Thanks Gary. I watch each of your videos more than once. Learn something new and different EVERY time I watch them. You, sir, are a Rock Star in the world of gold detecting! Your delivery is far and away the most authentic on the net and I already feel like we're best friends just from the amount of time we "spend together". Hope to meet you someday and thank you in person. Please keep your videos coming as there is no such thing as one of your videos being "way too long". Thanks, from all of us on the viewing end. 👍
Hi Gary,grew up in Cal. Did recreational prospecting when not working two jobs. Never any dredging, high banking until they took that away from me. Then I came across your u-tube channel and you gave me new life. Got a Whites GMT, a backpack loaded it up with your suggested crevice tools kit and a wet suit .i want to thank you for my hole new outlook to prospecting, love your videos and you sell quality prospecting tools and equipment thank you !!! I just moved to Utah and have Co. Wy. And Montana at my back yard ,
You are surrounded by some of the most beautifully country! Unlike California, you even have a bit of freedom in those states. Other than the cold - I am so jealous. The best of luck and thank you!
If you crossed that stream we wouldn't have learned about heading to a new location if you run into lighter materials like aluminum. Always a nugget for the poke from your videos,Thanks for bringing us along
Perfect video for me today, I took the crevice tool and it worked great Gary, I know why you give it an Orange handle, everything started blending in. Lots of square nails, love the SDC Gary folds right up in my backpack, can’t wait for the next video, Dan Brent
Two Toes I've got snow in Ohio. Watching what you're up to is way more interesting then the cold outside no matter what you find. Thanks for the adventures and keep them coming. Merry Xmas!
Sir Gary..You are the university of Gold prospecting...So much to learn from each of your videos....trying to implement your knowledge and experience here in India....Thanks for sharing informative videos...
As always, a wonderful and instructional video. Hopefully I will be able to come down and meet you this coming year. In the meantime, I will just have to sit back and enjoy all of your videos again. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and adventures with us. Best regards, Chuck Preston
Want to know the most efficient and productive way to do something...watch an old guy do it..whole thing boils down to what the man can carry with him. nothing wasted. thank you sir Gary. well done
Gary, I have been enjoying your videos for quite some time now. I always learn a little something from each video you put out. I swing an older model MXT. While its not a great detector for getting the very small pickers down deep, I have picked up my share of small pickers at an inch or so down. My secret is when I find a small picker, I pan out all the soil surrounding it. I usually find fine gold in the same immediate area. Sometimes I will mark the GPS coordinates and return at a later time to set up my recirculating highbanker. Thanks for the great videos! Keep em coming! May the Lord continue to bless you!
I have kearned one thing. Digging a target after finding the metal is IMPORTANT. you already spent the time locating and digging and the possibility of gold being with the initial find is higher than not. So uncover the entire area...."don't leave gold to find gold" Per Gary. Thanks Gary. You are THE BEST!
I had a smile on my face when you said that you dig every target , on a few occasions I've walked out of an area that I was detecting in the dark . I also dig every target or at least I try to , you just never know what you might dig up .best of luck the next time you head out prospecting .
Would love to see a research video. I'm new to prospecting but have been spending a lot of time trying to do research. Seems the hardest part for me is once you find an area that is interesting is trying to locate the roads that get you to that area, hope you cover that if you do a research video. Keep up the good work, you are awesome.
I have already started on it, but as long as the weather hold I will be heading to the hills. I can work on the research video during the rainy days when I can't go out. Thanks - Gary
Looked like a great day to be out there. Thanks as always for taking us along. Really appreciate the time you and the other guys put into producing these videos. I bought a Fuji xp 120 camera recently. Hope to join the You Tube crew when I struggle my way through all technology stuff and get up to speed.
We used to have some great times dredging with our 8" dredge. We would go up for three days at a time. We even had a old propane refrigerator in camp! I could have made some great videos. Now I have to sneak in my two inch. Thanks - Gary
Must've missed this video before. I bet something like a vac pack would work wonders for some of those small crevices. Would be pretty cool to see! Thank you sir! Spring is here in Alaska but still too much snow to access most places.
Well thank you sir , One of the best pieces of advice i have ever heard , Aluminium is light so if its there the gold is heavy and wont sit at the same piont in the water flow ,,, so simple but i never even though it ,,, THANK YOU AGAIN R.J.T traveling the south east coast of Australia ,,
Nice. Too bad part 2 is postponed till next year. But still you had a great hunt in my book. I am looking forward to the next video. I get the itch to try a new permission every time i see your videos. Thanks for sharing. GL and HH. Eric
To bad our low water period is so short and your spot is going to have to wait! However you found a great detecting area and it is the perfect time of year to spend some time hunting the area!!! That is some nice gold hope to see you find even more there!!!!
Another practical video Gary...interesting about the aluminum. You have great products and I hope more serious gold hunters check out your ebay store; I was not disappointed. Thanks.
Nothing wrong with waiting a while longer to highbank that gravel you were getting up there. Gee i cant wait to see that. Oh well its stinking hot over here and the snakes are out. So im hopping i can find a few nuggets and no snakes. I finally found a gully that has some but its a massive walk downhill in. so going home isnt much fun. Im trying to work it out. It is very narrow and allmost all bedrock. It is hard to find material in places as it looks swept clean. Even the boil holes are clean. May have been dredged but no big tailings piles. I can see in the bottom of crevaces chisel marks. The old timers worked it in 1875 on from what i can find. All i can do is what you do on your videos. And look for where the big rocks stop i suppose. Thanks for helping us all out with your movies. Cant wait till part three.
I go to areas like this in CA all the time and all I ever find is Bottlecaps, barb wire and nails. Not even a flake of gold. Best thing I ever found was black sand.
Damn Gary thats awesome. Its so important to dig up every target as youve shown picking up that piece of aluminium. If you never picked that up you may of not moved and found that last nugget! Im glad you didnt give up in those crevices either. Great video I love how crisp the video was and absolutely loved the gold. What camera are you using? Thanks for sharing.
I use a Canon 80D. The sound was bad because my batteries were week on the transmitter. I now have a extra set in my pack - 20-20 hindsight. Thanks - Gary
Another good video there two toes I've always loved the mountains in California lived in Riverside for 8 years it's my second home thank you for sharing peace out
Wondering why you don't use a pinpointer for tight places like that? Liked the video. Makes waiting for spring easier or tougher. Depending on what day it is. Thanks for the trip.
I have never gotten used to the pinpointer. Most of the time I end up walking off with out them, then I have to back track and find it. The depth of detection is so shallow, especially on gold, To me its not worth packing around. Thank you - Gary
Great video Gary that was one nice little nugget there !! I have yet to find anything like that yet but watching your videos makes me more determined to find some lol lol !! take care bud !
It was a long time before I found my first nugget, I still have it under glass! It was about half the size of the one in the video, but it was a nugget! Thanks - Gary
great info your giving out to hunt gold, this well help for the beginners like me. it to mt is just rec-to hunt gold, don't expect to find much but just for fun with the familey .
well that nugget had to come from somewhere above where you found it. hopefully you can home in on the source. or at least the nuggets brothers and sisters lol
Gary I really like your video's. I live in the Oakdale area below Nights Ferry. I have a White's MXT. Do think it would be suitable for detecting gold in the hills?
Great video Gary ,best videos on gold mining I only watch you and adventure gold, just wondering if you carry any protection against bears or have you had any encounters out in the mountains. Thanks for posting.
I don't carry anything but my mining gear and camera gear. I don't worry about bears, I see them every now and then, but they take off as soon as they see you. I was stocked by a mountain lion once, that is a very uncomfortably feeling. I feel if you keep your eyes open and keep track of what's going on around you, you will be fine. All I can hope for if I am ever attacked, when its all over, it know it was in a fight. I all most forgot, I had a rattlesnake chase me once. It was the strangest thing, it would no give up, it chased me down a path a good 50 feet. It kind of freaked me out, I took the long way out and completely avoided that area. Thanks - Gary
Oh I would love to be able to do some dredging up in Alaska during the winter time. Not to many people brave or stupid enough to head out in the brutal Alaskan weather just to find that elusive yellow rock. I just might be the latter one, 😂.
Yeah that old iron, well made for back in the day ,what they had. throw you for a loop but she would that really good tone sounds like something nice but it's just not too crumbly crappy iron they make today.
Great video Gary and a nice chunky piece of gold there. I have the minelab 705 gold pack and I sure dig a lot of trash. Nice to know about the aluminum. Winter here in Montana and difficult to get out anywhere now so I already have cabin fever. Really looking forward to highbanking part B. Merry Christmas
Montana is beautifully country, that is right up to when it starts snowing. I have gone hunting there about 20 years ago and got some nice deer, but dam it gets cold there! Best to you and yours!
How are you liking your 705?. It takes getting use to knowing your targets and signals with any machine. I use the 705 Dual Pack with 2 coils and mainly hunt beaches. Although I do also hunt parks but my best luck is the beaches. You’ll get a lot of trash and after awhile you’ll get the hang of the signal or you can cancel out that target. The only problem with that is you might pass up gold because half of the trash you dig up sounds like a gold, pull tabs and bottle caps, etc. I would recommend you check out Garry’s Detectors on youtube and watch some of his videos on the Minelab X-Terra 705. It has helped me get the hang of the machine along with figuring out different setting and I’m still learning it every time I go out with it. Oh I also upload videos of me using my detector. GL&HH
By the way, I am a new subscriber to your channel. You came up as a suggested video while I was watching AskJeffWilliams. Both you and he have taught me more geology than I ever thought I would want to learn. Your filming style reminds me a lot of Les Stroud (Survivorman) and how he films episodes solo. From the looks of it, you walk trails a couple of different times to set up cameras and film walking scenes. So far as I can tell, in most videos, you work alone. Excellent job, sir.
Would it be possible to introduce artificial crevices to catch gold as it's washed along?? ie. semi-permanently in position and you just lift & clean them out every so often? If they were camouflaged as rocks they'd be very hard to find by others. Only you know exactly where they were precisely GPS situated..?
I agree, It sounded like a good target to me. That's why I thought sure I had another nugget. When I go back in I have plans to check that hole one more time. Thanks - Gary
Any future on part B for the highbanking and this old channel? Also really curious to see your metal detector in an old hydraulic site... ...you've talked about it a couple of times, but I don't think you've done a video on them yet. I went up to check into a favorite spot... ...see if the snow had melted off... ...and I found someone had parked a truck in the middle of the road and set it on fire... ...no idea how long it's going to take the sheriff to tow that one out. Some people. Question for you though. If you were going to introduce a friend to panning, would you take them somewhere they can get a little fine gold in every pan, or somewhere with a chance of bigger gold, but might go home empty handed?
Got to wait until the water drops before I can get back to that spot, I'm guessing late May - June. I'm going to get to that hydraulic pit this year if it kills me! I would take someone new to where they could get a little gold in each pan. After they get there confidence up on the panning, then take them to where they can find bigger gold.
I loved that video!.... What would have happened if you used an AT Gold?... Would you have been able to detect all those targets? I also have an Infinium with all the coils, would that have worked?
I know you spent a lot of time getting that gold but it didnt seem like you actually moved that much dirt to get it. How practical would it be to carry some short powerful hydraulic jacks back to that creek bed and try to move some of those boulders out of the way to expose a little more bed rock?
Moving large boulders is, a art in it's self. When prospecting by yourself you have to be very careful about where you put your hands. I have been working on getting my equipment together so I can do a video on how to move boulders. I have hopes to work on it next month. Thanks - Gary
Great video! I really enjoy when you are using the metal detector. Did you save and pan the material you dug out of that hole? Thank you. Keep up the good work.
It was to far back to the creek and getting to late to do any panning. I think the material I was digging out has gold in it. The gravel in there looks very good to me. Thanks - Gary
Question, can you find any good good in bed rock that haven't been under water with water running down hill from natural spring. Also I learn from you thanks.
Gary, Please explain why you did not continue to pan the rest of the gravel in that 1st catch when you found small gold pieces in both the 1st and 2nd pan?? For times sake making video? I am asking because I would have panned all the fine sand and Gravel in the event that there was more small gold flakes... Or do you have a reason...thanks man
wow ; I can't believe I'm the first to comment , there must be a prize for that surely , great video again Gary , is the water too high cause of snow melt ,or have you had rain , nice gold , but yeah that gully could have deeper fine gold that your detector may not pick up , be good to put some of that gravel through the highbanker , it's summer here in Australia , bit hot for me to go out, but seeing your vid ,now I,m busting to go soon as the holidays are over maybe when it quietens down a bit , during my breaks I been crushing ore and floating it ,then i'll leach it , and drop it out if there's anything in it ,keeps me busy in the down times ,just a hobby to kill time ,btw, that nugget was a beauty ,cheers .
We had a couple of nice rain storms come threw, about 3 weeks of rain. There has been no rain for the last 2 weeks and they say it will be a another two weeks before we get any more. I have plans to go back in there in a week to see if I can get across the creek. You can be sure if I go I will be taking all of you along! We should trade a little weather - its below freezing here. Thanks - Gary
When I check the first few targets in a new area, I like to pan out the material, so it doesn't matter it the target in the pan or not. That way I get a feeling for the amount of black sand and if there is a lot of fine gold in the gravel. I should have covered this in the video, if I pan out a couple of test pans and there is a lot of black sand, I then know that I will have to compensate for it with the settings on my detector to get maximum depth on small targets. That way I have a idea what I might be missing if I don't pan out the material on all the targets. Great question - Thanks