Reno Chris Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Did some detecting yesterday with the GPZ in an old Hydraulic pit in California. Dug a lot of bullets and square nails, but also got this guy, a nice 2.5 gram nugget.It was surprisingly deep, around 9 inches. The ground in the pit was very quiet.My question is, how come its OK for hunters to spray lead everywhere, but miners are bad because we dig for gold? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaver hillbille Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) Because hunters are getting sustenance and miners are just greedy "golddiggers". YOu asked... Nice gold ya got there, Digger Edited June 13, 2015 by weaver hillbille Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Nice piece Chris. My plans fell through for this weekend, but hoping to get up that way in a couple weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) Unless the hunters were eating clay pidgeons, I dont think they were shooting for food. It was target practice.Matt - let me know when you have a chance again. Edited June 13, 2015 by Reno Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) nice gold Chris...the days of shooters legally spraying lead everywhere are coming to an end...almost every place I formally could target practice is closed...not that i have done much shooting latelyhope you and your Daddy are having fun..fred Edited June 13, 2015 by fredmason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Nice one Chris! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMONDBACKDAVE Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I agree with Chris totally nonsense about Bullets everywhere people need to go to a shooting range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaver hillbille Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Unless the hunters were eating clay pidgeons, I dont think they were shooting for food. It was target practice.Matt - let me know when you have a chance again. Great point I hadn't considered. Don't ranges ,nowadays, have bullet traps with hepa filtration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 So you go out to a place like that, shoot 50 shotgun rounds having a bit of target practice, each round has 100 little bird shot pellets, you just sprayed the pit with 5,000 pellets. It takes maybe 3 minutes to dig each pellet, so it would take three 8 hour days of digging pellets as fast as you can to clean up the entire place. They also shoot bullets, each bullet frags into 3 to 5 pieces - 100 rounds of target practice means maybe 400 lead bullet fragments.You can easily see how a few guys doing target practice now and then can really mess up an area for prospecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim straight Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Nice find Chris. One answer to question: lead bird shot outlawed; now steel. the 22 cal cartridge short and long casings are everywhere as 22's have been popular over 100 years and many shooters are too lazy to police and recycle the brass, or later steel casings. Also there are many larger caliber casings from handguns and rifles. Many old spent casings have been squashed/bitten by some animals that have been attracted to the spent powder smell... Hey I have even dug highly collectable Henrys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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