What do you think about your Angus Mackirk Sluice?

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:39 am

Please post the experiences you had with your Angus sluice and compare them to the metal sluices on the market.

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:50 am

Southern Prospector wrote:

Please post the experiences you had with your Angus sluice and compare them to the metal sluices on the market.

I have an AUTrap and an adventurer i think... the #2 model smaller one. They do not leave my vehichle unless a creek is involved. I have seen several metal sluices in action side by side my angus.

As far as cleanup goes Angus wins hands down... Period, there is not a faster cleanup and re-set to run again that I have seen. On the metal sluice side I do like the shallow v-rib for instant gratification of gold catching and if you clean it out backwards washing the gold from the mat and first riffle that works well also and you get most of the gold without a total cleanup.
As far as gold retention/collection/losing I would say the right person setting up either sluice will not loose a speck or more.. I've seen it, tested it...

I'll take my angus anyday though, so light and portable.

And thats my 2 grains... Razz

On a side note the E-Z TEEDEE Sluice in my opinion junk... a kids toy basically... yeah it catches some but I have lost more gold out the back-end of this than dumping my cons bucket in the creek.... lol Shocked

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:55 am

Just yesterday I ran some old worked over cons through my grub steak while the leaves were burning. Used a garden hose propped up over the end and watched it work it's magic.

Cleaned out those cons to a finishing pan, then down my home made miller table, again using a garden hose. Only had about two table spoons, but I still snuffed up some barely visible gold. Not much, but the grub steak still got it.

Super fast clean up from the grub steak, as are all the AM sluices.

Don't have a metal sluice to compare it to, but do I really need one?

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 2:05 pm

I started with a Keene sluice. I then purchased an AM explorer
to use when backpacking in or medium to low water flow situations.

After one trip out, I never considered taking a Keene sluice out
again.

I do however still believe in keene equipment. Two Keene dredges
and would only think of purchasing one other brand. The pumps
on my dredges have never let me down.

I am so sure that my Angus is capable of holding anything that my
4" dredge retains, that I use it to reduce my dredge cons directly
back into the crick.

Bruce

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I have an Alaskan sluice from Angus... It never leaves my truck unless I am going into a creek or whatever water way I find. I have used it to clean up my dredge cons. It's a great sluice, wouldn't have it any other way. It works so well I was thinking of a diy project including the Alaskan... But that is still to come. I have used the metal sluice boxes but ya need alot of water flow, sometimes ya barely got a current and the Angus's work great in all the conditions.

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:55 pm

I got the au trap and the grubsteak and love em. Hands down the best out there especially compared to the Keene A52. I also enjoy my Predator 3 and for the money it can out do a GOLD CUBE at a fraction of the cost!

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:37 pm

Picker Pete wrote:

I got the au trap and the grubsteak and love em. Hands down the best out there especially compared to the Keene A52. I also enjoy my Predator 3 and for the money it can out do a GOLD CUBE at a fraction of the cost!

Just had to throw that one in there didn't ya.. Laughing

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:02 pm

loki258 wrote:

Picker Pete wrote:

I got the au trap and the grubsteak and love em. Hands down the best out there especially compared to the Keene A52. I also enjoy my Predator 3 and for the money it can out do a GOLD CUBE at a fraction of the cost!

Just had to throw that one in there didn't ya.. Laughing

anything to support shay on his site, ya damn skippy!!!

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:50 pm

I bought a grubsteak after my Keene A-52 would not clean out in slow water. I love it! I bought an explorer.I love it! I use it more than any other sluice. I bought an Alaskan Flair sluice to replace my A-52.I love it. I bought a predator III to clean my cons. I love it!All my AM sluices clean out easy and fast, and I will not go back to a metal sluice. I plan on adding 1 or 2 more Angus sluices to my collection, and I am sure I will love them too!

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:19 pm

I got the Explorer and adventurer. About to get a Eureka..

I LOVE AM sluices...(i've used different hungariun riffle style sluices as well as a Le Trap sluice and HANDS DOWN!! the gold recovery and especially fine gold recovery is superior to anything else I have used).

I also plan on getting a clean up system going after I get the Eureka sluice. I like the CA sluice boxes(drop riffles) but I still prefer my Explorer over anything. No carpet, no expanded metal, no bs.

*I just wish AM had alittle more choices in the way of dredges...
*think about a 4" AM dredge, hell a 2half" would be great.

and yeah Teedee EZ sluice flat out sucks lol.

Dredger Joined: 22 May 2010 Posts: 605

madhatt3r wrote:

and yeah Teedee EZ sluice flat out sucks lol.

I watched a Teedee EZ sluice smoke your Angus sluice at Cotton Patch. Might be the operator rather than the sluice, though.

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:04 pm

SamBurgin wrote:

madhatt3r wrote:

and yeah Teedee EZ sluice flat out sucks lol.

I watched a Teedee EZ sluice smoke your Angus sluice at Cotton Patch. Might be the operator rather than the sluice, though.

I would put money on it, with me as the operator my little grubsteak would outperform a teedee any day, fine gold or course.

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SamBurgin wrote:

I watched a Teedee EZ sluice smoke your Angus sluice at Cotton Patch. Might be the operator rather than the sluice, though.

I seen the teedee EZ sluice lose more gold than the AM Alaskan, and it wasn't even performing in a stream.

We did a test, assuming the same amount of gold was in the top of the bucket on both scoops. Remember I showed you the EZ was losing more gold?

The AM outperformed the EZ, but someone wanted to dredge the cons we was running back into the pond. Razz

Anyways all those cons should have went through the shaker table to be honest. Oh well... You learn lessons when your around GOLD...

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:50 am

Keep the replies coming...Angus is watching... Wink

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:05 pm

Plan on picking up my Explorer on Saturday. Can't wait to try it out!

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:23 pm

I have posted several threads about the Angus Mackirk Grub Steak I won, but ill summarize here. It works great and gets gold down to smaller then 100 mesh despite only screening to 4 mesh. I even run it with no screening sometimes and let the bigger rocks just roll on out. If your looking for high production then I recommend a bigger sluice, but for just back packing in and testing an area its awesome. Sometimes I use mine when I want to just take it easy and work at a relaxed pace, just sitting back and feeding the sluice while the creek gurgles by.

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I want to try the angus line of highbanker, but I can't find any video's of it in action, or how good it catches gold... I might just spend the cash and get the highbanker, I have alot of places to use it. I am only considering angus, because of how well the sluices work... From my experience.

Dredger Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Posts: 156 Location: Greer, SC

Well I have used angus sluices longer than shay,s been a dealer, hands down theres no better sluice on the market for the price , proformance, light weight, ease of clean up and durability. I use my adventurer when back packing on small creeks and to clean dredge cons on the creek befor packing out . I allso use a Explorer and a 2.5" chamelion dredge from Angus Mackirk. I have set up the Explorer next to new A52's At Thermal City a few times and smoked'um 4 to 1 leaving A52 owners thinking Angus. Ok I have gone over the Pro's of Angus sluices, so let's go over the Con's, nice and clean not a lot of junk left just heaves and GOLD!

So get an Angus sluice, and smoke the metal heads, more gold for us, less for them.

Phil