Axiom Gold

[Norvic]

Yeah we`ve heard about NZs only have little ones, over and over, now your hinting they`ve been undetectable coz they overload the detector, we wont shame ya.... much.... come on we want the story.😉

[Steve Herschbach]

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

I'm certainly guilty of it, I rejected quite a large nugget for NZ a few weeks ago.  I know I went over the spot, no way would I miss a booming signal but I am guilty of ignoring them especially towards the end of the day when I'm getting lazy with images of KFC flashing in my head.  A multi gram nugget was pulled up by someone else in the spot and it was a shallow easy target.  A pattern I'm noticing though are some of my bigger nuggets have all been big booming targets, everyone's so mentally focused on hearing the little faint signals when they get a boomer they dismiss it as junk leaving these big nuggets sitting there for decades untouched even in heavily detected areas.

I’m sure I’ve passed on some real nice gold. You are not alone by a long shot. Anyone who hunts super trashy locations tends to cherry pick at some time or another. Dig it all sounds very nice, unless there is a 1000 to 1 nail ratio. How much time do you have, and how strong is your back?

There is some irony about it though. We all dream of a really big nugget, yet get in the habit of passing on some targets as “too big”. Some places that actually is a good bet and makes sense, but when in areas with a history of producing large gold, it could cost a person the trophy nugget they have looked for their entire life.

[Norvic]

Aye, doubt one of us have not left a big booming signal that turns out was a nugget. I think I`ve told of my first, "left one that I know of", a number of times on DP. 

[Gold Catcher]

Thanks Steve, I will be helping you getting all the nails out of CA's mine pits. Everytime I think I finally got them all I find more...Re booming signals, that reminds me of a deep traget I once had with the Z/19 in Quartzsite . The day light was almost gone and I only dug a foot deep with the target getting louder. Since it was total night time then and I did not bring my headlight, I gave up and drove  all the way back home, thinking to myself it would just be rubbish anyhow. Then, it started to hunt me. The next 3 days were pure hell and all I could think of was this target that I left in the ground. It got so bad that I finally had to take 2 additional days off, drove back to Quartzite and kept digging the hole. About 2 1/2 feet down I finally recovered the target, a rusty old tin can. But despite the obvious disappointment, my soul was at peace. And It was worth it!

GC

[BMc]

1 hour ago, Gold Catcher said:

Thanks Steve, I will be helping you getting all the nails out of CA's mine pits. Everytime I think I finally got them all I find more...Re booming signals, that reminds me of a deep traget I once had with the Z/19 in Quartzsite . The day light was almost gone and I only dug a foot deep with the target getting louder. Since it was total night time then and I did not bring my headlight, I gave up and drove  all the way back home, thinking to myself it would just be rubbish anyhow. Then, it started to hunt me. The next 3 days were pure hell and all I could think of was this target that I left in the ground. It got so bad that I finally had to take 2 additional days off, drove back to Quartzite and kept digging the hole. About 2 1/2 feet down I finally recovered the target, a rusty old tin can. But despite the obvious disappointment, my soul was at peace. And It was worth it!

GC

Must be a true story GC, that's the way I remember you telling it back in Aug when we met up in RP. I just hope I can remember it the next time it happens to me!

[Gold Catcher]

12 minutes ago, BMc said:

Must be a true story GC, that's the way I remember you telling it back in Aug when we met up in RP. I just hope I can remember it the next time it happens to me!

Hey BMc, good to hear from you again. I enjoyed our chat at RP. Will PM you.

GC 

[Steve Herschbach]

19 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Thanks Steve, I will be helping you getting all the nails out of CA's mine pits. Everytime I think I finally got them all I find more...Re booming signals, that reminds me of a deep traget I once had with the Z/19 in Quartzsite . The day light was almost gone and I only dug a foot deep with the target getting louder. Since it was total night time then and I did not bring my headlight, I gave up and drove  all the way back home, thinking to myself it would just be rubbish anyhow. Then, it started to hunt me. The next 3 days were pure hell and all I could think of was this target that I left in the ground. It got so bad that I finally had to take 2 additional days off, drove back to Quartzite and kept digging the hole. About 2 1/2 feet down I finally recovered the target, a rusty old tin can. But despite the obvious disappointment, my soul was at peace. And It was worth it!

GC

That's a story I can identify with. I have left targets like that, and literally had them bug me for a year. In two cases in particular, I dug them both a year later, and both were cans. Both were in places nuggets weighing over a pound had been dug, and I just knew I may have left the big one. Not. But yeah, what you are describing does happen, and is another reason not to leave certain targets behind. The ones we know we should dig, but don't for some reason. In my case both times, I was at end of day and worn out. Both were in remote Alaska locations, which is why it took a year to get back to them.

[matt]

9 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

That's a story I can identify with. I have left targets like that, and literally had them bug me for a year. In two cases in particular, I dug them both a year later, and both were cans. Both were in places nuggets weighing over a pound had been dug, and I just knew I may have left the big one. Not. But yeah, what you are describing does happen, and is another reason not to leave certain targets behind. the ones we know we should dig, but don't for some reason. In my case both times, I was at end of day and worn out. Both were in remote Alaska locations, which is why it took a year to get back to them.

Anybody that detects for nuggets most likely have at one time or another left a target in the ground for trash. I remember digging on a target in a location where very large gold had been found. I was over a foot deep in hard dry dirt. It was a hot day and toward the end of my hunt. It just sounded like trash so I left it.

Once back at home, that's all I could think about! The next day, I left work early and went beck. Glad I did because another 3 or 4 inches was a nice specimen that had over an ounce of gold in it! I never left another target unchecked and recovered many multi ounce pieces. That was an eye opening learning experience to say the least.

[IronDigger]

My best find was when a friend demanded I finish digging a target I had thought was an iron target, I was a foot down and started to backfill  the hole. He said just dig  the damned thing before someone else does. So I dug down and found my best find since I began nuggethunting. You just never know when it will come your way, always a surprise and when you least expect it.

[Swegin]

The story goes many guys swung their detector over this and thought it was trash.

https://nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/topic/20783-story-about-the-silver-dog/