bearkat4160
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Well folks,
Dredging seasone is over in Calafornia, as I pulled my dredge out of the Klamath River on Sept. 28th. I found lots of good flood gold most of it fine stuff with some small flakes. But no nugs....
So since I was done dredging I decided to get out the GTI 2500 and try again to find some nugs, after 12 or so disappointing nugget shooting trips I decided to go far up Thompson creek about 7 miles up in the forest from the Klamath. I knew there was a gold mine up that way.
After parking I walked 1.5 miles before even detecting to find area near the mine which is on private property, so finally saw some diggings and decided to detect while still on BLM land.
Long story short....I FOUND ONE! WOOHOO!
As you see in the first pic, I got a signal in a crack in exposed bedrock that was shooting up out of the creek. It came in at #7 on GTA scale...I got excited, could be a bullet or nugget...figured it would be bullet..but nooo!, it was a 0.6 DWT nug.
First thought in my head was ...finally got one again with a detector...geez that took awhile...ahh but is sweet.
I like to use the 9.5 coil instead of the 10x5 coil, it is much noisier and hot rocks drive me nuts but the 10x5 coil is not very sensitive to small nugs unless the detector has a higher freq. Probably would have heard this one but anything smaller might not, but it handles hot ground MUCH better.
So I have now moved to Ashland Oregon to get work for the Winter and to relax and watch Football, ha.
Time to get out and find some coins and jewlery.
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Crack I dug nugget out of...
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Pic of Thompson Creek Ca.
Enjoy!
Alan
Dredging seasone is over in Calafornia, as I pulled my dredge out of the Klamath River on Sept. 28th. I found lots of good flood gold most of it fine stuff with some small flakes. But no nugs....
So since I was done dredging I decided to get out the GTI 2500 and try again to find some nugs, after 12 or so disappointing nugget shooting trips I decided to go far up Thompson creek about 7 miles up in the forest from the Klamath. I knew there was a gold mine up that way.
After parking I walked 1.5 miles before even detecting to find area near the mine which is on private property, so finally saw some diggings and decided to detect while still on BLM land.
Long story short....I FOUND ONE! WOOHOO!
As you see in the first pic, I got a signal in a crack in exposed bedrock that was shooting up out of the creek. It came in at #7 on GTA scale...I got excited, could be a bullet or nugget...figured it would be bullet..but nooo!, it was a 0.6 DWT nug.
First thought in my head was ...finally got one again with a detector...geez that took awhile...ahh but is sweet.
I like to use the 9.5 coil instead of the 10x5 coil, it is much noisier and hot rocks drive me nuts but the 10x5 coil is not very sensitive to small nugs unless the detector has a higher freq. Probably would have heard this one but anything smaller might not, but it handles hot ground MUCH better.
So I have now moved to Ashland Oregon to get work for the Winter and to relax and watch Football, ha.
Time to get out and find some coins and jewlery.
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Crack I dug nugget out of...
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Pic of Thompson Creek Ca.
Enjoy!
Alan
You need to get another Sniper coil if you're going to do any nuggetshooting. What are you going to do in Ashland? Do you have a job lined up or are you just going to live the life of Reilley? 
They say that there is lots of gold here in Vermont. I have a small stream that runs along the edge of my property. Maybe it is time to see if there is gold in them thar hills...