Prospecting For Adventure
Prospecting For Adventure
There's a desire out there ingrained in many of us. It's the need to hunt, seek and discover things that are hard to find or overlooked by others. My name is Chris and these are my adventures driven by that desire. Follow along, I'll share my experiences and what I've learned along the way. Please help my channel grow by liking videos, leaving comments and subscribing. Thanks for watching!
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Huge fan of looking for gold
Your angle is way too steep. With that short of a sluice, you shouldn't have much angle at all.
Good video Chris.
Boy. Those salmon smolts sure are curious. You should have brought a frozen block of 'brine shrimp' to feed them. LOL I'm just about to get started looking for gold here in Oregon. I'll also be looking in creeks and rivers falling from Mt. Hood, but for the time being I'll be using a pointer, a crevice tool and a pan. (maybe a portable shop vac) No wet-suit for this fat old man!
I just ordered one of those Milwaukee 18-Volt cordless vacs, along with a 'Nokta PulseDive' pinpointer and a couple other small items needed to get started finding some gold on the rivers and creeks coming off Mt. Hood here in western Oregon. At some point (after I bank some gold) I might have to expand my hunting abilities to underwater building one of these! (but the thought of stretching a wet suit over this 6'4" 300# old man isn't a pretty visual, so it'll probably never happen 🤣)
that's a sweet set up on your gold cube!
Well explained and a phenomenal product. Thanks for sharing and thanks Mike for keeping us prospectors on top of the blk sands 👊✌️😆🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️
Sweet sharing, nice work & excellent cinematography 👊✌️😆
Picked up one, excited to try it out. Excellent cinematography & editing. Thanks 😅👊✌️🇺🇸
Cow Creek has been good for gold through the years. I wish that Windy Creek would have had the same kind of gold. Oh well. For some of you that have heard stories about big stinky critters with hair all oner their bodies and walked upright like men that lived around there, yes, they were around there. Some people called them bigfoot. Around Glendale we usually just called them hippies.
you asked the crab wheres the gold my dad would ask the crab where do you live lol
Of course they want money!
with my experience with dream mat I've come to the conclusion it just isn't what the hype makes it out to be I use the gray the green and micro purple and unless you classify it to 1/8 it just fills up and clogs the cells and gold blows out you can't beat expanded metal and moss with v rib or goldhog matting I feel I wasted my money buying dream mats
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your just a 3 to 4 mills from the mother load. con tack me and I well show you where
Hey here’s a video where is how you something cool, but I don’t actually show you…. Clickbait bs
hello sir, I just bought this combo product for France. I'm also a little disappointed. Much more detailed instructions from the seller are missing! . I notice that if the flow is too slow, the rifles open their mouths, if the flow is faster, the rifles open their mouths, in return the fine gold flakes tend to leak from what I have observed. I saw that it had a slope of 9 to 9.5%. It remains very difficult for the 2 smaller rifles! the vortex should work better. I will add that the carpet I ordered is 8x36, it does not respect the dimensions! 36 goes to 34 so really 2inch difference 😂
How much does that cost ?? I wanna buy a sluice
Works great, felt is much better.
I would say the Mollala, but the gold is too good. 😊 Let's see, what else is "near" Portland -- Washougal?
I am looking at one of these hand dredges myself, like you, here in Australia, no pumps are allowed, but Victoria you are allowed Highbanking and mini trommels, how long that will last is anyones guess. Well done on the gold and great video
Destroying stream beds looks like fun.
How so? I could send you to that exact spot right now and you wouldn't be able to point out any damage.
lol what a stupid thing to say, he's not destroying anything, how much of the earth have you actually destroyed in your lifetime? sound like a loser.
Helps when you put the gold there first 😂👍
What? Lol
Hay, i know that spot! My friend Louis is always there for me when I need a quick fix for the fever.
Haha I think we have the same dependable friend.
1957, good year.
"Tell me where the gold is!" lol
Great video, thanks for posting
Private claim or not, as of 2017 the Rogue River is part of the salmon protection plan, and dredging is illegal. What say you?
I say, just because something is in the watershed doesn't mean it's completely closed to dredging. There are NON-ESH waterways that eventually end up in the Rogue River. These streams are above dams, or some other barrier that prevents fish migration from the ocean or larger rivers.
What if you left it the way you first had it set up with less water flowing through. Having gold situp in the flair seems like a good thing.
My goal was to test the mat, not the flare. The box needed more water regardless.
Which river was it? I live in Yacolt Washington and it looks like this. Great video.
Nice picker. Hope you get some more.
Nice video
Time to put that Dakota Fred signed bucket on the shelf as a saver. :) He was a legend. Great vid. Keep it up.
Can you link me to your magnet?
Vickie and Ryan's gold adventures here. On tight budget, and I traded a to heavy and bulky for me dredge for a 1 1/2" highbanker dredge combo. Wanted to purchase a combo dream matt but, $ and taxes and shipping stopped me. I already had a big heavy long dream matt Incan never get pitched right nor have enough water flow to use. Could just be me. So I decided with the highbanker extra water flow I would cut the matt I already owned but never use. Surprise it was exactly the right size. And it is the big not combo dream matt. Was happy to hear someone already discovered what I was wondering before I lost any gold. Thanks. Appreciate the test.
interesting video, will be trying the spoon test at a couple of places i have been going too, here in the desert i am jealous of everyone that has oceans and rivers to supply unlimited water.
Miners moss is the ticket. Has been for years.
The way i see it . Dream mats are the best general use mats. you still need to match size to the material Size and water flow or use multimats . if you know your specific needs and will be repeatedly dealing with the same or similar situations , goldhog matting will let you dial in your boxes for those situations. no matting is perfect. Most people suggest a saftypan when possible. Dredges are very inefficiant because of their short wide boxes and always lose gold. the only real fix is making a much longer box .
You don’t find flattened nuggets… try it again
Nice try... Have you ever heard of corn flake gold? I have personally seen large flat gold captured with traditional hungarian riffles. Those are actually more difficult to capture because of the potential wavy or uneven shape. So if a smooth flat piece migrates, I can conclude a piece that's suseptible to catching fast water would also migrate. If I could post a photo here, I would. I have also seen flat gold tumble just like the lead did in the test. For the next test, I have flat tungsten rounds. That would eliminate the specific gravity concerns.