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    Today I MADE

    Hi, I got this book about a yr ago in a book shop in Maldon. In the section on mushrooms and fungis that are edible it say Slipoery Jack are ok.
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    Today I MADE

    Ok now here you have my interest. My book shows Slippery Jacks to eat. For years and years id see them and think "nah no way" After the last floods I saw many, especially when I went fishing at Teddington res and Laanacoorie seeing them around the pines. They look horrid! But my bush tucker...
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    Today I MADE

    I looked up our Aussie mushrooms, as well as other things in the past few years. From my time bush with my father who went through the depression yrs and showed me stuff. I got a book several months ago that had a lot of Aussie things to survive. I got it in a cool little book shop in Maldon...
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    Fossicking for a better future, Tennant Creek NT, ABC Back Roads

    Yeah think as most news stories, the person doing the ground work, submit, then is edited by.....no idea editors...kids who try to tell us older hands how to tie our shoe laces! Good grief, Iv seen news stories of people shooting with 60 to 80 yr old shotguns and 7 news saying they were high...
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    Today I MADE

    Yeah and some in the Central Vic area a number of years ago were adding impurities to boost the weight. I think the buyer in Ballarat got burnt as did the owner of old finders. Back then some were even manufacturing nuggets. I saw one that one guy got sucked into buying and it was well done but...
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    Hi guys

    Thanks. Don't hold your breath mate these days with anything I might find from here on. I couldn't carry my beloved GPX around after my accident so sold it. Been using a mates coin machine lately to see how it goes, seem ok carrying it about for a few hours, so im going to get just a light VLF...
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    Where's the reptiles

    Hi guys I reckon all thats right but these are all areas where there were no fires at all. We got blanketed in smoke as did all those areas but no, they were not fire affected at all. Kara Kara hasn't had a fire in my living memory yet it is has become a virtual reptile ghost town as have other...
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    Where's the reptiles

    Hi guys. Iv noticed in the past few years the number of reptiles I see in the bush in Central Vic has plummeted. I first noticed the decline immediately after the Black Summer fires. Places I used to often see little dragon lizards regularly suddenly there were none, shingle backs the numbers...
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    Whinge of the day thread...

    Read this on Yahoo news site. Some idiot digging for coins on a footy oval in Maryborough left a bunch of holes. Unfortunately they are blaming prospectors looking for gold. Who ever wrote it though didn't do their homework as to which Maryborough and goes on to mention Qld. It was in...
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    Eating Carp and other "delicacies"

    Damn, if pigs wont eat em I'm out.
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    Eating Carp and other "delicacies"

    I tried to fillet one to cook once, I just couldn't get past the smell. Filleted one side then, "nah that's it, where's the bin" Might bring a clothes peg with me next time I try.
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    Today I Saw a Native Animal

    I saw dozens and dozens of them a while ago, all big ones too from 5 to 10lb, all breeding in the shallows in a frenzy, they were going crazy.
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    Garrett Axiom issue & video

    Yeah I found for my ears the real low tones enhanced and gave a more defined signal response to dropping tones, deeper larger targets. Iv never even seen a 6000 or held one but no tone adjustment on it is stupid.
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    Garrett Axiom issue & video

    So had a look on YouTube and the guy that had issues had a dud unit. Hope for you guys getting one that its uncommon.
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    Does anyone in Victoria or Southern NSW have an Axiom?

    This has to be the quietest detector release, after it hit the shelves I mean, ever. Heard lots about it coming, big build up, now crickets. Anyone actually tried one here and have any opinions on it performance wise in comparison to any of the Minelabs? I saw a couple of videos of when the...
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    Atmospheric EMI interference

    Just read last night about some serious solar activity about now. https://hothardware.com/news/why-massive-polar-vortex-spotted-around-the-suns-north-pole-has-scientists-stumped
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    QED Info Thread.

    G, day. I see it advertised with a power bank battery. Is that a set up like a gpx where the battery is connected by a lead?
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    Communications

    Hi, I know nothing about that stuff. But I lived in a bigger town and we got smashed with scam things. We moved and get zero. I looked it up and saw in places things are set up with X distance relay, or whatever pick up. We are out of the zone now. We got smashed every day. Now nothing. Im not...
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    Communications

    We have good typically strength here. But this may be not or may be something. In our last town we lived which was Maryborough. Every single week we got phone scam calls, texts, phone calls. Me and the missss combined, 10 every single week non stop. We had to move as the town was Swamped by...
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