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Metal Detecting for Gold
The gold monster 1000 VS the SDC2300 from someone who owns both
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<blockquote data-quote="MikeB05" data-source="post: 398853" data-attributes="member: 7270"><p>Guys so here is a true story based on walking the gold fields last weekend at Warwick Qld (Durikai). </p><p></p><p>Two of us..one with an SDC (me) and my mate with a GM1000. </p><p></p><p>He raked an area, asked me to swing over it...no response from my SDC (with Steelphase SP01 enhancer).</p><p></p><p>In front of me he swung over the exact same area with his GM and got a signal..dug it up...small 1/2 gram chuncky bit of gold. </p><p></p><p>My SDC would read and give a signal on this half grammer only when it was out of the ground. MY SDC completely missed it..not even a hint of threshold change going over this gold ...one inch under the dirt!!!</p><p></p><p>I talked to Minelab and they said...different machines read different types of gold. The GM being a LF picked up the chunky wiry gold and the SDC being single frequency PI missed it.</p><p></p><p>To finish the story...my mate then found two more nuggets in the same patch.. by the end of the week-end his total haul for the weekend 5 nuggets at 6.85grams with a GM 1000.</p><p></p><p>Me I got ZIP with my SDC.</p><p></p><p>I have previously found gold with my SDC but solid smooth sub-grammers not wiry chunk reefy type gold.</p><p></p><p>Minelab tell me ..nothing wrong with your SDC...different gold responds to different machines. Not great advice when I can only use one detector at a time and dont want to walk over gold with a machine that will not hear it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>Now feeling a bit bewildered and questioning confidence in my SDC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeB05, post: 398853, member: 7270"] Guys so here is a true story based on walking the gold fields last weekend at Warwick Qld (Durikai). Two of us..one with an SDC (me) and my mate with a GM1000. He raked an area, asked me to swing over it...no response from my SDC (with Steelphase SP01 enhancer). In front of me he swung over the exact same area with his GM and got a signal..dug it up...small 1/2 gram chuncky bit of gold. My SDC would read and give a signal on this half grammer only when it was out of the ground. MY SDC completely missed it..not even a hint of threshold change going over this gold ...one inch under the dirt!!! I talked to Minelab and they said...different machines read different types of gold. The GM being a LF picked up the chunky wiry gold and the SDC being single frequency PI missed it. To finish the story...my mate then found two more nuggets in the same patch.. by the end of the week-end his total haul for the weekend 5 nuggets at 6.85grams with a GM 1000. Me I got ZIP with my SDC. I have previously found gold with my SDC but solid smooth sub-grammers not wiry chunk reefy type gold. Minelab tell me ..nothing wrong with your SDC...different gold responds to different machines. Not great advice when I can only use one detector at a time and dont want to walk over gold with a machine that will not hear it. :o Now feeling a bit bewildered and questioning confidence in my SDC [/QUOTE]
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