no rain more gold with plus

[californiagold]

Got out between storms for a few more pieces for 2.5 dwt.
Fors plus with "dd" and all metal mode did an awesome job
Good luck

 

[Monte]

By 'dd' I presume you're referring to the 5½X10 DD, or was it the round 5" DD?

Congrats, and keep up the searching. I should be headed out from Eastern Oregon very soon to chase nuggets and work in some Relic Hunting. Need some evaluation time afield and a break from the frozen ground and snow. I really love winter, the snow, and some 'hunting' I can get in, but it's time to shift from cottontails and coyotes to old coins and raw gold for a while.

Monte

 

[californiagold]

I was using dd 10x5 monte. Good luck when u get out detecting.

 

[3RINGER]

CG your a lucky man! Gotta be a thrill seeing those come to light...WTG!!

 

[Monte]

the 5½X10 Concentric at first with the Gold+, but I have my 5½X10 DD and 5" DD both at-the-ready on spare ,lower rods for quick changes afield.

The last time I hunted in gold country in California was when I detected two very decent nuggets the same day and near each other. The first a 5 dwt and the second an 8 dwt and this was on some private property I had an invitation to hunt. Most of the folks in this outing hunted up the draw and hillsides from our camp, but I stayed very close to camp. Actually, I was right in the middle of the camp and was demonstrating a detector to a fellow when I hit the 5 dwt while looking for a clean spot to bury a 5¢ piece to let him check the detector out.

At the time I was using an 8" Concentric coil, but most of my gold nugget recoveries, which haven't been in great numbers because I usually Relic Hunt old sites for coins and trade tokens, have been found with 5" to 7" Concentric coils, far fewer when using a Double-D designed search coil.

I did make an hour long drive to a nieces in Idaho yesterday and it was wet ground but snow-free, and that got me excited. I wanted to hunt a bit around an old building there but the 'wet' level was closer to 'muddy quagmire' level so I'll save that for a later date. It did get me excited about heading off to Arizona or California before months end and hope dry and warm is part of the forecast compared to here at home. Yesterday's rains have helped diminish much of my snow, so maybe we have a hint of spring coming my way?

I hope to luck upon a little nugget site as productive as where you've been working. Keep it up!

Monte

 

[californiagold]

Im not sure how wet it is in arizona, but it has been almost nonstop for weeks. At my house we have over 25" of rain. Mostly since dec. 1st. But we only have one bigger storm this friday. Then maybe a break for sat. And sun. I plan on getting out again this weekend. I was hoping to get the gold racer. But it might not get here till next week.
I have the concentric for the fors plus. Im going to try it next time at the same place that I went. Ive used concentrics thru the years. But at some of my pocket gold spots, they struggled with the heavy mineralization. But we will see what happens at the old channel diggings.

 

[Monte]

Where I was living last year, we only had 3.31" of wet from January 1st thru October 15th when I moved to my home here in Vale, Oregon. Here, the 'average' December gets only 5.6" of snow, but we had a little over 7". This month we have had about 5", but most of it went fast and now the bulk of our snow is gone. Between a few rain showers and plenty of sun breaks, the ground is being exposed and that means maybe in a month we might be able to head up into the closest hills to some old gold mining town sites. Might not be until mid-to-late March, and I can't wait.

I should be headed out by the end of next week to get some field time in and evaluations done on my FORS Gold+ and Gold Racer, and will likely be heading towards Arizona. It all depends upon the weather and site conditions. I have considered California, but I usually travel with a companion or two, not counting my dog Miss Rikki, that California frowns on.

I do enjoy the Gold+ as I have had a chance to work it at some Relic Hunting locations a bit before cold and snow, and even worked in some detecting time this past few days with it over in Idaho where it has bare dirt. I'm taking my FORS CoRe along as well, naturally, and plan to do some comparisons of located targets between the 15 kHz CoRe and 19 kHz Gold+, too.

All the best of success when you get out to your site again.

Monte