LuckyLundy Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 All of us Western State prospectors got hit with a good storm last weekend and more on their way to end the week with. Quality detecting sometimes is at a premium during the Winter months. El Dorado, wanted a break at looking at all the snow around his house in the high country, so we set up a hunt for today. Even though we are having record breaking low temps in the lower foothills and some heavy frost, he was still game. We hit one of our favorite patches, he went one way and I another. I thought I'd detect and area that has alot of oldtimer trash to warm the blood up. It was around my 25th target, it sounded solid and I dug it out, thinking it was another chunk of metal. Out of the hole and into my scoop, a couple of handfuls off the top the target was still in my scoop. Shaking the 1/3 full scoop into my hand, I heard something hitting the plastic and then I felt some added weight at the end. Still thinking it was a chunk of metal, I moved the dirt with my fingers. Whoa!, Wow! It was a fat one, and Steve no-where in sight. I enjoyed it for several minutes and dug another 25 targets searching for it's twin! No-luck, but I know it's around in all that trash...another day! A couple hours later I ran into Steve. He showed me his nugget (.9 dwt) first! I'm sure you could here Steve's reaction a mile away! It hit the scale at 16.6 dwt's and a little bath it lost some weight 16.5 dwt's or 25.7 grams. Steve & I, had a blast this morning with a good hike and laughs...Thanks for the extra Mojo Steve. Until our next hunt.LuckyLundy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggetslayer Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Nice nug bro! I'm stuck here at school with finals and your pulling out 3/4oz + nugs. Nice work. Steve good work on your nug too. That patch is getting tough but there are still some out there. Rick see ya this weekend if we don't get rained out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean.C Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Wow great nug Rick! You're starting december off strong with 1 oz already in the poke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigDeep Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 WTG! uuuggggg I hate trash Maybe I need to get a magnet like you guys use - somthin' like 8" square supermegamagnet I heard. lol.DigDeep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted December 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 DigDeep,Yep, trash is part of the game...I always look forward to hunt a spot with no-trash! Them big magnets speed recovery time up, which ends with more time detecting for the next target. Until our next hunt.LuckyLundy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dennis sanders Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 DigDeep,Yep, trash is part of the game...I always look forward to hunt a spot with no-trash! Them big magnets speed recovery time up, which ends with more time detecting for the next target. Until our next hunt.LuckyLundythats one thing about ole steve he sure knows where to go hygrading at...nice find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Whats up with the sly remarks Dennis, you get on the forum and make remarks about Steve a long time forum member and a friend of mine and many others, and you have only made 7 posts. Steve{Eldorado, has helped out many on this forum, me included, I really don't think he deserves, that remark. GrubstakeI'll also say, I don't know if you were kidding or not, but to say someone is a high grader, is bad, either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlakMagnet Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Dennis,Around here you really need to think before you start tossing remarks like that around.This is a pretty tight group of folks here...If it was a joke of some kind it was a poor choice of words.Flak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 DUH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dennis sanders Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 Whats up with the sly remarks Dennis, you get on the forum and make remarks about Steve a long time forum member and a friend of mine and many others, and you have only made 7 posts. Steve{Eldorado, has helped out many on this forum, me included, I really don't think he deserves, that remark. GrubstakeI'll also say, I don't know if you were kidding or not, but to say someone is a high grader, is bad, either way.sly remark? ive heard steve is a good hunter knows where to get good gold and that looked like a nice piece of hygrade....ile make no more coments to anyones finds..to all have a great x mas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dennis sanders Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 DUH? hey steve i comented to grubstakes post..did not mean to offend you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 Its that the word Highgrader, is a mining term meaning, that he stoled it from somewhere he was not supposed to be. Its a bad way to say someone got a nice nugget. GrubstakeIn the old days, miners were working for pay in someone else's mine, would sometimes hit a highgrade pocket, they would hide or take the gold, without give it to the mine owner. Thus they were called highgraders. I know Steve was invited down to where he found his big one. By Luckylundy, so I know his gold was not HIGHGRADED. Maybe you just made a post with a bad choise of words. Not trying to cause a ruckus. Just saying Steve is not a highgraded. Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver dog doug Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 All of us Western State prospectors got hit with a good storm last weekend and more on their way to end the week with. Quality detecting sometimes is at a premium during the Winter months. El Dorado, wanted a break at looking at all the snow around his house in the high country, so we set up a hunt for today. Even though we are having record breaking low temps in the lower foothills and some heavy frost, he was still game. We hit one of our favorite patches, he went one way and I another. I thought I'd detect and area that has alot of oldtimer trash to warm the blood up. It was around my 25th target, it sounded solid and I dug it out, thinking it was another chunk of metal. Out of the hole and into my scoop, a couple of handfuls off the top the target was still in my scoop. Shaking the 1/3 full scoop into my hand, I heard something hitting the plastic and then I felt some added weight at the end. Still thinking it was a chunk of metal, I moved the dirt with my fingers. Whoa!, Wow! It was a fat one, and Steve no-where in sight. I enjoyed it for several minutes and dug another 25 targets searching for it's twin! No-luck, but I know it's around in all that trash...another day! A couple hours later I ran into Steve. He showed me his nugget (.9 dwt) first! I'm sure you could here Steve's reaction a mile away! It hit the scale at 16.6 dwt's and a little bath it lost some weight 16.5 dwt's or 25.7 grams. Steve & I, had a blast this morning with a good hike and laughs...Thanks for the extra Mojo Steve. Until our next hunt.LuckyLundyNice job Lucky, Now go find the big one. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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