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

Lunk, Your my Hero ?! You know what it takes to be consistent in our great Hobby! Rick

Norm and Mitch, It’s always good to see your smiling faces. Low and slow, if it’s repeatable dig it, it’s all about the Tones which are the GPZ’s target signals in beat up placers! See both of you soon. Rick

Gerry, your more than right! I know the GPZ 7000, is the best Minelab Detector I’ve ever owned and I’m sure the next GPZ series will continue to make me smile as well. Rick

Years ago, when I started to hunt Rye Patch I knew it was well past it’s hey days! Yet, I continued to see nuggets being found there by others Prospectors! Our group, finally started to pop some gold after wearing out several sets of boots and skid plates on our old trusty GPX’s. With the new generation of Minelab Detectors, SDC 2300 and the GPZ 7000, it was a new game. Having cut our teeth on the learning curve of both new detectors on the California side of the hill, we set our sites to Northern Nevada. Multitude of hours by our group to establish productive ground and techniques with our GPX’s, lead our new detectors to what seemed like brand new patches of gold. This last outing was no different! One of our hunting members had a moment of Total Recall and remembered a few years back that we found a few nuggets in a spot with our old GPX’s. Well we hit the spot swinging and soon our detector’s started to sing back to us! Now remember, I was out there a couple weeks ago, trying to track down a couple new spots for this group hunt trip. I didn’t find any new spots on that trip and we didn’t even hunt the old spots on this trip, which I did good on. Now, there is only one way to run the SDC and that’s turn it on, it’s and incredible detector and the operators of it on this trip pulled teens of nuggets with it. But, you have to know the variable sounds of the SDC when you run the coil over a target that set you apart from others swinging the same machine over the same dirt. It’s the same with the GPZ 7000, you really can’t run it wrong, just turn it on! You make it run for you and your inner self. Sure I have settings, I like and so does everyone in our group of Prospectors. You have to know what it’s telling you if it’s a target or not, there isn’t many Duck nuggets left in any old gold field(s). Air testing or burying a test nugget does not reproduce any of these nugget signals (tones). I’m still learning tones of the GPZ and will never be and expert of them. The sweet tones of a nugget, I do have lock in my mind is what keeps me and boot makers happy! Lucky...No - spend the time in your local gold field, might take a few pairs of boots, skid plates and multitudes of digging holes in hot ground and rocks to learn the tones of your settings of your detector. We had a great time, even though the wind was crazy windy and made Detecting a challenge - Persevere, press on regardless! Until the next hunt Here’s Robin’s and my 2 1/4 day hunt total in dwts