Lunk

Happy birthday Lucky, way to hook a nugget!  Wonder if it works with marshmallows?

Great finds! I believe your strange horse shoe is actually an ox shoe:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/111393-oxen-shoes

Sorry Steve, didn't mean to usurp your response...my bad!?

I will venture a guess and say that perhaps the gold is alloyed with some other mineral(s) that give the nugget as a whole extremely weak coductivity? It's definitely a head-scratcher. Is there a physicist in the room?

6 minutes ago, tvanwho said:

How do you guys remember where all these gold patches are anyway and how to get back  to them in your truck or on foot without getting hopelessly lost in the desert? GPS I assume ?

 

No GPS required for me - I never forget where I've found nuggets, and I couldn't get lost in the desert if I tried because there are always landmarks to go by, but put me downtown in a big city in the middle of a bunch of skyscrapers, and I get all kinds of turned around in no time, lol!

5 hours ago, dgatleyDP said:

- you proved that these newer detectors can re-open old grounds, that the favored yellow stuff is still out there to find.  Impressive also is the size of some of those finds.  Hopefully by re-swinging over old stomping grounds - your trash targets were fewer.

Dave, you've hit the nail on the head. I knew I'd find some gold going over old patches with the Zed, but to find 300 nuggets, and some sizeable ones at that? It's a real eye opener. And yes, fewer trash targets is a definite benifit to reworking old nugget patches! ?

5 minutes ago, LuckyLundy said:

Lunk,

Great shooting!  Love that sound of them deep sweet targets and a missed section of and old patch.  Stay where your at, we just got a ton of rain up this way.

LuckyLundy

As much as I love nugget hunting the RP area, there's a saying amongst us old nuggetshooters, and quoting the legendary Smokey Baird: "never quit gold to find gold." Besides, I'm liking the warmer weather that has driven out the majority of snowbirds already. But I will be there in time for the 3-day detector training for Gerry's Detectors on April 8 through 10.

3 hours ago, strick said:

Just curious about the thorns.. what is the thorn to nugget ratio?

 

strick

Unfortunately Strick, there are WAY more thorns than nuggets, lol.

5 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Ladies and gentlemen ... it is more than what you use but Lunk finds gold where he cleaned up with his 5000, 4500, 3000, etc.

It's true, and one of the reasons I have been concentrating on these old patches is to see how much of an improvement the ZVT technology is over the PI, and I can honestly say that it is as revolutionary as PI is over VLF.

4 hours ago, DDancer said:

I guess Quartzite is offcially hunted out now ;) Hahh!  Nice work.  Love the choya in the background.

Indeed, one never wants that jumping cholla cactus in the foreground.?I'd much rather take on a rattlesnake than get n a fight with that prickly green hell, lol!

6 hours ago, ~LARGO~ said:

WTG Lunk!

Be sure to get with us on your way home!  We all want to see your finds!

Gary/Largo

 

We will plan on a nuggetshooters breakfast sometime during the last week of April...I'll let you know the exact date .

Neat little specie!

Awesome nuggets,  Rick! There's a quarter ouncer waiting for you just over the next ridge!

You're not missing anything with that setup, NB. Was the target response fairly decent or was it a fainty?

Congrats on your hard-won gold.

Can't go wrong with those nuggets, congrats!

Nice shooting!

WTG Lucky, ya just can't beat fun in the sun with a nice nugget to boot!

I did not attend, but the professor speaks at the Quartzsite Mertal Detector Club meetings on occasion; Erik is very knowledgeable and always has an excellent presentation. 

Nice!

Thanks guys...

Boulder dash: the Zed is extremely awesome.

Mitchel:  I mainly detect old worked out nugget patches and so require a detector that responds to more sizes and types of gold nuggets deeper than any detectors used on those patches in the past. Right now that machine is the Minelab GPZ 7000, and I must say the results speak for themselves...the Zed is a keeper in my book.  If that makes me a "Zed-waving elitist", then by the gods that's what I am and damn proud of it, too.?

Beatup: I know the feeling; I have to be back to work the first of May.

Rick: As soon as it warms up a bit, I'll be there! 

Steve, how do I reformat my signature?

The mighty Zed responded with a faint signal through the wireless speaker this afternoon as I passed the coil over some large surface rocks. The bench gravels had been thoroughly detected in the past, but this nuggets hiding place was finally lit up by the power of ZVT. The water-worn, watermelon seed nugget, my 200th found from the Quartzsite regional placer area this winter,  brings the grand total to 4 ounces.  Good luck out there!

WTG!