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How To Set Up Your Detector For Winter Hunting :nerd:

John-Edmonton

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Cold temperatures can kill your batteries in an hour, rendering them useless. You have two choices. You can use the "ENERGIZER ULTIMATE LITHIUM" batteries which can still work well in extreme cold conditions, or you can use my method (or variation of it) as shown below.
 
Thanks John-Edmonton .
 
I live in Va. in the mountains and it is cold enough here but I couldn't handle it any colder. I am going out tomorrow to cut firewood I really wish it was grass I was cutting.
 
Why would anyone want to metal detect when it's that cold? You would need a jack hammer just to cut through the frozen ground.
 
John got a bunch of us going on this Winter thing a few years back...its not that bad if you dress right...and you actually can find some stuff...if you have a sledding hill in town, you are just hunting the snow and not digging in the dirt..if you have some woods or heavy cover in a creek swale or something, especially the S facing slopes, the ground does not freeze and you can dig...early in the year like now, the dirt is not frozen underneath the snow its only until later on where it freezes, so you can hunt your normal areas and shoot right through 6" of snow down into the dirt...I put a plastic grocery bag over my coil to keep the snow from balling up on it, other than that, and the right clothes, its standard operating proceedure...:thumbup: You should follow some of his hunts up on the AtPro forum if you are interested...you can hunt the sled hills at night or early morning in the dark, after all the people are gone of course, the snow gives off enough light to get around easily....
Mud
 
ChicagoJohn said:
Nice and great idea about how to keep machine warm! :thumbup: Problem is frozen ground...how you do it?
What I get they're doing is hunting fresh dropped stuff from people who are sleigh riding, or other outside winter activities in parks and areas like that. I'm not up for detecting in that kind of cold, I like the hobby but not that much, I really don't like winter near as much as I did when I was in my twenties and thirties. I'll get the stuff when the snow melts.

Mark
 
Just plain doing what he and all of us love to do (detect) . More power to you John !!!
 
tomtomnc said:
Just plain doing what he and all of us love to do (detect) . More power to you John !!!
Well, I know that there is a lot of people who enjoy trying ways to adapt their hobby into winter follies, and that's fine:clapping:
But for me trying to detect a frozen tundra all bundled up for $1.16 in clad and spent 11 hours in the cold just doesn't strike the 'Desire to do nerve'. LoL!
NOW I could get in the car and maybe drive around and scout for the really active sledding trails, and maybe take some picture of landscape and layout of the trails!

My two brothers are planning on a hunt tomorrow, but its supposed to be 53 degrees, no snow, not muddy, and clear! I can't go because I have a more important project that I have to do during the better weather.
Also, another good thing about John's title post is that many of his ideas has other applications that will inspire other ideas for items like those hand warmers!

Mark
 
Metal detect in the Winter? Snow, cold temps, frozen ground just to find zincolns......no thanks!

Now on a warm Winter day, i might, just might be tempted (naah) to detect a tobaggan slide for freshly lost jewelry but the only one around here is in a County park and off limits.
So i'll just let it snow then shovel 'n plow the 4 foot drifts on my 75 foot driveway every damn single Winter and after enjoy a glass or two or three of apricot brandy.
That reminds me, got to see if the ol Farmall will start. lol
 
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