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I just completed a survey that was sent to me via a link in my email. Minelab said it was going to produce informative videos and it asked what kind I would like to see.
Has anyone else seen the email or taken the survey?
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I just found it in my jar of coins and took a picture of the front and back. It is not in very good shape for a 2002 but here it is!
Mitchel
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Simon,
Do you have ALL of your equipment listed? haha
You probably missed something.
Mitchel
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Friday night I stayed up until 11 PM to watch the second episode of Aussie Gold Hunters. I had to watch it with mostly volume off because of others sleeping but I'm glad I saw it. I had seen an ad during Parker's show that it was going to be on but I didn't see the first episode.
It has been a rather hard show to track down but now I've found a link.
https://www.discovery.com/shows/aussie-gold-hunters-2015
When I put this link up it says 2015! I thought it looked old.
Here is a teaser for the new show:
I guess I'll need to have Netflix, YouTube premium to see the new show.
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Fred had many lessons to teach. One of them I learned by taking a trip to Tucson for an outing. I had decided I was going to go through Yuma to a place called Potholes where Fred had been in the past. I asked him where to hunt and he gave me the 'lay of the land' so to speak and told me to hunt under the wires. Well, I'm not that great with directions but I did find the power lines and I hunted some likely spots and I found a nice nugget of a couple of grams. There was also a few more smaller ones and interesting trash.
After the trip was over I called Fred to thank him for the tips on the place and I told him where I had found the nuggets. (This is the information you get back if you share.) Fred listened and thought about it a little while and he told me that I had gone to the 'wrong' wires! haha We had a chuckle about it and he wanted to know where I parked and where I found them.
About 3 weeks later there was a posting on the forum of some nuggets Fred had found. (More than I had found) He told everyone he got out of his truck, geared up and found them within 30 feet of the truck. (He didn't tell everyone our location.) That is where I had parked! haha As it turns out Fred found lots of nuggets where you park and some of us have taken advantage of his lesson over the years. I know I hunt roads and parking lots more now because of Fred.
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Thank you Norm. I was at the outing and Fred drove way up the hill (about 5 miles) to find Chet and me up there detecting. Later he was stopped for lunch and we had a chat and showed him some gold for a change. It was after that hunt when people were asking him if he would go to Bill's outing he wrote the Chile Verde recipe for all to enjoy. He just wasn't going to make that one after Rye Patch.
His words won't be forgotten.
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By now most of you have heard of Fred's legendary Chile Verde. Many of you may not have the recipe.
Here it is:
my version of Chili Verde May not satisfy the purists....
a small batch:
three pounds bbq pork ribs- boneless
one large can of chopped green chili
several garlic cloves
one or two tablespoons of ground Red Pepper
Two chopped serrano peppers and 3 to 5 whole, how hot do you want it?
chop the meat, dump the rest in, cover with a beer and water, bring to a boil, simmer to your hearts delight!
I like to thicken with cornstarch .
I won,t be there...have fun!
fred
salt to taste
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Fred always talked to me about being lucky rather than good. He would always jab me with that line and get a rise out of me. Most of it was because I showed him my 'lifetime nuggets' which he delighted in very much.
I shared with Fred the enjoyment of finding meteorites. It was at one of these meteorite hunts that I went on that I found my first 'lifetime nugget' as Fred labeled it. Fred was not there but he was one of the first to see the 3.5/1.5 ozt nugget I found in Franconia. He told me at the time it was good any time someone could find over 1 ozt of gold. He told me he had not done it in all his years. (I hope he did it later because I saw one near an ounce.)
A little less than two years after that first find I had a driven urge to go back to the same general area. I had a plan that wouldn't shake from my mind. It came together on a Thanksgiving day. I had slept in my Trooper the night before and when I got up I detected for about an hour before I found a large nugget. I called a few people and told them what I had and they told me that Fred and Grandpa John were at the Dale. I had to show it to someone so I packed up and drove the 150 miles to where they were. As it happened they (Jonni also) were just having a late Thanksgiving dinner and I was invited in the trailer to eat.
I told Fred I had something to show him. I made him close his eyes and I put this object (20/8 ozt) in his hand. He said what is it? A meteorite? And then I watched him look at it. He knew I had another 'lifetime nugget' and he never let me forget it. I was a bit vague where I found it and later they thought I had found it in The Dale. Grandpa John told me in the morning that the nugget reminded him of a Goose Egg. That is how it got its name rather than Turkey Egg.
I made a video just after I found the nugget that day and when I find it I'll post it to this thread in honor of Fred, the first person to see it other than me.
Mitchel
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1 hour ago, phrunt said:
I can't go digging up my yard, I am hoping the boss doesn't notice it! 😄
All of it needs to be tilled (detected) and then a new lawn put in with seeds or sod.
Look Ma, no holes!
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I just spoke with Fred a couple of days ago. He was asking me about the QED. Someone on the east coast was using it for a relic detector. I tried to call him this morning.
I've had many good chats with Fred over the years. Last year I went with my wife and son to visit Fred in San Diego. He gave me his Australia maps before my trip to Australia. He LOVED Australia and I'm sure much of his spirit is in WA now.
I'll miss Fred.
Mitchel
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Simon,
This thread is about things to do if you CAN'T detect! I think your yard would be a permission to someone else. haha
When I come to Kiwiland, can I detect your yard? 🙃
Mitchel
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Ok Simon, all of those references to YOUR YARD. wink, wink ... You don't have to tell us you went out detecting! We aren't going to contact the local police and have them track you. haha
My 'yard' is my rock garden outside the apartment door.
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Good thread everyone.
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I grew up in Florida and blind moles are all over the place. I met a guy once that said he trapped them and skinned them and they use them for gloves. I don't know about that.
We tried to gas them but that didn't work.
I read the details on the link for those traps and it seems people use them in Florida also but it said they were not for moles.
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Well done on getting out and the finds. I just came back from 2.5 hours on our beaches at night. It has been several weeks since I've been out also and it felt good. What didn't feel so good was the same lack of targets as when I stopped. I hunt the surf/tide areas and I found less than $1 in change on beaches where I've found hundreds of dollars on in the past. Now I know even more that lack of targets is not because of hunting pressure but the energy of getting the targets back up on the beach.
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Do you still have any of your Arizona pictures?
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Sand Art ... Let it play through several sketches
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This explanation as I read it again now would explain 'raking' a patch as many have been done in the past. Many tiny nuggets would be masked with the surface materials. Sometimes we would rake them to smooth them and get the coil closer to the ground but now it seems that the surface saturation was being raked away with it also. This raking would go on to the edge of the patch.
This has always been one of my clues as well as previous dig holes. Some of these rake piles are 20-30 years old now. They are quite different from oldtimer workings and drywashings.
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One thing I won't be doing is flying Air Asia anytime soon.
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7 hours ago, 1515Art said:
The pick I’m switching to a holster up between my shoulders connected to the harness just over my right shoulder blade
That looks like the Leland pick that I use. I carry it in my left hand and use a bungee for the coil. That long handle on the pick sure saves on the back for scrapes and deep holes.
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Easy now ... you'll be going down and pick Fred up and we'll never see you two again!
Do you have a plan for this year?
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JW,
It should be stated that where Flak lives he could be visited by a mountain lion. There are several in his area that are tracked with radio collars but I'm sure they would like a chicken dinner! Other pets can be on the menu also.
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You can always look at Nevada State Historical Markers!
Minelab Survey
in Minelab Metal Detectors
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This survey was not from marketing. It appears to be an honest effort to let owners 'suggest' to Minelab the learning videos that they want them to post/make. This was a much different tone than the Marketing email and that is why I posted it. I will try to go back and see if I can copy and paste the questions.