I don't get the opportunity to get out much and hunt right now. The little ones aren't in school yet, and my other half just started working days, while I work nights.
That said, the opportunity presented itself last Sunday morning. I pulled one of my "usuals", and "forgot" to mention to my other half that I had to be at work at 2 pm on Sunday, instead of my usual 12-noon. I had even managed to pack all my detecting gear into the van.
The time to leave came and I skee-daddled. I drove to a nearby school that I had searched 6 years ago, with good results. Over $100.00 in clad, lots of Wheat's, a couple silver coins, even some tax tokens. The schoolyard is huge, over an acre.
I had high hopes of pulling some more deep, older goodies mixed in with some trash in one area with my "hockey puck" coil. I arrived at the spot, and got out. Put on my gear, gloves, headphones, and grabbed my CZ. Something told me to look at the knobs. Wouldn't you know it? The volume (and Power) switch was set at 4! It had been on for weeks, most likely, since one of my kids grabbed it out of the garage and tried searching the yard. Dangit! I left the spare batt's at home!
Frustration is having 2 hours of detecting time shot down by a lack of batt's. Of course, I'm broke until payday, this Friday, so I can't go buy a cheap set of batt's. I've got over a dozen spare batt's at home, but of course, I snuck out, so the wife will be highly irrate if I come back to get some batt's.
Ok, fine, lets make the best of the situation. I want to scout around a bit, as it's been six years since I've lived in this town, and things ought to have changed a bit. I went to take a look at what I believe was the original football field for the High School, but is now just some soccer fields for the kiddies. They usually keep it fenced and gated. I get there, and drive around the block. It's still fenced. The original goal-posts are gone, but the original score-board is still there, as are the kiddie soccer goals. As I'm driving around the field, I notice the freak GATE IS GONE! It's open! And, and of course, I don't have live batteries in my detector. Talk about salt in the wound!
I drove around a little more, and drove by a baseball park, where I found a few Wheat's, a silver Roosie, and a lawn-mower eaten 14K gold ring. Well, now there's about 20 new houses sitting on it.
Well, maybe next weekend. Who knows, maybe I'll start searching the yard this afternoon when she gets home.
HH from Allen in OK
That said, the opportunity presented itself last Sunday morning. I pulled one of my "usuals", and "forgot" to mention to my other half that I had to be at work at 2 pm on Sunday, instead of my usual 12-noon. I had even managed to pack all my detecting gear into the van.
The time to leave came and I skee-daddled. I drove to a nearby school that I had searched 6 years ago, with good results. Over $100.00 in clad, lots of Wheat's, a couple silver coins, even some tax tokens. The schoolyard is huge, over an acre.
I had high hopes of pulling some more deep, older goodies mixed in with some trash in one area with my "hockey puck" coil. I arrived at the spot, and got out. Put on my gear, gloves, headphones, and grabbed my CZ. Something told me to look at the knobs. Wouldn't you know it? The volume (and Power) switch was set at 4! It had been on for weeks, most likely, since one of my kids grabbed it out of the garage and tried searching the yard. Dangit! I left the spare batt's at home!
Frustration is having 2 hours of detecting time shot down by a lack of batt's. Of course, I'm broke until payday, this Friday, so I can't go buy a cheap set of batt's. I've got over a dozen spare batt's at home, but of course, I snuck out, so the wife will be highly irrate if I come back to get some batt's.
Ok, fine, lets make the best of the situation. I want to scout around a bit, as it's been six years since I've lived in this town, and things ought to have changed a bit. I went to take a look at what I believe was the original football field for the High School, but is now just some soccer fields for the kiddies. They usually keep it fenced and gated. I get there, and drive around the block. It's still fenced. The original goal-posts are gone, but the original score-board is still there, as are the kiddie soccer goals. As I'm driving around the field, I notice the freak GATE IS GONE! It's open! And, and of course, I don't have live batteries in my detector. Talk about salt in the wound!
I drove around a little more, and drove by a baseball park, where I found a few Wheat's, a silver Roosie, and a lawn-mower eaten 14K gold ring. Well, now there's about 20 new houses sitting on it.
Well, maybe next weekend. Who knows, maybe I'll start searching the yard this afternoon when she gets home.
HH from Allen in OK