El Dorado
www.NaturalGoldJewelry.com

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I was wondering when you'd check in on the subject John.

I had a friend that had one. I only saw him try to use it a couple of times then he showed up with a brand new Keene 4" dredge which he still uses.
Leonard

Could someone translate what the Hoser just wrote?

owned for a day or two?

watched other suckers try to get it to work

Sold and manufactured what type of equipment?

and there is only "1" piece a equipment,and 1 man,I
NEVER allowed in

That last statement just sounds way too personal.

I am researching the Gould Bazooka. I have plenty of info on Subbies, the Schmidt and Keene's but very little on the Gould.

You say "I already told ya" when your only other post on this thread was
"BAMBOOZALAJERKA- caveat emptor-Leonard I tried for days to keep quiet-oops-John
Hoser John"

Seems like you are posting here for someone else's benefit who knows the inside story about your experience with these devices. I appreciate you taking the time to respond but it is not very useful except to see it as a rant against a product with little knowledge as to why.

If this is something that has been covered on a thread in the past then a link to that thread would be most helpful. I am here not selling something but rather trying to research a product from previous owners

He used to have one

>
>watched other suckers try to get it to work

Gave it to someone else and watched them try to get it to work. Evidently they had no better luck than he did.

>
>Sold and manufactured what type of equipment?

Hoser is almost a prospecting icon. Been around forever and used to own a prospecting store. Traveled almost everywhere. I would have to defer to him about the equipment he manufactured.
>
>and there is only "1" piece a equipment,and 1 man,I
>NEVER allowed in

I would guess he didn't like the answers that the manufacturer had to his questions on the equipment so he never sold any of it in his store.
>
>
>That last statement just sounds way too personal.
>
>I am researching the Gould Bazooka. I have plenty of info on
>Subbies, the Schmidt and Keene's but very little on the
>Gould.
>

I have posted in the past that a friend of mine had one and for our dredging in Colorado, it was almost entirely useless. I could go on about why but I feel it would be a waste of my time.

>Seems like you are posting here for someone else's benefit
>who knows the inside story about your experience with these
>devices. I appreciate you taking the time to respond but it
>is not very useful except to see it as a rant against a
>product with little knowledge as to why.
>

Do a forum search on Bazooka through all of the conferences and you will get some hits with links.

Personally, I have met Hoser and if he says red is green. I will start looking for the greenish tints.

Leonard

I am acutually using the jet log and pump without the Gould riffles just to suck the water out of the pool so we can get down to the bottom (7' down) and wrestle straps around a couple of boulders to try to reposition them in the pool, so we can get to some of the crevices in the bottom of the pool.

It was a mistake getting a 5" anything in that creek. Although a 5" gravity suction system may work well for quickly sucking out the water in the pools in order to get in there to wrestle rocks instead of doing it underwater.

I think the Gould is better designed to be used underwater- and in my situation, a surface dredge sitting on the edge of a pool or on a gravel bar may be my only solution.

El Dorado
www.NaturalGoldJewelry.com

We did a little sniping upstream and found a nice little pennyweight nugget in a quartz seam.

Heres a photo of probably the next pool upstream I am going to work on. This weekend we will finally get to work on the bedrock cracks of the first pool (after we move the two huge boulders in the bottom)- then we will sample the next pool upstream.

Cool canyon- extremely steep access (clifflike almost), lots of bedrock and evidence that when the mine was running that the water level in this canyon may have been 15-20 feet high.

We have spend one day a weekend most of the summer working this thing, and I don't think we could have put all the gold we have found within the confines of the space a dime takes up- size wise- net including depth). We jokingly call it our "hobby". And in all honesty, all the mining I do is a hobby- as I have never gone out and actually "made money" from any of the finds of a days worth of work. Its just fun to get out in the wilderness and work hard in the creek with the guys.

I think this claim has potential as there is no evidence whatsoever of any recent activity in the hellaciously steep canyon. And the last claim on it was in the 80's as per Geocommunicator.