One coil?? Is that right Phil? I thought it came with two coils!! This could change it for me.
Pretty sure it is 2 - at least that is what the American package gets. 2 different types of packs available.
Saw SH post from Nome and got all itcy in getting started, but the Axiom wasn't available here yet.
Good review report, but not direct performance comparison between the Axiom and the 6000. He explained he has a lot of hours on the 6000, but he did no side by side buried target (in highly mineralized ground) comparison. In fact I have searched exhaustively and I can ‘not’ find any comparisons anywhere on YouTube or Forums which is strange. At the end of April I ended up buying the 6000 instead of the Axiom. The 6000 was about $770 dollars more. I hope I made the right choice.
You DEFINITELY made the right choice. I've had the Axiom for over half a year and nothing but trouble - very little gold. My wife has the GPX 6000 and is killing it. She never comes home empty handed, but I do most trips now.
You and your wife have the ideal situation to do a side by side comparison with an undug target ( gold preferably) on the two machines.... would be interesting to see by how much the 6000 trumps the Axiom on size and depth.
Sold my Axiom after a couple trips. Was lent a 6000 took it to my old patches that I had found with the 7000 went over same with Axiom and nothing. With the 6000 gold everyday.
That is exactly what I feel too. Everyone tries to tell me its just faulty or you have it running to hot. Truth is, it was made by a USA company for USA gold and USA conditions. How many successful PI machines have Garrett had? Minelab live and breath Australian gold.....enough said.
We do it every trip, just don't film it. I hear maybe 1 in 20 of her targets. And that's mainly because I know it's there and rub the coil harder. The Axiom is terrible. Poor sensitivity, which I filmed and sent to Garrett with the machine once. They said "no fault found" even though the 6000 was getting 130% better depth. Not 30%, but 130% n that particular test. Ground handling was the worst feature of the detector, couldn't ever balance out hot ground or hot rocks no matter Auto or Manual. Manual would do it but lose it again in seconds! Thinking of stripping it down, throwing the guts in the bin and developing the 7000 to fit in it. Axiom ergonomics and weight were 100% perfect. The Axiom is quite the useless machine, found VERY LITTLE gold with it. Maybe 7 pieces in 7 months going once every week for full days. My wife has to count hers whenever we go! She has found gold on the same ground I have worked MULTIPLE times now.... P.S. My machine is back at Garrett again getting looked at.
Remember the garret infinium l/s they were the biggest heap of rubbish garret ever put out i still have mine, a 4500 would scream its head off in a burried nugget and the ls infinium could bearly hear it, so in the field you would definately missed that nugget
Will definitely give those settings a try when I get it back, thank you for sharing. That isn't my typical detecting though so will still be going back to Minelab for my everyday detector. Probably the 70000 again. My wife runs auto on her 6000 and does have similar issues when it is really wet, otherwise its been a great detector to her.
