Lost Scout

Well we had fun. Have to go home tomorrow. The photo shows our finds. The usual. The one rock has chevrons etched in it. I think this is how some of Rye Patches nuggets end up with the unique feature. Just my guess. One of the rocks has a print from a prehistoric cat. The shiny silver stuff is a rare element called aluminium and is only found where homosapiens have been. Unfortunately we did not find the allusive element AU.

Not sure we're we going to end up. We did make it into Nevada today but it took some doing. Six and half hour trip took ten hours. Out flow air pipe to the intercooler blew apart climbing over the Owehyes mtn. Wired it together and head back towards Nampa. No luck at Napa auto. All the way back to a Ford dealer. They had one. Now camped on a old side road. Gold tomorrow?

Yes I have been watching the weather forecasts. Better than where I live. Picture is right before I left this morning.

Got play a little more today. Because of my area I completely forgot to use a single frequency. Did this and then went back a forth with iron discrimination. Rediscovered that it depends on the target. But pumping the coil tells all. Consistent, low consistent, or all over the place tells me iron or not. If it's close I will dig it because something's are made of various alloys. Thanks for the input . They all helped.

Ok, spur of the moment decision. Erin and I have just decided to head to northern Nevada/ Winnemucca area for three or four days. Weather in Idaho sucks but might be ok to the south of us. Anybody want to meet up just to say hi?

I've had the machine almost year. Really like it. But I've noticed that sometimes the outside, say the right of the coil will pick up a signal, the middle gets it and then nothing on the left. Other targets give the opposite. Some targets give a tone on each side. Slows me down when pin pointing. I do use several techniques if I seem to have multiple targets. I'm not a coil guru. Also I've found if I'm running trying to eliminate iron and the signal is slightly different at a 90 degree angle pumping the coil will still give a positive number. Switching to all metal and pumping will now give a consistent negative. This always proves out to be iron. Thoughts?

More trash. I'm digging a lot of wonky signals just for practice. I'm going to ask a question on the nox page as well

This year the snow came early enough that it insulated the ground pretty well. By noon you can dig without a frost layer. The square nut was down about five inches. The shell casing (32wcf) was about four. Lots and lots of nails around the yard and some have a higher tone that's confusing. So I dig them because the broach I found was doing the same thing. No need to pray for snow, October will be here soon enough! Half an hour today yielded more trash.

Decided I needed to qualify and expand. The third day of class I found another small picker. And then I had a drought. Found a nice picker then had a really long drought. DOUNT NEVER GIVE UP!

So I found a lot of trash for couple of days trying to figure it all out. But then I took Gerry in Idaho's course. Really flattened out my learning curve. I was finding lead shot before and after class and found a small picker late the second day of class. Kind of got me hooked.

Beautiful diversity in everyone's photos. Mine are Idaho and Nevada. Must be some sort of pin pointer. Just dig right under it and to find...

Must be some sort of pin pointer. Just dig right under it and to find...

Yes... Hard to swing in anything that tall.

A patch of ground showed up in my yard finally. Had to play for a while. Dug up some junk near the crabapple trees. A piece of pull tab sure didn't sound like aluminum.

Hey! Your beach trash looks like the trash I dug out of my yard in Idaho! Connection?🤨

Wow! Someday I will gather the courage to to go to an an old populated area and search. I just don't like people much. But the idea of finding history may override my phobia. Great finds. Keep it going.!

I live the mountains of Idaho. While I have a few spots I can use the bigger coils the six inch is the way to go in rocks and brush especially on steep terrain. The slight depth difference is made up because the small coil can manouver down in closer around rocks etc. I've been using the 800 for almost a year and really like it.

Love the box 800 but...the arm cuff is lacking. To big for both my wife and I. It allowed for to much side wobble while swinging. My fix on one is 3/8" felt with cloth glued on. Leather ties keep it in place and can be removed for other users if needed. I needed just a little more room so a 1/4" piece was used. MUCH better. Because of her short arms I also drilled a new hole to move the cuff closer to the handle. Basic ergonomics. Now she is comfortable and will detect for hours.

Reality. Needed to to get out of house. We drove down to the Salmon river and checked a few boat launches. Last year Erin found a silver ring. Not so much this time. But had a good time. Just posting to show that your finds aren't always the greatest.

I'm lmao. Great post. I'm always amazed at the life and death scenarios when they they are running excavators. I run excavators for a living and didn't know how much I was living on the edge! I'm am jealous of Parkers gold hunting trips. If he can make money on this, good for him! And searching for a lost phone that belongs to a girl on a ski trip makes perfect sense in my world. Do they make a detector that's good to ten meters in the snow?

More likely an adventure novel than a treatise. It probably starts something like " Danby couldn't believe what he had just overheard in the dark corner of the bar...he told himself it was a bar rumer. Still, he may have have to travel up to this bench off the left fork of Goat Creek. If there were nuggets as big as your thumb...

Even with the magnet against the handle shaft it will eventually break when you hit a rock just right. Epoxy will too. I assume you don't weld since you are going this route. I would suggest paying someone to weld ( a six pack would probably be enough) butting against the shaft, a collar/ Short piece of pipe just big enough to accept the magnet. Just the surface would be showing. Any further towards the end interferes with digging. Just my opinion. One of my cool detecting finds was a VERY strong magnet. After getting the signal and scaping a inch or two down the signal disappeared completely. Took me fee minutes to notice it stuck to my pick.🤨

Ok so I'm sitting here drinking.... First off , really cool finds. Button is cool. But as someone who used too make a living riding horses and packing mules... If I found a horseshoe with the nails still in it I'm thinking " the horseshoer needs to make his clinches bigger." I know that's technical and trade related but unless the shoe is really old ... It's just a thrown horseshoe. I am however jealous that you are in an area with the potential that an old horseshoe could be significant. And getting permission on that property is 😎 awesome.👍

Haven't been there. Looks like I need to from the picture. There's a partial dredge in Warren Idaho I've climbed on. Know a guy who's farther ran it. As a kid he used to walk the tailing piles and find specimen rocks and sell them to people in the bar/ restaurant so he could buy soda pop.

Erin and I went exploring today. We had never been to Elk City before. A lot of mining in the area. Gold was first discovered there in 1861. I haven't researched the area other than a few maps. Thought I would share a few pictures. The Gold Point Mill and mess hall are still standing. In decent shape from being built in the 30's. Jaw crusher, hammer mill, ball mill and shaker tables are there.