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Have they fixed the 6000? Mine's not fixed, it's just better than it was and so far the third 11" coil is working fine. I'm satisfied with the tests I've seen on the Axiom. I disappointed that it's being delivered with only one coil when there are six in the range. The small coil will certainly affect its detection depth so don't expect any miracles. You may have to go one size up to compare favorably with the GPX6000.
One coil?? Is that right Phil? I thought it came with two coils!! This could change it for me.
Well as far as I know everyone seems happy with the 6000 fixes. I have seen the 6000 working before the fix and was pretty impressed, then along came Axiom. Thanks for the info, Phil more checking to do.

Still have to about April to make up my mind.
Cheers.
 
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.

From the Garrett website.

"Axiom 13" x 11" DD (PN: 2237000) and 11" x 7" Mono (PN: 2237300) Searchcoils (standard in Axiom PN: 1142720 package)

or

Axiom 13" x 11" Mono (PN: 2236900) and 11" x 7" DD (PN: 2237400) Searchcoils (standard in Axiom PN: 1142765 package)"

https://garrett.com/index.php/sport/axiom
 

New Garrett Axiom Kicking Butt in Nome, Alaska​

Hi fellow beep peeps…. I’m not sure the policy re posting links to other forums but I know my brothers and sisters here are eager for info on the new Axiom….

Enjoy.

https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/19798-garrett-axiom-at-nome-alaska/
Saw SH post from Nome and got all itcy in getting started, but the Axiom wasn't available here yet.
It is now but we also got rainy season meaning long grass on some of the cattle property gold fields.
Anyhow the Axiom is also an outstanding beach detector even if it is not the main focus of most people.
It does have some very useful features not available on other PI detectors, but this is only apparent if its used for coin/jewellery beach detecting. 🍻
 
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.
 
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.
There's this one:
 
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 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.
 
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.
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.
I don't think that there was anything wrong with my Axiom, I don't think it could handle the ground. Plenty of hot rocks yeah I got a few hot rocks with the 6000 but the 6000 handles them a lot better.
 
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.
I don't think that there was anything wrong with my Axiom, I don't think it could handle the ground. Plenty of hot rocks yeah I got a few hot rocks with the 6000 but the 6000 handles them a lot better.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
i sold the 6000 because it was noisy in wet ground and the company that makes them said there is never any issues with their detectors. I've gone back to GPX5000 (big coils) for depth. As for the Axiom I picked up a secondhand one, I found it runs better in the 00 audio option, volume low and at a specific tone. mode: fine and the stupid sensativity option is on 1 found that was better than setting it high. It works in wet ground and little flysh_t bits sound off with just a slight noticeable blip. I like it because I can tune out hotrocks and noisy ground together. Whereas the 6000 I could tuneout ground but never the hot-rock or vice versa. I'm not knocking the 6000, it does find tiny 0.1s at 10 inches. But unforunatly it was not suited for the task I needed it for whereas the axiom does the job. Maybe when an update comes out for 6000, I'll think about getting it again.
 
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.
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
 
i sold the 6000 because it was noisy in wet ground and the company that makes them said there is never any issues with their detectors. I've gone back to GPX5000 (big coils) for depth. As for the Axiom I picked up a secondhand one, I found it runs better in the 00 audio option, volume low and at a specific tone. mode: fine and the stupid sensativity option is on 1 found that was better than setting it high. It works in wet ground and little flysh_t bits sound off with just a slight noticeable blip. I like it because I can tune out hotrocks and noisy ground together. Whereas the 6000 I could tuneout ground but never the hot-rock or vice versa. I'm not knocking the 6000, it does find tiny 0.1s at 10 inches. But unforunatly it was not suited for the task I needed it for whereas the axiom does the job. Maybe when an update comes out for 6000, I'll think about getting it again.
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.
 
I found both auto settings on 6000 eliminate some targets. I used to run it on first block with threshold and go relative slow and check all faint blips and most importantly ground balace often every five or six steps, tune for emi when threshold gets chattery.
 
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