Sniping with a detector
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2016
- On this trip I combine my two favorite activities, sniping and detecting. The results - Gold!
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Love how you say let's see how WE did. Makes me really feel like I'm part of the adventure. Lol
Great day I can't wait to get out and try what I've been learning a few months to go yet
here we are a year later , goin over the videos getn ready to go out this saturday with todd. thanks for all the tips gary. you got me started i must confess. i have been your student for two years now, doin great also. thanks buddy.
Love your adventures. Another wonderful video thank you
For all the people who loved the Pixar movie “UP” I couldn’t help while watching Gary fight his urge to metal-detect anything in sight having the phrase pop into my head...”Here, snipey, snipey, snipey!”
As always I Loved this video - your style is easy going and honest, your skills are real and you explain things even idjiots like me can understand. Thanks Two Toes for makin' it look fun!
That part is easy - I have fun! Well, maybe the hike isn't all that much fun. Thanks for the support!
Gary, I am always glad to see a new video from you. You pass along so much information and make it entertaining at the same time. I've learned a lot from watching your videos. Thanks for sharing your talent. Merry Christmas and may all your pans next year be golden.
Thank you for the support!
Nice day out! Thanks for sharing.
Gary,
I think your channel is awesome !
thank you for so much information
look forward to watching more and putting the techniques to work this summer!
Thank you very much.
You're brilliant! I love the idea of the marked nails!
Like the location Beautiful Two Toes.
another Great video Gary! thanks for taking us along. very nice gold finds. I need to get back out with my detector to find more myself.
Stick some new batteries in it and go have some fun! Thank - Gary
Great video Gary! I look forward to all of the vids and normally stop what's going on to sit down and watch them.
Thank you very much!
Hi Gary, love watching your sniping and crevicing videos in the sun. Wish you would do more.
I would love to do more, but I had way to much work this year. Hopefully, I will have more time this coming season. Thank you very much!
Nice gold, nice day out on the river.
Gary, Merry Christmas and thank you for the great information that you provide.
Thank for the support!
Thumbs up!
Oh yeah...... a Very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
when the sun hits that gold there is no guessing if it is gold. Nice vids. Thanks
I am the same,can't pass up a possible GREAT find good hinting my friend
Another great video Gary !!!! I watched it on Christmas morning waiting for the grand kids !
Thank you! My grandkids are half way across the country - I'm jealous!
Great day! Thanks for sharing.
watching again I'm missing the creek !!!!!
Thank you Gary for your videos I enjoy watching your videos finding gold would be fun I wish I could be there with you to find gold that would be awesome thanks again for your videos I have learned a lot from you about what to look for how to do it god bless you brother y'all be careful and be safe out there my friend
Another great lesson for those of us dying to spend a little vacation time prospecting in California.
I remember first starting off dredging in Cali. and carefully plucking nuggets from cracks with mainly needle nose pliers and custom ss steel crevice tools. But after doing a hundred of so it's like , suck'em all up and keep moving on. Except the big ones, they often can't be sucked up easily especially if they're pounded in a crack or narrow depression. Pretty funny how a 6-8" cobbles get sucked up easily but certain shaped or wt. nugget will just sit there.
Some very nice color, and very enjoyable video...!! Thanks
Thank you very much.
Enjoy every one of your videos Gary
Thank you Two Toes for your great video. I commented on your 2nd day Sniping video about tweezers, but I highly recommend the 12" stainless tweezers on ebay for $5.68, and the 18" for $12.16. These are straight tweezers and do not have the finger holes, much better I think for your application. But maybe you do have them. Good luck mining, and thanks again. Your videos are really great entertainment.
Aloha, Paul
Thanks for another great vid. Merry Christmas!
Thank you!
JUST STARTED the video........thanx 4 posting.........ALL GREAT LESSONS
Thank you
Have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.
Thank you, and may the new year be your best yet!
Again You done Gary. Nice video, wonderfull wather, nice color in the pan. Thank you and salute from Turkey.
Thanks - Gary
Nice vid Gary you are living the dream.
Can't wait tell spring, then the dream continues. Thank you!
Good one...thanks. Sniping is new to me. Got wetsuits already so.....need to find me an old crevice type tool at the dump and I'm off...Coromandels NZ in fact.
I enjoy watching your videos, I live in Texas, retired, hope to head west in feb or march and learn to do some prospecting
Water is still high in March - good time to do some detecting in the desert. Good luck and thank you
Awesome again. Many thanks.
Thank you.
Recently discovered your channel. Very enjoyable. Your videos are well filmed and excellently narrated. You must spend hours on the post editing. I'm on holiday for a week in February in the South Island of New Zealand which is rich in alluvial gold. Looking forward to trying this sniping for gold technique. Keep up the great work.
Editing does take up a lot of time. Have a great time on vacation and bring home a bunch of gold! Thank you very much for the kind words!
great video Gary !!! It was a pleasure to meet you recently, Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year !!!!
Same here and all the best this coming year!
Great video. Can't wait to try this in Australia.
Thank you. Good luck, bring home a big one!
What an awsome video,
Loving his videos. I also MD as a hobby and do some gold panning in my neck of the woods. WOW your metal Detector is amazing if it can pick up those small gold in the cracks. Seems I need to upgrade my detector. Seems it take money to find money. Any how another great video Sir please keep them coming.
Thank you for the support.
Another awesome video I'll be watching as long as you keep making them .
Thank you very much - that's one nice fish!
Hey Dave, Did I just see your photo in the Henry Rifle end-of-year appreciation message? Can't mistake that great 'stache of yours, but I could be wrong! Thx for the down-to-earth videos. The no-bull, easy going presentations are refreshing and appreciated. Looking forward to the next one, and getting out my White's GMT in the Spring...
Nope wasn't me, must have been a imposter. Thanks - for the support!
I use a pin pointer on low setting to find shallow targets. it's waterproof and really lite. That's some awesome bedrock your working. nice video !
Thank you!
Lol, if your finding gold you don't need to turn your detector off. "Up there" will still be there when after you stop finding gold gett'in there. Logic! Can't beat it. Great video.
I'm sure your viewers appreciate you reporting you finds, I know I do. Happy Holidays.
Thank you very much!
Great video. Thanks for sharing ..
Thank you for the support!
Excellent
Great video....thanks!
Thank you.
Thanks to Gary I found three small nuggets last weekend at the Yuba River.
Great to hear, the water is only going to get better. The Yuba is one of my favorite rivers, great gold!
Another awesome video! It's funny, the areas you are working look really rugged, which I assume most people don't want to get into. I've spent countless hours marking out such sites on Google Earth. One question: in your experience, do some of the good looking spots at higher elevation still contain gold, or do you have to be down river a ways for the gold to start accumulating more?
I enjoy the higher elevations, I look for good gold producing areas, then try to get as close to the source as I can. To find areas that haven't been worked to much, you have to be willing to do a lot of hiking. Thanks for the support
Just Subscribed I will be at the Vegas gold show in April we are going a couple days early to do some prospecting before the show. great video.
I have plans to head out to the Nevada desert to do some detecting in May. Not sure if I'm going to get the time to make the gold show. Good luck and enjoy your trip! Thanks - Gary
Still checking out some of your old content, this is my year to get shiny gold ~ AJ :)
Great video bud I do like seeing you get some good gold, because shit that water doesn't look the warmest !!!
Thank you! It was a bit nippy.
Great video!!! Omg I'm itching to be outside by the river....yes the rain is more than welcome but I can't take being inside anymore.
I'm right there with you. The thing that has me down, all that snow! It's going to be July before I can get into the high country. Thank you for the support.
Thanks for the insight! I have always wondered if this is an effective method.
It works very good, but you have to have shallow water and open bedrock. Thanks for the support
Another awesome video!
Thank you!
Awesome video....👍👍😀😀✌
Love it, thanks
Profitable day for some fun.
Have you seen the Terrabend auto gold pan? Worth a look.
Awesome job
I am so looking forward to along some of our rivers and creeks this summer.
I bought a Garret AT Gold and have spent about 3-4 hundred hrs on it now and think it's time to find out if it's any good. I'm in BC along the lower Fraser River and for the most part all we get is very fine flour gold, although on occasion a nice little nugget shows up. (very rare)
Looking forward to lots more videos till then.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Hunting Year.
Thank you very much and good luck.
Putting the finishing touches on it, hopefully by the first of the month. Thanks - Gary
great videos, very educational. hopefully it will help me get more gold in my pan this year. I live in utah and I have had little luck so far.
Yeah......no such thing as ugly or bad gold! ;) Just found your channel recently and sure do enjoy it. I'm in Georgia.
Glad you are enjoying it. Thanks - Gary
Another Nice Video, I learn a lot from your Video's.
Thank you!
Thx for sharing your life's passion with the rest of us. Being new to this endeavor and collecting information makes the process that much more enjoyable. One question though. Are the areas that you snipe or crevice claimed or open to the public? I am in southern Wa so no worries of me jumping a claim. lol
A lot of the places I go, are way back in on public land. I have found, when the hike is tough the gold is better and there are few to no claims. I have a couple of claims that are closer to home. I also prospect on a couple of claims that belong to friends. Thanks for the support.
Hey Mr Gary, i wanna ask you, if we want to sniping for gold, where is the best place or part of the river we have to looking for?? Up side or down the stream!!! Best wishes as allways!!!
I think I bought my first sluice box from you..? You showed me pics of a very clever derrick you built. I eventually got my own claim and moved some large boulders too...not quite as big as the ones you moved. Anyway, glad to see you're doing well. Thanks for your guidance in my early days of mining.
Happy to hear your still at it. Good luck and thanks for the support.
enjoyed video alot, felt like i was there, good job
Thank you.
Fantastic Videos
Thank you very much!
I would think that with the heavy rains this winter that it's going to be a good summer for prospecting, no?
Awesome videos
Thank you!
Are you up in the Northern California area on this video.?
I'm close to many rivers up here in thst area and am.looking to get into prospecting..
just love watching your videos , a big thumbs up from me . if i ever manage it out your way im going look you up. many regards from scotland once again.
Thank you very much, love to hear from the other side of the world!
Hey Gary, love the videos! Just got a GoldBug Pro very excited to get out there in June after this monster Winter.
So, I'm actually cycling highway 49 this Summer. Some back roads here and there, but right through Gold Country. Any books or websites you could recommend? I'm having trouble on the research. Really hoping claims are properly marked like you mentioned in an earlier video.
James Klien put out a book - Where to find gold in Northern California. It was printed in the late 90's or early 2000's. It is very basic, but covers the main spots. There are some of the public sites listed here www.goldfeverprospecting.com/cagolopapr.htmlAs far as claims go - it is the reasonability of the claimant to mark his claim. I have found that most miners the are picky about there claims, have them marked. Thanks - Gary
great stuff what a awesome creek so much bedrock and the gold is amazing .was this area not dug over in the early days by prospectors? As to why the river is so rich.here in New Zealand I live near the gold fields and it was dug sluiced water cannon bucket dredged by the Chinese in the 1900s and I haven't found gold like that before. thanks for sharing
All the rivers were worked by the early miners in California. They have been worked by the Chinese in the 1880's then again in the 1930's by people out of work trying to make a living. This river has a lot of boulders the size of a house. They were unable to move them so they worked around them. Over the years, flood water has moved some of them and this releases the gold that was trapped under them. Every now and then if your lucky, you will come across a spot they missed. Thanks for the support!
As Always a excellent video. I would like to know what kind of boots you are wearing on the river. I need a good slip proof boot if there is such a thing. lol .
I wear regular neoprene semi hard sole boots. They do fairly well on slipping, but offer little or no protection for your toes when you do slip. The best thing to use, if your going to the same spot every time, is a old pair of slip resistant leather work boots. I get them at the flea market for a couple of bucks. If you use leather boots, you have to leave them in the water. If they dry out, you will never get your feet in them again. Thanks - Gary
Everytime I watch your videos when you're on a stream I would be torn to fish it or snipe. Haha
Great stuff, subbed!
Great video as always. Can't wait end of winter to do the same in my local river. By the way is metal detector necessary? From my experience it react to anything and rivers are full of lead here in Ireland. Thanks
Finding lead is not a bad thing when looking for gold - they travel together. Thank - Gary
You right Sir but from my experience when I scoop from behind boulder and find in one pan almost 1 ounce of lead usually no gold present at all. Best results I got form packed crack in bedrock and there I found just rarely lead. Maybe becouse it was filled before 'lead' age :)
fantastic video Gary you are truly a genuine Westerner what modesty and Grace the expert that you are with such knowledge an uncanny intuition from years of experience then I was amazed to see that you are also a fisherman wow. I love the Yuba River since 1974 and like you have just a high school education after 25 seasons of Hillside brush clearing in Oakland and 7 years of commercial crab and salmon fishing and 13 years of construction I want to teach my son and his friends prospecting so I visited him yesterday on his 12th birthday he loves his computer and will not ride the bicycles I gave him or work on any projects in his nice landlords garage where he and his mom live so I declared to them that I would go to putah Creek and find gold near his house apricot draw actually off of 128 I used all of the knowledge that you taught me and some improvised crevice tools and I actually found one real flake and 12 specs that I took back to his house and set up a table bus tub and pan and panned out a bucket full of concentrates to produce this tiny little victory thank you very much for everything you taught me and the family was very impressed. I am going back up to the Yuba River and I know all of the trails and spots and legal requirements I am considering buying a metal detector and I thought to buy the Garrett pi deepseeker but now I see that avlf machine with sniper coil seems to be more relevant in the river do you have any advice on this matter sir? I also plan on scanning old load mine wagon roads and tailing piles on public lands and benches and old mining camps thank you so much for all of the valuable bits of knowledge you have imparted I will try and order some items from you your mining Supply site and after a few more clearing jobs I will have the money because I do not plan on swinging the weed wacker for the rest of my life I have come to realize but after 44 years of hard labor I still have a chance by God's grace and I feel lucky that I am not permanently crippled after what I put myself through you make it look so easy and I know that an hour hike down into the canyon and an hour-and-a-half hike out is something that most young men would think from the effort but I love the hot weather and rugged mountains I like the fact that you show consciousness in your impact on the environment also and show a great example to others to cover up their holes pack out their garbage and tread lightly the underwater footage is fantastic the way the Sunbeam illuminates the crevice and I can actually see the gold nuggets. and the helicopter Expedition definitely set you ahead and for most of the multitude of other videos.
You are way too kind! I believe in getting the best detector for the job. I have 4 different detectors. I have found, for what I do, that is the minimum I can get away with. I would suggest, you get the detector that is the best for what you want to do the most. I have a detector that is the best for coin hunting, it has a prospecting mode and the manufacture says it's good for prospecting, but it is useless for prospecting! It runs at 6 kHz, I think 19 kHz is as low as you can go and find the small nuggets. It is unable to handle the high mineralization that is associated with finding gold.The internet is great for researching detectors. Listen to the miners not the dealers. Thank you very much and good luck!
Where do i get a crevice tool like you have?
Ya nice gold! yee haww thanks for all the good info1 Merry x mas!
Thank you !
Lol, all the gold your finding is beautiful. I have a gold bug 2, can I use it the same way? I always wondered if I could or not for the same use sniping. Thanks keep em coming.
Yep John, you can do the same with a Gold Bug.Actually, you can find smaller pieces with a Gold Bug. He is using a PI machine. Too much racket for me ;)
I have learned a lot from your videos I want to wish you Happy Holidays , and God Bless you and your Family !! I have one question where did you find your crevis tool ? thank you Outlaw Jack
Thank you very much! You can get crevice tools here - stores.ebay.com/Honans-Mining-and-Diving-Supplies?_trksid=p2047675.l2563
Thank you for the web site. I look forward to your next video !!!! Outlaw Jack
Good video Gary, I'm a new subscriber from downunder.
Thank you and welcome.
I don't have a gold (VLF?) metal detector, so I have to stick to doing it the old fashioned way... but I sure love to watch you fan the gravel and see those pieces of gold show up. The gold around here is so fine I don't think a gold detector would hit on it anyway. I am gonna shoot some video of the gorge I like to pan during runoff so that I can look back at low water and have a better idea where to concentrate.
Great idea, you can learn a lot that way. Thanks - Gary
Great video, I'm a new Subscriber. I can't believe you don't have more subs.
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Can you use a wand style detector on deep under water crevises?
They will not pick up the small pieces of gold.
Gotta tellya mr two toes .. this snipin stuff looks a mess of funnins ..😁
Awesome gold! Good job. Where can a person find the crevice tool you use?
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What state are you in? I love sniping and diving and here in Arizona there isn't anywhere nearly as deep or as clear as your area!
Northern California.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Do you have a video on what type of metal detector to use? Seems they have one for every different price class.
Its hard when talking about detectors. It takes a long time to learn all the in and outs of a new detector. Once I have a detector that I know how to run and have been finding gold with it, its very hard to put it down and try another one. I am still using my Goldmaster 3, it has to be 15 years old. All I can suggest is, stay with a brand that is known for finding gold, and get it from a local shop that can teach you how to run it. Then learn every thing you can about it! To many people get the detector to where they can run it, then quit learning. I am always trying different settings, different adjustments. The more you know the detector the more gold you will find. Thanks for the support!
Thank you!
Do you have a retail site? What TDI do you use in this senario? Love what you are doing, THANK YOU!!!
About a year ago, I closed my retail store and went internet sales. I got tried dealing with the state and city government. The TDI I use is the first model Whites put out. I'm not sure how much it differs from the current models. Thanks - Gary
thank you Sir
Hi Gary - well, I've learned that I should NOT watch your videos before going to bed, because they get me so eager to go prospecting that I can't sleep! But I have a question for you regarding masks. My distance vision is great, but anything closer than arm's length, and things start getting a little fuzzy. I've seen some masks that you can get with semi-customized bi-focal lenses built in; do you know of a manufacturer that you would recommend for that? Doesn't seem like you need to use those yourself. Thanks again for sacrificing your prospecting time so that you can make videos!!!
Great video, thanks for sharing! I'm curious, how much gold have you actually found since you've started prospecting?
I really don't know, other than not enough - I still have to work! I can tell you my best day to date, was a 2 pound day. Thanks - Gary
Wow! What a great day that must've been. Wishing you the best of luck this coming year, thanks for all the videos!
GOIN TO BE PLACING ebay order from you. have 6 items saved on my watch list. Q-i thought you had a second model as well of the crevice tool..? are those available....or the current one is the way to go? thanx james in Idaho
The crevice tool go out of stock every now and then. I have plans to finish up a batch today. Thanks - Gary
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Gary can you use a pin pointer snip with?
I don't know if they make a water proof one. Thanks - Gary
Great video. Just subscribed!
Thank you, welcome aboard!
Love the video buddy, how much does a detector like yours cost?
Around $1300. Thanks - Gary
What model metal detector are you using? Great unit to get little gold deep in a crack!
I am using the older model Whites TDI with a Jimmy Sierra dual field mono coil. It seems like I use this one a lot more than my goldmaster. Thanks - Gary
Thanks for the prompt reply! Another question if I may: did you make or buy your "curvy pig-sticker" crevicing tool? Is it tempered steel? How thick and long? It's a dandy and you obviously you think it's the "cat's meow" - and I would agree! Do you make many of your own tools? If not - where do you buy them? I've looked on the internet....
I have made my crevice tools for as long as I have been mining. In the beginning, I couldn't afford to buy them. Over the years, I started changing the tools to work better with the type of mining I do. I now make several different type of tools. I supply several companies with crevice tools. The crevice tool I use in most of my videos is made out of a very hard stainless steel. It is a work hardened metal that can't be drilled or cut with most tools. I cut them out on a high pressure abrasive water cutter. When they are available, you can find them here - stores.ebay.com/Honans-Mining-and-Diving-Supplies?_trksid=p2047675.l2563