Today while hunting on the beach this guy tells me...

[GreggWestCoast]

Today while hunting on the beach this guy tells me he hunts parks with night vision goggles alone. He said he finds stuff that is on top and shiny stuff really stands out. Coins, rings etc... He said he found a diamond ring and sold it for $1600. Then he said few people know about this. I don't know if he was just messing with me or what. I googled this and couldn't find anything on it. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

 

[Diggler]

Sounds theoretically possible that moonlight could be enhanced by reflective objects... Interesting.

 

[hardrockminer]

Here in AZ in the summer because of the heat & the price of gold we have people with headlamps hunting areas with MDers. You do what works + you wear your snakeguards.

HaRM

 

[GreggWestCoast]

How is the hunting in AZ for nuggets? Found any? I live in california and would LOVE to try it sometime. Just don't really know where to go...

 

[TheDualFieldBandit]

I got a set of Russian night vision goggles! I'll try it out to see if it will work? I suspect this guy must be using a infrared beam shinning it on the ground as he goes? The infrared will make any non natural objects stand out!

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Some of the Night vision goggles come with a infrared light source for enhanced vision.

 

[John(Tx)]

Don't know but thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it. HH

 

[GreggWestCoast]

Please let us know how it works! Try looking at a diamond. You might try wetting the targets to simulate rain. A hunt after the rain light make things really shine. I know in gold country people like to hunt by sight right after it rains.

 

[hardrockminer]

How is the hunting in AZ for nuggets? Found any? I live in california and would LOVE to try it sometime. Just don't really know where to go...

I've found nuggets with my ML3500 at a club pushes (24K Hunters) (East of Stanton, AZ) years ago. Can't afford to go anymore.

If you live in Kalifornia you are in gold country I've been told. Though you have millions of anti-dredgeing tree hugging nut cases there. You should be able to join a few clubs & swing a MDer there or pan some color, at least for a few more years.

HaRM

 

[GreggWestCoast]

Thats true and it is closer Just thought AZ might be a hot spot for detecting nuggets. I know gold is where you find it. Ii think I am more likely to find it on the beach...

 

[hardrockminer]

Thats true and it is closer Just thought AZ might be a hot spot for detecting nuggets. I know gold is where you find it. Ii think I am more likely to find it on the beach...

GregWestCoast,

No more of a hotspot that Kalifornia, but people think grass is always greener on the other side of the mountain. Most all the good areas for MDing are all claimed up & not all the gold fields have detectable (by metal detectors) size gold.

HaRM

 

[GreggWestCoast]

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[fowlercharles]

Hi Gregg, did I understand he was "eyeballing" stuff at night? Whatever , and even if it was working as he said, stalking around in the dark all alone in night vision Goggles seems frankly to me to be a very bad idea. JMHO,but I would pass that idea up ,as a no no.! HH, Charlie

 

[GreggWestCoast]

Yeah, never know, might get jumped by a homeless guy LOL. If this actually works I wouldn't be afraid to do it an long as I took a friend with me and a golf club. We could say we are playing glow in the dark golf LOL. Thr golf club could come in handy if we get jumped

 

[fowlercharles]

LOL, yeah Gregg , y'all would sure need some big "glowy"ones too! Balls, that is! HH, Charlie

 

[rewmarshall]

i read a book by steve shaffer and he used a infrared camera to find a spanish cash an the old spanish trail something about the rays bouncing back off the gold even know it was in the ground i dont no if it was just the infrared reflecting of what but thats what he said and you know if you read it in a book it must be true

 

[slingshot]

OK, dang it. Ya'll done found out one of my techniques. When coin hunting in the daytime I go parallel with the sun while metal detecting. I never look at the coil but back TOWARDS the sun and have sometimes had a gold chain or piece of jewelry REFLECT back and I catch it with my eyes. While riding my bicycle or just walking, I try to walk INTO the sun on my route and accomplish the same thing.l have found tools, jewelry,coins,etc. doing this. Even BETTER, at night I walk parallel to the street lights, looking towards the light reflected from the streets and accomplished the same things.Strangely enough, you can even see wallets at night. One night at an apartment complex, I saw a huge reflection and could even tell it was COPPER coins and found over 1100 pennies someone apparently lost while moving out. Another reason we should WALK TO THE LIGHT.

 

[Jerry-Wi]

Well every story like this always has a plausible element to it. As I understand it night vision goggles are passive devices which operate in the infrared part of the spectrum which is essence another way of saying heat. I can see where it is possible that any metal object would have a different temperature than the surrounding soil and stand out and be picked up by the goggles. I doubt if the effect would last all that long since the metal takes on or give up heat to it's surroundings pretty fast and I think would equalize with the ground after a time.

However I have never used night vision goggles so have no idea if it would actually work that way or not but it is interesting.

Just like metal detecting, you do not know for sure until you dig it, or in this case give it a try.

Jerry

 

[Elton]

But, each to his own I guess. Just saying...