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I woke up this morning to the overwhelming stench of skunk. Yep...my lab got sprayed in the face. Enjoy!!

14 hours ago, phrunt said:

I thought I'd drop the question into Professor Google and see if they do get sick leave.  It appears to me they're not as primitive as some might believe and possibly better conditions than in the US?  

Sick Leave

The number of PAID sick days in Malaysia also depends on the duration of employment. Thus, those employees whose illness doesn’t require hospitalization are entitled to:

• 14 days per year if employed for 1-2 years,
• 18 days per year if employed 2-5 years,
• 22 days per year if employed longer than 5 years.

Shoot...I may move to Malaysia!

On 6/30/2022 at 1:35 PM, phrunt said:

Nope, I've got a long way to go to pay for either of them 🙂  Although I've broken the two ounce mark, If I was to take into account fuel costs I'd likely be in the negatives again 🙂

This is with the plastic bottle zero'd out. 64 grams, I put the little guys on there too that are not in the bottle as I've been using them experimenting but they didn't change it at all from the 64, these scales aren't accurate enough but my little accurate scales can't weigh in the ounces.   Don't know how many hundreds of nuggets that is, a bulk of them are very small.

The Equinox was the only detector to pay for itself, and it did it easily four times over and that was with ring finds more so than gold although it's done pretty well on the nuggets I think.  One ring it found was worth $5630 NZD, a Lord of the Rings Elf 18k Elfish ring which my wife claimed.  If I wanted it to I'd say the Equinox would be the one to pay for the detectors by using it for coins and jewellery as that's a lot easier than gold nuggets!

My best week with the Nox for modern money, even found a note flapping in the wind stuck in a fence that week 😛

That rings probably worth near my total gold nugget finds, fortunately for me it's not about the money, I like having my collection of nuggets but they're more about the memories and the finds themselves than their value, they'll never be sold. 

I would say for someone with my skill level and time spent gold detecting that coin and jewellery would be where the easy money is, even my silvers add up to some decent money, a few rare ones among them and this is only about half of them now, never took a recent photo of my coins or jewellery finds but I've broken 6 kilo's of coins now and haven't even checked through most of them to see if there is any rare ones except the silvers.

That gold sovereign I gave away to a friend, not sure it was a real one but pretty sure it's a fake, it wasn't the right weight.

So I guess if I wanted to pay down detectors I should start looking for coins and jewellery far more and less for gold, however I enjoy looking for gold a lot more and don't care about the money side of it.

Cool man...I found one of those rings years ago! At first, thought it was some sort of middle Eastern wedding ring, lol.

4 hours ago, Denny said:

I remember a park in the rough part of Stockton some of us used to call, Wino Cap Park.   Many old seated, barbers were pulled out of the ground with rusted bottle caps.   I would never hunt there when dark.

That's one of the safer parks. Lots of primo barbers, not many seated. I hit that place weekly for years. You can cut a random big plug, and pull coins. I'm hoping someday to see a scrape there.

Yeah. That park is still loaded. I was king of that dump, lol.

Nice one! Too bad not an S! Haha

I will help ya out man. Take a road trip to Stockton. Look up Victory Park. Hit sidewalk strips in the area. I always hit the dead grass/ dirt ones. It's city property, but don't be silly, and dig someone's flowers, lol.  Don't know what type detector or experience you have, but all the parks within a mile or 2 of the crosstown are good..but trashy, and some are dangerous. If you present yourself like easy prey, don't go to them. Also, all this applies to early morning...wouldn't go past about 9 or so. Good luck

My son is a firefighter. He just drove down from California, to memorialize the hotshots.

Awesome adventure man. And some fantastic gold. Good write up mate. Hope next year is as good or better for you two. 

Badass!

Pee man. Ha. 

Nice man. Maybe you know my buddy Cody Stemler? He's always taking my money, lol...

And the old Sovereign with Sunray coils. 

Nice one

13 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

I have seen gold bring out the worst in people at times. Bad decision making for one. I've seen people spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a few thousand in gold. It's a fever and it's real. You will see what it is capable of doing in my personal story. 

I'm a roofer, and was working on a job with a jack of all trades kinda guy named Justin, who also is pretty heavy into mining. We got to talking, and his words stuck with me " Gold is a dirty f#*king business". Lol.

59 minutes ago, GhostMiner said:

I checked into this subject of magazine capacity in California with the Sherriffs Dept. The magazine has to be altered to accept no more than 10 rounds. 

I don't agree at all, with how our rights are stomped on out here man. I'm also probably a little paranoid nowadays, about posting on the internet.  Hell, I think a law abiding citizen, should be allowed to own pretty much anything. I better leave it at that, I know Steve doesn't like anything political posted here, and I try to respect that.

Man,this is commiefornia ,I'm sure you meant 10 round,lol. Lol, jk

Killer spurs man!

Is the d2 puck, same as d1 puck? Asking, because I have 3 pair of aftermarket for the d1

Best review of d2, I've seen yet! Go Dawgs!!

Dude! That badge is fantastic. Epic find!!

That spur is bitchin!

Multi frequency usually id's better at depth, and handles bad ground better. I don't have a d2 yet...but ran sovereign and explorer for years.

Right on man!

Nice. And yep, that looks like a stirrup!