Garrett Axiom Pricing & Pics Of The Pretty (box) Packaging

[cobill]

Gerry is the best dealer in the USA. I've bought several detectors and taken 4 classes from him...each time I've learned alot and found gold each time. No way I would have done as well without his training class.

Bill

[jasong]

To be clear: that drop shipper I "mentioned" is who Garrett themselves recommend on their find a dealer page for Wyoming, not me. 

Gerry asked if there were really drop ship only dealers, and I just answered his question with information from Garrett themselves. 

[GotAU?]

47 minutes ago, jasong said:

To be clear: that drop shipper I "mentioned" is who Garrett themselves recommend on their find a dealer page for Wyoming, not me. 

Gerry asked if there were really drop ship only dealers, and I just answered his question with information from Garrett themselves. 

Their list is terrible- it doesn’t even mention one of my favorite and well known Garrett dealers who is a contributor here as well and also provides personal training for his Garrett customers…

[jasong]

In Wyoming almost all the dealers they have listed are closed down businesses. The only one actually still open is a spa/hot tub sales place primarily. That and this drop ship place that actually seem to be located in Europe.

They might want to do some updating... Or the dealers here might want to make sure they are actually listed.

In my case I  want to put an Axiom in my hands with a local dealer so I could answer a few questions on my own that aren't going to get answered on this forum. It's a 2-3 day round trip drive and 30% of the Axiom price in gas and hotels for me to go visit any dealer active on forums, so that's pointless in my case. So I'd like to find a local dealer.

[Steve Herschbach]

On 7/28/2022 at 11:28 PM, mn90403 said:

I found an answer to my question(s):

 

 

I don't see how that answers your question. I thought you wanted to know if the Axiom has some kind of "Ultra Hype 30000 Technology" that allowed to to find gold that all other detectors miss. And you wondered why, if it had such a thing, it had not been mentioned.

I had no real answer for that, because I am pretty sure if the Axiom had Ultra Hype Technology, they would be hyping the heck out of that. Will it find gold in patches other machines have hunted? Of course. I could put on a big dog and pony show about how all the gold I have found came from places pounded for countless hours by GPX 6000 and GPZ 7000 detectors. How my 2.63 gram nugget came from a spot I KNOW I passed over with my GPZ 7000 and GPX 6000 coils. And more.

But that has been and continues to be the biggest piece of detecting malarky sold to people. " I found a coin in a hunted out park." Please, really? It proves absolutely nothing, except that the person involved found another coin.

I've been hunting the same patches for years, and find gold almost 100% of the time when I am hunting them. I can go to one tomorrow with a 1990 Gold Bug with a 3.5" round concentric coil and odds are I will find gold. Does that mean everyone should go get a 1990 Gold Bug? That it has last century super tech gone overlooked all these years? No, I can grab any metal detector made to hunt gold in the last 20 (30, 40?) years, and go out and find gold with it. In well hunted locations.

Finding gold in previously hunted areas means a couple things. First, it may mean better tech. But more often, it just means the operator knows their stuff. Conversely, people who are not good at the nugget hunting game can use “the latest tech”, and put in as many hours as they want, and find nothing. That's actually a majority of people. In a nutshell people go too fast, have coils off the ground, and can't hear tiny signals. People that go slow, coil to the ground, and have an ear for whispers, find the gold.

So pictures of Axiom or anything else finding gold does mean they are capable of finding gold. But finding gold in "hunted out" locations? Hunted out by who? Unless I have hunted it, and no more gold can be found - it's not hunted out!! 

[mn90403]

If you haven't taken Gerry's training, then you don't know how well his answer fits my question.

[Steve Herschbach]

My apologies then. I should have maintained radio silence. Obviously you are not inclined to share your conclusions.

[GotAU?]

“Go slow, coil to the ground, and have an ear for whispers”, and variations of it, are some of the most important answers to many of my questions; they are the same recommendations I’ve been given by several successful detectorists. 

[Doc Bach]

25 minutes ago, GotAU? said:

“Go slow, coil to the ground, and have an ear for whispers”, and variations of it, are some of the most important answers to many of my questions; they are the same recommendations I’ve been given by several successful detectorists. 

And it also helps to be born with the gift of a built in tinfoil hat like some of us life long collectors and Teasure Hunters are blessed with. Some call this condition or affliction depending how you look at it dowsing.