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Minelab SDC2300 or GPX4000 / GPX4500 / GPX5000
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<blockquote data-quote="Moneybox" data-source="post: 285776" data-attributes="member: 3960"><p>We've just returned from an extended prospecting trip with the SDC and the 4500. The SDC will definitely find gold too small for the 4500 to see (almost too small for me to see as well) but the 4500 will cover so much more ground. We only used a single coil on the 4500, a Coiltek 14" Mono Elite over several months in WA. Some areas the 4500 struggled to find anything while the SDC pulled out dozens of nuggets. At the end of almost every day the 4500 had found fewer nuggets but a lot more weight in gold.</p><p></p><p>If you get bored easily and need to keep busy I'd say get an SDC. If you want to find gold for sale get a 4500 with a decent coil. I'm not very experienced so I never identified any scenario where I had a reason to choose a different coil apart from some very tight vegetation where a small coil would have helped. I don't have one.</p><p></p><p>We get good value from both machines and both have paid for themselves especially when you consider that they lose very little in resale value.</p><p></p><p>I'd be surprised to see Minelab fit a 12" coil to the SDC without other major modifications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneybox, post: 285776, member: 3960"] We've just returned from an extended prospecting trip with the SDC and the 4500. The SDC will definitely find gold too small for the 4500 to see (almost too small for me to see as well) but the 4500 will cover so much more ground. We only used a single coil on the 4500, a Coiltek 14" Mono Elite over several months in WA. Some areas the 4500 struggled to find anything while the SDC pulled out dozens of nuggets. At the end of almost every day the 4500 had found fewer nuggets but a lot more weight in gold. If you get bored easily and need to keep busy I'd say get an SDC. If you want to find gold for sale get a 4500 with a decent coil. I'm not very experienced so I never identified any scenario where I had a reason to choose a different coil apart from some very tight vegetation where a small coil would have helped. I don't have one. We get good value from both machines and both have paid for themselves especially when you consider that they lose very little in resale value. I'd be surprised to see Minelab fit a 12" coil to the SDC without other major modifications. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detectors
Minelab
Minelab SDC2300 or GPX4000 / GPX4500 / GPX5000
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