Sure thing Paul. Things are good, just busy. I did a 4 day prospecting trip last weekend. Had fun, found a little gold and checked out Occonee and Coker Creek.

I use a little different technique but the test strip containers is a great idea, they are almost identical to the old 35mm Film canisters but about half the size. I found what works best for me is to go to any drug store and buy a bag of Pill Bags. When I find something of interest it goes into a pill bag and then goes into the inside pocket of my vest. I wear a durable travel vest with a vast amount of pockets and storage compartments when on the river and about, it really helps. I actually have one pocket assigned to what the wife hands me to hang onto for her.

You can go to a head shop and get the little baggies they have there for drugs but they are thin and tear easily, I found the pill bags to be the perfect size, durable, and waterproof unless you really abuse them.

Anything you place in your vest is not going to be lost unless somebody removes your vest from you.

How about prescription drug bottles? As I am getting older, it seems I have quite a collection! LOL

I have used the prescription bottles. Got tired of peeling the labels and sometimes I had trouble with the child free caps and gloves. My test strip containers are flipped up with a thumb and close able that way.

Tim,

Small Clear Aspirin bottles also work great, and the labels come off real easy. At least with the clear plastic you can see the contents without some idiot opening it to take a look and dumping the contents onto the ground.

The main concern is will the bottle create a pressure point in your pocket or bust open if you lean on it? This is the reason I chose to use the small pill bags. Granted the test strip containers is a great idea and I am now saving my wife's for this purpose to give them a try. They actually perfectly fit in my Boonie hat's webbing.

I am surely not the first person that had a glass vial of a years find be dumped on the ground because somebody decided to shake the bottle hard?

Let's just say I have switched to clear plastic small containers now that they are readily available and cheap. I am sure none of us want to have to dig up a section of your yard and re-pan it with the sod included? Or by forcing the three children of the idiot that broke your vial into slave labor until their idiot parent returns your losses?

See, lets not go there, switch to plastic.

You guys crack me up....I am still trying to find a piece gold to put somewhere, anywhere, well wait a minute...I did find a nugget last year when my crown fell out.

 

Leo,

 

I am having the same issue...finding something big enough or interesting enough to put in another container.