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  1. Mother lode Gold Sniping Adventure

    Mother lode Gold Sniping Adventure Sniping for Gold Nuggets is one of the funniest and most rewarding ways to find Placer Gold. Me and Brian head out on another sniping adventure at one of our remote gold locations in the California Mother Lode. We move up stream this time to see if the...
  2. Sniping & Fishing on the Yuba

    Follow along as Jeff and Christina head to the cool waters of the Yuba River to do a little Sniping and Fishing. What could be a better way to spend the day out on the river then looking for Gold Nuggets and trying to catch a fish or two !!!! Cool off in the fresh waters of the Mother Yuba ...
  3. Sniping & Crevicing for Gold Nuggets

    Join Prospector's Gary AKA (Two Toe's) and Jeff (Smithsgold) as they embark on another Adventure to find the Mother Lode. Gold Nuggets are there Target and they will work the Bedrock Crevices above and Below the water to find there Treasure. Sniping for Gold underwater is one of my favorite...
  4. My Goldbug II Finds so far..

    I just noticed this thread so I thought id share some finds. Found all these on Vancouver Island, BC within about 5 meters of eachother under a boulder!
  5. Tools of the Trade and Why?

    Hey everybody thank you for coming in, I am getting ready to restart my crevicing/sniping tool kit and I just wanted to get some ideas in here to help influence what I purchase or make next. I want to see what some of you have in your arsenal and maybe we could all see some cool creations and...
  6. Underwater Gold Sniping - Mercury Cleanup - 8 Videos

    Heya Everyone; I am sorry that I have not been on much, other than checking Facebook I don't spend much time on the computer during the summer. Here are 8 videos from a single outing on Lower Clear Creek in Shasta County. I don't recall the amount of time I spent sniping to recover the 7...
  7. 🥇 BANNER Gold Nail found

    Heya everyone! So I found a gold nail today. Yup! It was bound to happen, thousands of regular iron nails and I finally find a gold nail. LOL I never expected this! My scale says it weighs .3 grams. I posted the picture on a Facebook chat that I was in and was given some great information...
  8. SNIPER NEEDS HELP WITH OVERBURDEN

    I just started doing this and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to clear the massive amounts of overburden In the Weaverville area Rivers streams etc. I still have not made it down to bedrock and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if I just need to keep digging. I'm not sure how...
  9. 14k Gold Wedding Ring found while sniping!

    Heya Everyone; The ol' swimming hole did it again! Two days ago I found a 14k White and Yellow gold men's Wedding ring! It comes in at 5.5 grams and polished up oh so nicely. :) This is my first precious metal ring find, I have found others but not worth anything. Just a few feet away is...
  10. Im BACK! :)

    I'm BACK! :) Hi everybody! Whelp after a super long time of not having reliable internet I have good internet again and am able to troll :alien: the threads again! lol I also have not posted new vids for over a year but will be getting some more on my YouTube Channel CrainRacing - YouTube I...
  11. How much would you pay for a California legal dredge?

    Heya everyone; I wanted to ask a simple question. How much would you pay for a California legal dredge? Lets just say that you could have a 100% legal dredge but it had to be fully underwater, electric and limited to no larger than a 1.5" hose. Run time would be 2 hours non stop dredging, use...
  12. Met up with TrinityAu today for a little MDing. :)

    Met up with TrinityAu today for a little MD'ing. :) Today I met up with TrinityAu for the first time, been meaning to do it for a while now and glad that I did. :) Ray was helping me figure out my GB Pro a bit more and about the geology and mining history in the area that we were hunting...
  13. FINALLY FOUND A GOLD NUGGET!!! WOOHOO!

    Hey guys, after about a year or searching and panning and sluicing and sniping...lol I finally found my first flake/nugget picker. it is about a quarter of an inch by a quarter of an inch! I gave up on trying to find gold from the shore so I went to my local dive shop and got a wetsuit...
  14. Underwater Sniping idea: Using Pump to blow away overburden: Fish & Game OK! :)

    Heya everyone; I have been thinking about buying a pump to help blow overburden away while underwater sniping. I got the OK from Fish & Game today, they said as long as I am not sucking material in and just using the force of the water to blow overburden away that I would be fine. So now I...
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