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The 17 x 13 deep, deep thing is a major energy consumer 🤣 but enjoyable in its own way.
I used the last of my dig energy this morning on a session with the 12" ..
 

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A little test I did,
I stripped 36m2 around the last 2 bits I got, with my pick scraped 6 runs, put a stick on all the subtle high/lows, 11 in total and all disappeared within 4".
I'm thinking the tail of the low needs to be longer with a bit of groan in it..
 

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20xwater said:
A little test I did,
I stripped 36m2 around the last 2 bits I got, with my pick scraped 6 runs, put a stick on all the subtle high/lows, 11 in total and all disappeared within 4".
I'm thinking the tail of the low needs to be longer with a bit of groan in it..
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Yeah there's usually a bit of a groan at the end if it disappears 😂
 
Harald Hardrada said:
Funny story to it, my son and partner were metal detecting and decided to erect a bit of shade/shelter at their camp.
Digging post hole for the shelter this popped out.
They got a few more around it but this was the biggest.
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Love it! Reminded me of my first real prospecting trip. Had checked a large patch for 6 hours with an SDC2300...nothing. Stopped for lunch. With a sandwich in one hand and my gold monster in the other, I waved the stick around the chairs of my mate and his old man and was walking back to the Navara when I hit a nugget a foot from the car. 👌
 
Went out yesterday with @deepblue at Talbot. Spent a few hours detecting and got nothing between us.
was great getting out though.
went back today for a few hours and managed to find a smidgen of a bit.
I feel a bit inadequate after the bit @Harald Hardrada posted up.😆
It's the right colour at least.
 

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Went out yesterday with @deepblue at Talbot. Spent a few hours detecting and got nothing between us.
was great getting out though.
went back today for a few hours and managed to find a smidgen of a bit.
I feel a bit inadequate after the bit @Harald Hardrada posted up.😆
It's the right colour at least.
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Welcome back from the home country SL..... I’m sure your mind is free now to eventually turn up your perfect nugget.😊
 
Sold our caravan a couple of years back but with the gold bug gnawing at me bought a used campervan to resume some more far ranging trips to the goldfields.
Took the camper on a shakedown trip for three nights to Dunolly (a mere 30Ks from our place at Daisy Hill) just in case something was wrong that required a quick trip home.
Well couldn't get gas to the stove or fridge, the previous owners didn't leave us with a power lead and to boot I left the camper instructions at home.
A quick trip back to Maryborough for a power lead but even that didn't fit as the power sockets on the camper were of the older type and had to pare down the flange on the bought one to make it fit.
We are getting older and found sleeping in the extended bed awkward with me chivalrously taking the outerplace but then being trapped in when I needed a pee in the middle of the night.
Anyway the camper is now on the market and we are looking for a caravan now.
PS The gas problem was that I didn't know about the gas line valves underneath the camper.
PS I almost forgot that this is a topic about show and tell and the trip wasn't a complete disaster with about 3 grams found
 

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Hawkear said:
Sold our caravan a couple of years back but with the gold bug gnawing at me bought a used campervan to resume some more far ranging trips to the goldfields.
Took the camper on a shakedown trip for three nights to Dunolly (a mere 30Ks from our place at Daisy Hill) just in case something was wrong that required a quick trip home.
Well couldn't get gas to the stove or fridge, the previous owners didn't leave us with a power lead and to boot I left the camper instructions at home.
A quick trip back to Maryborough for a power lead but even that didn't fit as the power sockets on the camper were of the older type and had to pare down the flange on the bought one to make it fit.
We are getting older and found sleeping in the extended bed awkward with me chivalrously taking the outerplace but then being trapped in when I needed a pee in the middle of the night.
Anyway the camper is now on the market and we are looking for a caravan now.
PS The gas problem was that I didn't know about the gas line valves underneath the camper.
PS I almost forgot that this is a topic about show and tell and the trip wasn't a complete disaster with about 3 grams found
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Don't worry about the purists bloke .......................... great story and all related to the same quest 👍
 
Well Easter bunny only delivered 68 grams of chocolate for me, all be it was "Old Gold" but. Guess I won't get tooth ache ;)😂
 

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