klunker

 If you get angry with being skunked you ought not be prospecting. if an extraordinary find makes you do something stupid you ought not be prospecting. I consider any nugget find as a gift.

 A visiting detectorist foolishly left his new GPX 6000 unattended so I pilfered it and I'm beating the hell out of it to see if it is up to all the hype. But I still have a hard time setting aside the 5000 or the 7000 thinking I might be passing over large deep gold.

 I'll give an honest report after I return the remains of the 6000 to it's owner.  

 It's Priceless!

So you'll have to put a price on it.

I love finding weird, out of place rocks when I'm excavating and you've found yourself a dandy. It's value is in the dreaming.

Prospectors. Where the heck do ya think the gold came from to make the jewelry?

 I use a Jeep.

3 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Just so people know, the ads you see are not the ads other people see. Google serves up ads based on your browsing history,

 Now I understand why I get so many adds for snow white wings, halos and harps.

Thanks again Mr. H for keeping this forum the absolute best.

Valuable for the gold but priceless for the history.

Mr. Norvic. There is an old family story handed down through many generations of great, great, great ,great, great, great, grampa Sven getting blown slightly off course and landing in Australia. Your treasure is coming soon. Please post photos here first.

47 minutes ago, vanursepaul said:

So i can borrow it

 Loan me the money for the 6000 then I'll loan the detector to you. But let's hold off until Mr. H. gets it all figured out.

 Veery eeenterestig. The same method worked good on the old GPX (4000 on) so this will add some possibilities to the 6000.

 The 6000 has gone from the latest/greatest to fantastic to miracle but I'm still not buying until it's been proven as magic. 

 Petrified wood is workable and can be beautiful when cut and polished. Photos of your work are required here to avoid penalties.

 You and I Peg have made my day a wee bit better.

37 minutes ago, MSC said:

conception, detection, reflection,

deception.

DANG IT! Ya scared the' heck outa' me! Thought you got a close up of a Idaho Mammoth wolf.

42 minutes ago, dogodog said:

Looks like the jeep hood got attacked by the grizzly,

 Sasquatch. Hit one at a Sasquatch crossing coming back from the claim. The injuries were so bad I nearly had to shoot it (referring to the Jeep).

On 8/30/2021 at 2:41 AM, geof_junk said:

Here is FRED and his mates.

 Fred looks like he could be handy for protection but he also looks like he might get into my lunch. I have enough trouble hiding my lunch from Sourdough Scott.

12 minutes ago, geof_junk said:

Klunker are you trying to keep everyone away from your spot

Oh Ya! Well I don't believe in crocodiles.

59 minutes ago, KD0CAC said:

I would like to come and play with , aaa fury friends & gold .

Your welcome any time....if I can outrun you,

1 hour ago, strick said:

The heck with the gold show the rest of the gun!

 It was in tiny unrecognizable pieces mixed with petrified Plumas Mammoth Grizzly scat. Sorry.

 Sourdough Scott and I have been detecting hillside that has never been mined before and doing quite well with finding gold. It confounded us both as to why this location was left untouched by the early miners. When I discovered the answer it sent chills down my spine.

 I hate it when I start finding a lot of gold in a small area because that means I have to dig all the trash even when I know it's a tin can, shovel head, copper still, or a locomotive and I am basically a very lazy prospector. To make matters worse this spot must have been where the 1927 world champion squirrel hunting competition took place as there is an extraordinary quantity of lead and brass. There are also bits of steel cable, nuts and bolts, Caterpillar parts and hobnails from numerous logging operations which occurred there through the years.

 One bit of trash that caught my attention was a pristine 50 caliber musket ball as they sound exactly like a large gold nugget. I put it in my pocket and continued on. Then, not far away, I found the remains of an ancient musket. I knew this had the makings of a Detector Prospector story so I took the ball and musket home for some forensic research. 

 Here are the horrifying results of my research findings.

 Upon microscopic examination of the musket ball I discovered a minute speck of fossilized blood. By using the DNA identification app on my smarty pants phone I discovered it was blood from the much feared Plumas Mammoth Grizzly! I then began analysis of the musket. By getting my 51 caliber finger stuck in the 50 caliber barrel I was able to conclude beyond any doubt that the musket was the very one that fired the bloody ball.

 I then closely examined the musket exterior and made three shocking discoveries! One was a patch of dried blood that proved to be from a human male of about forty years of age, dating from 1852. The next was another bloodstain that matched that which was found on the musket ball, identified as being from a Plumas Mammoth Grizzly. The third discovery (and this is where it gets scary) were bite marks which by careful measurement proved to be that of a grizzly over 11 feet tall and weighing nearly a ton! 

 The only logical conclusion from my research is that the doomed prospector discovered the same rich deposit that Sourdough Scott and I found, became distracted with finding gold and not paying attention to his surroundings, mortally wounding the grizzly when he was attacked by surprise but was disassembled by the grizzly before it succumbed from it's wound. That is why this rich strike has remained unworked for 169 years.

28 minutes ago, Sourdough Scott said:

it's just 2 weeks to slow the spread

 I dare you to drive this way and look at it this evening (8/25 17:30hrs). You think them Nevada boys would adopt us for about a month?

All of the Sierra Nevada national forests will be closed to public entry as of Sunday evening due to extreme fire danger.

 Claim holders are supposed to be treated the same as in holders (private land accessed by forest roads) but I'm sure a claim owner would be in for a #&// of a battle if he/she were to attempt to access a claim.

1 hour ago, WesD said:

a roof over their head.

 That was their mistake. Roofs are expensive along with the rest of the house to hold them up. I believe firmly that you can make a living detecting but it ain't much of a life.

33 minutes ago, HotSauce said:

No

yes.

Dang it you guys! I'm sittin' here perusing the forum while waiting for Sour Dough Scott to show up and go detecting. Now I got the snake ebbee jeebies. THANKS A LOT !

 I am assuming you didn't have a sluice box with you. You probably overlooked a heck of an opportunity.

18 minutes ago, 1515Art said:

chance knowing the risk.

anytime I'm within sight of my jeep I'm taking a risk.

Couldn't log on, too dumb to fix it myself and too proud to ask for help so I mimeographed and mailed a bunch of obnoxious and agitating letters to all the forum members knowing that Chase had no way to delete them or discipline me. The letters were all returned with postal error code 1. "Insufficient postage". So now I'm back to trying to slip something past Steve.