anyone with experience with gold/metal detectors ?

[99ss]

I was thinking about a metal detector...LOL But why not. I have a lot of free time on my hands sometimes and some good country to go fishing and camping around me and maybe do some prospecting.

Anyone with experience with metal detectors and specifically gold detectors?

 

[Budnicks]

riches in them thar hills

:iamwithstupid: Nope never owned one, saw a few commercials too, I was thinking about getting one also, but I do that about allot of stuff & never get any farther...LOL... I live in California Gold Country, in the Motherload & allot for recreational areas, camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, historical prospecting sties, gold mines, etc., in the Tuolumne County area or all over the Sierras for that matter... I think it could maybe help to supplement my car/truck building driving expenses...LOL... 99ss share some info if & when you get some, I may be interested on some latter date, in getting a Gold/Metal detector for chits & giggles...

 

[Propwash]

My X-Wife was a gold digger............want her number? Nevermind...must have miss placed it.

 

[Budnicks]

My X-Wife was a gold digger............want her number? Nevermind...must have miss placed it.

I LMFAO Prop That's too freaken' funny... No thanks I know a few of them already...

 

[99ss]

Bawaahahahahaha.. good one Prop

 

[Propwash]

In all seriousness Chris, knew a guy at a customers of ours that was big into Gems/metals. The guy got so into it, he actually quit and was able to find enough income to sustain a living. Some gems, copper, Zinc and gold. That's saying a lot considering the frozen stretch of rock where I live. I would imagine in your neck of the woods out there on the west coast, would present a lot more opportunities than around this old seabed. I'd like to hear how it pans out for you as well.......

 

[99ss]

Well there is gold in dem dar hills for sure around here.. Oregon Cali and Washington.. not going to retire on it but it would be cool to fine a nugget or two...LOL

after every winter and storm little bits gets washed around so who knows .. might be fun to fish and scan at the same time and at the very least have a few beers and relax. Get outside with the kids and do some camping this summer on the weekends and see what we find. If things go well then take a trip to see Budnicks and get some of that Cali gold and do some fishing and have a few beers with a fellow mopar/football fan.. LOL pans out for you

 

[roadrunnerman]

Just remember, all prospectors need a donkey to carry all their equipment.

 

[MarPar]

Next up on Discovery channel...Gold Rush Oregon!!! lol

 

[Moparsmitty]

I don't have much experience myself, but when my brother was alive he was pretty damn good at prospecting for gold using a detector. The main thing that made him good at it was lots of experience plus reading everything that he could find on the subject. He lived in the Prescott Az. area but traveled around the southwest for his job and when he wasn't working you could find him out in the desert prospecting. He could drive into an area and take a quick look around and tell if it was worth looking by checking out the geology of the area.
The few times that I went out with him we always found at least small amounts of gold. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from just those few trips. He told me that he learned a lot from some of the old prospectors he used to run into on the road and out in the desert. I know that he used a detector called a Fisher Gold Bug. I don't remember exactly what model it was but it was a really good one. If you get into prospecting I hope you enjoy it and remember that it takes a lot of experience and persistence.

 

[Budnicks]

Next up on Discovery channel...Gold Rush Oregon!!! lol

Those Gold Rush guys "are" from Oregon...

 

[MarPar]

Those Gold Rush guys "are" from Oregon...

aren't those the Ax Men, Buds?

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Budnicks]

I guess Meteorites/fragments are big money too, little pieces are worth some decent bucks, seen a few articles & programs, with guys finding them with Metal detectors also... I guess it's a big deal in the high deserts...There's a guy over on DodgeCharger.com forum {Skip & Mrs.Skip}, that found a bunch of Meteorite/fragments & cashed in for something like $10k, in area of the South Fork of the American River area by Coloma {Sutters Mill, Marshall's Gold discovery Park area}, Cool, Lotus {Lotus rd., from Shingle Springs, North East toward Coloma/Georgetown, Gold country}, areas of Calif. Sierra Foothills near/between Placerville & Auburn areas, off Hwy 49 & Hwy 193 areas... I went to Ponderosa HS in that area, in the mid 70's... Might be worth a look,it's about 100 miles from where I live now,My old Pops knows the Motherload/Sonora area well, he's been here for nearly 40 years, I am just learning/discovering it myslef...

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aren't those the Ax Men, Buds?

MarPar.. I know the guys from Gold Rush are all Oregonians {that fat *** Todd character is freaken' clueless, the other guy running the "big red" opperation in Indian Creek Yukon, instead of the Quarts Creek Yukon losers, Dave is the guy who's got all the damn gold}...LOL.. I'm not really sure about the guys on the Axe Men show, but there's allot of damn Logging/Lumber Supply companies in the Pacific North West thou, most of those shows are filmed South West Alaska, a few in Northern Calif., Oregon, Washington & Idaho even now...

 

[99ss]

problem now is that those areas I think are prime illegal garden sites now? friggin cartels from Mexshitgo are ruining our forrests.
TO hell with Afgan.. send the troops to the border states and declare war on mexico's gangs same as the taliban.. drone strikes and cruise missles and a few billion ton of ordanance from the air force out to do it.. swath a path 50 miles wide and call it the dead zone.. you enter it your dead.. simple as that.... New policy time.... kill first no questions later.....

Ok thats all ai have to say about that..LOL

But yeah there is lots of spots we can check out this summer and I want to do it instead of just always thinking about it.

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aren't those the Ax Men, Buds?

The Axe men are all over actually but were for the most part in the PACNW. I think the Oregon crews are gone now though actually. Its Washington and Alaska and Ohio and Florida and Louisiana

 

[Budnicks]

problem now is that those areas I think are prime illegal garden sites now? - - - Updated - - -
The Axe men are all over actually but were for the most part in the PACNW. I think the Oregon crews are gone now though actually. Its Washington and Alaska and Ohio and Florida and Louisiana

We also have allot of privately owned, heavily forested & open lands here too, you have to be very careful where you go, to be in compliant with the law &/or not to trespass on private property & yep There always has been & always will be, allot of illegal Marijuana crops & Crank cookers out there, especially in the some of the deep forests, a bunch of ex-hippies 60's throw backs too, were they can hide them from the man/authorities....... 99ss That's funny, I guess I conveniently blocked it out or forgot all about the weird/strange, river loggers/divers in the bayou's & swamps on that Axe Men program...