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Ok - it was 95* here in Michigan today - and this E-Trac addict needed to go swing it for a couple of hours this afternoon. What a knucklehead! Figured I could find some shade in a local small park. Well I found some shade but it sure didn't change the heat!!! Ouch. What do I have to show for it you ask??? $.13 clad!!! Haaaa. Well, I chock it up to payin' my dues I guess, right? Right. Got me curious to hear some of your most extreme - hot and cold - weather dates with your E-Trac's. And, of course, if it paid off or not!!!! Funny stuff. Good luck to you all !!!
This has been some dry spell here too!(Indiana), I went out a couple of times in the last 30 days but the ground is very hard and dry
and leaves dead spots in the grass where you dig. My sister lives on an old farm with a big yard and she said I could hunt it.
I dug 3 holes in 10 minutes and found 1 1898 injun,1920 D wheatie, and a old buckle.that was 3 weeks ago. Cant wait to get a good
soaking rain and then I,ll go back. HH
Well, in my 39 years of detecting, I've hunted in some extreme temperatures. The coldest was a day where the air temperature was around 10 with a 25 - 30 MPH wind, which made the windchill factor well below zero. I've hunted numerous days where the high temperature was in the low 100's. I can take the cold, but the heat really gets to me. What makes it worse, is I have overactive sweat glands and sometimes the sweat that pours off my hat looks like someone dumped a class of water over it. Everyone of my friends that I hunt with cannot believe how much I sweat. Sometimes, I cannot even see out of my glasses (it sucks) because so much water is on them.
The hotter it is --the more I sweat. And that helps you lose weight!
Last Summer I hunted a schoolyard in the morning..it was over 100 degrees by the time I left.
BadJim and I hunted like 5 hours last friday, and were at old houses, neither us even got a wheat!! No relics, no good amount of clad....NOTHING....worse hunt I remember since getting the etrac
I have hunted in 110 degree heat, but it at the beach where I could keep cool. I have also detected during a tropical storm because I could see the beach cut from my hotel window!
Only 95 degrees? That's just warm here in Texas. I have hunted extreme temps in both directions but it's par for the course here. You just never know what kind of weather you will get so you just have to be prepared. One good thing is that we can hunt all year here and have very few frozen ground type problems that you guys up North have in the winter.
Last winter was mild but there were a couple single-digit evenings. One evening hunt the air temp was only 8 degrees after plummeting quite a bit. The ground only partially froze, a crust 2-3in down, and the Lesche performed well. Frozen face and fingers on the detecting hand but a couple rosies and a merc for my trouble. For some reason I didn't see anyone else outside that night.
Hatchet and hammer???? That's sweet....and the definition of addiction! Can't judge yet though....I got me E-Trac only a few months ago and haven't had to deal with a long 'lonely' winter yet....hmmmmmm, a hatchet and hammer, eh??? haaa........
I hunt year round in a lot of bad weather but ...
one of my most extreme hunts was three years ago on New Year's day - we already had 4" of snow on the ground - 10 degree's F out and it was snowing sideways because of the 20 + mph wind.
I was hunting around an old 1800's cellar hole - was only out for an hour or so before I was frozen solid - but it was worth it - found my first Barber Dime that day !
That's a good one. Never thought about using that combination. I've used hand held picks before, but when the ground gets really frozen, they just bounce off as well. Hatchet and hammer is a more direct route with better control and accuracy.
