Garrett Axiom

To hot to go gold prospecting on our inland goldfields at present.
Could not find any videos on the Axiom being used for beach hunting, so what better than enjoying a cool sea breeze while using the Axiom on a beach outing.
Axiom do have a Beach Mode and yes it works absolutely beautiful on dry and wet sand.
I shall be using this detector on the beach again.

Where are all the Axiom's? All pretty quiet out there, should be a few out and about by now?

Most people interested in an Axiom would go look/hold one at their local Garrett dealer.

However if the local dealer do not have one in stock for display, this option is non existent.

It also mean the potential customer can't get any advise on it's workings.

But all is not lost, as a friendly Axiom owner/user in the area might be generous enough to let his detector be used for testing.

Helped me the other day. Thanks Ivan.

Cheers,
Peter.

7,385 dollars Aust is way out of my league. At that price it would want to be waaay better than just good and be right up there with the Ml PI's

adrian ss wrote:7,385 dollars Aust is way out of my league. At that price it would want to be waaay better  than just good and be right up there with the Ml PI's

You just need to look at the right Garrett dealer in Australia, with free FedEx delivery.

Ironically the only people that have been to my place for the purpose of trying/testing my Axiom have been Minelab users.

Once they had the Axiom in hand and did their testing they all had the same comments.

I remember you had a top performing Infinium LS.

You owe it to yourself to try an Axiom.

As said before come North to TNQ, my Ipulse Aq and Axiom is available.

Thanks for the offer Ivanll but I think my days of traveling any long distance are done and dusted....unless somebody sends me a couple of dozen Endone.
I still have the Infinium. I keep the batteries charged up for Just in case.

Axiom is very well suited sound or tone wise to our Oz coinage and gold jewellery when beach hunting.

Definitely different to using an ATX and Infinium LS.

There is no lack of depth eider

Would be nice to have a couple of  dedicated open coils for beach hunting the present flat bottomed coils adhere slightly to watery wet beach sand, when the coil is rested on the on the sand.

Ring like item is the spinning part from  a Pandora pendant, see insert in top corner.

Yeah those flat bottom coils can really suck at times.

For those that have an interest in an Axiom field test in US.

https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/22028-field-test-garrett-axiom-the-last-w-e-treasure-review/

It's not here to cause upset or negative comments (like it has on another forum, where people that show negativity do not have an Axiom.) and like when the Infinium LS came on the market in oz.
If it does then admin/moderator feel free to remove this post.

There are a few subject in the test (like when beach detecting) that could be expanded on, however it might only be applicable with our coinage and when beach detecting here in Australia.

I found that field test to be a bit sketchy. It has not made me want to rush out to buy an Axiom.
The detector does appear to be very capable but at 7 grand in Aust I would need to be living on a productive gold field before spending that kind of money.
As a beach machine, my TDI, Safari, Gb DP, and SDC do just fine.

adrian ss wrote:
As a beach machine, my TDI, Safari, Gb DP, and SDC do just  fine.  

Have you got rid if your Nox600 Adrian? If so, any specific reason?

Still have the 600, I forgot to mention it is all.
The Nox is great but I still like the Safari for beach work. It is a bit of a pain in iron mineralised ground but
TDI & SDC are hard to beat. Also the Gold Bug is top notch on tiny gold chains at the beach in All Metal mode, disc is not so flash over the salt.
When I want serious depth at the beach on larger targets then I will use the Infinium....Don't laugh! Mine works really well.

I wonder why garret named the detector "Axiom"

Axiom:
A statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference.

An established rule or principle or a self-evident truth....eg, No one gives what he does not have.

An axiom is an unprovable rule or first principle accepted as true because it is self-evident or particularly useful... For example: “Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect”

A few beach finds from TNQ.

adrian ss wrote:I wonder why garret named the detector "Axiom"

Axiom:
A statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference.

An established rule or principle or a self-evident truth....eg, No one gives what he does not have.

An axiom is an unprovable rule or first principle accepted as true because it is self-evident or particularly useful... For example: “Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect”

my head hurts

For example: “Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect”

Not true Adrian, apparently. This is what quantum physics is all about. Things can exist in 2 places at the same time. It's the same with the Shroeder's Cat puzzle. The cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. Those people are crazy, mad scientists.

I suppose it is how branches of maths and science begin. You create a theory that never existed before and manipulate it to suit your theory.
So a theory "can be" because it has been put out there for discussion, "and not be" at the same time because it has not been proven as scientific fact.

If you really want to have a mind boggle, try string theory. How long is a piece of string? How Long is a Chinaman.

Regards Axtyr.

Bugger Now my head hurts.

Using the Axiom with a DD(FC) coil when beach detecting is somewhat different from using a Mono coil.
Never the less it still get results.
Next time I'll save time and effort by using a mono.

Hi ivanll.

What is the prob with the DD?
On the beach  my Infinium is nice and quiet with the DD although pinpointing is a pain. The mono is more sensitive and pinpoints better than the DD and depth is about the same as the DD on any given ring and coin size target in the sand. I guess I like the 8 inch mono  but the DD goes deeper on large targets of drink can size.

Do you think that the Axiom is better on the beach than the ATX?

Axiom has the same hi/lo and lo/hi audio tones as the Infinium LS and the ATX.
But a very nifty change have taken place when used on the Axiom, to the degree where one can destinguish between a bottle cap/hair pin/pull tab and our decimal coinage except for the 5¢ coin.
For that reason the Axiom is better than the ATX when beach hunting, besides it has a screen, has more features, is much lighter and very easy to use.
The settings and mode that make it very useful when beach hunting in Australia is not mentioned in the user manual, because the manual was not written in Australia with beach hunting and our coinage in mind.

Have you used the Axiom in the gold fields? Does it handle the tough ground well? Would you rate it as good or better than the 2300 for example?

Axiom work well in our goldfields, there are many short videos available to show this.
There are to date no Axiom online or youtube instruction or beach videos shown, have not even seen any on US forums.
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I'm better geared for beach hunting, so it has my main interest.
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I set my Axiom up for beach detecting so the items on the left give a Hi/Lo audio sound and the indicator on the screen will deflect accordingly.
The items on the right will all give a Lo/Hi audio sound and again the screen indicator will show.
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You can test your Infinium LS and the 2300 to see how they react to similar items as I used.
Is the Axiom as good or better than the 2300 ?
I will just say for me when beach hunting the Axiom ticks all the squares.

I have a lot of various targets response info written down somewhere in my note books...Not sure where those books are now. .Maybe I will re do them

Retractio !
The picture above is when I used the Axion in my back garden.  
The Hi/Lo sounds completely changed when I went to the beach and tested it on wet sand.  
Most likely because the GB in my garden is vastly different than when on wet beach sand.
More to be tested.

Well Roy, if you want your club back, you can come pick it up yourself.