Axiom Vs Sdc

[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. 

[Redz]

Nice score! Any pictures of the gold?

[All_Metal_Mode]

Well done and congratulations. I hope to see more posts like this in the coming months with people really maxing out the capabilities of this detector.

It’s cool you got to compare the same target with a tried and true PI like the SDC, because if that SDC says to dig you dig….unless it simply cannot see it for whatever reason. I don’t see this as a PI vs. PI or Brand vs. Brand situation but rather an advancement in sensitivity and closing detecting holes. If I had an SDC, I’d keep it because few detectors are going to perform as reliably as that tank. Minelab made something special in that machine, but it is simply a tool and every tool has its limitations.

There’s no test that can demonstrate your real world experience, so this kind of detailed post is super helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share this.

[Gold neck prospecting]

[Gold neck prospecting]

On 3/14/2023 at 5:44 PM, All_Metal_Mode said:

Well done and congratulations. I hope to see more posts like this in the coming months with people really maxing out the capabilities of this detector.

It’s cool you got to compare the same target with a tried and true PI like the SDC, because if that SDC says to dig you dig….unless it simply cannot see it for whatever reason. I don’t see this as a PI vs. PI or Brand vs. Brand situation but rather an advancement in sensitivity and closing detecting holes. If I had an SDC, I’d keep it because few detectors are going to perform as reliably as that tank. Minelab made something special in that machine, but it is simply a tool and every tool has its limitations.

There’s no test that can demonstrate your real world experience, so this kind of detailed post is super helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share this.

Here are some pictures of the gold i recovered, my camera is busted so i had to utilize the selfi camera, why the garrett on the coil is backwards. 

[WesD]

Cha-ching! Looks good bud!

[Redz]

Nice rotten quartz...and good gold. Thanks for sharing

[Doc]

The one thing I can say about the SDC2300 is that I have never seen a detector that is so immune to ground mineralization.  I have places where the GPZ7000 screams like a banshee.  The SDC2300 purrs like a kitten.

I am not super fond of the small coil, and I know a lot of users have been delighted when stepping up to the Coiltek coil which I understand works exceptionally well.

Doc