Bad Weather Blues

[BH505Man]

It's rainy season again here in the Pacific NorthWest and it has been raining steady the past few days. I haven't been able to go detecting because of the rain and I'm starting to get those rainy day blues (sort of a depression). Anyone else experiencing the same kind of thing?

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah....you got a pretty bad addiction there mate.... toss out a handful of coins on the living room floor, turn off all the lights, and see if you can find them in the dark! You can practice discing out the sub floor nails, carpet tacks, etc...try to find all the coins without using your eyes, just your ears...try stacking them up in tight spills, multidenom stacks, getting in all sorts of great practice! Sometimes thats not enough! Sometimes you have to bag everything in plastic and go out in the rain, its a good time to find some sort of park pavilion and just sweep the edges so you can sort of stay dry. I dont know...I've hunted sub zero blizzards, gone into the bad parts of town to get my "fix" in the never ending quest for metal...Talked to a guy today, told him I'm fixing to go through the wire outside the green zone and hunt those totters between the Stop-N-Rob and the Murdermart...gotta do it on those real windy, cold and rainy mornings for just a chance to come out alive..pretty bad addiction alright! Good Luck with yours!
Mud
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[KNMIB1]

How did your machine react at sub zero blizzard weather with frozen ground?

 

[mudpuppy]

I hunt the sledding/skiing hills very early am before sun-up of course. nobodys there except the guy who runs the sno-cat sometimes..You can chip out targets with a tiling spade and see them in the snow so a guy doesnt need a light or anything...then just kick the snow back in the hole and stomp it back down...you can also run hot, since theres no ground balance to worry about, you are basically shooting through air..lots of coins on the bottom third of the hills as you can imagine...Sometimes even in the dead of winter under 6" of snow the ground is not frozen and a guy can hunt those places and still dig dirt...in the woods mainly on higher ground, the machine doesnt seem to suffer any ill effects, its been outside in my vehicle year round for 3years with no issues at all. I bet I've had it in the house maybe once to re-wrap the grip? I pull a plastic bag over the coil to keep the snow from balling up on it and hunt away all winter. Some guys wrap some of those chemical handwarmer packs on their control box when they hunt the cold. I've had no trouble with anything except its cold and miserable hunting conditions, but it is a good time to hunt if you can find the right spots.
Mud

 

[DiggingTexas]

its been raining for days now but i don't really mind since i'm recovering from poison ivy joys of living in the south.

 

[BH505Man]

Got a break in the weather today took out the Pioneer 505 and searched a tot lot. While searching a grassy area close by near a park bench, I got a fluctuating reading (I got a silver tone sound on the earphones and the target display went back and forth between a dime and a quarter but the depth reading was a consistant 4"). I went to all metal no motion mode to pinpoint, used my plug popper to dig to the target depth and removed the core. Then I checked the hole with my MD and was astonished to hear it sound off again with the same readings. I thought that it was possible my pinpointing was off so I pinpointed the target popped the 1st core out of the plug popper and used the tool to dig the target. This time I used the MD to verify that the target was indeed in the recently dug core which it was (I found 2 dimes stacked together in this 2nd core). I put the core back in this 2nd hole and packed it in, then turned my attention back to the 1st core. Just out of curriousity I used the MD and scanned the core and it sounded off. I checked in the core and found a dime. The 2 cores dug were against each other, apparently I found a pocket spill of 3 dimes. So the moral of the story is check all the dirt that you dig out of all of your holes and most of
all trust what your MD is telling you.