vanursepaul

23 hours ago, strick said:

Sounds like you're already screwed Paul because July 5th is this coming Tuesday not Sunday lol

Strick

So OCD Strick 🤣

See I already managed to get the wrong day of the week, but at least the 3rd was right!!!

 Sounds like all things remain the same 😵

30 minutes ago, HotSauce said:

Hope you find a flight, so many cancelations.

Done and dusted

Leaving LAX Sunday July 3 to OZ..🤠

Stay tuned for a probable interesting dramatic time..lolol

The Taskmaster was probably at the pub have a "burger" (inside joke) and chips~~~ or a steak sandwich 

 Hey ya Northeast

I will read long stories like this one all day long.🤩

Top job mate!
 

im still waiting on my visa to come thru…. 28 days and counting..

kind of a shocker to me, had to cancel tickets over and hotels…

last 3times only took a week or less

anyway, always good to see someone going to WA and having a good go!

And sounds like you did pretty well with the 6…. 16 grams n

may be the biggest piece I heard of anyone finding.

Once again, good job🤠

Looks like a snorkel rig

16 hours ago, Andyy said:

Hang on tight to that hip stick. I tried to find them in Arizona and they are unavailable (a must for the GPZ7000 ... unless you are a hulk).

JP???

Looks like you have been peeling out trying to keep up with Klunker..🤠 

Here are a pair I got for WA when it gets cold and I cant wear the 4x4 thongs

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089K3SFNS?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

They also have metal eyelets all the way unlike the picture--- i can drill them out just like i did a pair over a Klunkers a few years back... im not worried about the top ones being metal--The gold we hit is so big they dont make a difference.🤣

Battle belt is the foundation for your harness system Scotty... You can add the right suspenders and then use you imagination on things to carry around the belt- I had a first aid pouch, 2 canteen covers, and a butt pack that i carried stuff in. Be sure your suspenders have the chest strap so they dont slide off when  you bend over to dig. 

I also use Load bearing harness instead of a full backpack-- the belt is great for the hipstick (its about 5 inches wide with Molle on it so the hipstick mount will slide right in after a little mod. This type gear also keeps the pack down on the belt and off your back which is cooler in the summer, And it also allows you to use a drag loop on the top back of the harness to put your pick in to keep it right in the center of your back up high. I'll try to find a picture i have of the rig i made.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LWAEaGhBS1kUDa856

On 6/13/2022 at 9:36 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

I'd be surprised if anyone on the forum has one. Most people probably don't know it exists. I expect performance would be similar to other Nokta/Makro 61 kHz models like the Gold Kruzer. But mainly I think we have reached the point with dedicated single high frequency nugget hunters that it's all pretty ho hum, same half dozen or the other type stuff. The tech is rather well beat to death now. What I'm more interested in is a multi made 100% for nugget detecting. Look how well the Equinox does on gold as a multipurpose detector, and almost as an accident at that. I can only imagine a Multi-IQ detector made specifically for nugget detecting from the ground up. Or the Nokta version of what they have with Legend, but again, nuggets only. I do think single frequency is in effect obsolete at this point. Not that it does not work, just that the future is elsewhere.

 

Well I am a new owner of one after I succumbed to many hours of Gerry's high pressures sales pitch and electronic thumbscrews!!! 🤣

Seriously-- i have done the Monster in WA~~~~~~~ and i gave it to the Taskmaster--

I love to test them out----

I will take the F19 over with me too,,,, although the 5000 is my go to --it is the first PI i finally connected with and feel confident in. 

In those super trashy areas I want to see how these two detectors do there.

Now all i have to do is get there-- the "Blame it on Covid excuse" popped up again when i talked with immi about my Australian Visa--

( i thought i would have it by now-- my last 3 only took a week) what an easy way to explain away incompetence.

Never the less i will be there when i get there-- now off to cancel flights and rearrange ...

Its all good--- at least I have another detector to either have fun with or throw underneath the backhoe as she goes by... hahahahahahaha

Looks like a piece of slag

21 hours ago, Norvic said:

Ah no worse!!!! not possible.... is it????? Tanks ... 

I see what you did there,,, devil dog

21 hours ago, Norvic said:

Ah ha now i know who you folks are on about, downunders trembling and the lads not here yet!!!!

Hahahahaahaha....

16 hours ago, Trent King said:

I’m making a list of all the people bagging out my lovely little town and your all getting coal for Christmas.

Dont know why you need a detector Paul, you spent 90% of your time at the pub with me last visit 🍻

Only because i was buying-- otherwise no one wanted to explain what they were saying every 5 minutes!!!!lol

I had to buy to be allowed in!!!

On 5/26/2022 at 10:16 AM, Gerry in Idaho said:

Hey Outback Yank,  Be sure to  take a spare detector or at least have someone there who can provide.  Nice to hear you get the opportunity to go back and do it right.  Wishing you the best of luck and looking forward to reading your posts.

Gerry--- We did it right every time ive gone to OZ -- I  may have messed up with luggage etc, but the Aussie friends always jumped in to help me:

from the first year when JP took me under his wing {with a tremendous amount of under breath cursing..lol

To Minelab loaning me a complete control head for the 7000, while i was with as Brother Norvic down in Dimbulah...... with his bonus wonderful fishing hut in "the" right place wink! Caught me first barra with him--- (he said I was a lot better fisherman than a detectorist---lol)

.. then the Goldhounds- in FNQ-------(what can be said about that ) th Palmer the walkabout way up north with Johhny

Majic .........

To the Taskmaster in WA where i have learned to love the WA desert--yeah even the pub in Meeka 🍻-- steak sandwiches are not to be beat--

If yall cant tell by now I am crazy mad at the realization of coming back....

I was sorting out gear on my patio and hour ago--- 

Cheers

To new adventures!!!!

Thanks everyone!

20 hours ago, madtuna said:

By all means give me a hoy if you do get down this way….you’ve been invited back a couple of times to the same place so you can’t be too much of a unit😀

That's exactly what Trent said before I came over the first time from FNQ----- He may not be my best reference now,,,hahahahaha--

I haven't seen anymore nature videos mate-- i enjoyed the camel lady and the lizard,, and shooting the camels !

How far are you from Trents?

On 5/26/2022 at 4:12 PM, Norvic said:

The Outback Yank will be so excited, he`ll forget not only his detector his luggage as welll.... 😈

I fixed that problem-- ill be coming with a carryon only this trip-- My kit is at Trent's --(I think)

I need some pics of the barras this year mate!

On 5/26/2022 at 7:56 AM, rvpopeye said:

Outback Yank

Hmmmmm , sounds like a name someone might adopt after moving there..........

Well , good luck on the hunt no matter how long you stay. 

Hope ya can post a pic that would make Gerry's jaw hurt just lookin' at it !

It was given to me by the Taskmaster.... i would live there if i could but immi dont like hillbillies,,,,just convicts

On 5/26/2022 at 10:16 AM, Gerry in Idaho said:

Hey Outback Yank,  Be sure to  take a spare detector or at least have someone there who can provide.  Nice to hear you get the opportunity to go back and do it right.  Wishing you the best of luck and looking forward to reading your posts.

All my gold detectors are still there with all my other gear --(if the Taskmaster hasnt sold them at a yard sale by now...lol)

On 5/26/2022 at 2:55 AM, phrunt said:

Australia 🙂

I think I'd rather live in Perth than Meekatharra although the little nuggets scattered all over the ground there would be a nice little bonus 🙂  Perth seems a nice city, my wife went there for her work when we were in Brisbane and came home wanting to move there, I had to put my foot down as it's too far from snow for skiing 🙂

I never went to Perth, like most east coasters the west coast is a bit alien to us.  A shorter flight to another country than to Perth 🙂

 

That's exactly why I go there...hahahahaha 

Not direct at you personally-- at anyone--- especially Mexicans...lol

On 5/26/2022 at 2:45 AM, Tony said:

Hello Paul,

Well I might see you out that way…..I’m kind of retiring soon so hopefully will be out and about a bit more. I live in Perth so that’s about 700 kms from Meekatharra. Let me know if there is anyway I can help you out at any time……unfortunately I don’t know where the nuggets are 🤔

Tony

I appreciate that Tony--- do you have a spare Ute i can borrow for 6 months--- and a fuel card maybe???? LOL

On 5/26/2022 at 2:44 AM, phrunt said:

Why not just move there? I can't say I'd be as excited as you are to be going there, I avoid the place like the plaque as now after living here its too hot for me, I leave my wife to go visit the family without me 🙂  In saying that I now have an interest in gold prospecting which I never had when I was living there, took up detecting 32 years too late I guess. 

It was 40-104 here in AZ today and getting hotter as it goes--- im bailing out...

On 5/26/2022 at 5:02 AM, Tony said:

Meekatharra is not where you would go for a holiday 😳

Naw ya mate-- i dam sure would--- its a hub of activity-- Why they even have their own public golf course and Auto Speedway...😆

On 5/25/2022 at 11:46 PM, Drillerdave said:

Hope you have a great time Paul. 
Best of luck and safe travels.

Dave

Thank you Dave--- I was thinking about you earlier this week-- you doing oK?

Finding any treasure

I just made my flight arrangements to Australia and I am off the wall happy---- !!!

Leaving the end of next month and couldn't be happier to get back and hear the Taskmaster screaming at me......lololol

Luckily i didn't lose my airline points from 2017-18-and 19 and that gave me free passage from here to Sydney and back-- the rest i pay for in Aussie dollars !! Yes!

Total airfare as best as I can figure is about 1200 AUD from Sydney to Perth to Meeka and back

I may even try to get up north this year to where Mad Tuna is on station  ...if i get a proper set of  body armor first😆

From what I've seen i left some gold there in Meeka and that's ok-- i walked over it at least a hundred times-- i always swing high and fast,,😉

Seriously, Y'all don't know how happy I am to finally get the chance to go back---- I often think of Fred, and how he would have loved to go back,,,, so with Gods help I am going to do it again and this ones for you Fred!!!!

Much love to you all and good luck this year finding your dream!

No longer VA Nurse Paul------ Outback Yank now...