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Post by hdecuir on Jan 23, 2015 19:50:32 GMT -5
Hello all, I'm a newbie to the Gold prospecting world, but no stranger to treasure hunting with metal detectors, as I've done it for about 40 years. I grew up in Texas and now live in SW Iowa. This last year was my first experience looking for gold and I spent a couple weeks with my youngest daughter in the Colorado Mountains South of Leadville, and a bunch of weekends in NW Missouri with some friends using our coop Gold Hog. My accumulation of Gold for 2014 was only 1/2 ozt, so lots of room for improvement. I have a 4" Keene dredge, but I don't have hardly any time spent using it. I did take it to Colorado, but being a newbie I had no clue of how cold the Colorado rivers are in July and didn't have a wetsuit. I look forward to learning from all on the forum, and hopefully contributing something, although currently I'm not certain what.
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Post by uregold on Jan 23, 2015 20:22:06 GMT -5
welcome to the forum. glad to have you here.
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Post by goldrunner on Jan 23, 2015 21:52:57 GMT -5
Welcome aboard. I would love to get out to Colorado to hunt sometime. What type of metal detecting have you done?
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Post by loki258 on Jan 23, 2015 22:18:56 GMT -5
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Post by ajpops on Jan 24, 2015 9:52:06 GMT -5
Welcome
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Post by hdecuir on Jan 24, 2015 18:51:03 GMT -5
Goldrunner, while in Texas when I first started I was a heavy coin shooter on city easements, I then graduated to relics at Civil War and Indian War military camps, battlefields, and ghost towns. I have now circled back around to what research uncovers and find myself coin shooting again as battlefields don't exist in Iowa.
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Post by goldrunner on Jan 24, 2015 23:19:11 GMT -5
Grew up on coins and the civil war. Things here have gotten really tough on both counts.
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Post by ywevis on Jan 25, 2015 2:58:05 GMT -5
Ya, you definitely need a heater for dredging in Colorado any time of the year. Welcome to the boards!
If ya need an Iowa Board let me know.
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Post by victory on Jan 25, 2015 8:47:15 GMT -5
Greetings and welcome to the forum. The team here is very friendly and will certainly point you in the right direction.
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