Map Snafu Leads To Patch

[Bada Bing]

Mrs Bada Bing is sick of hearing about this and doesn't fully appreciate the skill involved. I thought I would throw it out here for the connoisseurs who can appreciate the skill level required for such a feat.

I use oziexplorer to map areas on my tablet so I have a moving map of the area I am detecting. I create the maps and calibrate them and 99% of the time they are spot on. Anyway, I head out to a historical lease. Map says I am right on top of it. Jump out and find a tiny bit in 15 mins. Then a half hour later I find a really really old dry blowing spot on a creek line, it was so old and weathered you could hardly make it out. Found 2 bits of rubbish which confirmed it was an old dryblowing then pinged 8 bits for about 5g in 10 minutes. It was the first really hot weather here and an approaching thunderstorm stopped me from detecting further so I jumped in the car and headed off to meet the other blokes who were coming out for the weekend. I arrive at the designated meeting point and checked my map. It was like 500m north/east of where I actually was - I thought that's strange. Then the penny dropped - I wasn't anywhere near the historical lease, I was on some random spot only the old timers had been ......... no tracks, no dig holes.

I will be heading back to plunder and pillage with the 23 and 7, hopefully there is some bigger stuff deeper in the creek.

Pure skill? I think so.

Cheers

BB

 

[vanursepaul]

Wow..

That is great news badabing..

So Norvic is telling me the truth when he says it is just laying around everywhere out in WA.

That's going to save me on using that pesky oziexplorer.....

Now i can just blunder around and pick up the pieces.....

No wonder all the FNQs are coming over there...

As soon as I get my secret Intel about, "culling dates" I am missing plans to slip across the border

 

[Norvic]

Good one BB, use Ozi myself have also found it is a powerful tool, finding me some nice patches, just never been as far as 500ks out yet. Perhaps your version is more "attuned" to gold then mine.

Please give directions to where I can obtain your version, promise I wont share it with it with Nurse Paul and will only use it in FNQ.......... 

[Bada Bing]

Paul and Norvic.

Obviously this is the last remaining patch in WA .... nothing worth dying for over here ....

Norvic - it was only about 400m out which was really odd. I have had maps that are 30km out before but this one was close. I recalibrated when I got home and 1 coord I forgot to select south instead of north.

What are the chances ...... 

 

[Norvic]

Whoops 500m........... patch obviously has your name on it, nothing to do with chance...... hope it opens up to be a beauty. Might have to apply for an extension on that culling directive you WAers have to cover FNQ............ 

[vanursepaul]

Easy on the culling days..one is enough

[beatup]

outstanding work locating that patch.

[Bada Bing]

Thanks Beatup and JW

That's not really the sentiment I am getting from my mates. They seem to think it was somehow related to luck .... they are obviously idiots.

Cheers

BB

[Bada Bing]

How many times have you heard the, "it must have your name on it?

Well this snafu certainly did. About 6 or 700 down (about 25 inches for you guys over there). One pass with the 7000 and my exact words out loud were, "that's deep and that's big" (Paul - of course that's the internet friendly unaustralian version). Hopefully I'll find the rest of the family after summer, there's got to be some hiding close.

Cheers

BB

Steve: Need a change in this topic's tag from gps and mapping to gold found ......... boom

 

 

[Norvic]

Fur coat, your name is clearly on that.