CZconnoisseur
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Woke up this morning to a half-inch of snow on the grassy areas but the roadways were dry. On Mondays I usually get up around 530 or 600 and start hunting right at sunrise, but today I slacked and didn't get on-site until about 800. I was hoping the sun would come out and warm things up a bit, but the highest we saw today was around 35 or so. Had a large thermos of coffee on standby in the car just in case the first 16 oz didn't do the trick!
I brought along the Pivotheads and successfully filmed for about half the hunt until the batteries went low again. May have had something to do with the fact it was 30-35 degrees this morning - I am going to have to optimize film time in order to make it through a full day's hunt - it seems that I can get a few clips until it won't let me record anymore - not sure if the memory is full or if I'm leaving them on between clips, inadvertently burning battery life in the process. I'm getting better at filming, but still have a long way to go with item orientation, sizing, spacing, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgQ0LRlWbE
At the end of the film I am happily walking next door just having obtained permission to hunt this 1904-era house! I pulled 6 Wheats and the sterling Elgin watch case from this house. The case sounded almost exactly like a half dollar - came in at "89" in 4 khz and sounded crystal-clear! Most of the Wheats were below 4" and didn't sound like much through the headphones - only enough info for me to dig it out while it sounded the same on a cross-scan. I remember pulling one Wheat from 8" which was only a whisper - I really wanted to get it filmed to show what the audio sounds like on these types of targets!
The house had a lot of cast aluminum bits on one side, but I'm guessing there are also coins lurking deeper as well. The good part about this house is that I have standing permission to hunt it - so return trips are just a courtesy phone call away until the house gets sold! I have 20 more houses in the immediate area that are unoccupied, and am frothing at the mouth for those in the near future!
I brought along the Pivotheads and successfully filmed for about half the hunt until the batteries went low again. May have had something to do with the fact it was 30-35 degrees this morning - I am going to have to optimize film time in order to make it through a full day's hunt - it seems that I can get a few clips until it won't let me record anymore - not sure if the memory is full or if I'm leaving them on between clips, inadvertently burning battery life in the process. I'm getting better at filming, but still have a long way to go with item orientation, sizing, spacing, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgQ0LRlWbE
At the end of the film I am happily walking next door just having obtained permission to hunt this 1904-era house! I pulled 6 Wheats and the sterling Elgin watch case from this house. The case sounded almost exactly like a half dollar - came in at "89" in 4 khz and sounded crystal-clear! Most of the Wheats were below 4" and didn't sound like much through the headphones - only enough info for me to dig it out while it sounded the same on a cross-scan. I remember pulling one Wheat from 8" which was only a whisper - I really wanted to get it filmed to show what the audio sounds like on these types of targets!
The house had a lot of cast aluminum bits on one side, but I'm guessing there are also coins lurking deeper as well. The good part about this house is that I have standing permission to hunt it - so return trips are just a courtesy phone call away until the house gets sold! I have 20 more houses in the immediate area that are unoccupied, and am frothing at the mouth for those in the near future!
You do a great job video taping. I sure wished that I had gotten up and went with you. Freezing weather or not, I'm fired up and ready for action.