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Mr. delnorter; Are you sure that is Douglas Fir?! It looks a lot like Sheecan wood , which is the only kind of wood that I use.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eaton Jr. I can see from your post that I now have serious competition for not only multi ounce sun bakers in this area but also for the really big nuggets hiding at great depths. I can also see that I have competition for stories that some Philistines here seem to always have doubts about the absolute truth thereof. I will give you fair warning here and now that I have the entirety of Plumas county under claim. Should you attempt to sneak into my area with a detector (I have spies at the state line inspection station) you may very well learn why there are so many spent cartridges and old bullets scattered about in the supper rich detecting places. And welcome the the forum.

Mr. Oostra. Sir! Your fraudulent video has wasted nearly a minute of my life. Furthermore it caused my to book a non refundable passage on the next steamer sailing for Australia. For the lost precious minute I hold Mr. Herschbach responsible and for the cost of my steamer fare I hold you responsible and expect compensation - in gold. There needs to be a firm rule against spoof posts on this site.

Mr. karelian Because I have never strayed very far from my tiny little corner of the Sierra Nevada mountains posts like yours with photos, history and personal experiences are my favorite in this forum. You Aussies might try passing the law that we have here, which is "All poisonous snakes must have an audible warning device attached to their tails".

I want to thank all you ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you for your replies. I am not any wiser but I am quite entertained. But what he heck, you know me, I'll take good entertainment over wisdom any day. Photo credits go to Sourdough Scott.

Do any of you geeolodgik jeanyussez have a good theory for the formation of these nuggets? They were all found within about 50' of each other using an excavator and a7000.

I will save Mr.H some trouble and self edit my political comments. Here in Northern California the ------ ------ - ----- - --- ---! And therefore ----- -- ------- - ----- -- -, ----- - --- - ------- -- - However we can all ---- - -------- --- - -------- ----- ------- ------ ---- --- but only if we work together by ------ ------- --- ------ ------ ---- ---- and ------- -- --------- ---- - -- ------- -- ---- --. There are still a lot of opportunities here in the Northern Sierras but that is only because it requires a lot of very hard work to take advantage of them.

I don't know how it happened but it looks as though my post "Sourdough Scott Survives Encounter With Big Cat" seems to have been mistakenly read as having something to do with wild animals. Perhaps this photo will provide needed clarification. This beast was a Deese' Ven.

Call them what you will- Mountain Lion, Big Cat, Cougar, Deese' Ven, Puma..... Until you encounter one real close you cannot comprehend the size and awesome power of these man-eating beasts. Sourdough Scott had such an encounter. I gave him fair warning. As we drove down a steep, narrow trail to our destination I ask him if mountain lions made him nervous while detecting. He said "Not at all. My dog will let me know if anything is amiss." His dog "Rooster" is one of the best detecting dogs Ive ever been with so I didn't worry. When we arrived at our destination the first thing we noticed were it's tracks. They were huge! The pads were bigger than any cougar tracks I have ever seen. Sourdough grabbed his detecting gear and head off while I was looking for my pick (and headphones and battery). When I caught up with Sourdough, there he was, within the clutches of a Big Cat! When it comes to heroic bravery I am one of the the bravest among mortals and I also posses uncommon wisdom. Which told me to run like hell, so I did. When I got back to the mining rig I got to thinking "this isn't right to just abandon my prospecting partner to a painful death. So I scrounged around in my backpack until I found my Kodak Instamatic camera. I know that gruesome and disgusting photos of human misfortune are all the rage these days so I figured a few photos could be worth thousands. When I returned to what I thought would be the scene of a tragedy, there was Sourdough Scott grinning like a conquering Gingus Kan and the Big Cat lay torn to pieces. Boy was I disappointed. There went my thousands. We continued on our detecting trip with beautiful scenery and perfect fall weather and found enough gold to justify a return trip before winter sets in. A good time was had by all.

Perhaps Mr. H. should have a Lost and Found section where you could post things like "Lost . Old black prospecting Jeep. Lost somewhere in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains. Please return to Klunker." Or "Found peanut butter jar full of large gold nuggets PM Klunker, care of this forum." As we all get older this might be a big hit.

Well Gerry, I would have replied sooner but I misplaced my keyboard. Years ago when I was falling timber I would carry a stout single bit axe for driving wedges. I was forever leaving it behind and loosing it. One day my falling partner said "did you loose your axe again?" I told him "yup. I have a hard axe to follow."

Nope. I was up there yesterday shooting at claim jumpers.

Wow! have an alarm clock that is nearly identical to yours. I us it when I have to get up early for a job that I don't want to do.

Mr. LL; When temperatures and forest fires moderate here it's not that far from Reno.

GB; can I barrow your car?

mn; From your description it sounds like this person was a human. Humans can be the worst kind of people.

shoe goo

I learn something new every day- in spite of myself.

The best audio processor ever made is still the one between your ears. But I concur with tboykin that with today's tecknawlogee you would think that there would be a great leap forward in the audio department of a detector. So how bout a trainable detector where each time you find a target it stores all the audio information for each target and you push button that that says "good target" (gold for nugget hunting / non ferrous for coins an relics) or" bad target" (hot rocks / trash) so that after a couple of hundred target digs the detector would be "trained". I think about these things because there is no depth to my laziness.

If they were actually printing it I might be able to snag a little bit of it as it flies by but it's all done digitally - and I hate computers ( except the ones inside nugget detectors).

How low might the dollar go?

I am also a native to the community. Barbie was a young blond lady who had distinct, rugged topography. She didn't talk much and could be rather stiff at times. I would often kidnap her and hold her for ransom from my sister. This is a very small community so it must be the same Barbie. Nice find. I love a mystery.

Sourdough Scott is my psychiatrist.

O.K. somebody has to be the adult in the room so I guess this time it has to be me. What did the best gold detector cost in 2011? what did a good beer cost in 2011? What did license and registration fees for my Jeep cost in 2011? What did bail to get Sourdough Scott out cost in 2011? What did my psychiatrist cost in 2011? I submit to you folks that gold was worth more @ $1921 in 2011 than @ $1940 today. However I'll take whatever gold price increase I can get and this time it looks like it could hold.

I'm sorry to give you all this bad news but you will be deprived of my wisdom for two weeks. Does any one here know who has the cheapest air fare to Scotland?