LuckyLundy

We had a 3 party hunt scheduled Condor, LuckyLarry and myself.  I set sail East Bound and down on I-80 to Rye Patch from Reno.  I texted the Boyz and received a text back from Condor that his Truck was sick and couldn’t make this trip!  Well just meant more Rib Eyes on my dinner plate!  LuckyLarry, was on his way from Elko to Rye Patch and the timing was perfect he followed me in to our camp site!  Temperature Gauge was a solid 97 at the 3 O’Clock hour.  Larry, hunted out here in the Hey Days of Rye Patch.  He was just learning Gold Detecting back then and scored many nice nuggets!  But, ended up being a Top Notch Relic Hunter.  That’s how we met.  We met on the Internet with me needing some old Relic’s ID.  He was my go to guy to tell me the history of anything I’d dig up in the Goldfields of California.  Of course, I avoided these extra trashy old camp sites and would pass the location to Larry for his Relic hunts when he traveled to California.  We set up camp and hopped into my RZR Buggy into the heat to swing our 6000’s on my old patches.  Finding left over nuggets that our older models missed, but the heat!  Had to hit a 100 before some clouds moved in to cool things down!  Them clouds had rain and in front of them was the wind.  Headed back to Camp to beat the rain, as I left my Trucks Windows half open which was the way the wind and rain was blowing in.  Made it back to camp wet Windows up with a gust of wind that had to be over 50 mph.  Well early to bed with showers on and off and the next morning with more rain to heavy to detect in which gave us time to eat some cookies and for me to remember where some more old patches where at to swing on.  Gone for 4-Days with 2 1/2 days of good detecting!  We ended up with 20 Dinks each!  Two Lucky 🍀 guys with plenty of smiles for our efforts fighting Mother Natures last blasts of Summer!  I figure I’m now about 80% done with having the 6000 over our old patches in Rye Patch.  I’m sure we left gold in the patches we hunted for further visits…never can get them all and every day is a different day!

Until the next Hunt!

LuckyLundy

Max,

Stick to your day job!  There’s way more than just swinging your coil for 4 hours a day!  Many will say it’s Location/Location.  Well locating a Location is a big part of the hunt for gold.  Now some find more Gold than others and some it takes a year or more to find their first detected nugget on their own. Now, if you keep it simple and enjoy the outdoors for the peace of mind and exercise this is a great hobby.  This hobby, has been very good to me and my Wife.  But, there’d be some dinner plates with Beans with no Bacon and only Water to wash it down with.  To be successful in this hobby, requires to get off the beating path, each Gold District has different signs of where to begin your search for detectable nuggets.  Sure you can make extra income in this hobby.  But, a many of times, I considered collecting Butterflies.  Get out there for the adventure and the thrill of our hobby...making extra change at it will follow!

LuckyLundy

Recouped from the 4th of July BBQ Party under the new Pergola.  I loaded up my truck in the hot driveway and set my sights Eastbound I-80 to the Rye Patch area.  Leaving at 1530 hrs (3:30 pm) and looking at my Thermometer on trucks dash bouncing from 99 to 101 for the 1 1/2 drive.  I wasn’t smiling but, but eager!  I wanted to put my thoughts to the information I received from a couple of my partners who hunted Rye Patch the week before finding 13 nuggets in a day and half, before the heat sent them home.  The first spot I hit, was in the shade of the Eugene Mountain, I just hit the area we did best at with the 2300 and 7000’s.  No Joy, but a few trash targets!  Loaded up and off to the next spot to hunt till dark.  This spot we killed the little patch with 2300 and 7000’s.  Again, I hunted the heart of the patch!  No Joy, with same results!  Oh, by now you might be asking what settings was I using.  Normal ground, Auto Plus w/Threshold and headphones.  Machine was running great with mid day EMI’s down to minimal.  I hunted till past dark with no Joy, same results with small trash targets!  Putting my partners information together with my current results, I drove off in the Moonless darkness of the high desert to my next location.  I’ve been to this area countless times and still missed my turn.  I parked on a Patch we camp for the evening.  Had some left over Baby Back’s from the party and was enjoying the cool breeze in my face!  Up at 0500, boots on and geared up, I hit this patches best spots with no Joy!  OK, now to a hottest dirt patch to put our thoughts together!  This patch the ground is hot and we never could run the 2300’s on 5, and ran kind of ragged on 4.  7000’s High Yield/Normal was tiresome to your ears and mind to listen for targets!  Again, I set my sight to the hot spots of this patch to see the power of the new 6000.  I was surprised it would run in the same setting as I was using in the prior milder patches.  Running great, in the still cool morning.  I swung over to one of the sweet spots of this patch and Bam.  Amongst, dozens of old dug holes a nice loud signal.  There wasn’t hardly any trash on this patch, but it still had me thinking maybe we dropped something from out trash pouches?  A couple boots scraps and looking at the family soil told me it’s not trash.  Clearing off the area with my boot so the coil would cover the target.  I tested it in different sensitivity setting.  Seemed the highest Manual setting was louder than Auto Plus?  But, it heard the target down to the lowest setting!  Well, time to see what it is, 7 inches down and out, it’s in my hand!  A little .549 gram nugget in a sea of dig holes that we pounded.  I was impressed!  Swung the area well with no other Joy.  I swung over to another hot spot of the 2 acres patch.  Seeing all the old dig holes, I wondered!  I didn’t have to wonder much any longer and I heard a nice sweet little tone familiar to my ears!  Couple boot scraps of the fluffy ground cover dirt and down to hard pack dirt!  It sounded shallow.  A couple more hard boots scraps and the target was out and into my hands a little .152 gram dink.  Wow!  This 6000 in my mind would be a fresh patch Destroyer!  Mild or hot ground, it wouldn’t take long to empty the vault, just keep digging!  Ok, the cool morning was evaporating with the Sun well above the Mountains shade lines. I wanted to swing some deep nugget spots on some old patches at Rye Patch that my Partners didn’t have time for.  On the Move again, to beat the heat.  Donned my gear and swinging on deep nugget ground with 1 bar left on my battery.  Machine, still in Max setting and running well with the expected retuning of the rapped rising temperature.  No Joy at either of the two different deep patches, I chose at Rye Patch.  I didn’t swing the Burn Barrel, but my Partners did and pulled 5 off it the week prior, which they ended their sweat feast 1 1/2 day hunt there!  Burn Barrel, will always produce!  Well, I agreed with my partners assessments of their hunt to mine!  6000 is not a 7000 killer which Minelab says!  But, it’s light weight and deadly and really is sensitive as the amount of little trash pieces I picked up in the heart of several whirlwind patches in this Beat The Heat hunt.  I know there is gold left on every patch I stopped at, but I wasn’t there for extended amount of time!  So, the patches we want to hit are the ones that gave our 7000’s the most difficult settings problems.  My Partners in California, are having a blast in the hot difficult grounds of many Hydraulic Pits where running the 7000 in High Yield/Normal was impossible.  So, no your ground with the 6000 for best results.  Until the next Hunt!

LuckyLundy

These are today’s freshly dug nuggets from a Patch that’s had every metal detector known to man swing on it!  My Buddy, is enjoying his 6000 to say the least.  NorCal, Hydro Pit!

Of Course, I use to enjoy a nice cool Creek in the hot California Summers.  Those days are long gone, I’m sure of?  I’ve chunked a mountain of Cobbles to get to bedrock to see crevices stuffed with nuggets...miss that part of dredging.

What a time for the new GPX 6000 to arrive in the middle of Summers heat waves!  Well members of our group couldn’t wait a day longer with their batteries fully charged on the 6000.  Heat or not they found nuggets from Arizona, California and Rye Patch.  As I, was busy in the backyard with Honey-do’s!  As I, was doing my thing, the Boyz where filling me in on what they liked about the 6000 and what they didn’t from the Goldfields to my backyard!  One was the Battery doesn’t last for a full day of Summer Swinging!  Another, was even though super light weight hanging onto 4 pounds all day you need a Bungee System!  We have extra batteries in order.  The GPZ 7000 Harness is a hot one as I was thinking!  I have something I’ve had for years somewhere in my garage!  I found it, fitted it on and added a bungee on the 6000.  I gave it a whirl around my garage!  It’s from Doc’s Detecting Supply same place our new GPX 6000’s came from, it called “The Swingy Thing.”  I tell you my arm even swinging the Monster needs a break now and then.  Anyways, The Swingy Thing is super lightweight and has Alligator strength Clips to fasten to your pants like a pair of Suspenders!  Should help out on Plumbers Cracks too! 😂  Also, seems the 6000 doesn’t like to swing next to other 6000’s.  I asked my Partners how bad, well it seems no more patch sharing in close (25 yard) tight patches!  Anyways, the Boyz are happy with the nuggets their finding on our old patches!  Here’s to some new patches!  I’m ready to hit the Goldfields and hopefully no more big chores around our new home in Reno.

LuckyLundy