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

You all seen them Airless tires? Looks like when and if, they come out for vehicle use you'll have new rims and tires! That would be the perfect tire, no flat tires! You can Google it and there is some Videos on YouTube too. Rick

Chris, we didn't see anybody either...some big country out there with nuggets to find on! Spencer, I know the feeling...got to get your gold fix! We have a great hobby with many different levels to have fun, Until the next hunt! Rick

Well it wasn't the best of weather this week in the Rye Patch area. One day it was very windy and all I could hear was these three nuggets! The next day was much better and all I found was dinks, what's up with that...lol. Headed home today to beat the rain called for Friday and ran into some May Snow Flakes at Donner Pass...love them new tires! Until the next hunt LuckyLundy

Hey great shooting up there! That will be the place when the heat is on this Summer! Rick

Art, Your trusty Mercedes must look sharp with them new tires! For a little bigger tires look into some bigger air bags to lift it up a bit. But those new 245/70's are just fine, GoodYear Wranglers are great tires! Rick