dirtlooter
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- Jun 5, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus with 9"LF and 9" HF Coils and 600 Equinox with stock and 6" coils
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
The wife and I were detecting a stretch beneath some power lines, the only place of easy detecting for the waist high tall grass. I had left her to the more open area and was picking my way thru the tall stuff looking for some laid down grass. We were mainly finding shotgun headstamps, pull rings, foil, bullets and can slaw but I still found the 4 wheaties, the oldest was a 1926. I always try to keep an eye out for her when we hunt apart and as I glanced back her way, I could see her coming my way and waving her hands. Then I heard her say that she had detected a snake and it was still there. I asked what kind but all she knew was that it wasn't poisonous and so I headed her way. sure enough it wasn't poisonous and it was out sunning itself in the 80 degree weather(yesterday). She finally decided to get a picture of it with her phone and barely did before the nervous snake disappeared into a clump. She was proud that she didn't freak out and said that she was concentrating so hard at making sure that she was gridding the stretch correctly that she didn't notice the snake until her coil nearly hit the snakes's head. So, I have to say that I am proud of her as well seeing how she used to react. She had a run and scream like bloody murder or shoot it no matter what attitude. She was also very concerned that she wouldn't hear a rattlesnake rattle but she learned otherwise. She likes to call herself tenacious and in many ways she is very much so. Now this was not the first snake that I have seen this year, just the 1st one while detecting. so while some of you are still enduring ice and or snow, we have had some warmer temps and the critters that come with them. Be safe all and don't do something stupid and hurt yourself out there.
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