Home made scoop

groundhog53946

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I've been wanting a scoop all year and every month I tell myself that next month I'm getting one and every month something comes up and no scoop. One day in my bosses shop I saw some 6½" PVC pipe and he let me take a foot of it. Spent 7 bucks on hardware and scrounged an old awning pole and came up with this
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Took it out for an hour and felt it needed a little modification
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Took it out again and felt that it was digging in easier than at first. So until I can find some gold it's going to have to do

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Here's some pictures from my first 2 outings with my scoop
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First ring. No markings on it
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And a Yellowstone souvenir token
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Trying to get some pictures up of my finds so far

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I saw a similar scoop being used on South Beach for the dry sand the other day. Good luck with it!
 
If it works, it works!!

I've seen plenty worse, that's for sure...

Good luck on the next hunt!!

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That'll work in the dry but IMO won't hold up in the wet and rocks too well.
Good luck with it
 
Bit nicer than my pvc hand scoop that has held up pretty well all things considered! Keep at it, gold is coming!
 

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That'll work in the dry but IMO won't hold up in the wet and rocks too well.
Good luck with it
Yea I'm not holding out hope for a rocky area but the main beaches I'm at are sand and muck

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Bit nicer than my pvc hand scoop that has held up pretty well all things considered! Keep at it, gold is coming!
I was thinking of cutting another ten inches off of the stock piece and making a hand scoop also. Yours looks good

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