REVIER
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I forgot what it was like to dig holes under normal conditions!
After 69 days of absolutely no rain in my area of the state, the worst anybody has ever remembered where the weather people rated us in D4 Exceptional drought conditions and where a local lake where we get drinking water from got down to below 25% of normal...we finally got rain!
We are down about 15"+ in rain amounts still so not normal yet but in my local park where I do most of my hunting I went to yesterday and I could cut plugs again and get deeper than 1-2"....finally.
This was as bad as waiting out the cold weather months when I lived in Kansas but maybe a little worse.
The weather cooled off in the last few weeks, the temps were perfect but hunting was frustrating to say the least.
I got a borrowed Red Racer and really want to see how deep it can go here but taking 10 minutes to chop down more than 3" really turned me off so I all but gave up hunting in most of my normal areas, actually just didn't hunt much at all...but I am back and more rain coming in today, right now it is absolutely pouring so I should be good for the foreseeable future.
A short hunt yesterday mostly in a well hunted area where I have found some great and older treasure and I was thrilled to find these four targets.
Heck...even digging trash like pull tabs and pop tops was a pleasure as long as they were 4" or more.
A key in another part of the park, an old vintage rouge compact top from a curb strip on the way home probably from the 20's to 40's but in an area I haven't hunted much, the front lawn of a fire department building right in the entrance area in this place I found these two...
A 1954 wheatie and the prize for this hunt a Pullman button...that came off of a Pullman porter uniform and it is two piece with a shank made by the Waterbury button company.
This button could have come off a uniform anywhere up to the 50's to 60's but I have found other things here that date back to the teens and 20's so I will assume that is when it was lost.
Both were at my normal depth for older items here at the 5-6" level, the wheat was pretty bouncy but it is also mower hit, cut slightly and bent up so that could be why.
The button jumped a bit too but mostly stayed high in the low 70's.
I found the Racer is pretty darn solid on shallow stuff but on deeper targets maybe it jumps some like my F70 does.
I had no idea about deeper target behavior because I couldn't dig deep enough to find out but I can now.
Good to know I could target and dig deeper treasure with this thing and still avoid most trash and iron...so far.
REVIER...back in action and ready to make up for lost time.
After 69 days of absolutely no rain in my area of the state, the worst anybody has ever remembered where the weather people rated us in D4 Exceptional drought conditions and where a local lake where we get drinking water from got down to below 25% of normal...we finally got rain!
We are down about 15"+ in rain amounts still so not normal yet but in my local park where I do most of my hunting I went to yesterday and I could cut plugs again and get deeper than 1-2"....finally.
This was as bad as waiting out the cold weather months when I lived in Kansas but maybe a little worse.
The weather cooled off in the last few weeks, the temps were perfect but hunting was frustrating to say the least.
I got a borrowed Red Racer and really want to see how deep it can go here but taking 10 minutes to chop down more than 3" really turned me off so I all but gave up hunting in most of my normal areas, actually just didn't hunt much at all...but I am back and more rain coming in today, right now it is absolutely pouring so I should be good for the foreseeable future.
A short hunt yesterday mostly in a well hunted area where I have found some great and older treasure and I was thrilled to find these four targets.
Heck...even digging trash like pull tabs and pop tops was a pleasure as long as they were 4" or more.
A key in another part of the park, an old vintage rouge compact top from a curb strip on the way home probably from the 20's to 40's but in an area I haven't hunted much, the front lawn of a fire department building right in the entrance area in this place I found these two...
A 1954 wheatie and the prize for this hunt a Pullman button...that came off of a Pullman porter uniform and it is two piece with a shank made by the Waterbury button company.
This button could have come off a uniform anywhere up to the 50's to 60's but I have found other things here that date back to the teens and 20's so I will assume that is when it was lost.
Both were at my normal depth for older items here at the 5-6" level, the wheat was pretty bouncy but it is also mower hit, cut slightly and bent up so that could be why.
The button jumped a bit too but mostly stayed high in the low 70's.
I found the Racer is pretty darn solid on shallow stuff but on deeper targets maybe it jumps some like my F70 does.
I had no idea about deeper target behavior because I couldn't dig deep enough to find out but I can now.
Good to know I could target and dig deeper treasure with this thing and still avoid most trash and iron...so far.
REVIER...back in action and ready to make up for lost time.