Dog days of summer are great . . . . . especially when you can kick yourself :veryangry:

[Andy Sabisch]

Not sure about other areas of the country but the Carolina's are baking with high heat and no rain for the last few weeks . . . . even sites in the woods (loaded with ticks and copperheads as I found out Friday afternoon) are rock hard when you try to dig . . . . .

Went out today to try and find a few areas I could dig without fear of killing the grass and came across a site where some houses had been removed . . . . . OK, at least I could dig (or so I thought). Pulled a few wheats and a pair of Mercury dimes and got a blister trying to recover them from the rock-hard ground.

Got a good signal showing 8"+ and what a chore trying to get to it with my digger . . . . wished I had a pick but I had left it in the other car from the relic hunting trip Friday. OK, as I was dying in the heat and struggling to get to the traget, I was chiseling the ground with the digger . . . Grabbing a handful of "dust dirt" and running the Pro Pointer through it in my hand, I finally got it out . . . . and as I felt the dirt, I could see it was a large coin . . . . and as I saw the front, I could see the outline and knew it was a King George copper . . . . . OK, the front looked good but as I flipped it over, I saw that the digger had kissed the coin not once, not twice but three times! Not gouged but clearly three marks that were not 200+ years old! Funny how you never hit that clad quarter or zinc penny no?

Overall had a great hunt but I think I need to hold off until we get some rain to do any serious hunting on land . . . . that rack of filled scuba tanks looked real inviting when I got home so I might just be scanning some real estate under 30 feet of water the rest of this week.

How is everyone else doing with the heat / no rain situation?

Andy Sabisch

 

[gibsondan]

We've had pretty good luck with rain and cooler temps in the 70's and 80's here in Ohio. We'll do our best to send some of it your way!

 

[In2Deep]

Pushing upper 90's to 100 here this last week.. Had to burrow one window AC unit and buy another because our forced air went out.

I have only been out once and I was digging in the woods, but even then it was miserable and hot. Happy to report, no ticks or snakes though

I thought winter was going to be the only season that hampered my detecting, I got that one way wrong!

 

[bcoop]

Its been extremely hot here in MO. until the last few days and we got a nice rain on the 4th.
I went to a school that was built in the late 30's early 40's last week and dug 2 clad quarters then got a good signal that proved to be a coin spill, there were 6 quarters,4 dimes in the same hole. I had forgot to bring my Garrett pro pointer and when I checked the hole there was still a penny. By then I was dripping with sweat so covered the hole and came home. Just too dang hot, not to mention the ground was as dry and hard as a powder keg.
Looking forward to Tybee this weekend, I know its going to be steamy but at least on the beach there is always a good breeze. Bring your water gear Andy and come down to Tybee we will be there from the 11th until the 18th.

 

[sharpshooter]

Temps here in Oklahoma have been running about 10 degrees above normal; which means low 100's.

Very uncomfortable after about 10 AM.

My hunting is limited to a few hours in the early mornings.

Ground is very hard which makes it difficult to recover targets.

Finally got some rain and cooler weather on the 4th. However, more triple digit heat is on the way.

 

[jbow]

Rest of the week in the 80s, more rain Friday and 90 degrees... but you know how reliable weathere forecasts are these days.... (not reliable at all).

It has been really HOT here in GA up until the last few days. I'm really happy to have a little break in the heat and a little rain.


I cannot stand to not hunt though... heat or not. Sometimes 30 minutes and I am soaked with sweat but... I have to hunt. Still, i'd rather be to hot than too cold.

J

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[B-Ruce]

drodda777 and I got out on Friday, the 3rd of July. It was nice and cool. We both found our first SLQs (no dates) and one silver dime each (drodda got a Barber and I got a Mercury). The next day (the 4th) it was so cool that I wore long pants all day. It didn't get above 65 degrees and it drizzled in the afternoon. This week it is supposed to be back in the mid to upper 80s. This was the coolest 4th of july I can remember. It's usually near 100 degrees.

HH to all,

Bruce

 

[JohnnyI]

Here on the Jersey coast it has be nice the last couple of days, but besides those, it has rained off and on almost every day for a month. The mosquitoes are almost the worst I've seen them and the ticks are so bad in the pines that my wife got 26 of them in 20 minutes. The little devils are the size of pinheads. Other than that, the digging is easy, as it always is in New Jersey sand, and the ground's so wet that if you keep your coil in the same place too long the worms come up out of the ground.

 

[John - Maryland]

Heat is not too bad up here in Maryland, and hunting has been very comfortable. As far a scratching that coin, that a shame. I found out along time ago if I am digging an area where the finds could be valuable or historic I use my predator shovel and dig far enough around it so there is no chance at scratching it. Than I use my Sun Ray probe to find it. With the amount of time and effort put into finding the coin I want to make darn sure I wont damage it.

 

[Andy Sabisch]

John,

That is my usual method but the ground at the site was SO hard it was literally like cement . . . . even with using my probe and working down to it, the best of intentions went astray. Trying to dig a hole even slightly wider was almost an effort in futility.

The coin must have been on edge as the contact marks are more like rubs than gouges but in any case, you hate to see it on a 200+ year old coin.

At least I've got the scuba tanks filled and the U/W detector ready to go . . . . . 30 feet down you do not have the issues of heat and hard ground!

Andy

 

[NiagracountyNY]

Wish i could send some rain down to ya from NY state(buffalo/NiagraFalls Area).Im glad we aree getting it tho,i like the soft digging,just need my Se back from nevada.Sorry to hear about the coin,hate that.