Digger Bob
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I had meant to post this earlier, but my new camera messed up the pictures and I was hoping to get better ones from someone else.
At any rate, several of us went out about 3 weeks ago for 4 days. There were about 8 nuggets found most under 1 dwt. I got one right in the middle of the road that went 2.5 dwt but several guys went home empty handed.
HOWEVER... one of our more persistent (and oldest at 7
who can out hunt most of us, got very lucky. He was hunting a trash filled wash digging up bits of can, bullets, and assorted mining debris. Just at the edge of the wash he got another huge signal that signaled another large piece of junk. But being hard nosed and stubborn, he dug it anyway. It was, in fact a large chunk of copper trash. And being the smart hunter he is, before covering his hole, he automatically ran his loop (a mono Joey, BTW) over the hole. Well, of course, there is still a target in the hole, deep and loud. And, of course, he knew it was another big piece of trash, right? And again, being persistent and stubborn, he knew he had to dig it out. At 15 inchs deep it finally moved out of the hole and into the dirt pile. Running the magnet through the dirt and coming up empty, he KNEW it was another piece of copper. Imagine the shock this old man got when he dug through the dirt and this fell into his hand!
MOVE THAT TRASH, GUYS!
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At any rate, several of us went out about 3 weeks ago for 4 days. There were about 8 nuggets found most under 1 dwt. I got one right in the middle of the road that went 2.5 dwt but several guys went home empty handed.
HOWEVER... one of our more persistent (and oldest at 7
who can out hunt most of us, got very lucky. He was hunting a trash filled wash digging up bits of can, bullets, and assorted mining debris. Just at the edge of the wash he got another huge signal that signaled another large piece of junk. But being hard nosed and stubborn, he dug it anyway. It was, in fact a large chunk of copper trash. And being the smart hunter he is, before covering his hole, he automatically ran his loop (a mono Joey, BTW) over the hole. Well, of course, there is still a target in the hole, deep and loud. And, of course, he knew it was another big piece of trash, right? And again, being persistent and stubborn, he knew he had to dig it out. At 15 inchs deep it finally moved out of the hole and into the dirt pile. Running the magnet through the dirt and coming up empty, he KNEW it was another piece of copper. Imagine the shock this old man got when he dug through the dirt and this fell into his hand!MOVE THAT TRASH, GUYS!
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now that is what I call a keeper Lets hear it for the old digger 
as I would imagine it wasn't easy digging and he earned every bit of it. I suppose that called for a couple of 
Way to go, 70 you say. NIce find, what is the weight of that new born.
That's a great nugget Digger. Just goes to show no matter how hard a place is hit, it's impossible to find it all! No matter what the size. Congrats