GoldpannerDave
Bronze Member
- Apr 17, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- Bazooka 48" Miner and 30" Sniper, Le Trap, Wolf Trap, A52, 2" dredge, Miller tables, Blue Bowl, wheel, Falcon MD20, old White's detector
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Got a good 2.5 hours of digging in. I wanted to experiment this time with emptying the bazooka every 30 minutes compared to once per trip.
and the results are in..... NOT WORTH IT
Which is definitely the better of the two possibilities.
I cleaned it out 5 times which meant 5 times the amount of black sand I had to take home and process. Also the time resetting the bazooka could have been spent shoveling. Weight today was .19g.
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Well, I think you showed that with a Bazooka, as long as the trap remains fluid, keep shoveling. More cleanouts mean less time to shovel which means less gold. As an additional downer, you have to pack home more black sands.
Now, for me, an old guy, I could just rest instead of doing a clean out. That means more effective shoveling when I start again.
Thanks for the field test!!