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  1. “When I get up there I'm going to put one of those trackers on Lundy and plot his movements by satellite to find all those secret patches.”

    Steve, where ever you live at give me a shout!  I’m always out and need more coils on the ground to find them patches!

    Jason,  ground is Good!  High Yield/Normal is working fine with low sensitivity.  As it dries out more, back to my regular setting of 9.  Found a few dink’s on last trip, which I didn’t find any the week before.  So ground is shaping up nice!  But, chilly bring heavy fleece for morning chill.

    Rick

  2. The weather may have turned for the better in Northern Nevada.  It was time to get out and check how my GPZ 7000, would handle the moisture/salt from the Winter Storms.  I pulled into the Burn Barrel to camp, but it was like pulling into a KOA.  I unloaded my trusty RZR and hit the trail to find a nugget.  I ran into several folks out trying their luck, all had smiles on their faces and enjoying our outdoor hobby.  I was told that Gerry was having his training at the Burn Barrel which explained the crowd of RV’s.  I did get time for a short visit with Gerry and Lunk, before heading out.  The soil, is a little noisy with High Yield/Normal.  Using Difficult settled it down perfectly, but not my preferred setting for dink nuggets.  Anyways, I hunted in Normal and ground balanced often to give my ears a rest from the noisy ground.  I didn’t find any dink nuggets which are the Bread & Butter to any poke, but did find a couple of Steak & Lobster nuggets before loading up and heading home from the short Dirt Recon Trip.  There’s gold out there, you just need to get your coil over it, I need some Bread & Butter Nuggets to complete my meal.  Talking about meals, my Dog Marley refused to eat his normal dog grub on this trip, and only wanted what I brought “Fried Chicken”.  Until the next Hunt!

    LuckyLundy

     

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  3. Yep, you have to meet your goals.  Having a Goal, keeps the engine running and the flame burning!  Each trip requires new unproven ground to be swung on.  If your goal is to find new spots/patches on a trip it may take a couple trips to put a pattern together to lead you to that new patch.  Swinging old spots/patches requires patience and great knowledge of your detector and recognition of tones!  It’s a great hobby and all of us are still students of it!

    Rick

     

  4. Z,

    A slow and steady swing of any detectors coil, is a major factor in finding nuggets.  If I’m swing on and old patch or a juicy looking spot, my coil is real slow.  I’m not so much of a believer of a machine charging the ground, it’s giving the little extra time for your detector to send your ears then brain to comprehend as a target, with a slow swing.  Your next slow coil target, give it a test, swing your coil over it faster...lots of times you won’t hear this target at your normal coil swing speed.  Remember, this slow swing isn’t what you want to do Patch Hunting, your only looking for one shallow nugget when out hunting new ground.  You find that one and back off a couple notches and slow your coil swing to help establish if you stumbled onto a patch.  Your deep sounding nuggets sound vary and most will sound just like a little dink nugget...you always hope with each swing of your pick that it’s a deep one which will get louder as your hole gets deeper!  Keep on swinging!

    LuckyLundy

  5. Wow!  I was looking for two old patches and I can find them!  I know I riding right past them...I hate the thought of swinging 500 acres to see if I can find them again.  WTG, Great trip and you did just miss a season ending storm that set the perfect GPZ dirt back to wet and noisy!

    Rick

  6. Oh, another thing about the RZR 570!  Seems funny being the smallest of the models that it has the largest back storage of them!  Motor is in rear and not under you so you can have a regular conversation without being drowned out with engine noise!  Cover all open spaces under the seats with good duct tape to block dust (at least I think it helps 😂)

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  7. 1 hour ago, Arky said:

    If you get back out in the next couple days look for a silver jeep with black cargo pod. Plugging away for those elusive nuts. BTW, yesterday was crowded for Rye Patch. 5 or six other rigs scattered around.  Mike

    I left yesterday mid day!  I did pass a Jeep closely following another vehicle on the main dirt road as I was heading to the Damn Dam!  Good luck

    Rick

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