Winter Boredom Breaker

[cometguy]

Indiana is in the midst of a big ole snow storm with blowing and drifting. Struggled to get home tonight, 20 mile trip, shoveled my drive and walks and collapsed in my favorite chair. The phone rings and the guy wants to know if my "detector thingy" will find stuff in snow. Poor guy takes care of other people's properties and he had lost his key ring shoveling. He wanted to know what I would charge him and was surprised when I told him nothing. He picked me up and took me to the last place he remembered the keys.
My Eagle SL II is fresh back from service and I was dying to try it anyway. Started around his snow piles, got two signals that weren't the keys. I told him I was going to have to get into the deep snow to find them. I hopped into the deep snow and swung the coil twice, and found them. I wasn't out of the truck for five minutes. He was super excited and I told him to keep me in mind with all of these property owners. Maybe, he will get me into some yards this summer. He also asked about the Whites and how he could get started metal detecting.
Broke the boredom, got to try my Eagle, and found the target without freezing my fingers off. Pretty neat evening for frozen Indiana detecting.

HH, Don

 

[magic]

Way to go Don! Thats more hunting than I did in this Indiana weather today!

 

[ohio fred]

Storm just started hitting here we are at the tail end bad part is about 1 hr from here.That sound like you had fun like you said break the boredom cabin fever.I just made a new program for my xlt and really cant try it out.Went in the yard for about 20 minutes and it seems like it will be a good program but my fingers started to freeze up.Though maybe i would be able to find a clean spot this weekend to try it and now this storm hit here about 10 o clock pm Friday night.Now i am surfing the web and watching tv.At least you got out did a good deed and had some fun that might pay off in the summer.Will waiting to see your post this summer.Hope it clears up soon.

 

[norman maassey]

You did Us all Proud Way to Go.

 

[Cupajo]

Good going Champ!!

CJ

 

[Bearharold]

Very nice job and done you and the hobby good . Might even get you a new guy in the sport and you a new hunting buddy with alot of hunting spots also . Congrats ona good hunt .


Harold

 

[floridason]

WTG cometguy, now that's what I call dedicated. NO snow, but windy and lotsa rain all day yest. HH (when you can) The temp. is in the 40's here this AM. KC

floridason, retired
2 MXT's, DX-1, lotsa coils

 

[Frank in NH]

My dentist called me, lost his keys in the snow he thought. Anyway didn't find keys only trash. A week later asked him if he found them, yup! In a pair of boots in his mud room. I had fun trying and got to use detector.

 

[cometguy]

Way to go Frank, I was lucky, the guy knew about when he lost them. Last year another guy called about finding his cell phone. It was colder than all get out and I went down and looked. He had shoveled about four entrances to a building. He went in to get a broom while I ground balanced. Honest to goodness when I touched the coil down for the first time to balance I found the phone. When he came out I was in the car, detector stashed, gloves off and thawing his phone and my fingers on the defroster. He didn't see the phone and thought I had changed my mind about helping him. It was a hoot to hand him the phone and watch his face.
Someday Spring will come to all of us.

HH, Don