dig4gold Posted December 3, 2024 Share Posted December 3, 2024 Short answer. Yes, absolutely. D4g 4 1 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Txquest Posted December 3, 2024 Share Posted December 3, 2024 Yep. About 10 years ago. Found by accident with a Vaquero working a relic site on the Llano river in Texas. I think the only area in Texas where you could find gold. 8 grams. I couldn’t believe it was gold. Took to a jewel for confirmation. Still have it. 4 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Dawg Posted December 3, 2024 Share Posted December 3, 2024 I remember my first two nuggets I found, on the Yuba River, with a early Los Banos Gold Bug 2 and 6x3 coil. Both nuggets were around 1.5 grains ea in weight. 5 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishing8046 Posted December 4, 2024 Share Posted December 4, 2024 Gold Bug 2 after two years of empty skunk days. They weren't bad at all it was time for me to take the kids out on my stay-at-home wife's hair and do something other than take the boat out. I made a huge mistake and soaked it in acid only to find it wire gold. I was disappointed so I crushed and panned it for 3/4 oz of gold. Wen I heard the signal I thought it was trash picked it up to see what looked like roots on the bottom side. After a minute or two I realized it was gold. It took some time from that point to learn the GBII to pick off the smaller pieces—a true learning process. 9 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD4V.org Posted December 4, 2024 Share Posted December 4, 2024 13 hours ago, MD4V.org said: I was back in Arizona, in 1976, after three-years in the Army. I had really bad PTSD, and was drinking pretty heavily. My brother came by the house one morning and threw me in his truck. As we headed toward Wickenburg, he talked to me about how I was scaring him and my family, I how I needed to get my stuff together. As we passed through Wickenburg, headed toward Congress, I started to sober up and I asked where the hell we were going. He simply said, "To the end of the rainbow." We drove out past Stanton to Decision Corner and hooked a right. Thirty minutes later I was tripping over rocks swinging a new Fisher Goldbug II. At first I was thinking to myself I'll just humor my brother and do this for a while. Suddenly I got a strong signal that seemed to be coming from a rock. I called my brother over and he determined it was a "hot rock," and threw it aside. Disappointed I went back to swinging. Thirty-minutes later I was tired and ready to head back to the truck. As I walked the 200-yards back, I kept swinging half-heartedly. ZIP-ZIP! Whoa, that sounded different than my hot rock. I bent down and dug around a little grabbing dirt and running it over the coil as my brother had showed me. Zip-Zip! I had found my first nugget! With renewed energy and vigor, I went on to find three more that day! Even though he got skunked, I have never seen my brother happier. He knew I was hooked, and he was relieved. That day changed my life in so many ways I can't start to list them. I asked Steve Wandt, a longtime detectorist and jeweler, to create a Claddagh ring for me that included the first nuggets I had found. Now I will have them until I pass, and they will live on through my Son and his family. Kind of embarrassed! My brother just told me I was using a C & G Wildcat machine, not a Goldbug. Head Slap! 4 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drellim Posted December 6, 2024 Share Posted December 6, 2024 Md4v So glad to here it changed your life for the better nice to have good family and sure don’t want to scar anyone off wonderful story and a great ring to boot This hobby definitely changes lives with new friends and Wonderfull adventures that keep us out there in the wild 2 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry in Idaho Posted December 6, 2024 Share Posted December 6, 2024 On 12/1/2024 at 6:56 PM, Lead Detector said: I Vaguely remember my first find. It was approximately Aug 4th, 2024, at 8:15 AM pacific time. It was a sunny morning with Temps about 75.6 degrees Fahrenheit at an elevation of 6473.2 ft. 🙂 We are talking about our 1st gold find right?😆 1 4 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry in Idaho Posted December 6, 2024 Share Posted December 6, 2024 On 12/2/2024 at 7:30 AM, okara gold said: I met a guy named Chuck who was from Nacogdoches, TX. Wonder if it was you? Nice memories and great gold! okara, I think I know the Chuck from TX you are talking about. He used to hunt Rye Patch NV back in the mid 90's with his his wife and he was using a big Minelab PI. Does this guy look familiar? 1 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry in Idaho Posted December 6, 2024 Share Posted December 6, 2024 Glad to see old memories and stories being shared Glenn about your past Success from early days. I can't find my 1st Au gold nugget pics and I know the location and weekend. My 1st gold nuggets were dug in Eastern Oregon and in fact near feet away from where Tom Boykins 2024 Success. The nuggets were less than a gram and recovered with a Fisher GB-2 the year it came out. My previous 2 yrs and 2 detectors couldn't get the task accomplished. I eventually learned, that my previous 20+ yrs of chasing coins and relics with great Success is part of the reason it took me over 2 yrs and different detectors to actually find gold. Those White's machines worked fine, but the dummy (me) swinging them had 20+ yrs of bad habits. A gentleman by the name of Gordan Zahara offered a 1 day seminar at Rye Patch on how to find gold with a detector and that lecture is what helped me realize all my failures and wrongs. I kid you not, after that lecture, the following hunt I went back to Eastern Oregon to the same area I had hunted the previous 2 yrs and started my career at finding gold. I can say this for certain. Finding those small gold nuggets has changed my life in so many ways. Sorry I don't have any pics of the early Success. 6 Link to comment https://www.detectorprospector.com/topic/27110-do-you-remember-finding-your-first-nugget/page/3/#findComment-285690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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