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Nice Barbie.....!!!!!!

Crickets here also.....  Then again, I've only bought new an SDC, GPX5000, eTrac, and a Goldmonster so I guess I don't count.....

Still snowed out and going crazy......

Yeah.....  I stumbled onto the show last Fri. after Gold Rush and enjoyed the shit outta it!!!!!

Wow....enjoyed his posts....bummer

JW mentioned "You generally can't buy anything with gold."....  I traded 1 ozt for $1400 worth of dental work recently.  Asked my dentist if interested in a trade and he jumped!  In Alaska you can buy damn near anything with gold, including raw wild gold.  There's a lot of "gold bugs" out there that are very willing to buy or trade for gold....so don't completely discount gold as a means of monetary exchange.   jmo

Bored to tears and holed up like everyone else, but I can't bitch too much as I got a nice warm place to hole up in and enjoy looking out the dirty kitchen window at our local elk all bedded down in the yard.  Pic taken today...…  We worry about corona and the elk worry about CWD....

19 minutes ago, beatup said:

Funny you mentioned dogs Swegin we now have around 8 miles of trails on the ranch that let folks come out and walk , ride bikes or horses and i can't tell you how many i  see come back to the parking lot and their dogs have a shed in their mouths .

Nice sheds beatup!!!  Brought back memories of my avid shed hunting days. Cancer slowed me down so hiking the steep stuff for sheds has stopped except for some detecting.  Horn buyer was just setting up chair and Buying Antlers sign in town a few yrs back so I asked him to follow me home cause I wanted to sell my sheds. I kept a few of the best ones and here's what he drove off with. Averaged $9.30lb for these which was 7-8 yrs worth of shed hunting....

watch youtube detecting vids while you are waiting for the snow to quit piling up on the pass separating you from the gold fields (as you slowly go nuts from detecting withdrawals )……….☹️

Reese....  Why not do the show in C'dA…the 14th & 15th????  Probably a lot of traffic due to Spokane overflow, price of gold, and general cabin fever???  

I bought an sdc and have about 1.5-2 months before I can bust her out.  I wanted to give Rob A. @ Rob's Detectors a plug because of the great service and what I believe to be an exceptional deal he offered up!!!  Thanks again Rob and I can't wait to get out with the new weapon....

Ditto what GBA said... unfortunately with the enviremental damage that nickel coins take when in the ground with all the pitting, etc. that alone will pretty much make your excellent find kinda worthless...except for the fact that you found it....

Take some steel wool and rub the coin to accent what few highlights the coin still has and put it in a flip and add to your collection and enjoy it....  don't worry about hurting the "value" as it really has none in the condition it's in....jmo

Looking at the coin again it may be too far gone to even use the steel wool with any improvement?

Here's a pic of some nickels I've used the steel wool on and if you look closely at some of the real pitted ones it sometimes makes them look even worse....  so be careful.  Bottom line tho is you really can't hurt that coin much more.....imo

$1645 last I seen.....  sold most all my silver a month ago along with 2 ozt. gold @ 1545.....glad I only sold 2 ozt and get a warm fuzzy feeling hanging on to the rest of my stash....  In paper terms gold has been my best investment over and above interest, dividends and stock trades.....Go GOLD!

nothing wrong with 5 itty bitties…  I'll dig those all day long if and when I can find em...they're fun, and they avoid the dreaded skunk!  HATE the skunk.....

Thanks for the story and pics!  Helps a guy in cold country get thru winter dreaming of warmer weather, gold, and some sun!

Great catch!!!!   

What I wouldn't give to detect open easy flat ground like that....!!!!  One of these days...…….

Beautiful pics.....

how do these sob's always find my secret spots.....??????

Yes indeed....hunt every inch of it!!!!

Yes.....

Tesoro Golden sabre II..... used for 22yrs as 1st detector (dug 7300+ coins within first 7 months then quit counting)

Minelab eTrac....  used for 4 seasons has paid for itself if I throw in the 4 gold rings also dug

Minelab Gold Monster also paid for itself 1 season (barely)….

Still working on paying for gas, extra do-dads, coils, camper trailer, etc. etc.....lol

  Enjoyment...PRICELESS!!!!!!

Forgot to mention the 2 that I didn't get paid for:

Tesoro Tejon.... I was upgrading from my 22yr old Golden Sabre II and the Tejon did give me the depth I wanted but in the course of digging only 65 coins with it I got tired of digging 8-10" for some junk due to lack of information?  After following many forums I noticed all the eTrac forums had all the good old coins posted much higher than all the other forums so I made the switch over to Minelab eTrac and then trash to treasure flip-flopped 180 degrees and the old coins really showed up!  Adios to the Tejon and Tesoro...

Minelab GPX5000....  Kinda knew I wouldn't care for it just because of the weight but tried one anyway.  Used it on a couple hunts for a total of approx. 12 hrs.  Hated the weight, hated wearing headphones, hated all the damned cords getting hung up in the brush, hated that harness, hated adjusting bungee going uphill or down, not much for discrimination.  Then digging 2 junk targets about 18-20" deep once I said to self..."I'll bet that took over an hour to dig 2 targets?" so I went back to PU to check time and right at 1 hr.  Sold the GPX imeadiately at $400 loss.  If I hunted ground that wasn't so steep, brushy, and loaded with blowdown(s) I'd have kept it.  I will say it sure did quiet down the hot rocks...I miss that!  jmo

Hope everyone has a truly GOLDEN year...!!!!!!

You ain't the only cat guy here and now that we are being politically correct and standing up for cat rights (in a dog world)  I'll just have to post 2 of my girls (got 3 cats, no dogs) to balance things out on this dog biased thread!.....lol

His name is Quadzilla…!!!!!  He has 4-wheel drive (locker), hauls in all my stuff, plows my driveway, don't have to feed him when not in use, he never barks, never runs deer, never strays, and will last forever as long as I take care of him.  19yrs now and no signs of slowing down or letting up....

3 minutes ago, DigsAlot said:

We are not nay saying him. It is valuable help that if he follows he will keep adding to his growing stack of nuggets.

Glad you said that.... I surely meant no ill intent or disrespect in my earlier comment, just speaking truth...imo

that seatie is a sweetie!!!!!!  Found seated half and 6-7 seated dimes but the quarter still managed to elude me to this day.  Pretty much quit coin shootin last 2-3 yrs......

The recovery was quite painful to watch (you'll get better at it) but in the end you got it....and a nice one at that!!!!!!!

he's got friends...go get em!!!😉