TomH Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Hey all: Welp had to get a new coil and after talking with AJ and Mike F. about the evolution I decided to do it. My old coiltek 14 elip was giving me fits with falsing and such. Doctered it up as much as I could but after 5 yrs of banging it around....it was tired. Im loven it. It is a LOT more sensitive and seems to do a lot better on black sand and ironstone. It is a wee bit heaver than my old 14 elip, but exercise and a bungy will take care of that. Went back into a area ive pounded and let others hit. I got more trash out of the main wash that I missed before. The small nails were 8" deep and the 3/4 X 3/4 piece of steel was at 1 1/2 feet deep...loved digging that one! Now for the gold. They look like brothers But, they were actually up on the hill sides out of the main wash. Two washes separating them. One was 3 feet up a 70 deg. slope and one was in a really small drainage that I never bothered to detect. Hit everything around up and down from where I found them. Just some loners. A good friend and I went up there last week and he gave me all kinds of tips/hint/help/geology advice/ head exploding....... Told me to hunt the one side of the wash. They are up there. But dang....hunting hillsides is hard! Total in gold was 3 grams. Enjoy! Tom H. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugget108 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Awesome Tom, nice nuggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtimehermit Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 looks like your work paid off, nuggets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulder dash Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Sounds like retirement is going to really get you some gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwaysdirty Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Awesome Tom! Hope that new coil snags you many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relichunter2016 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Sweet coil...thinking of getting one myself..congrats on you nuggets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeJ Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 That's some good stuff there.... Keep them coming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oregal1976 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Very nice! Congrats, Tom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Nice nuggies Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZMark Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 I'm loving the hillsides from now on. Excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au Seeker Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Nice twins Tom , a word of warning, detecting on the slopes will tend to make one of your legs shorter than the other, unless you rotate every other nugget, but even then eventually both of your legs will get so short that your butt will be dragging the ground , it's a catch 22 type thing ,but on the bright side when that happens you won't have far to bend over to dig your targets!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 4 hours ago, Au Seeker said: Nice twins Tom , a word of warning, detecting on the slopes will tend to make one of your legs shorter than the other, unless you rotate every other nugget, but even then eventually both of your legs will get so short that your butt will be dragging the ground , it's a catch 22 type thing ,but on the bright side when that happens you won't have far to bend over to dig your targets!! Thanks Skip...thats funny. I was wondering why im walking in circles today and cant get anything done Tom H 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowkiller Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Nice gold Tom! Hope you find lots more with that new coil. Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Nice finds, Tom.. Hard won hillsiders are extra special..! Swamp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyy Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Wow Tom, you're killing it out there. And hillsides seem extra tough, though I always save time to try. You've got the reason right there in poke. Great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Well done Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Furness Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Glad the new coil is working well for you Tom. Keep up the good work! Season is pretty much done for me ... in the mode to get the kayak ready for its voyage East to NH for the stripers and 3 largemouth bass tournies I will be competing in while there. Those tournies are kayak only ... going to win at least one of them this year! LOL! Mike F 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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