Sorry for bringing this thread back from the dead lol
Spent the day on Clear Creek yesterday. I have a Keene 2.5" dredge and sluice with Gold Hog matting. I long tommed my Angus Alaskan Flare, because I just changed out my GH matting run to try and get better recovery with my dredge (previous run of GH matting was set up for highbanking in an area with clay). My buddy, who likes to do things more deliberately, was classifying and scoop feeding his Angus mini long tom. At the end of the day I'm pretty sure he got more out of the 6 buckets he ran than I did in 4-5 hours of dredging. My cons had considerably less black sands (we were in an area with a LOT of black sand) and micron. His Angus was LOADED with micron gold. He didn't clean it out all day.
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I've spent quite a few trips on CC (last winter I was there a couple times a week, working through the ice) trying to get my dredge/GH matting tuned and am at the point of not bringing it to CC and going back to shoveling, but my back can't handle a day spent bent over a classifier! I've had casual conversations with a few prospectors with Bazookas, and some Googling led me to this thread. Glad to see a few Colorado folks weighing in here, since we all know how small the gold here can be.
Thanks for all the inputs here; I think I'm ready to jump on the Bazooka bandwagon. Now to figure out which one lol