Popular Post Goldseeker5000 Posted April 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 16, 2019 One Guy and myself went on the first detecting trip of the year this past Thursday and we were gone til Sunday. I got to the location and headed up the road only to find the road was snowed in for the last 2 miles and was unpassable. I turned around and drove back to the highway to wait for One Guy to show up. When he did, I told him we were out of luck and too early so we decided to go in thru the lower road. We got close to the placer working and knocked on a door of a house closeby to ask who owns the property the tailings were on and low and behold this was the lucky house. We got permission to hunt and camp on 130 acres of dry land dredged ground on a hillside and the next day the nice gentleman got us permission on another landowners property bordering his. So now we had 1030 acres of gold placer ground to hunt on. It was tuff ground to find any nuggets on as I believed it was too far down the drainage to find many nuggets but on Saturday at 1:00 I found the first one of the year and it was the second one with my new 5000. I was using the Sadie coil. I love that little coil. I got plenty of shots for the cover of my book. I did not find any more nuggets the rest of the trip and One Guy got skunked. We even had to detect thru a couple snow squalls and the night time temps got down to 19 and 20 degrees which made for cold sleeping conditions in the back of our trucks. All in all it was a good trip that started out bad but turned out good for the first trip of the year. 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 congrats on beating the skunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 WTG! Keep swinging and keep warm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenJ Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Great job, congrats sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve in Idaho Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I am glad that you found a place to detect. I am still trying to get into another place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 I still have a few secret spots over by you Steve, but the pass isn't open yet. This place I just went to also has produced large nuggets. The largest nugget found in Montana was found in the next gulch over. It was 27 troy pounds. The gold bearing gravels cover a 20 square mile area. I'm doing my research to get further up drainage into better nugget territory. I found a fault zone and will be heading back to investigate that spot on a gold bearing creek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldseeker5000 Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 I guess I was wrong. I haven't heard about these ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 good find with one of the best coils ever made...best of luck going forward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneguy Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 There's some detectable yellow over there...we just didn't find the hot spot....YET! Had fun, we got LOTS of ground to snoop, and met some truly fine folks!!!!!! Next time....!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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