover from a nagging pulled muscle in my middle back. A few days ago I went to a local beach to test the back and see if there was anything to be had in the wet. One spot had several good sounding targets that turned out to be quarters and dimes, + a few pieces of deep iron that fooled me. After walking down the beach aways I returned to this spot and started a tight grid going in the other direction. I quickly pulled out a junk silver plated ring, and just a foot away, this bomber came up for air. Emanuele Bicocchi designer .925, weighing in at a more that respectable 20 grams. Short 2 hour hunt. Still 0 for 2022 on the gold, but I'm OK with this.

    -Jerry

     

     

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    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

    I looked and looked and couldn't find a page.  What value did it have?

    I know my DY chain and tag come to $2 thousand but this has to be more.

    .......$2400.....wow, I did not realize your chain was 2 grand! I'll have to go and take another look at your photo....

    6 hours ago, Compass said:

    Holy cow Jerry what an amazing find! - I had no idea those things cost so much. You could sell that and buy several nice gold rings. Congrats!!! 😮

    Thanks George- the bracelet is the nicest thing I have ever found at the beach. Gotta love that designer .925 jewelry. I am "scheduled" to throw down on the Axiom, so this will help defray some of the cost....

     

    12 hours ago, strick said:

    Thats a great find! better then a a lot of gold rings that we can find...nice work for sticking it out and not giving up...love the TDI its in my stable  

    strick  

    Thanks Strick, funny thing, I had been using the stock 12" Dual Field coil at the beach but it just died so on went the 8 x 11 Razorback straight mono. Big improvement with signal strength ID, sensitivity and weight.

     

    20 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

    Very nice find and it is telling you that gold is very close by.

    Good luck and I hope you find the gold on your next outing.

    VL, the gold is close, but I do have to get out more so the odds work in my favor. Got a bad muscle issue below the ribcage that will not let up....started getting sports massages in order to function. Went out a few days ago to test the back, the results of which will be covered in a new post....

    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    5 trips to the desert detecting with no gold.....my last beach gold was late last winter......oh sure, this summer I've found my share of silver and junk gold plate like all of you but that's it. Recently I decided to change things up and go back to where it all started for me on the beach- dry sand hunting at night with a gold detector. I set my TDI up on "Low Conductor" in order to only hear the high tone targets. This of course means you hear pull tabs, twist-offs, gold, nickels, etc.....no silver, dimes, quarters, and the like. The TDI will however, go into  freak-out audio when you run across a quarter on the surface. I sometimes dig these signals if boredom kicks in. Anyway, I hunt dry sand by locating a good trash zone, and then griding tightly as if you were on a gold patch. Good trash to me is aluminum, deep rusted twist-offs and deep nickels. At the beach I was searching there was nothing along the towel line- not even any trash. I started working the zone behind the towel line, going back beyond the lifeguard towers. No consistent targets there either, so it was time to venture into no-man's land, where I immediately recovered an 18k gold filled chain. Here I picked up a nice trash debris field which contained deep nickels and deep aluminum. That's when I popped out a stainless ring, and griding low and slow, got this loud freak-out target response on the TDI. 3 things I knew about the target- it was large, close to the surface, and not gold. 1 shallow scoop and the bracelet was in my pocket- thought it was a bling watch until returning home to see the hallmark.....David Yurman Albion .925 diamond bracelet. Not gold, but I'm going to stretch the mileage of this find until the gold shows up.....Jerry

     

     

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