catpig Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Just bought an SDC 2300 for my wife. We wanted to upgrade her from the GB2 with something easier to swing than a GPX.I picked it up at the UPS center on my way out of town to the La Paz placers 2 weekends ago. I spent all day Saturday going over a wash with my GPX-5000 with a Joey coil. 8 hours or so of detecting and got nothing. Beautiful day though and I got to wish my Dad a happy 80th birthday (the primary purpose of my trip and more important than gold).Sunday morning I opened up the SDC and popped in 4 batteries. Then I went and detected the same wash I had been over the day before with my GPX. To my pleasant surprise I got 5 little nuggets in 4 hours. Needless to say I'm impressed with the SDC 2300. Then last weekend my wife and I went out and got 6 more nuggets - 5 with the SDC and 1 with the 5000. The 2300 definitely is hot on the small gold and sees gold the 5000 and the BG2 both miss. I just need one for me now...They aren't big - the biggest is a bit over .4 grams, but gold is gold and it made my weekend.Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I like hearing that! I'll be trying mine out for first time this week! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted November 3, 2014 Admin Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Hey Guys, Jeff - Congrats on the recent finds! No doubt the SDC is finding gold other detectors (including the GPX series) are missing. No doubt, it will find stuff almost, if not as small as the GB2, but in hot ground. I worked one spot years ago and picked up a bunch of small nuggets with the GB2, but the ironstones drove me nuts. No way to balance them out and they were so thick in some areas the detector screamed on everything. I went back to this spot a few weeks after getting the SDC and found 10 nuggets within a few hours. It was so hot them, the heat drove me out. I will be back to that spot again this Winter. Shep - You're going to love it. You're not going to get rich with it (unless you find another pounder ), but you're going to have fun finding smaller gold you left behind (especially crystalline type gold, specimens and small gold in general). Have fun with it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Jeff: WTG on getting that gold The 2300 sure seems to be good on getting the stuff the 5000s left behind Its all good! Hope you find more...GL to yaTom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Shep.............Good luck to ya up there! Look forward to the next pistachio meet Im thinking the Q in Dec?Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkirkll Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Yeah!!!!!One more positive vote for the 2300===== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Will be @ Q in Dec and have nuts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Yeah, I'll be going with him, glad you asked. Old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Sir, I knew it would be no other way; see you then Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ron Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Will be @ Q in Dec and have nuts!Shep, that will be good ... hard to detect well and walk funny at the same time! Cheers, Unc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 You bad Ron, You bad! Old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I don't get it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldies1955 Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Kind of had to be there Mike But, a giant squirrel ate all my pistachios when I was out detecting!Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Mighty fine beard that squirrel had. Old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Tom ... I was kidding with my comment! I thought I was being funny .... You know dry northern new england humor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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