Had a chance to hunt with one of the old dog CW hunters in another area yesterday. He's in his 80's, and just sold his Garret Grand Master hunter. He's got an x70 minelab, but it may be too much for him. At any rate, he carried a Fisher 1266xb with a 12" hot head coil, and I tried my newly acquired but used Minelab Explorer II with the standard 10.5 coil. We hunted a fair part of what was a retreat and running battle area. I was hopeful, and hot, but have nothing to show for it. I was more than just a little upset by the lack of finds, but took much consolation in the fact that the best the old dog could do was one 3-ringer. This was a man who had literally dug buckets of bullets over the years and knew more than God about the area. I don't feel quite so bad now, and look forward to some more CW hunts closer to my home. I had an Explorer xs when they first came out, and just thought that it was way too much, too crazy, too whatever. I loved and trusted my old Sovereign, and still think that no finer turn-on-and-go machine exists. But I am rapidly picking up the smarts about the Exploere, and glad that Ron from Michigan talked me into trying it again.
It is never-endingly irksome to me that Port Hudson Battlefield is about 25 miles away and that the state of LA has made most of it into a park, so that it cannot be hunted. But even more irksome to me is the fact that the park honcho contacted all of the people that own land around the park and got them to turn people away who asked permission to hunt on their private land. He said that was to keep night hunters from parking on that land and hunting illegally. I understand all of that, but now there IS NO LEGAL WAY TO HUNT IN THAT AREA! there is something illegal about what he did, and I will never again report sightings of people carrying detectors painted flat black or covered with black tape (Night hunters, maybe?) to him again.
Chuck Smith, usually a preacher, but on a rant today, so call me Banshee!
It is never-endingly irksome to me that Port Hudson Battlefield is about 25 miles away and that the state of LA has made most of it into a park, so that it cannot be hunted. But even more irksome to me is the fact that the park honcho contacted all of the people that own land around the park and got them to turn people away who asked permission to hunt on their private land. He said that was to keep night hunters from parking on that land and hunting illegally. I understand all of that, but now there IS NO LEGAL WAY TO HUNT IN THAT AREA! there is something illegal about what he did, and I will never again report sightings of people carrying detectors painted flat black or covered with black tape (Night hunters, maybe?) to him again.
Chuck Smith, usually a preacher, but on a rant today, so call me Banshee!