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Date Posted: 01:06:29 06/26/02 Wed
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: I Have Used It And...mlgDave a light bulb just flashed on and---
In reply to: mlgdave 's message, "Re: I Have Used It And..." on 13:07:38 06/24/02 Mon

I'm now guessing--- am I right or wrong--- you used a Garrett Gold Stinger at Paradise Valley with Lucy several years ago?

John Spong and Bert Rattner were there back in 1991 and shared the old miner cabin. John had a Gold Stinger and his coil leaked in the cold water and became noisy. I happened to have brought my Gold Stinger and as it was an extra I loaned him my coil.

John was supposted to keep it out of the stream; but since his partner, Bert, using a Fisher 1266 was striking it rich, finding about a total of 7-ounces in the stream John just couldn't resist.

My Stinger coil also sucked in the ice water and after John left I hung it up on end on the wall near the cookstove by using a wire and the water slowly dripped out through the cable connector.

Garrett Electronics made the coils good and fixed the problem so your Stinger should have been okay in the ice water. One of the nuggets Bert found weighted over 5-ounces.

Several years earlier at Paradise, about 1987, Otis Rood found one weighing nearly 6-ounces. Otis was nearly deaf and his Garrett was modified with lots of audio amplification. He had a stub for one arm and a mechanical hook on the other. I first met him at Quartzsite in the early 1980's. What makes Otis stand out, he had won the trip to Paradise Valley in a competition hunt at Quartzsite in 1986.

As a coincidence, two months after the group I was with came back from Paradise Valley we went to an area near Paradise Valley, Nevada, above Winnemucca, and on our way back to s. California stopped at a place where I had permission on a percentage deal. To make a long story short the 6 of us hit a sweetspot about 10x140 ft and pulled out some "speci," in about 45 minutes time; mostly wire in a quartz-iron matrix.

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