White's Main Detecting Forum

any bod been brave enough to hunt in snow?
how did it work out what about depth
what was your best find?
please reply!

has any one ever found platinum how does the machine react
need input
thanks dirty money

If you go onto the Garett forum and look up John Edmonton. He detects in the snow all the time.

I can't say I have found any but from reading others posts, Platinum reads a little lower than gold, size for size, often in the foil range, especially smaller platinum has been known to creep into the iron range.

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Tiger Shark

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Sledding hills in the winter can produce clad and rings as cold weather is condusive to rings falling off especially when removing gloves...as cold weather shrinks the fingers..

Platinum rings usually come in quite low and are missed as one usually discs them out.Small rings indeed may fall in the low foil or even in iron range...Unfortunately especially on land lots of junk in this area so be prepared to dig...

I find no difference hunting through snow as far as machine response. The depth of the snow obviously will make a difference.
Oh, and my feet are colder..haha..

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Living in the Seattle area, we don't have to deal with snow much. When I was a kid in Alaska...if you let some snow stop you from doing anything...hang it up!

There was one spot in downtown Anchorage that seen a lot of use with festivals and the like throughout the year. Now Anchorage can go clear into December without seeing much snow. (I still detected some even though the ground was either hard or spotty and found stuff.) Surface jewelry was about the only thing I looked for but clad was there a bit.

There is one type of hunting that can only be done in winter and it can be some of the best hunting possible! Snow removal piles from parking lots are something else! It is best to wait till some melt is going on as this kind of renders the piles down but "heavy" still settles regardless and great times can be had. Best advice here is to develop permission to get in to these spots and keep your mouth shut! Again...didn't do much of this myself but knew people who did.

When it comes to finding platinum (or other extremely low conductors) most of it is rings. I personally have never found anything platinum, but others I've met have and those are special finds indeed. You can go on and on about discriminating this from that and that from this but in the end, almost all rings have only one thing in common...tight VDI's no matter where they show up on the "scale". There is something very important for the jewelry hunter on having a VDI or metered response machine, because of this, and that alone is about the best reason to go with at least a midrange machine for even occasional jewelry type hunting. One huge advantage (with jewelry) is detectorists, in general, are way to "coin" oriented. Jewelry finds can be pretty consistent............ with the right mindset and retrieval speed skills.

I would probably be a little slow to get out and hunt in the snow these days but...funny what a killer spot can make you do! Good luck in the snow!

I tell you ...........you have it BAD when you hunt in the snow lol.

I, too live in the Seattle area(east of Lake Washington). Here is a pic of my platinum ring find, about two months ago.
Snorkeling shallow water with one of my pi machines. You hunt the water with a pi, you don't worry where the signal
comes in. Keep 'em swinging.
Deepseeker

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That is one nice platinum ring there rehless! (I better stop talking about the lack of snow here....seen some snow flakes!)

That is what the hobby is all about Bill, Congratulations with that great find............

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Sure beat Cabin Fever...Hopefully you have one close or within driving distance as its worth the trip depending on the beach or beaches...

The above ring reads between 21 and 25 in just about all V3 programs! BUT Not on deep silver.
This is with the 10DD coil.

VDI = Size matters!!!

Jerry

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you guys are really impressive
great input
i sill have no platinum as of yet///////////
i dont give up easy
iwil find some soon i hope
happy hunting
oh i did find a 1947 rose dime
another 3dollars in clad and a very early coca cola key fob
see ya later
dirty money