How Long Did It Take You To Find Your First Nugget?

[goody2shoes]

Been looking on hear and some members saying it took them a very long time to find there first nugget...

My questions is..how long did it take you to find your very first nugget?

Was you one of the lucky one's that found it first time out prospecting...

Goody :|

 

[Tribsa 56]

Found my first on i think my 3rd trip (a 6.5g specie with arond 3g of gold) but then took a few months to find my second. Thrill of the chase is what keeps me going.... finding gold is a bonus :argh:

 

[Nightjar]

Found my first on second trip with the then new Garrett Deepseeker back in the early 80's. A quartz specimen with 40g of AU. Minutes later an ironstone specie with 8g.

 

[StoneTheCrows]

4th time out and it was the training day that came with the detector from miners den.
6 months till the next

 

[LONEWOLF]

Never found one. .. Then again I don't hunt for Gold.... Rocks, Minerals, Crystals and Gems are My Fetish... :drooling:

LW.....

 

[Jum]

Prospecting just over 2 years where I did loads of panning n sluices and played with an atx. Over a year ago I ditched the atx after a few months. Purchased a gpx 4500 then spent 3 weekend trips where I really struggled with unit. Having sdcs pull gold out around me getting rather frustrated. We put a small specie back into same hole at 8inch where I scraped off 4inches before I got a peep at this point I knew I was doin something real wrong. And just didnt know what. I gave up for almost a year when around Christmas I took my father in law out for a dig. I had my settings checked by someone at a tecta shop he explained to me why I was never going to find anything in the settings I was in. He changed things up n said try this. I had a 1 gram peice 5 minute after getting back out to spot. The gpx learning curve is steep, challenging, mentally draining and unfairly painful but worth it. :goldnugget: :goldnugget:

 

[aussiefarmer]

38 yrs always had a interest in saphires rocks and mining history , went sluicing for years and probably took 3 months or 6 trips to get a nugget.

 

[Northeast]

3rd day. Tiny bit.

 

[lordo.1]

It took a couple of months to find my first piece .4 of a gram never forget it, Still to this day years later i go back to the exact spot and have a look nothing has changed much .Can park the ute and walk to the very log i found it next to.

 

[Rockhunter62]

One month after we got our SDC, 2nd trip out, first piece 0.4 gm quickly followed by a 7 gm then a o.3 gm.

Cheers

Doug

 

[BigWave]

With my 4500 it was around 4 months.
Too excited with the hunt to give up.
I warned the kids to always say "Eureka" for first gold find (0.71g), but of course they shouted: "holy shite", so it took another month to find the next
I'll never forget thet nugget and it's labelled in my display case.
Now it's 2 out of 3 weekend trips to the GT or better.
Even better in WA and Qld though.

 

[goldtruck59]

Im with most others it took me about 4 months and when I did it was on for young and old. It was a piece about .7 and shaped like a rice grain. I went back to the Dunolly Pub and got pissed and ended up playing the guitar out the back bar to a group of Melb tourists. Great day. That was about 10 years ago now.

GT

 

[HarryHoudini]

It took me a couple of months. The change was when I followed Minelab Golds advice and settings. Total game change for me.
But I still loved exploring and going out bush.

HH

 

[Bjay]

Got my first bit on the second day. It was tiny though but still couldnt believe it. Second trip second day I got a 1.5 grammer and right next to it a 1/2 grammer. Thought this is easy. How wrong I was. Two more 3 day trips with nada. Then things started to fall in place.

 

[PMac77]

2nd time out .71g Nug :Y:

 

[Chewy]

Was about a year or a bit longer for me. Painful. :awful: But, I have been lucky enough to come home with a rattle in the jar every trip since apart from 1 trip.

 

[Syndyne]

About eight years. From 2005 I ran a Garret Infinium (digging more junk than I care to recall), then onto a GPX5000 in 2013 for several weeks in the same areas and bingo! A mighty lot of relief and very happy days that I'll never forget. :goldnugget:

 

[Jaros]

Bit like puberty hey??!!

 

[Ded Driver]

on about trip 4 I think, cumulative day 14, & it was a tidler about this big '.' I hate spending half an hour in the sun digging fly oop:
but hey, its gold

 

[madtuna]

First nugget with a detector was an 85gr solid little lump on the first day with my brand new XT17000.

I bought it that morning and rushed straight out to Ophir, put batteries in it and was testing on bottle caps in the camping area on the oposite side of Summerhill CK at the crossing.

This was not 5 feet from a wheelie bin. I had no real idea what I was doing, just waving it over visible rubbish and got a screaming signal I couldn't see.
I kicked and scuffed the ground with my boot and out it popped, it would have all but been 3 pubes shy of a sunbaker.

After that it was about 2 years till I found my next bit.