Pround New Owner Of A Gold Bug Pro

[AzViper]

My Gold Bug Pro arrive sooner than I thought. Chris Gholson at Arizona Outback had thought he would not receive shipment until the end of the month. I have joined Desert Gold Diggers and have all their claim maps. Went to my first meeting and was surprised at the amount of people in attendance. If I were to take a guest I would say maybe 150 to 200 members or guest. I am really excited about getting out and learning. I have had a few conversions with Ray Mills on the phone as he hooked me up with Chris. Ray is an authority on the GBP and I am sure I will be calling Ray with some questions. I have also met another forum member (Gray Ghost) in these forums and he lives in Tucson as well, we plan to hookup and search for gold. We both have the same equipment so hopefully I can pick up some pointers from GG as he had owed a Fisher F75.

I am surprised at how lite the GBP is. Another neat item is the MD has one single 9v battery to power the MD. We have been having some very nasty weather of late. Yesterday it began snowing around noon and was still snowing late last night. We see snow about once every 4 or 5 years. Desert Gold Diggers has an outing schedule for the Arivaca area area March 10th of which is my birthday so I will plan on going.

 

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[kazcoro]

Those bobcats are very cool. I have managed to call in and kill one. I will never get rid of the fur. Soft, spotted. Ear tufts. Awesome. I hear they fetch a pretty penny. Around $300. How cool would it be to have one for a pet?

 

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[nuggetshooter323]

They can go for $200-$400 depending on the market. Certain colors and bigger ones go for more, the more spots the better.

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

Cool bobcat stuff ... this thread says GOLD BUG PRO ... I just payed for half of one with my deposit , now the wait , another 3-5 weeks .. paid $598 OTD..... but i better ask if they come with headphones .

 

[blynch35]

mine didnt come with headphones i got a good deal on ebay though.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

Those bobcats are very cool. I have managed to call in and kill one. I will never get rid of the fur. Soft, spotted. Ear tufts. Awesome. I hear they fetch a pretty penny. Around $300. How cool would it be to have one for a pet?

I know one who does they have mean hissy fits aha

 

[DizzyDigger]

They can go for $200-$400 depending on the market. Certain colors and
bigger ones go for more, the more spots the better.

The buyers I dealt with wanted the wide, white bellies with very soft spotting. Never
knew a furrier that worked much with the backs, but they did make some stoles and
other items from them.

Every year I would bring my furs right into Feingold Furriers in Beverly Hills, and
while they drove a hard bargain, I still got better money than they were getting
in Hudson Bay.

BTW, you DO NOT want a Bobcat as a pet. Ever. They do fine til' they're about
6 months, and then mature into what they are...a mid-sized predator with
chainsaws for claws. PLUS, they're a wild critter, and that's where they belong..
...in the wilds! (I am no fan of keeping any wild critter as a "pet". Let them
go be what they were meant to be, so they can enjoy their lives and not spend
it being a servant to someones misplaced desires for a "pet".) JMHO.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

He's right

 

[kazcoro]

I know he is, but a guy can day dream.

 

[DizzyDigger]

I know he is, but a guy can day dream.

You sure can, and dreamin' beats the hell out of bleedin'....

 

[63bkpkr]

Just consider what a young/baby domestic kitty cat does to you when you play rough with it. Now increase the severity of that by a factor of 100 and even then it may be way higher as a Bob Cat sure as the dickens kill a human being. Leave them out where they belong................63bkpkr

 

[Terry Soloman]

Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

 

[DizzyDigger]

Don't know why he didn't just don some leather gloves and then
simply pick the little guy up and put him over the wall. That, or just
toss a blanket/towel over him and then pick him up and relocate elsewhere.

Could he scratch ya? Possibly, but at his size I doubt he could do much damage.

Now, that's what I would have done, but likely that was a very cool experience for
some city people. The fact that the cat never got human scent on it (which
mom would not appreciate) is a bonus.

 

[Hard Prospector]

Back in the 70s there was this guy in Pine Valley( rural San Diego County) who came across a bob cat kitten while out deer hunting. With the mother no where to be found he took it back to his home and the family successfully domesticated the cat to adult hood. In the evenings they would take it for walks through the neighborhood(it didn't mind being on a leash) I saw this when I was a kid. As a matter of fact, they would often let the cat just roam around the property knowing it wouldn't run off. One day, the cat was sitting on the front porch when this deputy sheriff (who was new to the area) was driving by and spotted it. Thinking it was a danger to the neighborhood , he shot it without asking any questions. The act pissed off the entire community so much, the guy was transferred or"run" out of town

 

[Terry Soloman]

Don't know why he didn't just don some leather gloves and then
simply pick the little guy up and put him over the wall. That, or just
toss a blanket/towel over him and then pick him up and relocate elsewhere.

Could he scratch ya? Possibly, but at his size I doubt he could do much damage.

Now, that's what I would have done, but likely that was a very cool experience for
some city people. The fact that the cat never got human scent on it (which
mom would not appreciate) is a bonus.

First, it was a 12-foot drop into the old water tank with no way to climb out, and second, I guess I'm just not as brave as you are because I've seen the damage a dehydrated and scared "little kittie" can do to a guy who thought he could just pick one up. I'm not really a "city person" being raised in the Arizona desert, but then again, I guess I have been living in New York since I got out of the Army in 1976. Darn, guess I am a city person!

 

[DizzyDigger]

Terry, I didn't realize the wall was 12', as I was thinking it was 4-5', max. That
changes things a bit, as the cat is now actually larger than I thought. With a
wall that high, you likely did the best, and certainly the safest way to get that
critter out of there. I was thinking...you know...a "kitten", as in a month or 2
old, but that cat is much older than that.

If that cat had been younger, it might have simply been a "playpen" mom was
using while she was out hunting on her own. Also, brave's got nothing to do with it,
as I very much do respect them (and their artillery!), I just don't fear them. No offense
intended!

 

[goldentruth]

Happy Days! Nice MD set up. Good luck in all you do, have fun my friend.

 

[AzViper]

Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

Terry very nicely done. I bet that little Bob appreciates what the three of you done for him or her. Too bad crap like this occurs in our deserts. Had the three of you not stumble along this trap little Bob would have been a skeleton. Kudos to the three off you…

 

[AzViper]

Terry, I didn't realize the wall was 12', as I was thinking it was 4-5', max.

Dizzy I have to agree with you. When you watch the video and you take in account of the rocks in the corner at the beginning of the video and you do the math I calculate the wall to be 6 feet high. If you look you can see the mortar joints and it appears the blocks used are 4 inch thick blocks. With mortar being soft the mortar has leached over the years and stains have appeared in the mortar. I would not climb down into an enclosed walled area and try to grap a wildcat that is scared, hungry and dehydrated. Rather cool what Terry and his friends were able to pull off though and Bob was smart enough to use the tree branch to escape.

 

[DizzyDigger]

No doubt Terry took the best option for getting that kid out of there, and only reason
I might have ventured into there would be to herd the little guy towards the branch Terry
put in there.

Watched the video once more today, and can see where that wall is higher than
suspected, so it wouldn't have simply been a matter of getting in there, but getting out
without a ladder would be difficult.

Kudo's to you Terry...job well done!

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

That sound they make when they growl is kinda creepy