Heat and digging

[vanstheman3]

[size=medium]Hello everyone, Here is my problem and it's only going to get worse from here! It is just beginning to get warm and dry in Texas for the year! I went out yesterday morning early so I could get as much time in as I could before it got up into the mid 80s. In the four hours I was out, I dug like 4 just below surface targets and 8 deeper targets! I never got to a temperature that would have sent me home, what sent me home is the ground? I moved around the site and tried several conditions there, I dug four targets in four different wooded shady areas, It was the same everywhere! I will say it was like digging asphalt because I could fight through it and dig a hole! I gave up and went home because it Was getting Hotter! We Have had some rain not that long ago, and for Texas 85 is barely hot! I need to know from the Experienced detectors How to deal with this problem because it is only going to get worse fast here! Thanks in advance for any help GL & HH Pat[/size]

 

[Thound]

Yeah I'm down here in S. Texas and go thru this every year and have no solution for the ground except to just go out after a rain.Now you can beat the heat by going out at sunuo and hunt as long as you can. I'm on the coast so I usually hit the beach when the ground gets hard.HH

 

[gobum62]

Try using a probe or screwdriver and poke holes in the ground-be sure not to hit target, u can even use these tools to pry up the ground-works for me
HH
MIKE