skierbob
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- Jun 7, 2006
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- Minelab e-trac; Minelab Exp II; Troy Shadow X3; Garrett AT Pro.
Some the people in the club think I'm hardcore, some probably think I'm crazy. I hunt all year round and winter is my favorite time to hunt. So what if the ground is frozen in spots and there's 2-3 inches of crusted snow over it. It's got to be really, really cold to stop me. I've found some of my best stuff in winter.
Today it was supposed to be partly cloudy and up to 39 degrees. That's great weather to me. I went to my old favorite picnic woods again and had some really good luck (otherwise known as a Minelab Explorer II with an SE Pro loop). It took a couple hours of hunting, finding only a clad quarter and a memorial penny, before the luck kicked in. I got 2 "iffy" signals about 2 feet apart. Only the sound was "iffy", but the target crosshairs were at the top right of the Smartfind screen, which is where silver comes in. Both targets read 9-10 inches. After braking up a couple inches of crusted snow, I began to dig. The ground was not frozen in these spots and my woods digger penetrated without a problem. There was a small tree root about six inches deep, which I had to dig around. But below that tree root hid a nice 1919 Standing Liberty Quarter. The other hole held a very nice 1941 Mercury Dime. Both these targets were about 10 inches deep, just as the Explorer said they were. I think they were probably both lost during WW II.
Here's the Stander:
And the Merc:
Today it was supposed to be partly cloudy and up to 39 degrees. That's great weather to me. I went to my old favorite picnic woods again and had some really good luck (otherwise known as a Minelab Explorer II with an SE Pro loop). It took a couple hours of hunting, finding only a clad quarter and a memorial penny, before the luck kicked in. I got 2 "iffy" signals about 2 feet apart. Only the sound was "iffy", but the target crosshairs were at the top right of the Smartfind screen, which is where silver comes in. Both targets read 9-10 inches. After braking up a couple inches of crusted snow, I began to dig. The ground was not frozen in these spots and my woods digger penetrated without a problem. There was a small tree root about six inches deep, which I had to dig around. But below that tree root hid a nice 1919 Standing Liberty Quarter. The other hole held a very nice 1941 Mercury Dime. Both these targets were about 10 inches deep, just as the Explorer said they were. I think they were probably both lost during WW II.
Here's the Stander:
And the Merc:
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