grizzly 3 sluice

[mikeal]

Have been looking to buy a new sluice and was checking out the grizzly3. Has anyone used this one before

 

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[nuggetshooter323]

I have one and it really works. It catches much smaller than 100 mesh. It's totally worth the money. It's one of the few sluices that is somewhere between 99% and 100% recovery.

 

[mikeal]

Thanks that will work great here in New England since most of our gold is fine.

 

[nuggetshooter323]

Using this is all about quality instead of quanity. You won't be going through as much material as a Bazooka Gold Trap, but the Grizzly Sluice III will catch smaller material than any sluice out there. You just have to make sure you set it up like they recommend, level then about 1" tilted back. I found that you need to do clean-ups often, when you see the black sand starting to pack the expanded metal. It only takes about 2 minutes to clean-up so it's no big deal, but if you wait too long to clean-up you start to lose gold pretty fast. The cool thing about this is no matter how fast you pour the water through, the inner baffle slows it down, and as long as the expanded metal isn't packed and the slope is set correctly, you will not lose gold. If you do the clean-up with a Blue Bowl, you'll truly appreciate how small the gold is this thing catches. I got the pack straps and hardware with mine for the $50 extra, it kind of irritated me on how expensive they were, but they are really handy. Another thing I really like about this is you don't need gas, oil, motors, etc. I just carry my crevicing and digging tools, a metal detector(usually my Falcon MD-20), two or three five gallon buckets, and gold pans. I found the the Garrett Super Sluice gold pan or anything bigger works great for doing the clean-ups into. I use the Falcon MD-20 for targeting pockets that have concentrations of gold and other heavies, then I snipe those pockets and run them through the Grizzly Sluice III.