Critterhunter
New member
I just came back from hunting that cleared out weeds/brush spot they cleared under some power lines to maintain. I haven't seen that spot cleared in my entire life that I can remember. It's next to some old railroad tracks and right behind where an old house used to sit years ago. I was hoping either I'd get coins from the house's backyard that was there before the power lines went in years ago, or perhaps I'd find an old rail road pick up spot for the two small cities (which used to be towns) that border it.
Only lasted about 20 minutes as it turned out in the sun I was boiling hot wearing sweats and a heavy shirt. Like walking into a furnace. The power lines were causing bad EMI, and the 13" Ultimate is more prone to that too than the 12x10, so I ended up having to hunt with sensitivity almost all the way down in manual. Auto didn't help any and neither did noise band 1. I almost always use band 2 to match the ID charts better but sometimes when near EMI band 1 does the trick. Not this time.
Concerning the other issue with the Ultimate I was having, it also snags on the field stubble much easier than the 12x10 does. For sure if hunting woods or fields I'd mock up a solid coil cover to zip tie to the bottom of it using corruplast (durable/tough plastic sign material, which is free if you dumpster dive behind convenient stores). The 12x10 seems to slide over the forest floor fairly decent for a spiderweb coil design. Easier than the 10" Tornado, and I suspect it's due to the webbing having less open air between it than the Tornado does between it's spokes. Still not as easy to use as a solid coil over rough ground though, but it's shape is for sure easier to work between stubble than the Ultimate is.
Been planning on yoking an illegal "lose weight" sign off a telephone pole or from a store dumpster made of curroplast (from the side it looks like corrugated cardboard with an open gap between the sides) to zip tie on it for my woods hunts. Got to do that sooner or later. The stuff is waterproof and durable as heck. I make goose decoy silhouettes out of it for field hunting. If you ever plan to do the city a service and yoke one off a telephone pole or city tree lawn that is against the law to stick there, don't dare touch political signs. That's a felony even if they aren't supposed to stick it there. Bad news...
Checked a few iffy coin hits which turned out to be larger pieces of junk and then figured I'd come back when dressed properly and also with my 12x10 to tame the EMI better. I still have high hopes for the spot, as the road it's up against is old and so are the RR tracks, and being with it in the perfect location for the people from both cities (towns back then) to get on a train, I think it might have potential. We worked a spot like that a few years ago and got some really nice silver and other stuff out of there.
I switched over across the street to some woods I had always thought of hunting due to them being on the way to a close by old rock quarry (which that lake is now privately owned) where I hear there was ice skating in the earlier 1900's, and I suspect many people used a few dirt trails to head there to ice skate back in the day and such. But when I entered the woods I saw about 8 deer standing around wondering what I was up to. Wasn't afraid of the deer but it was mid day with a lot of traffic and I didn't want to risk scaring them into traffic, as that spot is about the only block of little woods they can hide in during the day.
This is a suburban area and those deer come out at night and work people's front yards. They've got a good life, being that deer are grazers like cattle so there is actually more food for them in open yard areas then mature woods could ever provide, but when it comes to bedding down during the day that's pretty much the only place nearby they have to hide. I'll work those woods early on a weekend morning when the traffic is dead so those deer can wander to the next bedding site they have without risk of getting hit or something. I'm a deer hunter but I have no wish to see one of those beautiful animals get hit by a car. Saw a real big buck bedding in there too. I know where I'll be shed hunting come January.
Only lasted about 20 minutes as it turned out in the sun I was boiling hot wearing sweats and a heavy shirt. Like walking into a furnace. The power lines were causing bad EMI, and the 13" Ultimate is more prone to that too than the 12x10, so I ended up having to hunt with sensitivity almost all the way down in manual. Auto didn't help any and neither did noise band 1. I almost always use band 2 to match the ID charts better but sometimes when near EMI band 1 does the trick. Not this time.
Concerning the other issue with the Ultimate I was having, it also snags on the field stubble much easier than the 12x10 does. For sure if hunting woods or fields I'd mock up a solid coil cover to zip tie to the bottom of it using corruplast (durable/tough plastic sign material, which is free if you dumpster dive behind convenient stores). The 12x10 seems to slide over the forest floor fairly decent for a spiderweb coil design. Easier than the 10" Tornado, and I suspect it's due to the webbing having less open air between it than the Tornado does between it's spokes. Still not as easy to use as a solid coil over rough ground though, but it's shape is for sure easier to work between stubble than the Ultimate is.
Been planning on yoking an illegal "lose weight" sign off a telephone pole or from a store dumpster made of curroplast (from the side it looks like corrugated cardboard with an open gap between the sides) to zip tie on it for my woods hunts. Got to do that sooner or later. The stuff is waterproof and durable as heck. I make goose decoy silhouettes out of it for field hunting. If you ever plan to do the city a service and yoke one off a telephone pole or city tree lawn that is against the law to stick there, don't dare touch political signs. That's a felony even if they aren't supposed to stick it there. Bad news...
Checked a few iffy coin hits which turned out to be larger pieces of junk and then figured I'd come back when dressed properly and also with my 12x10 to tame the EMI better. I still have high hopes for the spot, as the road it's up against is old and so are the RR tracks, and being with it in the perfect location for the people from both cities (towns back then) to get on a train, I think it might have potential. We worked a spot like that a few years ago and got some really nice silver and other stuff out of there.
I switched over across the street to some woods I had always thought of hunting due to them being on the way to a close by old rock quarry (which that lake is now privately owned) where I hear there was ice skating in the earlier 1900's, and I suspect many people used a few dirt trails to head there to ice skate back in the day and such. But when I entered the woods I saw about 8 deer standing around wondering what I was up to. Wasn't afraid of the deer but it was mid day with a lot of traffic and I didn't want to risk scaring them into traffic, as that spot is about the only block of little woods they can hide in during the day.
This is a suburban area and those deer come out at night and work people's front yards. They've got a good life, being that deer are grazers like cattle so there is actually more food for them in open yard areas then mature woods could ever provide, but when it comes to bedding down during the day that's pretty much the only place nearby they have to hide. I'll work those woods early on a weekend morning when the traffic is dead so those deer can wander to the next bedding site they have without risk of getting hit or something. I'm a deer hunter but I have no wish to see one of those beautiful animals get hit by a car. Saw a real big buck bedding in there too. I know where I'll be shed hunting come January.