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  1. What a fantastic haul Gerry! Thanks for all of the pictures too, so great to see someone hitting the good stuff. All the best, Lanny
  2. The best kind of crack problem ever to have! Way to get that sassy gold!! All the best, Lanny
  3. Such a great article to read; you've done a masterful job. A lot of crossover in the article for our shallow to bedrock gravel deposits up here in the Great White North. I have had success in locating some good placer deposits that we then worked with trommels, etc. after locating the pay with the detectors using the dig and detect method you've outlined. I've found some nice gold in areas of glacial blowouts from ice dams as well, but those were very shallow deposits, but they held coarse gold. All the best, and thanks again for the great job of writing up the article as it applied to your trip to the far north, Lanny
  4. MIke, sorry to hear of the passing of your friend. We go through life and don't truly get a lot of real friends--sorry for your loss. All the best, Lanny
  5. Great article Steve, your rationale really makes a lot of sense, and I think I'll start getting rid of other detectors soon as well--too many that don't get used often enough. I picked up some great tips from your article as well. I too appreciate all of the write-ups you've done about new detector models over the years, very enlightening, and your recommended detector models have always been spot on. Thanks again for all you do; you sure are great at making a lot of information in the detector field genuinely understandable. All the best, Lanny
  6. Really appreciate everything you do Steve, and keeping the spammers away is a great idea too. Thanks for your unending hard work to create and maintain such a great forum. All the best, Lanny
  7. Simon, very interesting thread on the Sphinx: you really do a great investigation on prospecting items, and you do a great job of following up with helpful information as you use the item as well. Thanks for your time and effort and specific details. All the best, Lanny
  8. I've had lots of contact (electronic messaging) and phone calls with Jim over the years--a truly great guy. His body was just not letting him get out into gold country and do what he loved to do anymore, but it's sad that he's gone. Always a good guy to answer questions and to provide help and feedback. He really will be missed. Thanks for the pictures and the write-up, and all the best, Lanny
  9. Such beautiful gold! Thanks for the pictures. I got out last fall in Nevada and found some nice nuggets, but nothing like the large ones you've found. Nicely done, and all the best, Lanny
  10. Scott truly was a great guy. I've been off the forums for a while, but so glad that Simon floated this post to the top so I could see it. It's great to see the gold Scott told me in phone calls he'd found, and he truly was one of the good ones--I heartily agree! All the best, Lanny
  11. Jerry, nice write-up on the outing. Sounds like it was a good time, and I'd love to listen to some of those presenters! Glad it was worthwhile. All the best, Lanny
  12. Good luck on your desert recon outing--hope it leads to something great. All the best, Lanny
  13. Chuck, I'm out of reactions for the day, so thought I'd respond with a message. Good to hear your tale of the Alaskan that had to get away from the black bears--they can be a real nuisance and a genuine danger at times as well. That's an amazing number of miles you went while completing that one trip! Nice to hear from you, and all the best, Lanny
  14. In all my time in the wilds, I've seen far more black bear than grizzly. Black bear cause most of the trouble in our mountains, and they're very unpredictable. Sometimes you bang a shovel on the ground, yell, chuck some rocks, etc. and off they go. You know you're in trouble when they keep coming at you! (Been there, done that--a fat zero on the fun scale.) Plus, if a black bear attacks you (unless protecting a cub) it's because you're seen as a source of food, and so you're supposed to fight back with everything you've got to stay off the menu. Grizzlies usually attack to show dominance (once again, cub encounters excepted)--swat you down, stomp some, maybe chew on you a little (that'd be a tough undertaking to outlast), then they'll leave, supposedly. They are after all the apex predator in our mountains, so they can write their own rules, I guess. Had a double grizzly encounter one day, a couple of three-year-olds, ones just kicked off their momma's milk wagon. We were washing pay with a trommel, and the two grizzlies wanted to see what we were up to. So they got right close, then stood up. (As my dad used to say, "If you think a bear is big on the ground, just wait until it stands up!") Had a dumb idea to hop on the Honda Quad and gun the engine so they'd run away--only they came closer. Shut that Quad off right quick, and the grizzly twins dropped back to the ground and wandered away--they'd seen what they wanted to see, turned their backs on us and sauntered off. (I had a 12-gauge defender shotgun to-hand with buckshot as the first chambered round followed by four one-ounce rifled-slugs for backup, but I'm glad to this day that last resort that was never used--would have been a terrible jackpot of trouble with two grizzlies that close. I've seen other grizzlies as well, but usually at some distance--those are the grizzly sightings I enjoy the most. All the best, Lanny
  15. Sweet find Gerry, and thanks for the video of the find--fun to watch and great to hear your excitement as well. Nicely done, and all the best, Lanny
  16. Now I know why I could no longer get Scott on the phone. . . . Thanks for the heads-up about his passing. He sure was a great guy to talk to, lots of interesting stories, and he really learned how to use his detectors to find gold (loved the Goldmonster)--had great success with finding nuggets when he found his connection to get himself on good ground. He was easy to talk to, but it's going to be hard missing him--a genuine kindred spirit that loved chasing the gold. All the best, Lanny
  17. CAPPHD, great job of tracking down the owner, nicely done! All the best, Lanny
  18. Along with Oneguy and others, I love the one-two punch combination of a PI and a VLF, nothing better for the ground I hunt. As for the benefits/operation of a PI, you've received some excellent responses that I'd agree with as well. In addition, they are great at handling many types of hot-rocks, some ironstone, and are better at ignoring some types of pyrite deposits that VLF's struggle with. However, they will not ignore all hot-rocks or all mineralization, but do a good job on the majority of troublesome minerals and mineralization. You will also notice a weight difference between a VLF and a PI, as the PI is much heavier so harder to use on steep slopes, etc. All the best, Lanny
  19. Dynamite was invented for prospecting that frozen winter ground, right? All the best, Lanny
  20. Great photos, and a real nice haul of goodies! Thanks for posting, and all the best, Lanny
  21. That sure is one sweet, golden goodie! Congratulations, and all the best, Lanny
  22. That sure is some nice gold you're finding, congratulations! All the best, Lanny
  23. Nice finds Condor, hope you find one big enough to use for a doorstop. All the best, Lanny
  24. Lots of great eye candy Gerry, thanks for posting the pictures. All the best, Lanny
  25. The Monster is a fine, fun little machine, super sensitive and a proven gold-getter that's light enough to swing basically forever. One day when my son and I were off to get some nuggets, we arrived, at our spot, but no battery in the Monster! The cam-lock/cover wasn't seated, and the battery was nowhere to be found. We pulled everything out of the truck, checked everywhere, even crazy places, no battery, just an open compartment. We carried on with the day with our other detectors. . . . When we got back to the gold camp, we pulled everything out of the truck and searched again, no luck. At about that time, I started to question if it fell out before we'd left camp, so we searched everywhere we possibly could have walked with the detectors before loading them up, no luck. I thought I was losing my mind or something, how could it have just disappeared? Well, in the truck we had a plastic wrapped six-pack of toilet paper, with one roll out. The battery had dropped from the detector and was underneath the bottom three rolls of paper!! So, I'm glad you're getting a new battery, and Kudos to Gerry for his lightning-fast service. On a different note, after reading your post about the AA battery pack, I'll dig mine out to see if it fits or not, as I didn't have mine with us the day my regular battery did its disappearing act. All the best, Lanny
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