NuggetBob

Welp, I tried them Black Widers but they were just too tight dagnabit they hurt my jaw. Tried them Grey Ghosts too, good clean sound. Now I like the Rattlers brand cuz I tend to prospect where most folks don't go and need to hear them critters about me. For beans and biskuts, my old backup Koss just keep on going. Kinda like a pair of old jeans or old boots, their worn but they feel good and work. Just thinking about it makes me want to yell Yabadabado! 

Sweet corn muffins russ, that's purty. Is that thang turbocharged?

Howdude Adam   Gadzukes and slap my shin bone, that' some purty gold! Weedggie, love the CA for gold! 

Fetch me my spectacles! There be more than one pig in the poke when it comes to powering your older machine. Feast your iballs on these here links. Now n then you can find one of the ol Pocket Rocket L-ion Systems for sale too. 

http://www.billandlindaprospecting.com/gpxbatterysys.html

http://www.nuggethunting.com/coiltek_li-ion_battery.htm 

Purty gold pard! Its got me grinnin like a weasel in a hen house! Spent the better part of a month in Nevada myself this year and detected up some nice chevron type gold myself. 

What in the world? A camel on a detector, that's fuglier than a new-sheared sheep!

A big HowDude to ya Lee! The coffee here is usually purty good but folks still fart after eatin beans. Welcome to the campfire pard.

Well butter me like a biskut! Hotdam them ol truck springs make good knives too! Yep, yep, yap back a decade ago I'd too get my minelab batteries on the cheap and rewire em for under $20. Good on ya pard!

Purty gold...weedoggie! Love prospecting in CA too! 

The Reboks I got have no zipper and no metal...yeehaw! 

Reebok makes a completely metal free boot, REEBOK DUTY Men's 8" Rapid Response RB Composite Toe Combat Boot. No metal at all, the safety toe is composite. No sound on pi detectors or vlfs...i gotdang guarantee it! 

Converse sold out to Reebok I reckon. Used Bates, 5.11s, Converse and wearing Reebok right now. Good bootes weedoggie! 

Nice purty gold there russ, congrats!

Funny thing about all the GPZ doubters but if they just read what JP, Chris and I posted and actually believed us they would not need to keep going on and on about getting "honest reviews". Apparently a person can only be deemed honest if they trash the GPZ. They praise the poor reviews as honest and doubt the good ones as resulting from hidden motives. The unit actually does perform. Maybe not as well as wishful thinking would like but it does take it up a notch. 

 

Steve, some skepticism is healthy. Lots of folks have the perception that its hard to trust anyone suckling from the tit of minelab directly or indirectly. Now dont throw a can of beans at me pard, just saying the campfire talk.  

Yeppers Clark you'll b on nuggie in no time. Just remember its more than the machine, its the location and operator too   Learning is fun and I'd like to see a pic of your face when it lites up to that first chunk! You'll get her yet! 

Nice post and gold folks, I never seen a vlf (gold bug or gmt) that missed wiry, mossy gold. 

Yeppers, sheriffs, enforcement agents and all the others mixed in the middle don't quite see things the way a judge might or even those who made the rules/laws/whathaveyas. Just don't go here, you'll save time money and have better tales to tell about other adventures. I gotdang guarantee it 

That's a tricky bit deathray. Yeppers, intent and dagnabit the old blm has some odd rules and such 'bout relics, well hell they sometimes call 'em cultural artifacts. Now the gosh darned ol claim owner might not agree with your stated intent and file paper against you at the old courthouse, Them lawyers and such wont give a hoot n holler in hell what brand your relic detector is but when it sounds off on a nugget in front of a jury or judge you'll have some 'splainng to do and well we're back at the tricky bit. 

Feast your iballs on this

http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/nv/information.Par.77566.File.dat/collecting_on_publiclands.pdf 

Weedogie...this is a good string! Yep, avoid too much hoohead John around the campfire and before you start hiking prehydrate always. I normally slug down about a half gallon before I start hiking. If ya ain't peeing you ain't hydrated and if'n your pee is yeller ('cept for coffee or vitamins) you best drink more. Anywho that's my recipe and it works fer me 

Heck Steve, there's a gold rush every time I head out the door to prospect..like I'm gonna do in an hour or so! Whohoo and Weedoggie! Gonna get me some yeller tamorrow! 

Howdy Dale. I'm new here too, other places not so much :-) 

7000 Yukon...That'l do! :-)

The GMT is a good, capable unit with many coil options in the VLF family if'n that's what your heart is set on. Lots of options with beepers

Weedoggie...that's some nice gold there aussiedigger! 

I noted this on another forum but want to do so here too so here goes. How many of you have experience with pocket gold? I've pocket hunted a few places hopping around with a little luck, mostly CA Mother lode country and AZ. Here are some good reads for ya if'n you're not familiar with it. Anyone from the east do this, like Georgia or Virginia? I'l be visiting Virginia for a few weeks this year, would love to hear some local voices. 

Pocket Gold - Prospecting For The Source
POCKET GOLD - LOCATING THE SOURCE

Pocket Hunting for Gold
» Pocket Hunting for Gold 

Pocket Gold Prospecting
Pocket Gold Prospecting

Mud Men: Pocket Miners of Southwest Oregon—Part I
Mud Men: Pocket Miners of Southwest Oregon?Part I - ICMJ's Prospecting and Mining Journal

I've never had so much fun in my entire life as going in and tearing up an old patch with real machinery and metal detecting it though. Can't wait to do it again in fact next time I'm just skipping the washplant and just dozing/detecting which hopefully streamlines the NOI too.

 

Skipping the wash plant might help, never know the BLM is finicky and just generally a waffle. Don't forget there is a lot of gold in lode still undiscovered and while detectable veins are rare they are out there and many vein and stringers just have small gold, but it's gold. Pocket gold, bench gold, hillsides...man I'm still excited after many years of dirt diggin...the gold rush is far from over!