A Funny Story
January 25, 1999 at 19:04:33
Our local prospecting club was hosted by another club on their claim for the weekend. I went, and of the 25 or so folks swinging a detector on Saturday, by day's end I was the only one to have found gold. (Really; but that ain't the point of the story) One woman heard that I was there, and came up to me, to ask advice. "All I have found are nails, and bits of wire. Not a nugget; not even a birdshot. What am I doing wrong?" she asked. "Not even a birdshot?" I asked, knowing that this area has lots of them. (This is the site, where in my first nugget hunting book "The Complete Guide to Finding Gold Nuggets with a Metal Detector" I mentioned that I had found an average of 127 birdshot for each nugget recovered) "No" she answered. Weird, I thought. "Yeah" she said "Each time I dig a zip-zip signal, it's wire or a nail." So I asked "Do you dig those signals which only make a single "zip" sound, not a "zip-zip" one?" "No" she said. "I read that guy's book, you know, the one called "Zip Zip." Isn't that the kind of signal a nugget is supposed to make?" Stunned, with that I flipped a wire staple on the ground, and also a nugget. I told her to pass her coil over both; as expected, the staple sounded off with a "zip-zip", whereas the nugget just went "zip." A look of horror spread over her face. "I've been ignoring those signals!" she exclaimed. It was a good thing that my friend, Larry Sallee, author of "Zip Zip," was not there. He would have had to contend with one unhappy lady! And, yes, this is a true story! HH Jim
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