Got up, read the Forums a few hours before Sun-up like normal... we had a minor 'warmup' that was only to hold for 48hrs...all the snow melted late last night, so I hit one more clad grab this am,...Set up the F70 in mid 60's sens, 4 disc, -3 thresh, DP tones, 11" DD..
Punched a bunch of places close to home, really flying along...including some chip totters that were thawed...got into the secondary and tertiary drop zones at some sportsfields and was really slinging coil! Flat grass and wet dirt! Highgrading Q's and racing the weather for a decent haul, ..wanted to make at least $10 clad, no ground balance or pinpointing, just high flying and coil hopping kicking chips and stabbing targets as fast as possible!
Stooping and stabbing in a drizzly, windy rain, vis was @1/4 mile if that....F70 pinged like a madman and was a firin' on all eight!...(I really love this rig!)
Headed for the house after a little over 3hrs field time, 4hrs 'gone time' total...smoked nearly a pack of non-filters in the process! Musta looked like some sort of crazy bipedal coal fired clad dredge! Only faster with less of a spoil trail... Estimated I had maybe 12 bucks...got home and dumped them all in the tumbler for a short time and spread them all out...
143 coins for $15.49!...two junk rings, a junk earring, and a plastic gold coin eyefind...temp has dropped 8 degrees in the last hour...heading into the teens...one thing, a 70 dont need much time to make bank....probably the fastest I've ever hunted I reckon...I still cannot find the top end speed of this rig after swinging it for 4yrs straight...'pent up demand' after not being able to go out hunting over the Holidays like I wanted...I hope y'all got out and maybe somebody found something really good...I know Hillis was making a run for it, and REVIER of course...anybody?
Mud
Punched a bunch of places close to home, really flying along...including some chip totters that were thawed...got into the secondary and tertiary drop zones at some sportsfields and was really slinging coil! Flat grass and wet dirt! Highgrading Q's and racing the weather for a decent haul, ..wanted to make at least $10 clad, no ground balance or pinpointing, just high flying and coil hopping kicking chips and stabbing targets as fast as possible!
Stooping and stabbing in a drizzly, windy rain, vis was @1/4 mile if that....F70 pinged like a madman and was a firin' on all eight!...(I really love this rig!)
Headed for the house after a little over 3hrs field time, 4hrs 'gone time' total...smoked nearly a pack of non-filters in the process! Musta looked like some sort of crazy bipedal coal fired clad dredge! Only faster with less of a spoil trail... Estimated I had maybe 12 bucks...got home and dumped them all in the tumbler for a short time and spread them all out...
143 coins for $15.49!...two junk rings, a junk earring, and a plastic gold coin eyefind...temp has dropped 8 degrees in the last hour...heading into the teens...one thing, a 70 dont need much time to make bank....probably the fastest I've ever hunted I reckon...I still cannot find the top end speed of this rig after swinging it for 4yrs straight...'pent up demand' after not being able to go out hunting over the Holidays like I wanted...I hope y'all got out and maybe somebody found something really good...I know Hillis was making a run for it, and REVIER of course...anybody?
Mud