Got Out, Got Gold!

[Reno Chris]

With a bad auto accident in spring and all the fires later, 2021 was not a banner year for me to get out and search for nuggets. So I started a bit early this year with a invite from a friend to the low country in the far western edges of the Sierra Nevada. It was a great trip with excellent weather in the mid-70s. I got some good gold but my tent was attacked and stomped on by cows! I think these were attack cows, specially bred by the military for stealth counter-terrorism. 😉
Or something like that.....🤣

The tent is repairable though I needed to buy a new section of tent pole and give the tent a through washing. The photo below shows the gold, 7.4 grams, just a bit shy of a quarter ounce. The largest piece, at 3.5 grams was a partial sunbaker - partly covered but some of it was showing. It was good to get out and find some gold.

[Muddydogz]

Looks like you had a great day. Nugget hunting is on my list of things to do someday. As for the cows, that's what hamburger buns are for.

[beatup]

Well done , blame the attack on mad cow disease.

[F350Platinum]

Hope they didn't poop on your tent. 😵

Nice gold and F-body Ford! 250? Do be careful photographing your license plate tho. 🤔

[strick]

Pretty country... cows appear to be doing their job...looks like a putting green out there! You might want to consider a roof top tent for future endeavors it would fit nicely over your truck bed with a small rack and you would still have access to the bed. 

strick 

[Lanny]

That's great gold Chris, congratulations, and thanks for the pictures and the write-up!

All the best,

Lanny

[Valens Legacy]

Nice looking gold and sorry you didn't have a grill big enough for those walking steaks.

Good luck on your next outing, and get your tent some hard sides.

[Reno Chris]

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Hope they didn't poop on your tent. 😵

They urinated on the tarp, but a plastic tarp is easily cleaned. They wrecked the tent while I was off detecting a few miles away. It was a great trip and I'll be back.

[GotAU?]

Nice finds!
Cows are trouble. They could have damaged even more than the tent.  We had to report a cow licking incident to a rental agency once.  A whole herd of them were standing next to the work truck when a coworker returned to it; they found that the cows licked the paint down to bare metal all over it!

Glad you weren’t sleeping in the tent when that happened!

[rvpopeye]

Tents are easier to find than that gold ! 

The cow just couldn't figure out how to unzip the tent ... probably just wanted to get out of the sun for a bit 😏