Some like it hot...:surrender:

[CZconnoisseur]

I had doubts about getting out to hunt today - needed a front end alignment and rotate + balance tires on my vehicle first before any type of recreation was to be had! Got the car back around 11:30 and it was around 92*F already with a 100*F index...and only light sporadic winds. The ideal place to hunt today needed to be shaded and have moist ground - otherwise it would be an exercise in futility. Found a vacant lot close to the fairgrounds that was only recently bulldozed - neighborhoods around that part of town are close to 100-110 years old. I drove by it around 12:00 noon and researched it from my phone and found out that it was prime pickins for a metal detector - but for some reason I decided to hunt another rental today built in 1957. Whenever I get these hunches, I never question them and just move on since even at this time of year there are plenty of places to choose from!

Will save this recent "demo" for next Monday maybe when Dad and I can get over to it...but for today I didn't feel cheated or let down by trying out this newer place. First signal was a solid "71" using 4khz - turned out to be the first of 10 Wheats between the front a back yard. Front yard was very noisy from street traffic, but EMI wasn't too bad. Didn't use the WS5 phones today because of the heat - it's simply too hot for headphones, even at night! Pulled a little aluminum kitty from the front yard that sounded just like a Wheat - and for second I thought it was silver, but no go this time! I remember getting a solid "60" at one point which was the remains of a Roy Rogers token, here is a pic of a complete one! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Roy-Rogers-Riders-Lucky-Piece-Token-Coin-/261939559616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cfcd07cc0

Took a break from the direct sun which was the front yard and then decided to tackle the back - which was 100% completely shaded. Thank you so much trees! It took about 15-20 minutes of cooling down and running cold water over my head to get back into the game with detecting - I almost just quit after the front yard was done. Finally convinced myself to stick it out for another 60-90 minutes and go slowly in the shade. Still using 4 khz I found the remains of an old BBQ pit that still had the sidewalk leading up to it. Right away I got another "70-71" which was a 1948 Wheat at only 2" down. Easy money! Just the way I like it! The ground was very silty and easy to cut plugs from, and was very pleasantly cool to the touch. Found a few pulltabs and a couple of beavertails, and then finally what I thought was a Buffalo nickel turned out to be just a crusty Jefferson....

Made it halfway through the back yard, still in the shade; and then took a water break. I was not feeling 100% after that front yard and direct sun just kicked my @$$ and I wasn't recovering from it as quickly as I'd liked...so I resolved to just scan a smallish area and then call it a day. Last signal was a nice green 1949 Wheat - I was very happy with that given the conditions and was very thankful the ground at this rental was manageable! Crawled into the car - gave the A/C all it was worth and came home!

I think part of my problem today was a Father's Day gift of loads of one of Memphis' best BBQ outfits (Central BBQ) and homemade chocolate chip cookies from yesterday and today for lunch - maybe Mudpuppy can attest to this deadly combination since he seems to be a self-proclaimed foodie He is partial to Suzie Qs...or is it Star Crunch?

 

[jim tn]

Good job on the wheats and kitty. I lasted from 6:50 to 10:30 when I decided not to over do it as had an hour of lawn mowing yet to do. To early even for us here for all this heat. Watch it! HH jim tn

 

[beepsilver]

Nice job saving the coppers in that heat! Our heat index was over 100 today as well...but no way was I going out in it--nice fortitude CZ! Looking forward to hearing about the demo site and what you and your Dad pull out of there!

 

[mudpuppy]

Great write up and hunt! I cant help you regarding the heat, since we rarely experience anything over 80 up here...

I can help you with the food though!

A bowl of dried oatmeal with a handful of dried cherries (or raisins) in it plus a little water, into the micro for 55 sec. remove and spoon in some big spoons of applesauce to knock off the heat...(no milk or sugar)...stir, then, down the hatch! Fast and effective fuel that will keep you charged up and hunting for a long time....Oh, and a couple of good cold barley pops after to carbo charge...
Mud

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Thanks Mud! I still have a few barley pops of the Polish variety remaining, will have to give that a go next time!

 

[Sleepyjim]

Heat? Really? Tssst

Oh it is 90 or index of 100.......(said with whiney tone)

Let me tell you it has been 115 ish and a heat index of ZAP YOUR DEAD! here is the ol AZ........

Gotta find a spot to hunt with shade? really, We got no dang shade, anything that cast a shadow moved someplace that sustains life!


LOL seriously, great post as usual CZ, thanks, oh and by the way, nice puzzy you got.......hehehe


Jim

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Hey Jim - yeah you guys are definitely roasting over there! I'd much rather take 105-110*F without any humidity...whenever we were deployed in the summer months the desert was always much easier to take than the steamy Eastern side of the country. I remember 29 Palms in August 1998...we spent three months out there and when we stepped off the plane in Cherry Point, NC the humidity was hard to take after 3 months of dry!

Problem is you still can't hardly dig in that heat - if the hard ground wasn't enough then the heat will surely kill the motivation!

 

[mudpuppy]

Ha! All this heat talk reminded me of something.. back in the early 90's I was a 'Field Hydraulic Service Repairman' Had the blue and white strippitty assed 'Servicemans' shirt with my name embroidered above the pocket and everything! Like Mr. Goodwrench!....I was so proud!, anyway, I had to install and set up a big complicated machine at a Rubbermaid factory in Goodyear AZ...Record breaking high temps for 2 days straight! 122 and 123F if I remember correctly..
Who in their right mind would build a Rubbermaid factory in Goodyear AZ? Satan? I guess it makes a bit of economic sense when you are melting plastic into garbage cans....
It was so damn hot, Satans minions were taking great joy on the evening news by frying eggs on the sidewalk and the hoods of their cars, at night!

I got the job finished late on the second day, all shriveled up like a raisin, weighing maybe 40lbs. getting back to the hotel, thinking I could relax and rehydrate and catch a mid morning flight out, my room phone was blinking that I had a message...(this predates cell phones mind you), I stupidly checked the message...my annoying boss' little girly air conditioned voice told me that I was supposed to immediately go to the airport and get a flight to an Alcoa Aluminum factory in the Carolinas or Virginia or some damn hot where.!.

Being an adroit brown noser, chasing a pat on the head and a raise, I did as instructed, packed my tools and headed out...got to the airport around 7pm...the flights were delayed since it was so damn hot, the planes could not lift off! I sat there until midnight, at the bar of course, and got to my destination at Sun-up..I dont know whats worse, a hot dry heat or a hot wet heat? Regardless, I fixed that machine and came on home to the glory of temperate Michigan!......

I also worked for a well driller in Northern MN in the 80's where on one 16hr day at again record temps, this time far below zero, I think it was -40 or -50 maybe? (Once you are -20, everything feels @ the same)...we had to pull and replace 2 submersibles outdoors in a howling blizzard on some dairy farms!...in retrospect, evaluating these personally experienced temperate instances.....I prefer cold to heat.......Infield repair service sucks! Who can fix something in this kind of weather let alone go hunt for pennies??...

Note: In the scheme of things, our short time on this Planet and all that, 'Work is often a temporary and unprofitable nuisance!' I still have those strippitty assed shirts with my name on them, just in case a guy wants to look official, or good in a casket someday...FWIW, after the back to back Rubbermaid and Alcoa job, I weighed @7lbs...I looked like Benjamin Button in his early years..I had a friendly cabbie wheel me down to the post office in a baby stroller, and ship me home in an overnight Fed-ex envelope...lots faster, and I got the 2c/hr raise for being creative and saving the Company money...plus, looking and acting like a baby, I could crap my pants at will with no societal judgement, and so I did.
Mud.