JASONSPAZ1
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A few pics of my GT out in the field.
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My Sovereign GT set-up.
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Critterhunter
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Sir, you are giving me MAJOR cabin fever to get out for a hunt! This weekend I'm hearing mid 40's to even mid 50's. First break in the weather for a long stretch here. Going to head out both days God willing. I don't know about you guys, but when I get a long dry spell of not being able to hunt, I get in one of those moods where I'm just happy to dig any and all signals above iron, no matter how bad they sound. And usually that's when I make some really nice finds I might have not made otherwise when being more picky, in both old coins masked or really deep, and also in relics, buttons, or rings. Bring it on, I'm ready to dig it all this weekend!
JASONSPAZ1
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Thankfully I have been able to quench the fever by regular beach visits and have been making great finds as usual. However I long for the scent of dug earth.
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Jason,nice setup,photos without snow is great.Thanks HH Ron
deepdiger60
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Nice set-up 
yea the temp,s and winds are relentless today 50+mph 30* and SNOW !!! 
HH Jim
yea the temp,s and winds are relentless today 50+mph 30* and SNOW !!! HH JimJason,
Sweet looking rig. I need to find a clip for my Sun Ray probe. I will have one week to hunt after work this next week. I hope to get out on this upcoming Sunday as well. After that, I will be having foot surgery, and that is supposed to keep me off my feet for three weeks - just as the weather is getting better too!
But maybe I can put on my over-size rubber boots and hobble, real slow like, the way a GT likes to be hunted with, and see just how far I can push the ol' ears for hearing deep targets or something...
Thanks for posting the photos Jason - since I might not be able to get out, maybe it will be a good time to start a carbon fiber shaft for the GT. Hope I didn't derail your thread either.
Sweet looking rig. I need to find a clip for my Sun Ray probe. I will have one week to hunt after work this next week. I hope to get out on this upcoming Sunday as well. After that, I will be having foot surgery, and that is supposed to keep me off my feet for three weeks - just as the weather is getting better too!
But maybe I can put on my over-size rubber boots and hobble, real slow like, the way a GT likes to be hunted with, and see just how far I can push the ol' ears for hearing deep targets or something... Thanks for posting the photos Jason - since I might not be able to get out, maybe it will be a good time to start a carbon fiber shaft for the GT. Hope I didn't derail your thread either.
JASONSPAZ1
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No problem Tim. You did not derail my thread it is a good discussion.
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Critterhunter
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For the carbon shaft thing look in that huge Sovereign GT Mods thread in the modification forum. At least one or two people did full length carbon fiber shafts on theirs, while using a Whites tall Man lower rod my shaft is about 75% carbon, using a lighter grade shortened aluminum shaft for my upper shaft. One of these days I'm going to replace that with carbon too, as well as a carbon bike end bar grip, which are cheap if you know where to look.
I bet you'll make some killer finds if your feet are slowing you down. We all hunt to fast, even if we make an effort to stand in place and only advance the coil an inch or so at a time, it never works out that way. Grass is always greener "over there". Hard to fight human nature. But I wanted to relate, that I read a story a year or so ago about a guy who hurt his back real bad and wasn't able to do much more that walk real slow like for a long time until it healed.
I remember him saying he hunted the trashy small patch of grass right next to the parking lot if memory serves, where he had hunted countless times before and thought he had got all the silver to be found out of there. Nope, because he pretty much stood in one place and only moved forward inches at a time, he ended up plucking more silver out of that small patch of grass than he ever had before. Again, if memory doesn't serve I might have a few minor details wrong but that's the whole point of that post he made- Think of the foot thing as your alley to force you to do what we all should be doing.
Heal fast...But hunt slow...
PS- Got to drive this into my head as well, in particular when using that 7.25" Tornado I just got. A coil like that ain't meant to cover ground, it's meant to snake around and seek out trash to work the edges looking for high tones. I'm trying to tell myself to not only let my feet grow roots, but also to work any trash or iron hits from several sides to look for any hints to a high silver tone in there. Plan to also grid at those odd diagonal angles to landmarks like sidewalks or roads or tree lines like nobody does. Again, just rubs human nature the wrong way to do that.
Last year a friend and I made it a point to do those odd angles and found plenty of old coins, both wheats and silvers, that would only sound off from those odd angles. We we check them from the "normal" angles and they'd either null or sound like junk due to masking. Really an eye opener, that showed us most people either parallel or they go at 90 degree angles to landmarks or such. Even though I'm sure this coil will unmask stuff bigger coils can't even using the "regular" angles, I figure if I grid diagonal it'll increase it's potential even more to find stuff everybody else has missed for years. Instead of gridding at the normal "+" angles, I'm going to do the odd "X" angles to landmarks.
I bet you'll make some killer finds if your feet are slowing you down. We all hunt to fast, even if we make an effort to stand in place and only advance the coil an inch or so at a time, it never works out that way. Grass is always greener "over there". Hard to fight human nature. But I wanted to relate, that I read a story a year or so ago about a guy who hurt his back real bad and wasn't able to do much more that walk real slow like for a long time until it healed.
I remember him saying he hunted the trashy small patch of grass right next to the parking lot if memory serves, where he had hunted countless times before and thought he had got all the silver to be found out of there. Nope, because he pretty much stood in one place and only moved forward inches at a time, he ended up plucking more silver out of that small patch of grass than he ever had before. Again, if memory doesn't serve I might have a few minor details wrong but that's the whole point of that post he made- Think of the foot thing as your alley to force you to do what we all should be doing.
Heal fast...But hunt slow...
PS- Got to drive this into my head as well, in particular when using that 7.25" Tornado I just got. A coil like that ain't meant to cover ground, it's meant to snake around and seek out trash to work the edges looking for high tones. I'm trying to tell myself to not only let my feet grow roots, but also to work any trash or iron hits from several sides to look for any hints to a high silver tone in there. Plan to also grid at those odd diagonal angles to landmarks like sidewalks or roads or tree lines like nobody does. Again, just rubs human nature the wrong way to do that.
Last year a friend and I made it a point to do those odd angles and found plenty of old coins, both wheats and silvers, that would only sound off from those odd angles. We we check them from the "normal" angles and they'd either null or sound like junk due to masking. Really an eye opener, that showed us most people either parallel or they go at 90 degree angles to landmarks or such. Even though I'm sure this coil will unmask stuff bigger coils can't even using the "regular" angles, I figure if I grid diagonal it'll increase it's potential even more to find stuff everybody else has missed for years. Instead of gridding at the normal "+" angles, I'm going to do the odd "X" angles to landmarks.
Critterhunter
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Jason, got the phone call tonight. Hooking up at 7am for some breakfast at a diner, and then off to a hunt of probably 5 to 7 hours at least. Plan to repeat the whole thing again Sunday, God and weather permitting of course. 40's or mid 50's this weekend, with only slight chances of rain. I need this big time. Can't wait. Field report if noteworthy. anybody else heading of for a hunt this weekend? 