How Long Did It Take You To Find Your First Nugget?

[Trash]

Bought a 5000 in November 2012

2nd weekend I had it I found 5 bits for 1.95g in total

First piece was about .28g

Maryborough Vic.

 

[LONEWOLF]

That's luck there MT...

LW....

 

[mudgee hunter]

Ha! Good thread! Brings back good memories.
Mine was on my 2nd day at Hargraves with my first banker.
I was camped out in the middle of winter, -7deg at night....
Yet I was splashing around in a frozen creek at 7am!
A mate had just arrived at camp, as I was doing a clean up.
"Is there any gold" walking down with two stubbies of beer in his hand at 8.30am!!!
I turn to see a bub nuggy ( .78grm ) just shinning there on the skid base.
"Is that a little nuggy or what"
" bull oop: ... really" ?
"Yep"
So it was a great day to kick off with.
Found its little brother, 0.6grm within a foot later that day.
Froze our monkeys balls off on that 12 day trip out there In the middle of winter.
Burnt half the amazon to stay alive.
Sox u could snap in half off the line from being frozen stiff.
Beer was just outside in box, no need for ice!
The colour of gold running through our veins kept us warm.....
+ copious amounts of rum!!!
I skull dragged a massive tree stump 400m down to camp, gouging the dirt track back to camp.
Thinking it would keep us going two days....
Woke up the ne t morning.....
It was gone!!!
Wtf!!!!
Did someone actually steel it ?!!!
:lol:
Just a little bit of ash remained that you would expect from a burnt dunny rolll!
I actually looked around the camp site thinking it was some kind of joke!
So stock up out at Hargraves
No iron bark there... thats for sure!

 

[forest dweller]

tock me two hours on the first goldfield i ever been nothing ever after that and that was 40 years ago

 

[SC75]

It was roughly 3,4 months for me. I got myself a 35 grand loan to buy a 4by4 and a detector. I was going out every Sunday and the day i found my first bit was on a annual leave day. I was working the banks but swinging the coil up and down along the sides of the river bank and i will never forget the signal. It wasn't a screamer but a long soft noise in the threshold. It was about 2 feet in and on wash but had a tree root wrapped around the middle, finally got it out and was probably the biggest rush i've ever had.
It weighed 14 ounce but after a SG it was 11oz. Still today one of my favourite finds.

I didn't even find a spec of gold before it, i know it's probably hard to believe but a true story.

 

[nuggetino]

I found a 2 gram nugget my first day out at Jupiter Creek. To add to the unlikely find it was also my first target of the day. I'm sure the odds of that happening weren't far short of winning the lottery but I had no idea how lucky I was until I spent another 6 months and many hours to find another.

 

[Sandbagger]

Never found one.

 

[goody2shoes]

Thank you for sharing on this thread..

It's been very interesting how long it took some members to find gold,

It gives me hope in finding some gold when I buy a good metal detector,

All so from what I have read on this site is to take baby step's.....

Goody

 

[texta]

i will let you know if and when i ever do.
johno

 

[goldtrapper]

The gold I have previously found was alluvial and I threw it away as I did not expect to find any nor have anything to put it in. The only nugget I have found was on ebay.....but all this will change in the future now that I am dedicated. :Y:

 

[RM Outback]

Took me years bought a SD2000 in 97 got busy with kids and family relocating and shifted to self employed and could never manage time to get out. In 2013 bought in on my brothers 5000 and booked a tuition and bingo 4 bits in about 2 hours on private land totalled around 2gr. Came home saved like never before and bought a 2300 first 20 minutes a 2gr prickly specie :Y:.

 

[diggit]

It took me about 6 day trips to get my first bit. A 0.6 gram ironstone specimen. I would say maybe four months....
I had my son with me also when I found it. Priceless!

 

[goody2shoes]

A lot of great memory's made..

In finding with love one's...

Goody

 

[Danny13]

2 Years before I found my first patch

 

[Dog Ranger]

Years in and still hoping mustn't be looking in the right places going on previous posts

 

[shakergt]

First time and first go. Not been that lucky from then on