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On the way up to search for GOLD!!!

marjamar

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I setting in front of the local super market while my son is in buying a few things to take alone on our adventure today. It's about 7:44 AM and we're on our way up to some gold diggings we've been researching while waiting on our X-70 to be delivered. It came in Tuesday and we've used it 3 times around here and once while looking for a ghost town about 2 hours from here. The ghost town wasn't very ghosty, as there were people living there, so not much we could search without getting permission. But today, we will be searching around some abandon mines. Hopefully we will find a little bit of gold, if we're lucky.

Here comes Andy, I'll post back later...

-Rodger
 
Dig some for me..............................PLEASE:rofl: Very good luck..let us know
TomB:detecting:
 
Next day, 6:55 AM...

I am really wore out! Found the spots my son had said gold was being found using metal detectors, but we were not that lucky. We had great luck finding alot of iron stuff, 1 penny, and sore legs and back, but no gold. We looked for about 10 hours yesterday and along with no gold, climbing up a gorge (metal detecting all the way) we had hoped to find some wire gold which was hydro mined by the looks of it. Spent a good 4 hours slipping and sliding around up there, but only found a buried pot belly stove, which we didn't uncover fully once I seen what it was. The ground there was full of hot rocks, which made it hard as I didn't want to cancel out too much and loose any hope of finding smaller gold. After sliding back down that gorge, we spent the rest of the day searching some of the dredging tailing piles that some had found gold in. Andy did some sluicing in the river, to see if there was any evidence of gold, which there was, but only flour and not much of that.

I think I may have found a problem with our detector as well. When switching from prospect mode to coin mode to get a target ID, if I would then switch to pinpoint mode, very often the detector would just squeal and not stop no matter where I move the coil, even up in the air. Didn't do it all the time, but enough of the time to tell me something is amiss with it most likely. Don't know if my settings could have anything to do with this, as it would only do it if I switched from prospect mode, then to coin mode and pinpoint.

We had fun non-the-less. Got some nice pictures and a bit of video and a whole lot of exercise, so not all bad. We will continue on, perhaps over this weekend we my find more luck, and even some of that elusive gold I've heard so much about.

-Rodger
 
Good Luck. It's a lot of hard work to find gold, and a lot of hard work and I still don't find any gold. I feel like I'm a garbage lady with all that ends up in my pouch. Pull tabs and pennies love me!

My hubby & I are heading out into West Central Montana to look for gold this weekend. Found an open area on BLM with an expired claim. Might see if it's worth claiming. Friend has a claim/owns property near by and just found a golf ball sized nugget in May with his detector. He also has a ghost town on the property but we have to give him all that we find. Nuts to that but it still might be fun.

So good luck to all! See ya in the gold fields!
 
I thought i'd be able to retire soon after i started detecting but I haven't had any luck either. Hey, at least you got to spend some quality time with the kid and it sounds like you sure had some fun and ain't that what it's all about anyway?
Don't give up yet and the more you detect the better the luck.
Dang
 
The first one is always the hardest to find. I had a PI unit, hunted daily for a couple of months till I busted my cherry. After that, they try to jump into your poke. Guess they like company.
 
I'm still learning to "listen" to my targets to get a sense of what they are before digging. Finding coins was always pretty easy to do with the other 3 detectors I've had, but this is the first digital detector I've had and there is a difference. Also, the target ID is still to jumbled too much of the time for me to get a feel for what's under the coil. I'm finding stuff, digging all but what is negative numbers and getting to feel better about what is happening as the coil hits targets -- Finding gold is another animal however.

I have some panned gold flakes I've been practicing with, but I think I will have to actually get some hits on buried nuggets to actually get comfortable with what I hear and what my settings should be. I have found some super small steel wire fragments, rusted away from old dredge cabling. Some so small they are hardly visible without really looking for them. I know a few of these were more then a couple of inches deep, so I think my settings are close enough to find some gold, if and when I find where the gold is, so I can find it ;>)

Tomorrow we'll most likely do some coin and relic hunting at an old abandoned homestead my son-in-law told me about.

Having fun, so I don't think I last awhile yet.

-Rodger
 
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