LuckyLundy Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Paying your dues at one of America's most pounded gold bearing ground, is no joke! Thousands of acres of land to swing your coil, it's a daunting thought of where to start your hunt if you don't know the area. I put in numerous hunts with no rattle in the poke bottle. But, you start learning as you pickup a nugget or two and the puzzle pieces start to fit. My buddy Rudy and I, hit Rye Patch for a 7 day hunt, we only lasted 6 days! I don't know if it was the heat during the hunt or the beers after the hunt, but we couldn't do one more day! We both swing the GPZ, but use total different modes, you may have heard me say you can't run this machine wrong. Find what modes and setting you like and master it. We'd call each other over to listen to see if one of ours ran better than the other on whisper nugget signals. We each heard, the smallest signals we could find for each other and finally gave up the challenge of the best settings for the GPZ. The one thing in common is a very slow swing of your coil and a good pair of headphones (not the stock ones, another story). Well back to our hunt! Nuggets where biting here and there, but we couldn't land one over a penny weight, several are close. But, in our book if it's not a dwt'er its a dink nugget. Dinks are the bread and butter, but we wanted some steak & lobster nuggets. Well late afternoon on the last full day hunt, Rudy radios me to get the shovel from my truck. As I'm getting the shovel a couple of other fellow prospector's introduced theirselves to me and I lead them with me to Rudy and his deep hole. A couple of good shovel fulls of dirt and the target was out. 7.3 dwts at 16" deep on a old pounded patch...Priceless! We had a blast on our 6 day hunt and we met some new friends in the high desert search for gold. Our total Wieght was a little over 27 dwts. Did I see there is a new download for the GPZ...do I have to...lol. Until the next hunt, low and slowLuckyLundy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunk Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Good job guys! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bado1 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Very nice! WTG! Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 That's a lot of gold! Rye patch is not dead by any means. Nice work fellas... strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Looks like a great tally for your pokes WTG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted October 16, 2015 Author Share Posted October 16, 2015 Here is our pokes! Rudy and I, we're fighting it out for the lead in total Wieght before he landed his fat one. Scales showing in dwts Rick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Very impressive results for one of the most visited nugget locations in Nevada! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesD Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Sweet!!! You guys are dialed in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasong Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 That's a heck of a good haul for some pounded land, nice work to the both of you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benzyoc Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Gotta love Luckys post. We had a blast. Dan ruined our last day by keeping the mugs full of beer. I think Lucky had me on weight b4 I nailed that fatty. Rudy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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