Gold neck prospecting

I had gone into an old past producing mine last week. I had brought my axiom with the 11" mono and my friend had his sdc2300. I had hit a very suttle signal on the wall in a 1" thick blanket seam, my friend scanned it with his sdc2300 and could not pick up a signal. I chiseled out 4" of the wall around the target, the suttle signal turned into a banger. Ended up being a 1 oz pay zone of 3"w 4"L not a crazy amount but no complaints and always thankful. All the gold was thin and laying flat so the detector was only picking up the edges, which makes a huge difference for depth. I took my vlf gold kruzer to clean up all the non pi gold. I replaced my sdc2300 for the axiom im pretty happy with my decision. Incase anyone is wondering is was in "fine" mode, full sensitivity, no head phones, max vaolume, max threshold, tone @ 60, speed on slow. Ground track off, basically default settings except sensitivity, tone and speed. I normally run head phones in which i should have to block out the sound of the coil scraping the walls and background noise but i didnt have my headphones thats why i max out everything as for volume,threshold and sensitivity. I think volume amd threshold are maxed by default. With headphones i run 4-6 on sensitivity depending.  I dont notice a difference on small,large, shallow, deep targets from max sensitivity to default except overall volume, youll still hear targets in reach. 

Good luck out in the gold feilds. 

I've recently been detecting with the new axiom and honestly I really like that machine. I've been running the sdc for the past 6 years I've gone through 2 of them, my current sdc I've had for 3 years now the knuckle is completely worn out, the cams on the collapsible stock are gone, I have half a dozen popsicle sticks and 2 rolls of electrical tape holding it together and the external speaker is completely dead.  think the materials used are junk and the headphone jack is nonsense. Now i'm not knocking the sdc its an outstanding machine and I've found some incredible gold with it large and small. The sdc is not the most comfortable machine to swing alot of times I hold it past the hand grip. No I'm not a sugar foot I swing my 7000 all day and don't use the harness or the 3rd shaft. This is strictly my honest intake of the sdc and the axiom. Now the axiom. I've only taken axiom out less than a dozen times since I recently got the machine. I revisited old patches that has been creamed by the 7000 the sdc and a 4500. Signals are rare at these spots now how ever I've hit small gold at depth the sdc or the 7000 didn't hear. I did hit a 12dwt specimen the sdc hold not hear that the axiom hit, I'm not sure I swung that same spot with the 7000, I do know the axiom hits smaller gold stronger than the 7000 I've proven that. The axiom is well ballanced it pendulums against the forearm which makes it comfortable I like that the shaft clicks into position, I do think the axiom is a little noisy but not as bad as the 6000, the settings for the axiom do exactly what they intend to do except the iron ID. To adjust the tone to your  hearing ability is great, swing speed is cool but if your in slow and you swing to fast you miss targets that is the most important function of the machine you have to follow. If I'm drinking around I'm in medium until I find that tip off piece then I go into slow mode and go over everything low and slow and it works that's how I got that 12 dwt specimen I had mentioned and a hand full of dinks. I'm not a fan of the z link head phones, I do have the z link wireless I used for the sdc I just link the receiver to the axiom and use killer b's wasp headphones. One thing I like the sdc over the axiom is the ground ballanced, the sdc is pretty much a 1 and done type ground ballance the axiom I have to treat as if it's a vlf every time I see a ground change. I absolutely like the fact I can change coils on the fly with out any special tools and the coils being submersible unlike the coil teck coils for the sdc not sure why a coil company would make coil you can't dunk in water for a water proof machine. I think the axiom has a larger potential over the sdc, I really hope garrett comes up with software updates I read they from non garrett employees they do but I heard they dont from a trusted source. I do think the axiom has some improvements to make but in all reality I just replaced and will continue to replace my sdc for the axiom. When I'm not doing welding jobs I prospect gold is part of my income so I can't  pussyfoot around. I run 3 detectors,  1 was the sdc now the axiom to locate shallow patches, 2 the 7000 to bring in after a patch was located and 3 a vlf to cherry pick through trashy areas like mine dumps rock piles things like that. Good luck out in the gold fields