Has my wife finally gone mad? read this

We know of a couple who spends their year between Arizona and Idaho finding gold nuggets with metal detectors. I cant remember off hand which brand they have but I do know you need a really good one $$. I have seen the nuggets they have found and am quite impressed :worship:

Hey I just read that about Gold Fever in NC. I guess that puts my wife on the cutting edge of a new trend. Yeoooywowy is that goping to stroke her ego. :haha:

My Brother in Law called me today and has found a creek that shows color in under 15 minutes panning. Were going to head down that way (Deep SC) First of October.

Ya know I wasn't thrilled when this started but it does have a certain "excitement quality" once you get started.

Hmmm wonder how long Nimh 9v batteries will run a metal detector?

Tater'sPa Maybe one day soon we could try out a creek up near you during the week.

"Has my wife finally gone mad?"

Ummmm, YES!!! :haha:

Sounds to me like you married a keeper.

I have to agree. If we have a hundred years together It will not be long enough.

Now you've done it you went and made me show real emotion online.

The Gold Festival was "different" than I had imagined. There were fewer vendors than I though would be there. But there was plenty of GOLD talk. Food was available at the camp commons area. The fish and onion rings sure smelled good. Being the "poor boy" I am we took sandwich's with us.

My wife found some small "teeny tiny" pieces of gold and some fine/flour gold. The way she yelled I thought she had hit the "Mother Load" :haha:

We bought several small bags that the mine uses to train "new Prospectors" with so we could try out that Desert Fox machine we left at home.

You've heard the "Fishing Stories" well let me tell ya the GOLD stories seem much, much taller in the telling. Hmmm think I'm going to like this hobby.

Kenneth in NC

Have ya been watching the Gold fever Program on the outdoor channel? If you [and yer wife] have been then i spect she is gonna join up with the GPPA or the LDMA and want to start working their common claims and such..... neat folks associated with those groups even have their own websites.....

of course next you will step up to a small dredge, then a bigger one, and then buy a backhoe and dump truck so you can "work it in the back forty" while relaxing after a dayz work with the people full of BS.....

Any way you do it the main thing is having fun, kinda why i still go hunting, more for the outdoor experience than shooting anything......

nice to know of other folks who have gold fever once in awhile.

William

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Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died.
- John Dretschmer

Nope out here in the sticks we don't get cable. Besides we don't need any prompting to catch gold fever :haha:

Now a nice 4" portable dredge would be nice, However I have recently been told that many Water moccasins will visit you while dredging. One poor soul at the festival told us about 25 visiting him all at once. He laeft the dredge and all equipment and ran for the truck. Swore it to be honest truth :worship:

Hey how about we all chip in and buy these two gold mines.
http://www.goldandsilvermines.com/trgm.htm

Maybe we could all get rich


Either way it has been a long week-end and now it's time to unpack and get everything ready for next weeks grundge.

Kenneth in NC

Well the folks whose number is listed on that website are up near sandpoint idaho [I used to live up thataway] anyhow i dunno where a person could scrape up 8 million without nvestors. Any prudent peron would know that below 107 feet any timbers would be good and pickled which is a good thing....

Cable dont reach oout this far niether..... but somehow that ole sattelite reaches its beacon down thisaway once in awhile.

I live about 25 miles from where my dads uncle panned an avrage 1 a day out in the depression one winter, yet have not went over a stuck a pan in and ive been here for 4 years, and 13 miles farther since '88, i have panned some in other places around and wonder why people dont do more of it, there is quite a bit of color in places.

William without the fever, but with the knowledge of how to manage a "panit attack"

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Upon the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who when on the dawn of victory paused to rest, and there resting died.
- John Dretschmer

William you may not have the fever now but with the strained economy it might bite you yet.

The reason most don't do this (panning) is it's hard work. It's like homesteading why on earth don't everyone raise at least a windowbox garden of herbs? Most are to lazy.

WE thought about the satellite dish but with 9 regular TV stations and nothing on it to watch I figured why pay for hundreds of channels and have nothing to watch. My wife collects videos especially ones of old TV shows we like. So we can watch Magnum P.I. or a good John Wayne movie instead of regular tv. Oh and I own all the old original Star Trek series. After many watchings I finally figured out the "hidden meaning" It's We come in Peace-Shoot to kill

Time to feed the animals. I'll check back later.

Kenneth in NC