ryanchappell
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Is it just me? I spent the summer detect in our 95+ degree heat, June until the end of September. It was also very dry, and still is.
From May until July I found around 60-70 wheat pennies and hundreds of memorials, while finding four silver coins, a war nickel, 2 mercs, and a silver wash. In the hottest part of the summer late July and August, I found over 30 wheats, and only 2 silver coins.
Since it has cooled, Sept and October I have found five silver dimes and only 4-5 wheats.
I detect sidewalks, lots, apartments, and parks mostly. We have the worst soil you could imagine as far as minerals. I average about half the depth, 4 inches, that ideal soils get, 8+ inches.
I am theorizing that maybe I am losing wheats by not digging the wine bottle cap numbers 12-39 and 12-40, as much, where the wheats were coming in higher in the sun 12-41+. The old memorials were coming in higher in the heat at 12-44, now not as much. I was getting plenty of clad dimes at that time at 12-43, 12-44, and still do.
Maybe the dimes were beyond the edge of detection when it was hot, but deeper than an inch or two the temperature dropped 20-30 degrees. Heat should lower the VDI numbers in air, I think, but maybe the bad soil gets detected more in the heat? Hmmm...
Could also just be an extreme of the random distribution of finds, on the dimes. The change in number of wheats seems too huge for that!
From May until July I found around 60-70 wheat pennies and hundreds of memorials, while finding four silver coins, a war nickel, 2 mercs, and a silver wash. In the hottest part of the summer late July and August, I found over 30 wheats, and only 2 silver coins.
Since it has cooled, Sept and October I have found five silver dimes and only 4-5 wheats.
I detect sidewalks, lots, apartments, and parks mostly. We have the worst soil you could imagine as far as minerals. I average about half the depth, 4 inches, that ideal soils get, 8+ inches.
I am theorizing that maybe I am losing wheats by not digging the wine bottle cap numbers 12-39 and 12-40, as much, where the wheats were coming in higher in the sun 12-41+. The old memorials were coming in higher in the heat at 12-44, now not as much. I was getting plenty of clad dimes at that time at 12-43, 12-44, and still do.
Maybe the dimes were beyond the edge of detection when it was hot, but deeper than an inch or two the temperature dropped 20-30 degrees. Heat should lower the VDI numbers in air, I think, but maybe the bad soil gets detected more in the heat? Hmmm...
Could also just be an extreme of the random distribution of finds, on the dimes. The change in number of wheats seems too huge for that!