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Be careful. We are losing to many places to hunt because you have guys that are slob hunters. Always ask permission and leave the ground looking like no one has been there. I realize you know this but it is always good to emphasize this as a club.
WOW! I guess every part of the world has inconsiderate people. Blocking someone in can get you shot in some of the places around here ??? Happy Birthday to the Mrs from this household also
WOW! Now I am envious. We are still froze in but the week ahead looks pretty good. It will take some really warm weather to knock the frost out of the ground. You have a nice bunch of coins there. I will post my first hunt regardless what I find. Even the guys who boil sap for syrup have not started yet this year. We are running about a month behind. It was still below zero F yesterday morn. 9 F this morn.
Hey it is good you are getting out. We just got hit with another nasty snow storm. It is supposed to start warming some next week but it will be awhile before detecting time starts :'( Looks like you have a lot of competition >:( Did pretty well considering . Thanks for the post.
Yeah I see what you are saying Mark Do we want the design to stay within the stable or do we want to control it. I think I want the control because I hunt in so many types of soil. It would be difficult for me to trust my detector under some of the situations. The SE tops out at 31 but a lot of places I am around 15 which is the factory setting. I do hunt in manual and on the beach I am quite often around 22 but seldom higher. I like the idea that I have the choice of going higher even if it chatters 8)
The chatter gets to me after awhile. I use the meter for ID most of the time so can hunt through the noise but do believe some deep quiet signals are lost when running too hot. I run a little higher than norm on old school grounds, or fairgrounds that have been hunted hard. The extra depth has given me some silver coins that have been passed over in earlier years. I meet some on the beach that run their detectors at max sensitivity but this is way too unstable for me to enjoy. The idea behind the top of the line was to give a detector that could be used on the beach and be stable. I don't understand the reasoning behind running it unstable??
I see a lot of hunters with that approach. They do really well on fresh drops and cover a lot of ground. They laugh at us for taking so much time to dig deep stuff. This style leaves a lot of stuff to keep Miss Mary and me busy when we get our time at the beach. That style doesn't work at all up here in the woods and hills. ;D
Years back I used to dig through the mags. but this area has a lot of old mining towns and logging camps so I usually just spend time in them until the bugs and snakes get to bad. Then I hit the old parks and swimming holes. Our area has a lot of old fair grounds that have been hunted hard but the Minelabs go deep enough to give me new finds - if I want to dig that deep 😛 I'm with Ian - I watch the sites to see what is going on. There are a lot of good videos showing different styles and different machines used. Come October Miss Mary and I hit the beach for a month of daily detecting. Probably get more hours in then than many do all year. We just try to keep it fun
Yeah I saw the ad and didn't like the picture it painted. Trouble with complaining- they just like the idea it is getting attention because that is their reason for having ads.
Nice looking ring. We sold most of our gold last year to pay for our trip to the beach. Didn't find any to replace it :'( Steveo - do you have a picture resizer. yours are coming through quite large.
Ours will be 49 in July and she is my pardner in just about everything. We do the ministries of the church together and of course the trip to the beach highlights our year.
Nice bunch of targets. I am really getting the itch but we have another big storm coming. The temperature is staying down even during the storms so the ground will have to wait for the thaw to remove the snow before I can even hunt the low lands :'( Keep posting your hunts and finds - helps to break up my cabin fever. 😀 Congrats on your special day. Not too many make 45
Interesting thoughts there. I air test mostly to check meter readings but in doing also notice distance from coil to check sensitivity, Sensitivity used depends on what type of area I am hunting so I get a general idea how deep I am looking. I do think there is a certain kind of conductivity involved when a coin has been buried for a time "HALO" some call it. This shows when you disturb the dirt and the signal seems to disappear.Thin dimes seem to be good at this 😀
That is too bad. I still use my CZ6a quite a bit. At one time it was the hottest machine on the beach. Hip mounted I can hunt all day with it. 8″ coil just seems to bang on quarters that have been passed over. Also found my last really big gold ring with it.
We got about 14″ of new snow. No wind so things were a little easier to clean up. Temp in the 20s so all in all not a bad day. Not sure what the weekend will bring us off the lakes.
