LuckyLundy Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Wow! I was looking for two old patches and I can find them! I know I riding right past them...I hate the thought of swinging 500 acres to see if I can find them again. WTG, Great trip and you did just miss a season ending storm that set the perfect GPZ dirt back to wet and noisy! Rick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneguy Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Nice pics and writeup.... that hog nugget and it's friends are impressive...good job!!!! Keep the pics coming to help us northern boys get thru winter.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 well done good thing you thought of that old patch , some good looking gold was found. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Not only are you a top of the heap detector operator but you have that additional ingredient that makes you unique; intuition 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 20 minutes ago, flakmagnet said: Not only are you a top of the heap detector operator but you have that additional ingredient that makes you unique; intuition Actually Lunk is like Captain Phil from the Deadliest Catch. He can smell the nuggets! I don't know how he can do it and maybe he'll pass on some of Smokey's secrets but until then we'll just have to imagine that it is something like this: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lunk Posted November 12, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2020 Well Mitchel, congratulations, because you've definitely hit onto a well guarded secret to successful nugget hunting that was related to me by the late, great and legendary nugget shooter, Smokey Baird. I first read about it in an ancient magazine article, circa 1996, titled Dinosaur Gold, written by a reporter that interviewed Smokey en route to one of his Rye Patch area nugget patches. The reporter had asked Smokey how he thought the gold had been deposited there geologically. After first meeting Smokey, I asked him about the magazine article, and he replied that his response to the reporter's query had been heavily edited, and so he proceeded to tell me the real story, and it goes something like this: Once upon a time, the entire area was covered by a huge inland body of water named Lake Lahontan and prehistoric birds swam in the lake. Now if the diet of a bird and the soil conditions on the bottom of the lake were just right when that bird took a sh!t and it hit the lakebed, it would form a nugget. And, when a whole flock of these prehistoric birds were gathered together in a cove protected from the wind and a dinosaur suddenly came up over the ridge and scared the sh!t out of them all, that made a nugget patch. The funniest thing about this explanation is that it works just as well as any geologic theory about the deposition of gold in the area, so all you have to do the next time you're out patch hunting is to figure out where those coves are. 8 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Lunn Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Lunk, way to go!!! Totally awesome haul. It is amazing how the proper weather conditions and your skill can combine to yield such great results. You give encouragement to us all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Ahhh! So good to see this! Just about to get my season started and now I’m motivated. Good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mn90403 Posted November 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2020 These came from an ICMJ article but I don't know the date. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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