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The Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge is a compact manual suction tool designed to help gold prospectors recover material from bedrock cracks, crevices, behind rocks, shallow pools, and other hard-to-reach locations.
When gold settles into a narrow crack, getting the material out can be the hardest part. The Quick Sniper allows you to use hand-operated suction to pull gravel, sand, concentrates, and gold-bearing material from places that are difficult to clean with a shovel, scoop, or gold pan.
Compact, portable, and requiring no gasoline, battery, or electric pump, it's a handy tool for crevicing, sampling, and small-scale gold prospecting.
Gold is heavy. Once it reaches exposed bedrock, it can work its way into cracks and depressions where moving water has difficulty dislodging it.
These natural traps can contain:
Fine gold
Flakes
Pickers
Small nuggets
Black sand
Heavy concentrates
Gold-bearing gravel
The Quick Sniper helps remove this packed material so it can be collected and processed.
No motor or external water pump is required.
The manual suction design makes the Quick Sniper especially useful in locations where bringing a larger dredging or pumping system would be impractical.
It's a great option for prospectors who want a simple tool that can be carried directly to the creek.
Shovels and scoops work well for loose gravel, but they can't always reach material buried deep inside narrow cracks.
Use the Quick Sniper to work areas such as:
Bedrock cracks
Narrow crevices
Around large rocks
Behind boulders
Small pockets
Shallow pools
Exposed bedrock
Gravel trapped in depressions
Hard-to-reach streambed areas
For best results, first loosen packed material using a crevice pick, screwdriver, scraper, brush, or other appropriate prospecting tool.
Once the material is loose, use the Quick Sniper to suction it from the crack for collection and processing.
It's a great companion to:
Crevice picks
Gold pans
Classifiers
Snuffer bottles
Gold tweezers
Brushes
Vials
Sluice boxes
Concentrate cleanup equipment
The Quick Sniper isn't just useful for recovering visible gold.
It can also be used as a sampling tool.
Pull material from promising cracks and bedrock pockets, pan the recovered material, and determine whether the location is holding gold before spending additional time working the area.
Unlike larger dredging equipment, the Quick Sniper is easy to carry into remote prospecting locations.
It's ideal for keeping in a:
Prospecting backpack
Gold panning kit
Vehicle
Equipment bucket
Crevicing kit
Camping setup
This makes it particularly useful for prospectors who hike into remote creeks and want to minimize the amount of equipment they carry.
The Quick Sniper operates manually, making it a simple addition to your prospecting setup.
There's:
No gasoline engine
No electric motor
No battery to charge
No external water pump
No fuel to carry
Just take it to the water and start working promising crevices.
Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge
Manual hand-operated suction
Designed for gold prospecting
Excellent for bedrock crevices
Helps recover material from narrow cracks
Great for fine gold, flakes, pickers, and small nuggets
Useful for sampling promising locations
Compact and portable
No gasoline required
No batteries required
No electric pump required
Excellent addition to a crevicing kit
Great for shallow-water prospecting
Easy to carry into remote locations
1 – Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge
Gold, concentrates, pans, crevice tools, buckets, classifiers, and other prospecting equipment are not included unless specifically stated.
Rules regarding suction dredging, hand-operated suction devices, and removal of streambed material vary by location.
Before using this product, always check current federal, state, and local regulations, as well as rules established by the property owner or land-management agency.
It is the user's responsibility to determine whether this type of equipment is permitted at the location being prospected.
Some of the most promising material in a creek can be packed into cracks that ordinary prospecting tools simply can't reach.
The Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge gives you a compact way to pull material from those hard-to-access locations without hauling a motorized dredge or pump into the field.
Pair it with a good crevice pick and gold pan, and you'll have a simple setup for sampling bedrock, cleaning cracks, and recovering gold-bearing material from places other prospectors may have overlooked.
QUICK SNIPER. A little buddy partner to the Gold-N-Sand X-Stream Hybrid Pro. A great gift, too!Used once - worked great. Used in normal creek sand. Second use - did not work. Rinsed to clear sand. Suction tip was so tight it could not be removed. Design won’t allow you to clean or replace inner seal - suction end cap is glued in place. Length of suction rod is too short to allow access to seal or seal retention nut. Very very poor design - so bad I believe it was intentional so it cannot be cleaned/fixed/maintained so you have to buy another- not me. Making my next one DIY - serves me right for thinking I could buy quality design in a tool you can easily make yourself.
Hi George, thank you for sharing your experience. We're sorry to hear about the issues you've encountered with the suction dredge. Your feedback is valuable. I pulled one off our display. I believe you take the top off to access the suction rod and seal/diaphragm. Its best to let the diaphragm soak in water when you make the suction adjustment since it contracts when its dry, swells when its wet. This is a popular product and we typically have pretty good feedback. Lets see if we cant get this figured out.
Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge
I haven't had a chance to use it but I'm sure it's fine well made
I've used the hand dredge several times and it's well constructed and works very well. While it won't gaurentee finding gold, it certainly helps! I highly recommend.
Used once - worked great. Used in normal creek sand. Second use - did not work. Rinsed to clear sand. Suction tip was so tight it could not be removed. Design won’t allow you to clean or replace inner seal - suction end cap is glued in place. Length of suction rod is too short to allow access to seal or seal retention nut. Very very poor design - so bad I believe it was intentional so it cannot be cleaned/fixed/maintained so you have to buy another- not me. Making my next one DIY - serves me right for thinking I could buy quality design in a tool you can easily make yourself.
Hi George, thank you for sharing your experience. We're sorry to hear about the issues you've encountered with the suction dredge. Your feedback is valuable. I pulled one off our display. I believe you take the top off to access the suction rod and seal/diaphragm. Its best to let the diaphragm soak in water when you make the suction adjustment since it contracts when its dry, swells when its wet. This is a popular product and we typically have pretty good feedback. Lets see if we cant get this figured out.
Quick Sniper Mini Hand Held Suction Dredge
I haven't had a chance to use it but I'm sure it's fine well made
I've used the hand dredge several times and it's well constructed and works very well. While it won't gaurentee finding gold, it certainly helps! I highly recommend.
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