Andyy 1,040 Posted February 17 Well, I tried a new way to get out to this new gold area I found. The gold seemed fairly small, but I had to hike in at least 3 miles to get there. So I tried to drive in another way in hopes of only having to hike in a mile. Of course Google Earth made things seem better than they were (almost like I could drive right there), but in the end I only cut about a mile off the hike (one way). So now I had a decision to make … take my GPZ 14" coil, the GM1000, or what I call my Midget Coil (10" Xcoil). GPZ 14" about killed me getting out there last time so that was out. I love the GM1000 on bedrock, but some of the bedrock here was very hot. Usually in those cases, I will go to my GPZ 10" Xcoil, which I venture to say is at least on par with the SDC 2300 (with the exception of being a little bigger). And the Xcoil is still a pleasure to hike with. So off I went. I started out hitting the areas I had been to before and got some good signals. First piece was only about .1g. Then I started finding slightly bigger .2g pieces. Most of these seemed to be what I call runners. Those are the ones in washes that I find on the sides of the wash, trying to run away when they see me coming. The larger coils tend to lose a bit of depth when checking the sides and depressions. The 10" Xcoil, however, does very well getting in there. Overall, 5 pieces were found (total .75g). Not a lot, but at least half of these finds were detected very carefully with the 14" coil and were missed. The Xcoil was very clear on all but a 1 grainer piece that was about 2" deep on it's side. All in all, it was just a fun day crumb chasing. 9 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cowkiller 150 Posted February 18 Nice! That baby coil is on fire! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adam 3,107 Posted February 18 Very nice !! Thanks for sharing 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
boulder dash 1,224 Posted February 18 Cool story!!! Keep it up Andy. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LowPoint 1,225 Posted February 18 Hey, nice looking nuggets Andy,....Three miles to get to these???? "WOW" Sounds like the day I had today, but I didn't find anything;...You may have to get you a "Burroooooo" ..........Gary 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andyy 1,040 Posted February 18 3 hours ago, Cowkiller said: Nice! That baby coil is on fire! Yeah, I love the little Midget Coil. But it is going to take a looooot of these kind of trips to pay it off. 1 hour ago, LowPoint said: Hey, nice looking nuggets Andy,....Three miles to get to these???? "WOW" Sounds like the day I had today, but I didn't find anything;...You may have to get you a "Burroooooo" ..........Gary Gary, you aren't kidding about the Burros. I could hear them over the hill laughing at me. (seriously) They are all over that area. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LukeJ 1,989 Posted February 18 Nice nugs Andy. Now that you've found the smaller ones, there's got to be a bigger one lurking there somewhere. Let me know if you need help finding it. Congrats !! Luke 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alwaysdirty 914 Posted February 20 Nice going Andy! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
