By way of background, I am a snowbird from Alaska and a relative novice at the detecting game. We are working our way south to Arizona and stopped in Sacramento to visit my wife's sister. I wanted to do some detecting and through lurking on the forums had read lots about the legendary nuggethunter "Grubstake". I sent him a pm and he said come on up and we would go hunting. What a great guy. If anything he is a nicer person than detectorist and that is saying something. He took my out on a short hunt and showed me some public land that I could hunt on. He is also one tough guy. Despite some health issues he still gets out and enjoys the outdoors. Thank you Grubstake and I hope you do great this weekend hunting with your uncle. Ken Pitcher