opinion: Will a hard freezing/ frost line winter push coins closer the the surface in the spring?

[lespaul]

We had a hard winter here in Iowa. I'm wondering if as the frost melts in the ground does it affect the goodies we seek as far as depth goes? I have a tendency to believe it does but I do not have any actual proof. And also if it does, do they make a significant move or only a little? I'm very interested in any and all opinions or facts.

 

[Deep Down]

lespaul, I'm from Iowa also and it was quite a winter. The "Standard" answer to your question is that as the frost sets in the ground contracts and as it thaws it expands. This does change the things in the ground both in possission and depth. I feel that any change to either is slight but it does change them and that little change is maybe all you need to let the signal come through when before the "Change " it would not have.HH Dave

 

[Elton]

Very short and narrow window ...............Sometimes it also takes targets further into the ground... changes angle of coins etc as ground settles back down..

..................... Look at your lawn.if it needs rolled down to level it . Now would be the time to go hit some areas that produced Silver in the past...

 

[surfchunker]

if it did all coins would be laying on the surface up north

 

[lespaul]

^^^Only in my dreams^^^ lol

 

[happycamper08]

I'm sure the frost does move things around but the fact that the ground is saturated with moisture probably helps the most.

 

[silversweeper]

I think the ground freezing doesn't actually shift targets up or down. It may, however, cause the dirt around the coin to loosen or the coin to turn a bit ever so slightly. Sometimes all it seems to take is soil tightening up and loosening again in the spring. Another theory that I've had is that the metal objects tend to change temperature a bit slower than the ground around them......could be change in temperature makes targets more detectable after the winter thaw begins????? Who knows for sure. I have noticed, though, that on some sites that I've hunted repeatedly I almost always seem to find a few things that were "missed" each year around March when the weather starts to change and ground thaws out.
HH