Deep water sniping with a hookah air system.
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2017
- Fall is closing in, rivers are low, time to sneak in one more sniping trip!
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I've always wanted to start a conservation with "so this morning we got ourselves a helicopter". Haha. I shouldn't do videos because my intro would be "so this morning I forgot my shovel again". Great video bud. Keep them coming
Thank you very much.
Gary my man! Out of the Gold prospecting community, you are probably the most talked about person (that I've noticed anyway) and this is exactly why! Helicopters, Detecting, Sniping, Great infirmation and finally, beautiful GOLD! Hah your a lot of fun to watch I hope one day I can meet you! Please don't ever stop and may your finds always get even greater!! Cheers -Paul
Thank you very much.
PioneerPauly. Good post. I entirely agree. Gary is the real deal.
I love this style of filming! It feels like we are right there with you discovering what's in the crevice. Keep these coming Gary!
Absolutely love your videos thank you so much for making them. Best gold prospecting videos on RUclips
Thank you!
Nothing like gearing up as warm weather to get back into GP in the Northwest region of Washington! Very nice on Videos!
Good to see the true American dream is still alive and kicking for some. What an adventure!!!
Hi Gary, I am doing hookah this July on the Klamath River. Great to see you doing it. Saw one thing I would suggest. You had a hard time keeping air hose out of your way. They have a belt that holds hose to your waist in back of you. Also decided to go with 12 volt electric instead of gasoline driven hookah. No chance to breath gasoline exhaust vapors. Five hour solar charge per battery.
Thank you Gary for taking us along. I enjoy your down to earth videos and the effort you put into them.
Thank you.
Awesome adventure. I worked as a commercial diver for 35 years. I would coat the tips and palms of my gloves with a very thin layer of Aqua Seal or Sicoflex. They would last 10 times longer. Cold hands cold diver. Cheers.
Gold comes and goes, but its your shared adventure and jokes Im subscribed to. Looking forward to more. Thanks for sharing!
The helicopter addition is super kickin'! Sitting it down on a rock... Love that y'all used it to bring in the equipment.
That's more for the summer for me. I'm getting up there a little bit and I just hate the cold water like that. But you got some pretty gold there. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Those under water shots brings back memories of Dredging in California for many years before we could not do it anymore. But you have Me beat with flying stuff in and not packing down the steep sides of the mountain lol . Love your adventure videos and can't wait for more.
I miss the deep dredging with the old 8 inch. Thanks - Gary
I'm in southern Oregon and your videos inspired me to go sniping. I actually found a good amount of chunky gold in a crevice. Love your videos and I respect the gold fever.
That is great news! Hope 2018 is better yet. Thanks - Gary
Very cool Gary, I am going to switch to the helicopter Part 2 video. Good job! You also straightened me out on why you use the locking tweezers instead of regular long ones. Got it!
What a great vid and no better way to start the day than to see you have posted an new vid, thanks for taking us along.
Thank you very much!
Enjoyed the dive video.! I got my dive certification in fresh water and quickly learned Caribbean water has a much higher comfort level. Nice to hear the recommendation to get certified before doing something very stupid. Enjoyed the hunt.
I love your videos, Sir. Ive been watching off and on for a few years and you're always informative. I'd love to come out there and help sometime soon.
Love this video the best out of maybe 20 videos I’ve watched… They’re all really good thank you for doing it… I like the trophy hunting and the way it feels…I’ve made that choice before I found nothing most of the time but boy was I excited
I love the "trophy hunt" analogy. The brother in-law and I are straddling the line of trophy hunting vs everything else here in El do county. Our hookah on S fork has been hit miss (water release at chili bar kills us). Our bed rock is same, either decomposed granite or the smooth soft stuff. Great work and outstanding instruction Sir. I'll keep passing the word on you here in El do county!
those are some nice pieces of gold, what an adventure heli ride , diving, and nuggets.......now thats fun!!
That's some serious James Bond insertion action! Beautiful area too!
Awesome looking gold that's for sure!👍⛏😎
Your videos are always a must-see!
Thanks!
Wonderful adventure - Great vid - Makes me wish I were 20 years younger... Thanks for sharing....
Me to! Thank you.
Great camera work digging the crevice. Very nice
Another great video. You have the best no BS gold prospecting videos on youtube
Thank you very much.
Another great video, love sniping. Long Live the HORDE!!
Epic trip! Love the vids bro!
Great video Gary, I went out hunting deer got nothing so it was a real treat to come home and watch it.
I went to what used to be deer camp a couple of weeks ago. I have been hunting with the same two guys for 20 years. Now that you can't hunt Mountain Lion, there are so many, the deer herd is so depleted its not worth the time to hunt. So now we still have deer camp, the only difference is we sleep in, then go treasure hunting and prospecting all day. Good luck and thanks - Gary
Great job, Gary. It really is about more than the gold alone. Got some of your excellent crevicing tools at your ebay store last year and it's looking like next summer to use them here in Oregon. Love the helicopter and adventure altogether. Keep those videos coming! I always look forward to sharing them.
Get out there and fine some gold! Thank you for the support and good luck.
This is really informative and not to mention cool :D Thank you! Have fun and stay safe.
Thank you.
Awesome video "adventure" Gary, thanks a million for sharing..!!
Thank you.
Yeah that brought back memories of the golden age of dredging in the feather. Man I miss that stuff! I went back to some old stomping grounds 2 years ago. Only to see the trail was gone over grown and when I made it to the river I was seriously butt hurt! There lay a 10x10x20 ft slab of cliff rock laying on my super high grade high bench placer! I turned around and looked wondering if I was truly in the right location. The river bedrock was 12-15 ft lower than previously. And the water flow moved over 50ft!!!!!! I never would have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes! I still managed to pan a few nice pickers so I was ok with that. But what a shock. Soft bedrock sucks! Good content in you video big brother. Hope we cross paths some day .
Love your videos and really like the “links in the description”. I wish more RUclipsrs would add links to the equipment they use.
I stole that idea from another youtuber. It works great to give people a idea what the price and availability of the equipment is. Thanks - Gary
Dave's hat flying off Priceless !!!!! Nice Gold !!!!!
The best part is - he knows you never take you eyes off the load - but its his favorite hat! Thanks - Gary
Thanks Two Toes. Great video!
Thank you.
That is awesome Gold Gary!!!! It has cooled down a bit, but they say it will warm up again for a few days! Therefore I am going out this Friday to do a bit of sniping also, to take advantage of the weather! I don't use a wet suit so wish me luck, LOL!!! The fire season has been horrible but it is almost over!!! Keep up the great gold finds!!
Good luck, I was getting cold with a 7.5 mm wet suit! I have plans to do a scouting trip this week to check out a shallow sniping area. If it looks good, I might get in one more sniping video before the rains come. Thanks - Gary
I hope you are able to do one more sniping vid! I would love to see some more big gold! Up north we have it of course, it just has eluded me, so I have to watch others find it, LOL!
Looks like one hell of a day Gary we need to give this another go
Awesome video. Love the WOW t-shirt.
For the horde! Lol.
Keep up the great work.
Fantastic ! like James Bond on a sniping jaunt! Brilliant Gary ;-)
That gold is beautiful! Thanks for the video share!
Thanks!
This was a badass video!
Love you videos Two Toes, keep it up man. oh and FOR THE ALLIANCE!
Thank you, and we will meet in Warsong Gulch!
Great video again gary. Now I know you don’t let on about your spots but I recognize that kinda terrain because I’m from the sierras. 20 plus yrs in Plumas county so I know you are in a close proximity to butt county and Plumas county. Love the snipping videos. The sound of scrapping underwater with headphones or ear buds on is amazing. So relaxing! Haha keep up the great work feller!!! Jw
Thank you!
thank you Gary very inspirational I am up on the South Yuba River right now I found several hundred Flakes and one big giant one almost 1/4 inch
About 30 years ago I did a little dredging on the south fork. I did ok, but the thing I remember the most is I found about 6 old silver coins dated in the 1880's stuck in a crevice.
another great video, thanks and all sorts of luck to ya
Thank you!
Gotta say I love your shirt man horde! Love your vids keep em coming
Thank you!
Love your videos! And gotta say "FOR THE HORDE!!!"
lol Horde all the way!
So exciting... Awesome adventure....👍👍😀😀✌
I have been enjoying your well rounded videos you have posted.I am new to the prospecting /hunting scene and I have been looking for a way to get my 13 year old son interested and sure enough he was taken in by your crevice sniping using snorkeling gear.We are now on the hunt for a decent detector for him ..I just want to say thanks for reaching out and sharing your passion in so many ways.Signed Daniel from SoCal
Another sweet vid! keep it up! good lookin area! and looking forward to highbanking channel materal!
Need a little rain to soften up the gravel, other wise it's like trying to dig concrete. The weatherman says no rain for at least 10 days. Going to try to do some crevicing until then. Thanks - Gary
Nice Gary, boy that was deep.
It was a lot deeper than I thought it was going to be. Thanks - Gary
Awesome vids Keep up the great work
...thanks for posting... looking forward to sniping vid of the same area in the future...
Thank you.
Super video. Make some more like that please with the under water action shots. Funny as ever with your dry sense of humour. Until the next time sir.
I will be looking at that section of river again, don't know why, but I feel I missed something. Thanks - Gary
Two Toes you flew over a creek a few videos ago with huge boulders. That place looks amazing. I can't think of anywhere like that in the UK. Just keep the good videos coming.
All I can say is WOW!
That's a big bottle of Sherry there on the side....Yipppeee!
Hello I like your videos and they teach me some handy tips!
Thanks!
I've been patiently waiting for this... Glad your all safe and sharing this. Looks like high up the Yuba river... nice gold you found! There is a crevice at the Shiloh (Comstock Gold Prospectors) claim where the river is approx. 50ft. deep near the main rapid drop-off...after you get suited and get in where the giant boulders are, you go straight across 30-40feet towards the forest side under the water where the bedrock is... there is a crevice past the bottom of the bowl where the bedrock goes up about 5-10 feet and a little to the left. On the right there is a large cliff of bedrock that faces the down-flow of the river and a few inches from the bottom is a 1 inch crevice about an arms length or more like a mouth drinking in the river flow. I popped out a small gold nugget before I ran out of air. But there is Gold in that crevice! God lifted me out. I had panicked and failed to release the weight belts. I had to breath in water to my lungs and cross back and go up. the battery ran out and the partner that I was with did not pay any attention. When I got out of the river, I threw myself over a rock belly first. My partner came over without a word and grabbed the Sniffter bottle and left me to puke. He must of took what I put into the bottle. Our friendship is at an end. This man I knew from High School days has changed into a gold obsessed, dangerous man. He never once had expressed any empathy for nearly drowning. Everything around me was 50% darker after climbing out....but I know God pulled me up as I called out and asked for his help. I was sinking back down and there is no other explanation. Pray for my friend.... he had the equipment but lacked some essential pieces. I lacked caution and put my trust in him instead of God. I will never forget this experience. I learned so much. Thanks for sharing your experiences Gary! Much appreciated.
For me, I love the adventure and the mountains. The gold is a plus, but not the reason. The days I find little or no gold are just as good memories. Some of my best trips were with my kids and we came home with no gold ( to busy goofing around). Good partners are hard to come by, that's why when you find one, you work to keep them. Thanks - Gary
That's some beautiful gold👍👍
The one thing I have never found prospecting is ugly gold. LOL Thank you!
That sounded like it would be hot spot for nuggets. BLown out . but you never know till you go ! I would be looking for the spot where all those boulders landed. Still you got some nice nuggets . that chopper mining looks like it would be a rush. Great video Gary.
I will defiantly be back in there next summer. Thanks - Gary
@@TwoToes yeah that place looked like it was easy to work. There should be some good crevises there in that area. You just need a few days in there. And a couple young guys to pack you stuff in.
looks like fun, got to do the buddy system when going underwater
Was great fun, cold , but fun! Thanks - Gary
Warming up over here, looking forward to doing my first sniping. Cheers for the vid
Its cooling down here and I want to do more sniping. I think I'm turning into a wimp, can't handle the cold water like I could when I was younger. Thanks - Gary
LOL you are a cool sir. Usually when I subscribe I dont turn On notifications, I did this time.
Awesome good times. Thanks
I love your videos! And your shirt kicks ass! For the Horde!
All my cool shirts are gifts from my kids. The boring shirts I wear are the ones I buy. Thanks - Gary
Good morning boss hopefully you're getting some gold today have a great weekend
I'm patiently waiting for the rivers to drop here in Australia. Got a very similar looking spot I plan on free diving for Gold in.
Once again a fantastic video and that air system is pretty amazing!
Getting cold here and warm where you are! Good luck, hope you have a great season!
gday from oz, cool helicopter shots,great video
Thanks!
I have enjoyed your videos, though I’am not a gold hound yet. I like all of the tips and the way you explain things like what signs to look for and why.
We are new in the Placerville area and as we settle in I would like to start looking for that shiny stuff.
Thank you for all you do, be safe,
From another Gary
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Placerville, I think you can throw a rock in any direction and hit gold from there, great country!
Thank, we’ll keep watching.
Bye the way, do you still have the store?
The shop is still there, but I closed it about 2 years ago. I now do most all selling on the internet.
Hey Gary you had me laughing right from the start. The comment about the 97 flood was pretty funny. Thanks for making such informative and interesting videos. I really enjoy them. Although I live down in SoCal I do make it up your way at least once each year to spend a week on the river looking for gold. I was just up there a couple weeks ago and I went armed with information I gleaned from watching you and also brought along one of your 12" Crevice tools you sell (love it). This was by far the best year I've had finding gold and I attribute it to the nuggets of info you share like how the read a river and what to look for. Your videos have helped make me a better prospector. You mentioned in this video that the area you were at had produced nuggets in the 1 ounce range at on time. What is the biggest nugget you have found?
You have just made my day, Thank you. My largest nugget to date is 8 oz.
Can't hike out to your location? NO PROBLEM! Just take my helecopter.
Thanks Gary for another great adventure. My missus was laughing at me the otherday when we took the dog for a walk downstream. and i found the only exposed bedrock in a very overburdened river on an inside bend for about ten kays. Yep a gift from the gold gods, but it looked too clean, i thought . And the afternoon water was cold. But hey,you know how it is, i had to have a look. So i stripped to my boxers and dove in. My 53kg bullarab bitch was circling me as i went down to check under the ledge. Oh thats my dog by the way not the missus. She aint that keen she sat on the gravel. Yep packed gravel. And then wow the first real boil holes i have ever seen around here . Yep and gravel in. Im rounding up some gear and going back. Will let you know how i go. Just having trouble finding a mask.
Thanks for showing us the way.
Cant wait for your next show.
Cheers Bruce.
Good luck, hope there is a big yellow pile at the bottom! Thanks - Gary
Gary, that's some nice looking chunks of gold. If lead was worth anything I know I would be rich
The lead is good also. I turn mine into fishing weights or round balls for my flintlock. That way the next guy can find again and use it. Its like the great circle of life!
I’m a new miner out of Guyana S/A and I live in Brooklyn NY, I always look at mining videos. I came across your videos and so far I’m impressed with them and your style. My question is where can I get some of your funky tools, or they are all yours creations. I’m going to Guyana next month and will be heading to my claims, hopefully I can get some good videos. Thanks again and keep up the good work, I pray you stay healthy and the fire up.
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great vid gary i love your crevise tools i got from you , did the nuggtes pay for the helicopter ride , i have a great spot but so far have not found a helicopter for cheap i need to try and met a pilot that will fly for fuel cost and couple hundred bucks ,anyways keep up the great vids
The gold never pays for it, you just have to get to where your laziness over rides the value of the money. Thanks - Gary
Wow nice job I'd spend a Week out there is also heard that there is gold in them white vaines sometime maybe you should break a few open should check it out you may get lucky never know.anyway good luck from Alaska
Would you consider a drawing to have a hand full of people go on a high banking adventure with you next year?
Cool video. Thanks for sharing.
That would be up to Jeff. Most of the time when I go highbanking, I'm on his claim. We have a highbanking trip planed next month. I will run it by him. Thanks - Gary
Great video enjoy watching you from the UK . What an amazing life you have you enjoy it to the max good for you keep the videos coming GL&HH. Just one question doh you melt all your gold into ingots or just keep it as nuggets?
I send most of my gold to a refiner, they refine it and send me a check. I put the check into my Roth IRA. The nuggets, I sell to a jewelry shop, I get a much better price for the nuggets. It all ends up in retirement. My hope is some day to use the money I received for my gold to retire and spend more time finding gold. Its like the great circle of life! Thanks - Gary
Can we use highbackers in Calif again?Love your videos and the education that goes with them.
I don't think anyone knows what the mining laws are now, including the people that enforce them. I think you can, I still do! I think as long as you are responsible about where you dig and what you do with the muddy water and tailings, you will be fine. Thanks - Gary
lifetime patriot nra member. saw your sticker.nice to meet you. hangtown.
Got my life membership in 1969.
WOW Gary, you did great! I saw it in your face when you started to show the end result of the trip. You did accomplish what you set out to do. You found out the river changed, and all the goodies that probably were at the bottom of the falls are now flushed out and down river around that bend, 50 yards away like you found out. Ya, I'd go back there again for sure if i could! Especially after finding what you did. I think it probably paid for the Heli fuel at least. but I'm really glad you finally found some nice bigger gold this time. keep on trying and I will to. Jeff T. So Cal.
There is still at least one more nice crevice in the same area where I found the gold. I don't think I will be able get to it this year, but will defiantly be heading in next year. Thanks - Gary
You Sir are a Baaaaadd Maaaaaann!!!
what an adventure woooooowwwwww
I was just out yesterday myself busting up bedrock cracks with my new 18" gad pry bar which made easier work out of busting up bedrock cracks and using one of those long crevice tools like you got works just great !!! I'm amazed at how much material is trapped in between the bedrock cracks especially the clay like substance material that clings on to that bedrock itself !!! I seem to find small gold while doing this and maybe as I continue to take down the bedrock slabs itself I might get into some larger gold who knows !!!
Gold will work it's way as far down as possible. That's why its so important to get down to and clean the very bottom of the crevice. Thanks - Gary
When I find a piece or 2 in the bedrock, it's time to break out the hammer and chisel!!! Because there is always more in the very bottom! I recall some cracks having puddles of gold in the very bottom! That's also where surprisingly the bigger nuggets hold out too! 3-5" deep is average for a 1/8"wide crack and some bigger nuggets I have retreived almost a foot into the bedrock! Be sure you take the longest thinst chisel and a long thin #1 screw driver. Best if luck!
Thanks for sharing. My daughter(12) and I find your vids very informative, if your ever in the south mother load hit us up and see what kind of trouble we can get into.
If they ever let me retire, I have plans to travel to the mother load and Nevada more. Thanks - Gary
You are my hero!!
Its so cool watching you go on adventures!!
I only get to go out once in awhile.
I never find anything but im gonna keep looking. I cant wait for the day when i can finally see gold in the pan! Even i tiny speck would make my day!
I live in upstate N.Y. and this place is void of gold. But i still go out and look anyway! Hopefully the good lord will bless me one day with a good spot!
I been at this since December of last year!
I try to get my son to go but he's not into it just yet. He's only 8 but if he is like his old man he will be in his way to looking for treasure himself when he gets older.
I dont do it thinking im gonna get rich because i know that's not gonna happen here in Upstate.
I have a creek behind my house and its nothing but quartz. I looks like a vain got broke up and now the bottom of the creek is nothing but quartz.
Do you think i should give it another look?
If you would like some Quartz to crush i can send you some!!
There is tons upon tons back there.
Thank you for all you do!!
I look forward to seeing your videos!!
Happy gold hunting and i cant wait to see the next video!!
God Bless you and your son!!
You need to find a location where gold has been found. Then plan a short prospecting vacation. When I was a kid my grandfather had a mining claim. It was about a 5 hour drive to get there. As a kid I didn't do any mining, I was to busy running around and playing in the creek. I think those day are what sparked my love of the hills. Thanks and good luck!
Ye. Gary kick ass! Im in some country here in Europe and just got home from work when i saw that gary had put up another video. There´s something about the guy that makes me feel in a good mood =)
Thank you very much!
Nice Gold Gary. I doubt it paid for the copter but who cares, you had a day out prospecting. I know Im jealous!
You got it right, it didn't pay and don't care, got to go prospecting! Thank you very much - Gary
Отличные видео уроки! Спасибо
Great vid Gary !! You get me all fired up and dreaming when I watch your vids lol when rice harvest is over I gotta get out there !!! Take care bud
It's the end of October, you have better be close to finishing. When I was 18, that year the rain started early and the harvest was late. I remember having to bolt blocks on the tracks of my harvester to keep from getting stuck in the mud. Open cab and raining - don't miss those days at all. Thanks - Gary
Hi Gary.... Do you always use the same guy for the Helicoptor Taxi?... That was really neat to see the coptor transporting the equipment to where you needed it and I'm glad you had some underwater footage of what it looked like down there.
For the last 20 years, I have been using the same pilot. He is by far the best pilot I have ever flown with. I would give his name but he has more work than he wants. Thanks - Gary
Two Toes ...Its great to have a relationship with your pilot that goes back twenty years! Cheers!🍺🍺🤠⛏🇺🇸
Great vid Gary, I have a dumb question but where does all the lead come from, I'm a flat lander city dweller, my second question what would you buy for a underwater metal detector. Looking forward to your upcoming vids.
The lead comes from people shooting in the water, fishing weights and the early miners. The early miners used lead for a lot of things. All the tin cans were soldered with lead. A lot of the pipes were lead, a lot of the machinery used lead. It was cheep and it melts around 400 degrees, a temperature easily reached with a camp fire. I have been unable to find a metal detector that is made for underwater use and is worth a darn on finding gold. Thanks - Gary
Cool topic, new Sub buddy 👍
Hey Gary - just re-watched this, as I love how you went for it with the chopper! And just a question: you said that you felt the bedrock wasn’t holding onto the gold because it was too soft, but it sure did hold the lead! Sure is a puzzler to me, because you did find nice gold downstream! Thanks again for your awesome videos!!! 👍
To get a buildup of gold it takes several hundred years, each flood puts a little more in the crevice. The bedrock has to be hard enough to last without being worn down. Lead is new to the river and there is a lot of it, so it is much easier to find.
Hey Gary, great video, like all of your others. Where did you pick up the Warcraft shirt?
My kids got it for me.
Great video Sir. Flying with helicopter for gold that's really cool :D
Thanks!
Can I ask you how many pounds of gold you found in total in your life?
That I truly don't know. I have had a 2 pound day about 15 or so years ago. I have just put on my "things to do this winter" list - to go over notes and pictures and try to get a approximant total amount of gold I have found in my life - could be fun!
Great footage Gary! Loved all the Chopper footage! You never know with Gold hey....sometimes what looks like it might be a good settling spot because its deep and crevices etc....but then only after you try really (or see the water in flood) can you determine if its too much energy and the water would 'boil' everything out.Thanks again for taking us along! A lot of work to setup and film all that when if your like me...just wanna get on the GOLD!
By the end of the day, I was ready to use the filming as a excuse to get out of the water and warm up! Thanks - Gary
Maybe you could add a baster or one of those snot suckers to help get deep in the crevices.
When sniping I like to keep my tool to what I can carry in one hand. Thanks - Gary
Could you use a Garrett LS underwater?
Check those cracks before digging! : )
I DON'T KNOW MUCH BUT WOULD IT BE PRACTICAL TO USE A HEADED WET SUIT? I KNOW I WOULD NEED IT WITH MY OLD BONES. GREAT VIDEO GOD BLESS
I have a hooded jacket that goes with the wet suit I was wearing, but the zipper broke! I like a hooded jacket or vest that goes on over your suit, that way if you get to warm you can take it off and go with no hood or put a regular hood on. Thanks - Gary