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First Gold Ring For 2010.....In The Snow Of Course :thumbup:

John-Edmonton

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Woke up early this morning. I just worked too many days in a row and I needed a day to metal detect real bad. The weather was marginal....snow, wind and below freezing temperatures. The desire to hunt took over, so I put a hot pack on the ACE, a jacket on me, some snow boots and to the car I went.

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First stop....a 7-11, where I got a couple of dogs and a fountain pop. Not necessarily the healthiest meal, but tastes real good. :)

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I headed out of town today, and here is the first hill, the first of three I hunted today. I got my gear together, and headed to the hill. I suddenly heard a lot of screaming, turned around and one of my my worst nightmares was developing. About 40 young screaming kids, overloaded with hormones with snow easy carpets were about to invade my hill, which looked so very promising. I turned around and headed back to my car, but not before hearing verbal snarls directed at me, about a traesure hunter looking for buried treasure in the snow...bahahahahahahahah!

I sat in the car, read the paper, and after about 15minutes, those little monsters headed back to their nearby school, and again, I had possession of the hill.

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Things now started to get better. My first decent signal ended up being a cell phone, my second one in the last couple of weeks. The second signal was a 2 dollar coin. A found several more coins after this hill was completed, and then I headed to another hill.

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And things got even better yet. I had just about wrapped up my last line gridding the bottom of the hill, and while walking back to my car, I got a signal, looked down and saw what appeared to be a round gold object. I got down on my hands and knees, looked closely, and by golly, a gold colored ring. My first one this year. Was it gold or a nitro? When I got hope, I grabbed my jeweller's loop and along the side was a clear stamp "10K".

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I did manage some interesting finds today. Lots of one and two dollar coins and some more jewellery.

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Here's a pic of all my finds. As usual, I dug all good sounding targets, regardless of where they discriminated out as. And below is my second phone that I found in the last couple of weeks. The last one was returned to its rightful owner. Hopefully this one will still work and I will be able to return it also! :)
 
John, What a great hunt and report! Very cool! :rolleyes: I once found a gold ring for a friend who lost it while making a snowman but I didn't think that hunting in the snow could be so productive (not that I plan on rushing up to the mountains anytime soon). Thanks! HH!
 
Very good finds, I'm surprised any detector works in that kind of cold, I know after living here in Southern California, My body wouldn't work well in that cold. Way to go, Gene
 
hey wtg...nice loot...:clapping:
but the snow...lol...nope...:thumbdown:
your doing great up there...:clapping:
hh
john
 
in this weather. Although one of my friends in Michigan just found a gold class ring on a sleding hill also and just returned it. She lost it on the hill 4 years ago.


Only the diehard detectorists!!!! Great report and very nice find!!
 
It ranks right up there with those boys in Quebec who were hunting in the lake at ice break up and pushing small ice floes out of their way.:thumbup: Nice job, Bud.:super::canadaflag:
 
Great post and nice to see all the loonies ($1) and toonies ($2) and I am here in frozen Nova Scotia :canadaflag: reading the beach and diving MD form and waiting for spring. Maybe its time for a ex-stream metal detecting form. Winter detecting brings new challenges as my Tesoro Vaquero's Optimum Temperature Range is 30 to 100 degrees does the plastic get brittle, battery life shortened electronics not work in cold? Any other frost bitten snow hunters out there that know the answers?
Don:canadaflag:
 
I cover the batteries with a hand warmer hot pack, put on a camo jacket on the electronics and sometimes a plastic bag if it is snowing. I have hunted down to -25. The machine worked flawlessly, but I didn't. I have been winter hunting for about15 years.
 
After the way they smashed the German Team last night, it looks like they have found their groove. Now all they have to do is beat the American Team (including all the Canadian players who jumped ship to the States for lower taxes).:rolleyes: That's the sort of gold that every Canadian wants to see right now.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
(just another Canadian living in a tax-free zone)
 
Don,t forget, they have to beat the Russians tonight another late night for eastern Canada hockey fans. John thanks for adding more pictures. The UFO flying over head as the three guys detect in the icy waters is priceless.:clapping: I almost went snow detecting last night but stayed home and watched Olympic Hockey.
:canadaflag:GO CANADA :canadaflag:
Don
 
Got out a couple of weeks back. Donned the dry suit and went into the lake. Got a nice gold ring then. Going to try tomorrow in the same lake.. Let you know if i do well

Calm seas

Micheal
 
Minas man said:
Don,t forget, they have to beat the Russians tonight another late night for eastern Canada hockey fans. John thanks for adding more pictures. The UFO flying over head as the three guys detect in the icy waters is priceless.:clapping: I almost went snow detecting last night but stayed home and watched Olympic Hockey.
:canadaflag:GO CANADA :canadaflag:
Don

Tell me about it , Bud. I'm east of Newfoundland so I'll be up extra late tonight. Canada will fix the Russkies but good, just like in the original Canada Cup. (with none of that kicking people in the ankles behind the net):crylol:

GO CANUCKS!!!:canadaflag:

PS: Apologies for the patriotism John but I'm a long way from home at the moment.:cool:
 
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