I just got on this thing and never introduced myself. my name is Jim, and i now live in Newport news,Virginia, i just moved here 2 months ago from Roseville California. about 40 minutes from Sutters mill, where the first gold in cal. was found. I'm 46 years old, have a great wife and 3 grown up daughters and my first grand son. I started detecting when i was 18, with a compass detector on the beach at Santa Cruz. My fist day out, i found three rings and i have been hooked ever sense. I have had many detectors sense then, Garrett grand master hunter, Whites V-SAT, Whites GM ,Garrett freedom ace + and now ACE 250. The last 13 years i spent a lot of time (days off) gold prospecting when i could. (detecting, high banking, dredging, and sniping.) it was a lot of fun. Now I'm surrounded by beaches, and a lot of war history. I just started hunting the local beaches and the last month, and can't wait to do some relic hunting. I also joined the local MD club and did my first MD competition (that was a learning experience) had fun and won some prizes. Anyways i just wanted to introduce myself. Thanks.
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introduce myself.
- Thread starter jimmy jam
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Uncle Willy
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When you were in California did you do any prospecting in the Feather River country or the Yuba or American river? Here's some nuggets found on the bank of the Yuba River a few years back by a lady nuggetshooter.
Bill
Bill
I can believe it. Yes the south fork and north of the American river some of the south fork of the Yuba river, but most of my detector finds where in the valley by Folsom lake.( small creeks, and dried up river beds). most the time i was on the north fork of the American in a wetsuit opening bedrock shelves and sucking up the gold at the bottom. 3 miles above Iowa Hill.
Uncle Willy
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Been there. My old man helped build Oroville Dam. I lived up there for a short time back in about 1963 and worked at Beale Airforce Base on the facilities for the SR-71 spy plane before the public ever knew it existed. It was the one that took the pics of the missles in Cuba during the missle crisis of that era - not the U2 as the government claimed. Was and is quite an airplane. Asked a pilot one time how fast it would go. He said that was classified but that it would outrun a 30-06 bullet. That answered my question. To this day the top speed is still classified even though it has been allegedly retired for years. On the day of retirement they made a run from New York to Los Angeles in 58 minutes - and that wasn't wide open.
Bill.
Bill.
RickIowa2009
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Welcome. a lot of experience you have!
Man, if I found some nuggets that big I'd probably have a heart attack of the brain!
Happy Hunting!
Uncle Willy
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Me too also. HA
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Portland, Oregon.
Bill
Bill
Biggest we ever found was 3/4 oz. and it was flat in the shape of a dragon. the yuba river has a lot of big gold, what sucks is that if you don,t have a claim, or can't climb down cliffs then you can,t get to the gold that's there. almost all the river is claimed or owned by the department of forestry.You can go on BLM property,and may be get lucky and find some penny weight nuggets, but so can everyone else. the 3/4 oz came out of the south fork of the American river, with about 7 other nuggets in the gram size. some one bought that property so now we can't go on it any more .It was fun, but a lot of hard work.
I keep learning more about it, try this some time, everyone swings the coil fast and wide, and it works great, but go back over your grid swinging slow,no more the two feet side to side, and see how much more you find and deeper. I did and found more coins deeper then the first time.