LuckyLundy

Art, We aren’t that far behind you! But, looking at Northern Nevada...over all cooler in the Summer and plenty of Prospecting and close enough to head over the hill to my old haunts. Rick

Now, I no longer own a GPX, but I swung the GP/GPX series for many years. That 12 x 15 Commander is a work horse and will find very small nuggets as well as large. Sounds like you know your ground, so swing slow and low over your favorite spots. The 8” Commander is another great coil for clean up of the small nuggets, but it will punch down deep for a large one too. The “Little Saddie” works good too, for cleaning up a patch. The GPX, is not the best on course type nuggets. What really surprised us was the SDC 2300. This machine will clean up the small Nuggets your GPX or any coil on it will not hear. Good Luck LuckyLundy

You need more gold, keep moving dirt!

Peg, Yep, a lot of slow trips when hunting new ground for patches! Glad you found a few and seen some nice Country! LuckyLundy

Enjoy that cloud cover! Rick

Scott, is that a Coffin, them kids are panning in? ?. WTG Rick

Should be clearing that tomorrow for the rest of the week...finally! Rick

WTG! Yep, that Rye Patch dirt is a tuff gig when damp. Glad you powered thru it and found a few nuggets. October, is a good month historically for great soil conditions. But, this year who knows, lol. LuckyLundy

WTG! Keep swinging and keep warm

Wes, I’m right there with you! That little Blue Coil, is awesome...and we’ve dug up some crazy deep nuggets. Now if Coiltek, would come out with and ergo friendly detector fram and box to swap out the computer board and stuff it in theirs, I’d be all over it! Rick

Wow! WTG Rick

WTG! Rick & Robin

Happy Turkey ?Day! Rick

You did the right thing! Dig them all and let the scoop sort them out! It’s all about learning them tones, WTG Rick

Back in the saddle, again! Rick

WTG! There’s more Rick

Swegin, I tell you that new Super Cooler is the real deal! It’s a Cabelas and I’m sure all these new coolers are made by one company, with little twists to make them a little different from other brands. Now mine is a true 80 quart and I was using a 150 quart Igloo. Needless to say, I’m looking at bigger cooler now. It’s to small for my off grid hunts and my beer ? is fighting with my chicken ? ?. Rick

Art, Thats a great spot for that rock! Drop me a PM, if you head back and I’ll see if it’s on my schedule...looks like you had some luck, but I know it’s a long haul for you...only a couple hundred miles from my home and I hate driving past gold to find gold, lol Rick

NightHunter, Very sound info in the posts above! Find your closest placer to home and spend all your time there learning it! Don’t be afraid, to ask other Prospectors in that area questions. Clubs you join, maybe just clubs and they sit around camp most the day...find the most knowledgeable person in one of your club and take a few notes or a pointy finger to help you out in your quest for your 1st nugget! Even though you have a GPX 5000, your setting maybe wrong for the soil conditions of that placer. If you’ve read a few of my last posts there isn’t many easy duck shallow nuggets in old beat up placers. And if your in a shooting range, move no need digging more bullets. Like Phrunt, mentioned only dig small sounding targets, hit under brush, bushes and trees. Swing your coil like your shoe laces are tied together, very slow if you think your in a good spot. You aren’t the first detectorist in the old placers and your looking for the leftovers which will be the smallest of signals that a slow coil will give you the best chance of hearing it...good set of headphones too... become one with your detector! If that doesn’t work by the end of Winter, get a hold of me in Spring and I’ll tap my foot on some lucky dirt to bust your skunk! LuckyLundy

Art, what part of the country where ya hunting? Don’t tell me you where in Rye Patch and I was out there too! Cause, I came home last night because of the wind...I didn’t see your cool Jeep, but my eye where full of dust! Rick

Art, good shooting for them elusive nuggets! I zoomed into the nice red rock and didn’t see any liquid silver spots, might have to run it over a few times to get it to show, lol. Glad your still on the hunt! Rick

Joe, Some Prospecting trips are tough! Others trips make it look like you might know something that others don’t! Lucky ? coil finding needles in vast open spaces is amazing. As you know, I just got home last night from a two day hunt, picking up nuggets, I left! Think, I’ll take a break and swing on this side of the hill before the snow falls in the high country! Here’s my end poke, Until the next Hunt. LuckyLundy

Those little round nuggets are tough to hear! Kind of stealth with less surface to send back to coil for your ears to hear. Every poke needs this size of nuggets to fill the voids between the bigger nuggets ?. Good shooting Rick

For those that don’t follow me on Facebook this is the end result of 3-days behind my GPZ at Rye Patch. Robin and I, just got home from a big group hunt at Rye Patch and a few days later one of my partners said, he was heading back up. I already had three other buddies there that didn’t make it to the outing and his call got me off the fence to pack my truck up with my gear. Surprised my new Super Ice Chest still had some ice in it too! If you followed my last posting we all had a great trip, but the wind was doing what wind does...keeps nuggets out of your poke. It creates all kinds of noise to fight to hear a faint signal or tones while metal detecting. I knew we left nuggets behind on this hot little patch. Not a puff of wind and the area produced like I was hoping. We took advantage of the warm calm Autumn Desert on a handful of other old huants and if you listened close, you could hear the whispers and cheers of times past while adding to the poke of memories of the present! Leave no nugget behind...I always leave them behind, it’s what keeps me motivated to come back! 5 of us added nuggets and good times to our pokes. Below is my harvest (keeping it in season) of the Great Pumkin Patches of Rye Patch! LuckyLundy

Wes, I’m back in the high desert! Rick