Jump to content

snakejim

Full Member
  • Posts

    199
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Forums

Detector Prospector Home

Detector Database

Downloads

Everything posted by snakejim

  1. The BLM here in New Mexico accepted the old Maintenance Fee Waiver form. Also, I never use their other forms. I have written my own forms for years and have never had any problem.! Best wishes to all! snakejim
  2. I had one of those back in the day. I'll see if I can track it down and get back to you.
  3. I was there at Crow Creek in June 1980. Gold Nugget detectors weren't really a thing yet. You and your dad were working the bank as a small trickle came down from above. I think they call it puddling or something like that. You and your dad had a few small pickers to show for it.
  4. https://rockseeker.com/largest-gold-nugget-found-in-wyoming/ https://wyprospector.blogspot.com/
  5. Someone found a large nugget several years ago in those dredge piles. Was that you?
  6. Neat place! Had some friends in Lander. I did some prospecting there about 25 years ago. I found a nice vein in an open cut and took out some nice gold in a pocket.
  7. Jim, I hope all goes well and you are back here soon.
  8. My neighbor had a 1961 Corvair Loadside. A very rare one, and all original. I got in touch with a Corvair club nearby. One of the members picked it up and it is being restored. snakejim
  9. I'm with Gerry 100% on this topic. Back in the day we dug it all, and only had a magnet on a pick as a discriminator. Digging a hole 3 foot deep for a rusty can was a total waste of time and effort. Today, I use all the features of the detector I'm using as a time saver and it works well for me. snakejim
  10. Why would you want to? Everything is balanced tuned circuits on the original Gold Bug. I sent Steve H. the shop manual for it. It takes special steps to tune the circuits for max performance with each different coil. If it's working, best to leave it alone.
  11. I bought 2 bottles of Bushmills just the other day. The store ordered it special for me. I intend to drink a toast to the old timers in this story the next time my partners and I are at our diggins. Best wishes to all! snakejim
  12. Maybe a couple of hours before I found my first nugget in a dry washers tailings pile. A Garret Deep seeker worked. 1985
  13. Jim, that sounds like a plan. Weather is still bad here also. Best wishes! Jim
  14. Jim, I have one and it's black with a white label. The label says Razorback Professional TDI Mono 5 x 10. I need to compare it to the JIMMY TDI Dual Field Mono, that I have. Also, maybe I could send the Razorback coil to you, so you could compare it with the one you have since mine says for TDI and yours says for Minelab? Jim
  15. Wow! Your store has really grown since I was there in 1980!
  16. This is a HEATHKIT GD-48 metal detector in this picture. I built one from a kit in 1968. It was my second detector. The first detector I had was a homemade unit that I built from an article in Popular Electronics magazine. It used a transistor radio as the receiver, and the transmitter and coil worked with a simple single transistor circuit.
  17. Joe, I detect in Roswell. Come on down and we will look for space junk. I tried years ago to put a hunt together here, but couldn't get access to the Crash Site near Corona because it's on a private ranch. snakejim
  18. Wilma Beaumont in Henderson Nevada was the US Distributor for Minelab when the SD2000 came out. I was a dealer at that time and received one out of the first shipment. I paid $2800 + shipping and it sold for $3495. I was probably one of the first to use one at Rye Patch. It was amazing to say the least. Sorry I don't have photos. I was way too busy to think about taking photos. What an improvement it was over the VLF detectors. snakejim
  19. Thanks Carl. That's probably what they did. I did the same thing. I had all the issues up to a few months ago and had to get rid of them when I moved. Best wishes! Jim
  20. My subscription is good until June 3, 2023. The archives only seem to go back to 2010? Any idea why? Thanks! Jim
  21. Chuck, I resemble that also! Best wishes to all! snakejim
  22. Chuck, I guess I got the dates wrong. I remember the salvage people were "Platoro Ltd"., from the Great Lakes area. I was in Corpus in 1965, and knew one the ship location because a friend of mine's Dad surf fished and found the silver Spanish coins on the beach and in the surf. Being a kid of 19, I couldn't get the gear to dive on them. I left Corpus in 1967. It took years for the courts to decide who got what, and I think a lot was lost while under protection of The University of Texas. Jim
  23. Don't try to detect on the National Seashore area on Padre Island. Big No! No! A treasure ship was recovered in 1969 just off the Gulf beach and the feds made the area off limits in 1972.
×
×
  • Create New...