I am not what you'd call an outdoorsman, nor terribly handy with tools. My experience with hunting for gold usually involves finding an earring laying on the sand at the beach. So when I saw the Gold Rush Nugget Bucket, I was a bit dubious. My parents used to take me panning for gold the old fashioned way while I was growing up in Colorado, and what I mainly remember was freezing feet in cold rivers and a whole lot of dirt in a pan. Bad with tools plus bad memories: Never exactly a good combination.
My daughter, however, was insistent. She remembered seeing it on "Shark Tank" and next thing I knew I had a new gold panning kit.
It is awesome. For one thing, it's easy to use. The directions make sense and you don't have to freeze your derrière off standing in a river. It also attracts attention. Not in a bad way, like the kind you get when your picture's in the post office. No, I mean the good way, as when you roll up in front of the hotel in a sports car. Everyone wants to know what it is, and once they see how easy it is to use, they ask if they can try it out. (I do not recommend this with a sports car.) I even used it on the beach in Lincoln City, Oregon where the D River meets the ocean. I kid you not, I found some gold. Not as much as if I'd found a 14K earring, mind you. But enough to make it fun - and attract a whole lot of new friends. read more
