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landman873

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Anyone else watching it? It sounds good but these guys know absoutly nothing about anything. I think they wanted some tv time. It's all drama anyway. So far I'm not sure.
 

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I have seen so many people come to Alaska and lose their shirts it's not even funny. The only people making any money are the used equipment buyers. I thought this show could be better if they had a different narrator and producer. But I'll watch.
 

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Yeah. I watched it. I thought it was awsome at first..... Then they go meet the neighbor who warns thems about their lease owners advise and told them not believe anything he says... and yet they go buy equipment from the lease owner (who looks a crook as any ever seen) and I start to think.... why doesn't the owner who lives in Alaska just mine it himself if its so good.... So I asked my better half to look this crud up..
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Well, apparantly he leased it out numerous times and its been mined numerous times with dismal returns(which is common practice up there to rip off folks from down south apparently). It's a scam all along. I'm disappointed because I think discovery was in on it the whole time.
 

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I had it on while I was working in the garage last night. The Dad was really annoying, he didn't know squat and was determined to do what he wanted to do. Almost destroyed a piece of equipment unloading it because he was to stubborn to slow down and do it right and safely. Then he just started digging anywhere looking for the "glory hole" trying to hit it big versus following the son's advice. Next time I will probably switch to HGTV or What would you do.....
 

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I'm gonna keep watching cause I like the scenery. Never prospected in that area of Alaska. But these guys are a bunch of dingdongs. Not very good reality TV. I think me and my camcorder could have come up with something much better.

From everyone I've talked to Porcupine Creek, where this show is filmed, has been mined out many times. Still would be an interesting area to go poke around in.

http://notes3.state.ak.us/pn/pubnot...596bc0bd926c71fc8925710900822fed?OpenDocument

http://notes3.state.ak.us/pn/pubnot...596bc0bd926c71fc8925710900822fed?OpenDocument

And there is a tour business that will take you out there if you want to try your hand at it.

http://www.oceansiderv.com/tour/index.html
 

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I'll watch it for the scenery and the occasional gun porn, but the show itself is so heavily scripted that I can't really take it seriously. And even with the guns, those guys don't know what the hell they're doing. I saw a HUGE, JUICY chicken wing last night when the dip**** shot the bear.
 

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