I Was Questioning My Skills This Trip & Almost Called It Quits! I'm Glad I Didn't!
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- This was a a challenging trip! I started in an area I'd found decent gold before and was able to run the GPZ7000 in Normal. Feeling lucky, I set out on the gold hunt but after 9 hours nothing. The following day I spent another 7 hours for nothing until I finally hit a piece of gold🙌. The feeling was that good!
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Alls well that ends well!! At least you got something to bring home. Camper is awesome man!! And congrats again on your engagement 🎉🥳👍😁⛏️💪💍
Thanks mate🙌
Now that's keen, with the hot weather we have been having Lee, it's good to show all those that are keen to get into this fantastic hobby and at times very rewarding but you can spend alot of time in the field without a return other then the rewarding time in the bush. Thanks for taking the time to show all Lee.
Same as anything , gotta know what your looking for , be able to read the ground as in trees excessively losing bark old timers will tell ya theirs gold in the area of the tap root , , helps if you go where the nomads hips and knees or their. Driving skills with their new 4×4 and the new caravan won't allow them to go , heaps more luck in places such as that , hot tip , there's gold everywhere NOT JUST THE TRIANGLE, see a German and his Belgian Mrs got 2.5 ozs snipping out the back of casino after the floods in 2 hrs , so again lots of reading history books on gold in Australia , local library, high country is full of Ruby's emerals sapphires and gold , harsh country but that's where the valuables are not on grassisn land it's hundreds of MTRS below your feet still there just good luck getting to it ,
I'd say there is more forgotten gold fields in oz than known ones , there's a shop in Eden NSW it's a sea boat model but it's got old maps 1700 by the Dutch Portuguese Spaniards , and the really really really interesting thing about these pre cook era maps they have detailed maps of gold fields all over austraila , I'd say the poms been telling real big porky pies about said AUSTRAILAN history , black fellers in Kakadu and top end WA , borralola NT have been trading with Asians hundreds of years hundreds , the trading died right down on arrival of white Europeans , they even had the Japanese there prior to the bombing of Darwin trading tea for dugong , ppl really need to start traveling and living Australia , it's sickens me the amount of Aussies that never left their home town or state , what a waste of life
Regardless on how you went.. which ended up not horrible, we love your videos and for those of us who can’t get out very often you could chop wood for 20 minutes and still be entertaining!
(A short J.M.Prospecting story)
I had a small amount of time last week to have a swing and got turned away by the fires so had a go at a new spot but the EMI was too bad to detect. I kept at it for a couple hours, trying to keep the coil flat and around 5:30 I noticed the EMI issue was gone. The SES must of knocked off.
At this point I was goldless and it had been over a month since finding any so I was chomping at the bit just to find 1 piece and wasn’t going to give up till that happened!
I decided to walk up through the bush to the spot I initially wanted to detect. By the time I got there it was 7:30 and had around an hour left before dark.
I got a couple targets which were lead and hot rocks🤬 I decided to head back to the car.
I turned the 6 off and removed the headphones that’s when I realised there was a wallaby not 5m away from me sitting on a pile of grass covered dirt and didn’t seem to care about me being in his vicinity so I sat down, had a dart and watched watched. He hopped a little closer to me looking directly at me, turned back to his grassy hill and hopped back to it continuing to look back at me, stoped on top of it for a second and then left. Such an amazing experience.
It was now 8:30 and basically dark but decided that the gold gods sent that wallaby to help and turned the 6 on to check this grassy hill. I looked like a pile top soil and compared to the reef workings I had been detecting, didn’t look promising but…
I got a very light sound on the edge and thankfully it turned into a little 0.1 beautiful bit of gold🤗 I had a little scratch next to it and got another target.. gold! I scraped a little more and got another one and another one. By 9:15 ended up with 11 bits. 👍 I wasn’t even breaking the kinders open, just stuffing them in my pouch and taking them home so the boys could have some fun cracking them open and discovering their own little bits of gold. It was an amazing little patch.
It was too dark to film but I got my gold fix after much time and frustration! Thanks to that wallaby!!
The gold game can have many ups and downs but amazing experiences can happen at any time as long as you’re out giving it a crack.
❤ your work Lee! Have an amazing Christmas guys.
Cheers, James and the Muller family!
Love it mate, that wallaby was a God sent for you and to end up with 11 bits wow! It can come quickly if it's there hey. I hope you and the fam have a great Christmas and a gold filled new year. Cheers bro.
Glad you found a piece mate , my 6 seems to love the lead shot more than the gold . All the best for christmas and new year mate . Keep up the great videos and hope you find more of the shiny stuff .
Thanks, mate. Oh yeah, it loves the lead a little too much lol. Take care man and have a great Christmas.
Wicked chunk mate,and a nice chunk on the liddle finger….😂🤣👌👍
Thanks mate, I don't get it lol.
Well it's nice to see you doing things with family cooking up some good food😂❤ but I have gone out swinging for a month straight on vacation and did not even find one piece of gold but I said oh well next time and there was a pretty good next time so thank you for the video in all your hard work I do appreciate it very nice entertainment thank you see you on the next one😮🎅🤶🥂🎄 Merry Christmas to you and your family❤
Thanks heaps, you're the best mate. Merry Christmas to you and your family too.🎄🎅
Enjoy your clips gold or not. Merry Christmas. Look forward to seeing your trips in the new year. Thanks 🎉
Thanks Brett I appreciate that mate. Merry Christmas to you as well. Take care.
Hard work Lee but it paid off. Merry Christmas to you and your family and look forward to watching more of your videos in 2025. Cheers 🎉
Thanks mate! Merry Christmas to you and your family too 🎄
Top video mate, love the new van 👌 some days its hard to get onto a bit of colour, glad you pushed through and got that nice one beautiful sound as well. Hope you and the family have an awesome Christmas 🍻
Thanks mate, it's a beauty and makes life so good out bush👌. I couldn't believe it 5min at a new spot and bang lol. I was happy to see it. Hope you've been finding a few mate. I hope you and the fam have an awesome Christmas🍻
Those are some freak'in awesome skills, Lee!! I thought every prospector knew you have to find where the gold ain't before you can find where it is. Otherwise it's just luck and anybody can do that.😆
I appreciate it mate, I've definitely found plenty of those spots before haha. Take care and have a great Christmas.
Doesn't matter what you do or where, summer can be the straw that breaks the camels back. Did well to persevere for as long as you did. Nice nugget to finish on.
100% the heat just adds to the frustration.. cheers mate👌
You had fun spending time with your son , that’s a win in anyone’s book
100%
We remember doing 2 solid weeks in Hoote Weather, No Gold . Never give up.😊😅😮
That's it, just take a break and get back into it🍻👌
Way to go Lee,hung in there and got a sweet chunker of a nugget,tough trip that one but you got gold,learned some stuff and made it back home.Thanks Lee,Merry Christmas buddy to you and your family.
Thanks Morgan, yeah man I was very happy to see that one pop out of the ground! Have an amazing Christmas, man. I hope it's a good one. Take care.
@@SavageProspecting You too Lee and I hope your new year is filled with good luck,good health and piles of gold nuggets.
Awesome bud this video made it real most people think gold is everywhere and easy to find not the case at all I’m still trying find my first piece.
We all have to have a dose of reality sometimes don't we. It will come mate it gets frustrating but you just have to push through💪
I'd rather peak early and find a bit than slog it out, but in the end any gold in any size is welcome, it's not about the value, it's about finding something that is quite rare and the buzz you get when you first see it. Well done in the end mate, well deserved. Merry Christmas to youy and the family. Cheers Pete
I think that is the best way to do it for sure, less mental battles that way. That's it. It's about pride and personal achievement the feeling of achieving what you set out to do. Have a great Christmas with the family mate and take care.
Lee, apologies for the long message but the important thing to remember is that you kept at it and didn't give up. I take my hat off to anyone that can run the 7000 in 'normal' in known goldfield area's when only searching for gold, normal is great for picking up the deeper mineralised ground where gold may be present (if the goal is to identify a reef etc) but I'll have to dig a lot of deep holes chasing ground noise, using up time, energy and mental focus. I've changed the way I approach an area now and I view my 7000 as Two detectors in One, (1) is HY/Difficult and (2) is Gen/Normal. I'll focus on a point to point area to patch hunt using a layering effect instead of walking long distances, my first sweep with the 6000 to locate/gps any gold crumbs, rubbish or lead shot, then depending on my head space I'll sweep the 7000 over the same area in HY/Difficult (proven this to detect deeper/heavier nuggs I didn't initially hear with the 6000) then sweep the area again with the 7000 in Gen/Normal and hope I am still focussed enough to dig a deeper hole and usually I will have found some gold with the first two sweeps to keep me motivated.
Yeah I agree, it’s definitely a grind sometimes when your not finding anything but it can all turn around in a heartbeat!👌
Well done mate. Keep up the good work. Love the bug straight into the steak pan😂
Haha bugger of a thing! They were absolutely everywhere!
Some people have weeks like this with no gold. That would do me in.
I you persist and start thinking out side of the square, you eventually get back on track.
Oh yeah that'd be tough but it definitely happens. 100% it's just a little chink in the process.
Great video and yes we all have days like that 😂
Wishing you and your family a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 👍🏼
Thanks mate, we certainly do. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well mate.
It can’t be sunshine all the time bud lol!! Good video! That camper is f#%king sick! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
That's it, unfortunately not. I'm loving it so far. It's perfect for what I need👌. Merry Christmas to you as well mate.
lol.. wait till you go a full YEAR WITHOUT FINDING GOLD..Because that’s how long it took me when I first started Gold prospecting
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Wow must have been detecting above your head🤣. Have a great Christmas mate. Take care.
Phew! So glad you caught the good stuff! Nice to see you with your kid! Cheers from the US and Happy Holidays.
Oh so was I lol, thanks so much take care and have a good Christmas😀
Beautiful bit of gold
I more hope you find gold in your vids for reward for effort I’m happy just chilling seeing you enjoy the bush and nature one of the reasons I do it.
Good to see you enjoying the new van have a good Christmas see you in the new year
I was very happy to see that one man. I appreciate that will have to start panning rivers or something soon.. take care and have a great Christmas.
Thats true prospecting for you. Im on day 3 of getting skunked, so i understood what you're saying. Keep up the hard work and Merry Christmas.
Thanks mate, keep at it. You'll get there. Merry Christmas to you too🎄🎅.
Hy my friend merry Christmas and that's why I always say keep the faith hey if it was easy gold wouldn't be worth so much and it's so great watching you yabie..lol fish lol with your son 😊 hey I cant spell
Hi Scott, thanks mate you are spot on there. It's certainly not easy. Have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year.
"Its Farkin Gold"😂
Thats a golden line there
Nice little nuggie
Haha it was the beat feeling getting that bad boy I tell you what👌. Take care.
Thanks for giving a reality check for gold prospecting
We need them every now and then hey.
Tested ya this time out mate. Great to see a nice piece in the end 👏
It sure did.. it was a welcomed site👌
Nice bit in the end 🤙 hope your boy didn't get to hot prospecting with you. Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄
Thank you, no he was only out for the 1 night. Merry Christmas to you and your family also.
Gold gives great reward and instills great patience . . .
All the best for christmas to you and yours . . Take care .
Bye from NZ👍👋🇳🇿🍻twa
Absolutely mate, we need the tough times to truly appreciate the Golden times🙌🍻. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well😊
I enjoy your videos i can understand your frustrations I'm glad you didn't give up my friend 💪🏻 Thank you for sharing the good the bad and the ugly I appreciate the realness 👊🏽
Thanks Mandy I appreciate that😊. It's good to get humbled every now and then lol. Take care.
i feel ya mate! its tough when you have been getting good gold and all of a sudden its like nothing at all then you start thinking am i doing something wrong haha
any good vid keep it up
Time to move on I think lol.. it happens to all of us at some point, unfortunately. Take care mate
Nice Lee, finding zero targets is better than finding 10 lead shot. Although it gets the adrenalin pumping the physical effort digging them out outweighs the adrenalin. That was a nice piece you got at the end. Maybe pays the diesel. Cheers mate, hope you and you family have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year. Hope to catch up with you soon.
Cheers John, as you know it's frustrating being in the right spot and just not being able to snag one. But it happens and we need to suck it up and keep going. Have a great Christmas and an amazing new year mate. Cheers.
Keep @ it Lethal
Remember the 3P's
Most of all ENJOY
Oh yeah merry Christmas to you and your family
Thanks Bruce, I'll keep at it for sure I can't stay away for too long lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well mate. Take care 😊
Might have a merry Christmas and a happy New year you and your family happy prospecting ⛏️🇦🇺👍
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well, thanks for the support mate. Cheers.
Nice piece of gold..
Like the van .where is the postie going to be mounted?
Thanks mate, good question. I still haven't worked that one out but I'm thinking it will have to go in the back of the Ute.
So it’s not just me lol.
🤣 hell no man, your not alone.
Nice work mate and merry Christmas to you and the family 🥃🍻
Cheers mate, Merry Christmas to you and your family as well😊🍻
Absolutely Lee I know this feeling dude
I went to WA twice got one gram
And nothing on the other drains the brain for sure
It’s getting thinner on the ground no days
I go snipping and crevicing to Break up my gold hobby
My guess is was at first 1.2 close
Nice nugget thou it’s out there somewhere just got to go deeper in ay
Cheers 🍻 merry Christmas to you and family and a happy new year ahead
CrouchOz
Wow that would have hurt man, it's not always so easy. I might have to brush the cobwebs off the highbanker soon I reckon. Have a great Christmas mate.
@@SavageProspectingyea near broke my spirit alright
Have a great Xmas and new yr ahead
Might catch ya next season when I’m down
It’s snipping season up here for me lol lol
Yea we have water 💦 lol
we dont find gold for 10 days running every time we go out, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
It's very hard sometimes that's for sure. I hope you have some good luck soon🤞. Have a great Christmas with your family.
Gidday lee Alan from Avoca First of all may you and your family have a great Christmas 🌲🎁,l am on a new patch and if l go detecting and don't find the gold 🥇 l never get disappointed it just means that l am one day closer p s like the new camper the little fella loves it he made me laugh will send ta photo of the gold from the new patch cheers Alan 👍
G'day Alan, I'm glad to hear your onto a patch mate, that's the go👌. The camper is amazing, I'm loving it😊. Merry Christmas to you and your family also. Take care.
Thanks for the vid. Merry Xmas to you and your family.
Pleasure Mark, Merry Christmas to you and your family also. Take care.
Hot weather hampers concentration and enthusiasm. I find myself starting out in the morning in a good frame of mind, low and super slow. But as the temperature rises, wander around with no real plan and rushing to find a target. We are always learning! Ps thank you for not putting your gold in your mouth and rubbing it with spit! I do it but not on camera! Old blokes spit is not something that attracts chicks in my experience? Your videos are excellent!
100 that's how it goes isn't it. Haha I chuck it in the mouth but off camera, I bet they wouldn't come running after seeing that.. I appreciate that.
Been there, done that, all part of the hobby. Got to enjoy the bush.
Definitely is
What type of trailer have you got there ..lovely set up.money well spent
It's a Goldfields Campers Discovery 15hfx👌
It seems, that we always Camp where the Gold Is🎉😂❤
Had a few donut days, it happens. Good bit in the end. Well done
So have I mate, this one just really got to me. All good I'll be back after it soon👌
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas to you too, mate!
kids you just love them mate stay safe Merry Christmas
Sometimes🤣. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well mate.
Dude, nice rig ,with the a/c and everything
It's beautiful man, it makes life that much better spending heaps of time in the bush. Cheers man.
Really loved this video it was very realistic 👏
Thanks Michael, a little dose of reality for everyone lol.
We all do it Lee its not just you we all question our selves out there some times. Good work on the gold some days I do give up other days You find bits others have missed or spots no one has looked at for a long time Always pays to do new spots even if you find nothing that is how you find the good spots. If I find a point of gold for the day I am happy some days they grow bigger haha cheers for the Video and nice bit of gold your got smashed that 1 gram mark on that one. Also I am glad you are showing the people what prospecting is like its not easy always the days that gold is first or second target I like those days.
Thanks mate, appreciate the encouragement. We all go through it sometimes hey. Hope your finding a few👌
So did you eat that fly that landed in the frypan while cooking ya steak, it sure is dry out and the ground is so dam hard. Great to see you and the young bloke out having a ball.
Extra protein man lol nah I quickly got rid of that little bugger they were everywhere! Thanks mate take care.
Merry Christmas Cob
Merry Christmas to you as well well mate.
Good Job From Somalia
How do you find the z search coil on the 7000 compared to the standard 14 mate?
Pretty good mate, I feel it can handle Normal better than the 14inch.
Nice going Lee, love your new camper, it's sure hard when the ground won't give up the goods as we all know what's that is like and then something pops it's head out a 1.11g really paid off, as you said just the wrong spot, have a well earned break and a Merry Christmas to you and the family..👨🦯🌲
Thanks Paul it's a beauty😊. It was being really tight, it didn't want to give up anything. I'm sure glad it finally did and I was stoked to see it go over the gram👌. Merry Christmas to you and your family also. Take care.
That's what it's like almost all the time in victoria nowadays
Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder everyday.
Lost the channel,but congrats bro,,on the marriage proposal,,,,fellow prospector, from moonambel
Thanks man, it was a great day that one🙌. I hope you're finding a few🤞
Charge your battery mate have a great break 😎
I'll definitely try mate, Merry Christmas to you and the family mate.
You have huge family
I do
sure it was a total disaster but having watched many of your vids you still kill it most of the time all the best in the New Year.......old guy from the wilds of Quadra Is.
I appreciate it Paul, we can't win them all. Merry Christmas to you, take care.
If it was a piece of piss we'd all be out there. Keep at it mate.
100%. Take care mate
Are in land down under
It's not your skills....it is your biases towards where you prospect which can affect all of us.
I definitely have biases but I'm always stepping outside of them with no luck so makes it tough to change much..
If you don't walk over it, you will never find it
💯
Thanks 👍
You complain about not finding any, I’ve found one nugget (3.74 grams) in 4 years and nothing else.😢😢😢
Get in line old mate
I think I saw you last Saturday 14th. I had my 2 kids with me too. Having a dig around the side of the road at the entrance of the track you were on. Both threw a Thumbs up.. Geez it got hot after lunch. 😅
Where were you, mate? I would have been floating around Bendigo that day, I think. Hope you got some yellow👌
Good Job From Somalia