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Lemonade
Last week fed ex stopped by the shop with a box for me, aahh yes my Sandy has arrived!! Come to poppa my lil’ friend!! In the previous weeks leading up to this purchase I was pondering how little time I have to hone my detecting skills, between home and work there just wasn’t any [...]
READ MORE »Grampa Howie and the Catch It II
When ol’ Bucket here was just a pup he liked toys, I never had the cool stuff so I always played with the other kids (that did have the cool toys) stuff and as I got older my toys got better and better and I’ve never been able to shake the urge to buy some [...]
READ MORE »Gold Prospecting…at night!
Gold prospecting at night, now that’s something you don’t see everyday….ok, ok, not funny!! But it is something that we did last month due to the heat during the day. We were in AZ for 7 days and had to make the most of it and I must say for the better part of the [...]
READ MORE »Geo-Caching….Bucket & Boomer style!
I am like most gold prospectors, in that at first I didn’t understand geo-caching at all, and until I met a full time geo-cacher out in the desert once, had never even heard of it. It just didn’t make any sense that someone would put that much effort and energy into finding something of no [...]
READ MORE »Gold Panning
Gold Panning…The simplest way to prospect for gold!! Alot of recreational prospectors just simply “pan”, if you think about it, you grab a gold pan and find a river or small body of water and you have the ability… if in a known gold bearing region, to actually come up with some color in your pan!! [...]
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Gold prospecting as a hobby is getting bigger and bigger and as gold prices skyrocket and the economy tanks further, gold prospecting will only continue to grow Now let me roll back the clock a bit and start by saying that back in 94′ I had just purchased a brand new Baja Bayrunner center console [...]
READ MORE »White’s Spectrum XLT
Today I…for the first time since 03 went beach detecting. I figured that if for whatever reason I couldnt get out gold prospecting as often as I would like I could at least keep my metal detecting skills honed by coin shooting at the beach. So i planned a Sunday run to Coronado, just north of the [...]
READ MORE »Bob Dunkin, Ol’29 Prospector
We lost Ol’ Bob yesterday, He was a great guy and he will be missed!! For those not familiar with Bob, he was a gold prospector in the Dale area of 29 Palms for most of his life, and as would be the case he had many, many stories to tell, which he did on [...]
READ MORE »Bucket & Boomer strike gold in Australia
Sydney Daily Times Article: Tuesday March 31 2011 Bucket & Boomer? In this day and age of computers, the internet, You Tube and other sites for video’s its a wonder that Australia has managed to catch a new virus called “Bucket & Boomer”…it seems the new craze here is in the form of a [...]
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