Hi All,
Back out for a couple of hours today - excellent cool weather for digging deep holes, I didnt want to expel too much energy, so I went to an area in close walking distance of where the vehicle was parked. I have been to this spot many times and
it keeps giving - as we know we cant get all the targets even if we grid, walk one way then cross cut in another direction even coming back over from the diagonal, and spend months in the area, changing coils in certain spots where needed to gain the depth size or even the little coils in the tightest dense area's - taking away every little stick branch rock and blade of grass possible. We can only do our best
I move a certain amount of sticks or big rocks if needed but I think there is a line - in saying this if the area was a very rich spot then yeah by all means hit it as hard as you can and anything needed to gain that extra advantage in the hunt - go for it. Everyone has a strategy that works for them - some may need to pick up some extra tips and increase their strategy to gain that extra little bit of gold.
Enough preaching - so today I was nice and relaxed as I ventured into the area - getting a slight EMI Interference from the high voltage overheads - again simply tune away and keep going, and the constant little warble every now and then is no where near as bad as very hot ground - so any change in the threshold for a target in the ground was easily distinguished.
So after a couple of hours I have a lot to show for my efforts in digging and adding another 25 feet of holes to my tally - the joys of the hunt
1. In this image you can see a very nice depth to this hole - almost the length/depth of the Mid Size pick - and there we have it - Flat Brass
2. After hunting away and hitting some excellent tones in the ground - this is what it is all about, digging more 1 to 1 1/2 foot holes - unearthing targets that no one has ever found, any of these could have well and truly been a gold target - and the big chunky rust nuggets - well they would have been a nice addition if the color was right. I think I have said it before, keeping that positive mindset on every target is the best - rather than getting annoyed with it not being gold - I always say well onto the next target and that could have easily been gold, and I think imagine if it was, what a nice size piece it would have been.
I dont post up my photo's of everything that I dig - mainly only relics or mostly the gold digs for you all - the reason I take images of the gold finds are for ground and mineral makeup images for you all to see - depth and what is under the gold when I dig them - as for the rust nuggets I dont think you all want to see 100's photo's with what the ground, soils, rocks, and mineral makeup is associated with them
I will post up details of our group day tomorrow
