Uncle Ron Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) Yo All ... Yesterday I decided to go back to Happy Ridge at LSD and try a different approach ... I hadn't found any nuggets there for my last half dozen visits and had pretty much written it off as officially "hammered"...I'd been thinking about how I had hunted it and realized that I probably had made a big mistake ... Previously I'd determined that the gold was only in gray dirt ... So I hooked up my Joey mono to my ML4500 and started hunting a small area of red dirt well below where the original patch was ... Sure enough, about one minute into my hunt, I got a good signal which turned out to be a little cute 0.3 gram dink ... Another 10 minutes of very slow swinging produced a screaming signal from a spot that had cholla and bush hog cacti growing up in a spanish dagger bush ... It was hard getting my pick up in there, and I got a number of cactus spines in my hand and wrist, but finally I had a target in the pile ... Got the target into my scoop and was disappointed to see it was a scrap of an old tin can ... However, I stuck the Joey up into the hole once more and it still was screaming ... I figured I had a buried tin can, but then I realized I had seen that early scrap of metal on my pick magnet before...It had fallen off while I dug the hole ... So I dug down about 10" and finally the screamer was out of the hole ... As I halved the dirt with the scoop, I suddenly heard a solid "clunk" as the target hit the scoop ... Yowza!!! Turned out to be nearly half an ounce chunker ... 8.8 DWT! Great way to end a dry spell ... Cheers, Unc Edited February 6, 2013 by Uncle Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I bet you worked pretty carefully around those cactus and catclaw. Good on you Ron, but don't get all the gold before we get there for the outing. That is a nice peice of gold. :-) Old Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 WTG Ron, very nice way to end a dry spell for certain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Hard work paid good Unc.....glad you like that little Joey coil....I have two of them....mono and DD....thatis sure a beautiful piece of gold....thanks for the pics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beaudurkee Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Cha Ching! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Dang...now thats a good story on finding a nice nugget.Glad you didnt give up on it as trash WTG!Tom H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au Seeker Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Ron now that's the way to beat the skunk for sure, that cholla and other cactus was guarding it for you so you had to pay the security fee of a few spines to retrieve the GOLD!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Ticket sales for the LSD outing just doubled Thats a honker of a nugget Ron....Congrats !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I heard our Unc is giving tours of his patches and free maps to the first 0 members....nice gold!fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowkiller Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I heard our Unc is giving tours of his patches and free maps to the first 0 members....nice gold!fredI wish.... Nice gold Unc Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott W. Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Good Job Unc Oh my pm box is empty send info where when an what time to meet ur there. OH MY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike C... Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Nice nugget Ron WTG I was out there on saturday and seen you zoom by on your atv and on the way out seen your truck with the trailer I was beepin with Lon and we both managed to beat the skunk with a couple of dinks but Lons was a little bigger and so he got one of his dollars back Mike C... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Great payoff for a bloody job well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldstudmuffin Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 (edited) Hi Unc, beautiful nugget.. congratulations! The big ones always make you feel good for a few days until you want more! Edited February 7, 2013 by goldstudmuffin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ron Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thanks all ... Russ, you are right about the temporary high you get off of finding a good nugget ... I went back out today and sort of surveyed the whole hillside patch and realized that small patch of red dirt was the only area that I had not covered eleven ways from Sunday over the past year ... No targets today at all ... Nugget shooting is like a drug, you get a good high then, after a few days, you get depressed .... ... But I still love to rattle the poke, until Dodacious makes me stop so she can hear American Idol !!!! /// Cheers, Unc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvchris Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Nice Shootin!Beautiful nuggets, I love the ones with holes.Great to see you using my old Joey I miss that coil more now Folks don't realize just how deep they can detect. I've dug targets that size @ 16" with that Joey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Ron Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Yo, Chris... That Joey mono is one sweet coil ... I've found a butt load of nuggets, both shallow and deep with it ... Thanks for giving me a great deal on it ... (I'm not sure if that is a butt load troy or adv., but it's a great coil) ... Cheers, Unc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~LARGO~ Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Aww man Cuz, yer killin' me...but what a way to go! Keep up the good work, and keep on finding that good stuff!Cuz Gary in the cold country... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoser John Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 No pain...no gain...and that honkr' is beautiful indeed!!John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimshot Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 WTG Ron!!! Keep em coming!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank c Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Sweet piece Keep on beepin Unc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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