The Prehistoric Bird Nugget

Went out this afternoon to have a play and dug up this nice nugget. It looks like one of those Prehistoric Birds standing on it's legs. Came in at 25.7 gms but it has a bit of iron stone and little bit of quartz so cleaned up I think it will go at 25.gms. But I'm not complaining





One Happy Wombat

bloody nice mate well done...
cheers
stoppsy

Wowser's Wombat, Can't wait to you detecting in serious mode
Weird looking bird? Scratching it's butt in the second shot or the G string needed rearranging

well well well, there's no going back to a five cent piece now sport. love that 2 dollar look ...... good on ya wombat, the drought has broken for sure..... best of luck on many more..... cheers

Awsome nugget Wombat , are you swinging a big coil now or was this find shallow?

Ironstone & quarz on the same nugget tells me that you're onto a great spot with excellent potential for larger nuggets. Might pay to go through the range of coils that you have in this area to cover both small & large potentials.... excellent find there Wombat.

What a ripper ! Youv'e got to be happy with that. Last pic Looks like a squared up ET.
Cheers
Ashley

Hey Wombat,
Thats fantastic nugget
Very very very nice.
And i might add well deserved for your effort and generosity of taking others around to your spots.
It look like that happy hour really turned to be very happy hour

Now watch yourself - Stefanie will be after you

GoldEN

It was down about 16" to 18" and I was using the 11" Commander Mono that came with the 5000. when I first picked up the signal, but after digging the hole out a bit I was having trouble in working out were it was in the hole so I changed over to the 8" mono Commander. I had to go through a lot of top soil then clay and it was sitting on top gravel wash just below the clay.

Wombat

what a terrific find wombat
well done
dave

Excellent Wombat, prehistoric bird can't see it yet

Hi Wombat,

You bloody ripper, what a great find, very, very nice.

Pete

Shiraz when you see it in your hand that's what it looks like, but I got to agree in the second photo it looks more like ET scratching his bum. So I may call it " The ET nugget with itchy ass"
Wombat

Ha! now that, I can see

well done mate, great looking piece
cheers
GM

Ripper nugget Wombat. I'm sure there's more close by. cheers Pete.

Hi
Great find
looks like it has a weddgy
Regards Neale

Congratulations Wombat

16" - 18" deep ..... i would class that as a wombat burrow !!!
Well deserved , beautiful piece and congratulations ....
Regards
Gully Hunter

Good looking nugget well done



Danny

Wow!Definitely year of the big nuggets.

Great find Wombat,

That nug would have made you smile >> me thinks

ArArAt

Holy Heck Wombat,

Fantastic find, gee that 5000 punches deep doesn't it anyway love your work....

Could be a really old freckle duck!!!!!

HueyDuck....

Nice size nug there Wombat, keep up your good work

Cheers Ren.

Very nice find.
The first thing it reminded me of was
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25000000/boop-1-betty-boop-25046793-340-425.jpg

Well done wombat. Great find. Thanks for the story about losing the signal, I had that happen but didn't have another coil, so I gave up. Maybe I should go back and try again!

Awesome find Wombat ya lucky bugger
Cheers Hoff,

Congrats Wombat, you will need a bigger rattle jar now mate
I'll bet that got the happy dance going.

Cheers,
Peter

Peter just call me "Happy Feet" I rang my Misses to tell her and she could tell in my voice how excited I was, as at the stage I thought it was going over the ounce. She came down straight away as she thought that I was going to have a heart attack.

Thanks fellows for your kind congratulations and shearing this moment with me, as this is the biggest nugget that I have found so far

Wombat

well done wombat, this forum just keeps the fever going