LuckyLundy

My old muscles still are recouping at home. This hill side was one that you had use your pick to cut foot holds as you worked your line. Then you had to dig a hole below your target so it wouldn't slide down the hill to the old patch...where have all the easy patches gone to...lol Rick

Four members of our group met up for some hot August gold hunting in some rugged country. SDC 2300, was the choosen nugget Slayer vs our heavy GPZ for the hike up the steep hill sides that we needed to scale with the use of our hands to reach the exposed Acient channels of the hill sides. Plenty of nuggets, but to steep of and angle to keep your feet under you and swing a coil without sliding down to the bottom of the hill and working you way back to the pay zone. Tuff earned nuggets, dirty tired prospectors and some cold beers at camp...perfect hunt! Until the next hunt LuckyLundy

I don't have one! Do I want one? Does it work better than my lucky poke bottle! Rick

Norm, Hey great trip you had, to beat the skunk! I too, had some maintenance for a couple weeks at my house. Except my maintenance cost me several ounces out of the poke with new carpets, tile and a hot tub. All good now and back in action! You keep swinging and see ya in the woods...until the next hunt. Rick

I haven't posted a nugget in a while...don't get me wrong I'm out 4 to 5 days a week and having a blast at this hobby! Today, I felt like a hike and some patch hunting. So I, tightened my boot laces and loaded my pack up with water. Well as you know not every patch hunt will end up in a new patch. But you can mark some ravines and saddles off your to detect list. Lucky for me, on the way back to the truck I was able to swing through and old patch. Now just like the GPX's the GPZ coil needs to inch along when swinging over some hard it dirt. Your targets may not even make a squeak, so listen for a nosiey spot that won't balance out and bust that dirt a inch or two for enhancing the possible target! Well this nosiey spot was a good one, at 10" deep and past the trash layer I was starting to rise and eye brow and the target was screaming through my Black Widows. I had to dig out 5 or more inches and the target was overloading and not feeling like making my hole wider to find the exact spot to dig, I pulled out my pin pointer. It's a great tool and has aided me in numerous deep target locations. The pinpointer was telling me, I was on target, but was a couple more inches down. So, I cut out some more dirt and then used the pin pointer again...this time it nearly vibrated out of my hand. I fingered out a little dirt and seen a glint of gold. At least 17" deep the 1.45 dwt'er was in the poke and I headed home for some lunch...until the next hunt LuckyLundy

Rye Patch and surrounding area is tough! Don't give up there's gold there and I'm sure a small patch or two to fill your poke up in a hurry. Rick

Condor, I always leave gold to find for the next trip! Some steep country in them woods. Keep swinging and learning your new GPZ. Rick

Scott, Hey great shooting and putting your boots and coil to the ground! Due Diligence, does payoff...WTG Rick

There's good on that island and a few UXO's...have fun! Rick

Steve, I read your Garret Pinpointer article a couple days after I lost my Minelab Pinpointer somewhere in Northern Nevada's goldfields! I recently, received a new one for them pesky deep GPZ targets. The new Garret has the lanyard loop, but Minelab Pinpointer does not...I hope my tape job holds this one in the holder...I haven't heard of anyone loosing the holder, but I do have and extra one just in case...lol Rick

Tones are very important to learn. I have a handful of preferred signal tones...but not all nuggets will give these sounds. Now in Northern California in the Goldfields, we deal with tons of trash. You can spend all day dig'n trash and hot rocks...until there is a perfect gold detector, dig them all and let the scoop sort them out! LuckyLundy

Art, Hey you keep it up! Anyone can detect the deserts where your begging for any target to dig. Hunting trashy areas forces you to learn your machine and which sounds are the best to dig. In areas like your in, your looking for just one nugget to hunker down to a new patch in trashy ground...keep digging Rick

Ivan, Your GB2, can take the rough life of digging gold vs the Deus fragile frame! Rick

I tell you being retired and digging gold is like work! One day someone will invent a metal detector on wheels and will dig your holes as you sit under a shade tree listening to which tone to push the dig button...lol. I'm starting to think, I don't have Gold Fever...I have Tone Fever! I love hearing the perfect nugget tone on my GPZ, it music to my ears! I should start leaving a few, just to swing over them to brighten my day...but, I do have a couple of Daughters in College and I have a need of a cold brew in the frig, so I'll toss them in the beer fund poke! Until the next hunt LuckyLundy

Luv my big truck, plenty of room and tows my toy hauler...Go big or go home...lol Rick

Can't run it wrong, just get the coil over a target! Rick

Art, True, you have to know your ground! All you need to find is one nugget in a trashy area...just might be and over looked spot. I love Northern Nevada and it's trash free patches...but I can't find any Sushi in Lovelock...lol Rick

Art, There's nuggets under that trash...of your in a trashy patch, all trash has to be removed! Dig them all and let the scoop sort trash from nuggets! Rick

NVChris, I use to trap Coyotes with snares like that! I will have to give your idea a shot next time out. Rick

Today, I was out hunting and dug up a deep 1 grammar and them I was attacked by EMI's. It was just to much for me and I refused to hunt in High Smoothing and called it a day, only one hour into the hunt! High Yield/Normal is the preferred modes, but it doesn't like wet ground...dryer the better! Here's today's color and went home, until the next hunt and hope the ground and air is better! Rick

Art, You pull a trailer behind your vehicle? With all that stuff you won't have enough room for all your nuggets! Better safe, than sorry. Good hunting Rick

Dean, Yep if you detect in the Mother Load, there trash! That's why I like Northern Nevada, your begging for a target...lol. Here and old saying; Dig Them All, Let Your Scoop Sort Them Out!

Not every hunt is what you hope for! Nice nuggets, dinks or a Skunk is one thing for certain. My goal for today's hunt, was to burn some of the great food I had at a couple Reno Casino's over the weekend. I wanted to hunt a patch, but on the way I was swinging through and old patch first with the GPZ. I found myself keeping busy, digging up Bird Shot in this old patch which I thought we got them all. Well where there's trash in and old patch there's still nuggets left. Didn't take long before I dug up a dink, lots more BIrd Shot and another ding! From stretching out my stomach this weekend, I build up a hunger and called it a hunt. I still need to swing the GPZ on the patch I intended to today, but there's always tomorrow...Until the next hunt. LuckyLundy

Now we as prospectors deal in physical gold...the rest of the world trades paper gold. Now if all them paper holding gold bugs would call for physical gold in their safety deposit box, gold would be where we all want it! Rick

Find low and sell high, that is my motto! LuckyLundy