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IdahoPeg

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  1. Holy crap! You were a slow learner on that detector, but wow have you kicked butt once you figured it out! Congratulations on your success!
  2. Thanks! Most bottles are broken where I hunt, as placer mining has turned ground over several times. My partner did find this intact old Worcestershire bottle with stopper, and I found some nice pieces of old porcelain I could research. Just love the history of it all!šŸ˜Š
  3. What an awesome adventure with some really nice well earned gold too!
  4. Thanks for askingšŸ˜Š No, I didnā€™t get out Nugget shooting as much as I usually do! I found some dinks with the Gold Monster, and from sluicing bench material up near my cabin. Only hit northern Nv once this season when I met up with Chet& the guys, and got a few grams using the 6000. Main gold was found dredging a couple times w partner, who plucked some beauties out of bedrock cracks. Think weā€™ll do more dredging next yearšŸ˜„. Good luck to you too!
  5. You mean this little olā€™ thing? Youā€™re right, it definitely deserves top billing!
  6. Well this yearā€™s hunting is about done, and I had a great time searching for all kinds of good stuff from the past. Picked out some photos of my favorites to share. First is that thing we couldnā€™t figure out if it were piece of a pipe, or gas lamp fixtureā€¦likely the latter, but still cool. Hereā€™s some coins and an old gold scale weight, as well as an arrowhead found up near my cabin. Look how nice the dime cleaned up. A trip to Lemhi Valley a few hours from me had amazing pictographs and gave up some wonderful artifacts from the past inhabitants. My oldest coin find was 1861ā€¦a British penny. Found it near some old porcelain from England that dated late 1800s . Ended the season with some really beautiful points! I always thank the Spirits for sharing their gifts with me. My hunting partner made these really awesome pendants for usā€¦.we found the arrowheads and gold while hunting together, and he found the blue Native Americans trade beads years ago. Pretty cool. Iā€™ll be heading to Arizona next week for 2-3 monthsā€¦looking forward to nugget detecting, rock hounding, relic&artifact hunting and exploring new areasā€¦maybe meet up with some Arizona forum members.šŸ˜Š
  7. Wow, thatā€™s fantastic! Congratulations on a great hunt!
  8. First whole one found by myself! I found a couple partials while hunting with an experienced friend. This one is specialā€¦.Iā€™m really enjoying this new hobbyšŸ˜Š
  9. I researched it and narrowed I.D. down to either Elko Corner Notched vs Hells Canyon Corner Notchedā€¦size leans towards Elko, location leans towards Hells Canyon which were 200-1200yrs ago. Elko are much older, 1500-4500yrs ago!
  10. Iā€™ve been stomping the hills detecting or hiking for years now up by my cabin and always hoped Iā€™d find an arrowhead, but never did. Recently that changed. I went to a site to hunt for coins & relics with my Equinox, but before gearing up realized nature was calling. So just as I squatted to tinkle, looky what I saw bright & shiny right in front me! The Piddle Point!šŸ˜† Itā€™s a beauty! Love the obsidian pointsšŸ˜Š
  11. This past year Iā€™ve been venturing out doing different things since nugget detecting is getting tougher, with all the known patches hammered to death and new ground so hard to come by. So Iā€™ve enjoyed sluicing, relic & coin hunting, as well as artifact/arrowhead hunting lately. This past week my partner Jeff and I went dredgingā€¦heā€™d done it years ago, but this year upgraded his equipment, got our permit & off we went! Hereā€™s a view of where weā€™re working and the big hole he made by moving lots of rocksā€¦. The water is too crazy to venture out in the middle. Hereā€™s Jeff moving one of the many bouldersā€¦.mother natureā€™s gym! My job is to clear jams in the suction hose, keep black sands from filling the rifflesā€¦tons of black sand, and to keep an eye on his safety. I periodically run a big magnet over the riffles & tap it under the water flow to dislodge any gold possibly trapped before itā€™s discardedā€¦works good. Otherwise the black sands would completely fill the sluice & gold would tumble over, thatā€™s how much sand there is! Much easier job than Jeffā€™sšŸ˜„ The pups supervised us closely šŸ˜Š Hereā€™s the totals after about 8 hours runtimeā€¦he got into an awesome spot following a bedrock crack. The chunkiesā€¦. And the finesā€¦ What a great way to spend a gorgeous day on the river! Next season Iā€™ll get me a thick wetsuitā€¦my florida diving suits wonā€™t cut it here. Then I can get in the water and play too!šŸ˜Š
  12. Any updates on your friend? Hope heā€™s awake & doing better.
  13. Any updates on your friend? Hope heā€™s awake & recovering from the strokes.
  14. The thing that stumps me are the English letters that I canā€™t make outā€¦thought it was Chinese pipe at first till I saw them. Thanks for the tip re American Digger, I think Iā€™ll do that.
  15. Greetings! I spent 6 winters in Melbourne Beachā€¦finally found my 1/2 Reale after 3 seasons of detecting. A December storm had hit & there were 6-8ā€™ cuts on the beach where I found it near the base of cut. After weather events like that, all of us detectorists are out driving feverishly up & down A1A checking all the ā€œspotsā€ looking for the right place to detect! And I was competing with the great Terry Shannon & his buddiesā€¦if you donā€™t know him, check out his YouTube videos & google him, wrote some cool books too. Heck of a nice guyā€¦maybe youā€™ll run into him someday. Good luck!
  16. Pretty cool finds! Yep that Spanish coin replica wouldā€™ve got my heart thumping! Hereā€™s my 1715 Fleet 1/2 Reale I found in FL Decā€™19. After pounding the sand for 3 seasons in storms etc, Iā€™m proudly wearing in 2nd pic šŸ˜„
  17. Really liked Fred & his zest for life. Condolences to his family & friends.
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