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« on: December 06, 2010, 10:41:03 pm »
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I am expecting my 1st metal detector for Christmas.  I am looking for any tips that I can use to search successfully in the cold/snow.  Any tips or advice is welcome.  Happy Holidays everyone!  Kiss

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2010, 11:25:57 pm »
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I have never hunted the frozen ground are in snow sorry I can't help. But you can get some research done and and pick out some spots to hit in the spring. We do have a lot of cold weather guys here maybe they have some pointers

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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 03:32:57 am »
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Hi,
We've had -15 (!) temperatures here the past week or two.
The ground is like concrete!
There is NO WAY you will get through it to recover stuff.
What you can do though, (if the snow isn't too deep) is find an area where kids/people have been sledging or playing.
You'd be surprised what falls out of pockets when having fun in the snow!
It'll all be on the surface or just under the snow!
Good luck!


Oh... BTW - Cover the control box with a plastic bag... snow melts!




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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 07:07:12 am »
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high of 20 today Cry Cry,no digging here,last year i was desperate and went in jan,got a nice silver signal but couldn't dig thru the frozen ground,stood there looking at my semi dug hole and then went home and filled a plastic milk container with hot water,went back poured it on the hole and dug up a silver ring,desperate times call for desperate measures 

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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2010, 07:26:17 am »
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high of 20 today Cry Cry,no digging here,last year i was desperate and went in jan,got a nice silver signal but couldn't dig thru the frozen ground,stood there looking at my semi dug hole and then went home and filled a plastic milk container with hot water,went back poured it on the hole and dug up a silver ring,desperate times call for desperate measures 


Thanks for the tip, I will take one with me!

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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 09:55:43 pm »
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I am expecting my 1st metal detector for Christmas.  I am looking for any tips that I can use to search successfully in the cold/snow.  Any tips or advice is welcome.  Happy Holidays everyone!  Kiss
  Bare ground will be hard so look for spots that have tall grass with snow on top of the grass.  The grass and snow will insulate the ground and the digging will be easier.

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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2010, 01:51:34 pm »
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I am expecting my 1st metal detector for Christmas.  I am looking for any tips that I can use to search successfully in the cold/snow.  Any tips or advice is welcome.  Happy Holidays everyone!  Kiss

Happy Holidays back at ya!

While it is crushingly difficult to wait until spring, that's the best advice you can get. I was born and raised in the northeast corner of the USA so I speak from experience. Be patient. Study your machine. Get a cardboard box that is at least 12 inches tall and put a variety of targets on the box. Check your detector and see how it reacts in the air testing of these objects. Check out all the modes, filters and indications for each object. Learn your machine. In a Zen like moment (rare for me), I suggest you become one with your machine.

That's the inside part. Now for the outside part. As you drive around in daily to and fro, watch for places where people congregate in winter. Sledding hills, ice skating parties, caroling concerts and dog walking parks are all places where things are lost in the snow. Like dropping something in the water, snow gobbles up an item and leaves little trace of its path. Using your detector in snow is not easy because the coil may be 6 to 10 inches above the item putting it out of range, depending on size. You're far better off waiting for spring to spring. But you can make note of the places where people hang out in winter and go back there at the first snow melt. As you write them down, you are becoming efficient at treasure hunting.

Your local library will often have newspapers from hundreds of years ago. Look through them for gathering places that might still be there. If you are a cache hunter, or want to be one, watch for articles about unsolved crimes which may have involved money or jewelry. Don't be too optimistic about them, however, because most "solved" crimes don't make it in the paper after they are solved. It's just not as newsworthy to say that something was found and returned. Watch for notices of old universities and other public places being torn down for development. An old college campus that is now a housing development will still yield things from the days of academia. Construction crews were not so diligent about removing old soils back then. They just pushed them around. The good stuff is often still there. Sometimes an old campus is made into a park and overlooked as too small for attention by other detectorists. That's to your advantage.

Let your imagination run wild. Bake a huge lot of brownies or cookies and bring them to the nearest retirement home. Make friends with the residents there. Read to them. Talk to them. Ask them about the early days of their lives in your home town. You will be absolutely inundated with leads for spring. Join your local historical society and use the resources there. Old newsletters are an absolute treasure trove of leads. Old journals,diaries and personal letters can point to places you never knew existed.

Clearly you have found the on line resources here on the Internet or you wouldn't be here. There are some really great map and historical links on this very forum. You will have to dig them out by clever searching but you have plenty of time while you are locked in your low temperature prison over winter.

I could give you hundreds, maybe even thousands, of examples of all the above leading me to treasure. Sometimes it's a beautiful coin or token. Other times a piece of jewelry. Once in a while, it's a cache or priceless relic. Oh, yes, the most fun is in the finding of a treasure but there is much to be said about looking back at the steps that led you to it. Each step makes you better at what you are doing.

Don't hate winter. Enjoy it and use it to your advantage.

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Don't hate winter. Enjoy it and use it to your advantage.



Hear! Hear!    Good advise from all.   Where I live winter is my friend and the time for me to be active in the field.    But when summer comes it can be too bloody hot to be safe to dig (and the ground is too hard to dig through with anything short of a jack hammer), so that's my time for concentrating on the things GD has suggested.   Unless you're planning on mostly being a serendipitous hunter, preparation is the key to success.   And the best time to prepare is when the weather won't let you get out and hunt.   

(Besides, some of us wind up finding that good, quality research where you're chasing leads hither and yon, can be nearly as exciting as swinging a detector......And digging something out of a site that YOU found because YOU did the research makes the finding all the more rewarding--especially if it's a cache that you tracked down as opposed to a stray coin or two).

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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 03:27:31 pm »
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All around parking lots is a good one, if no grass is around walk the parking lot up and down you do not need a detector for that one.

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(Besides, some of us wind up finding that good, quality research where you're chasing leads hither and yon, can be nearly as exciting as swinging a detector......And digging something out of a site that YOU found because YOU did the research makes the finding all the more rewarding--especially if it's a cache that you tracked down as opposed to a stray coin or two).

BA is absolutely correct here. When you do a Google search, have you ever notices how easily you can be dragged around the Internet by links that capture your imagination? Well, by gosh and by golly, that happens in EVERY avenue of research and you WILL find some tidbit that will lead you to treasures both tiny and large.

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