Lunk
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Twenty years of experience does make a difference, but judging from your posts you're doing just fine Fred - best of luck to you.
I really appreciate the kind words guys, thanks.
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WTG! Good thing you didn't have any cavities to have to fill with the gold.?
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Fred, I have found nuggets under the rock piles, but typically they can show up anywhere within (and outside) of the raked areas.
Beside me? Most say they want to walk in front of me...swinging their detector! ?
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Well Dave, I'm too young to care and old enough not to give a sh!#...lol!?
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No worries Condor, those are some nice "corn flake" nuggets...good shooting!
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Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!
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1 hour ago, tvanwho said:
Happy Bday Lunk, you give the rest of us some hope...ps, what is the weather like in Quartzite in Feb/March/April? Do you camp out in the desert or get a motel room or ?
-Tom
It's no-frills desert camping for me...I'm no stranger to austerity. Weather is sunny; climate data here: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/quartzsite/arizona/united-states/usaz0180
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38 minutes ago, hawkeye said:
It is very interesting seeing that picture of the worked-patch on flat ground. I am a Quartzsite rookie and have wondered if walking that flat ground that is everywhere would produce results. I am now only 298 nuggets short of my 300th this year, and they both came out of a small wash.
Well, there's an old prospectors' saying - a nugget in the wash is worth ten on the hill...
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2 minutes ago, hawkeye said:
Best wishes, and wow 300!
In the last picture, are you the ambitious soul who did all the raking?
No, just illustrating what an old, worked-out patch looks like.
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Today I'm one year older and the poke is seven nuggets golder! It's also a special day because I unearthed Quartzsite nugget number three-hundred. Who knew there were that many pieces of gold hiding in these old, worked-out patches??
Good luck out there!
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Steve H. had a couple of tips here:
Free bonus tip, do not forget about the hidden reset button on the WM 12 as shown below. Also, keep the module in clear line of sight with the pod on the GPZ. The signal has a hard time going through the human body so keep the module on your side closest to the hand gripping the GPZ.
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That's some bad-ass Baja prospecting; congrats on more hard-won gold!
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One of those desert tortoises followed me around while I was detecting a few years back, also near Q; who knows, maybe it's the same one?
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Happy birthday Lucky, way to hook a nugget! Wonder if it works with marshmallows?
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Great finds! I believe your strange horse shoe is actually an ox shoe:
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Sorry Steve, didn't mean to usurp your response...my bad!?
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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?
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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!
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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! ?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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 .
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I won't even try to dissuade you from your horrific plan Rusty, because I like pie.?Just make sure it doesn't have high fructose corn syrup this time, lol!