War of 1812 site and the Vista X

[Sven]

Planned hunt for today fizzled out. It was a sorry weekend of rain, lots of standing water and fields of sticky mud.
Was hoping to give the Vista X some relic hunting time. Might get a chance to get back that way in a couple weeks, about a 3 hour drive away.

 

[Des D]

Bad Weather - Gotta be [ the most frustrating ] aspect of testing a New metal detector.

Hope you'll get to it soon enough...

Remembering my days spent testing 'Minelab's': out in all sorts of weather...always had a cold!!!
One day an onshore gale was coming my way and the waves [ seemed ] as if they were 8ft high breaking yards from me.
A 'rogue wave' came in and washed up dozens of yards from before and on the way out it 'took out' my experimental coils on lower shafts that I had lined up to test!!!
I retrieved them but not without wallowing and splashing around in the surf soaking my clothes on an October day!
Ah well, it was just a 12 mile drive back to the Office where a visiting Australian colleague had a great laugh at my dishevelled state!
Later that afternoon it snowed and he gazed out the window for hours! Never seen snow!!!

 

[Des D]

Talking about getting back to (to be able to return) sites, it isn't feasible sometimes to do that particularly if it's a one-off situation e.g. ghost town visit on vacation.
Sven was rained out so [ he should be able to ] return via a 3hr drive.

Just yesterday, I actually entered a site I first pencilled in for searches 42 years ago!

Why such a long time? Different reasons the most important, I hadn't been able to acquire search permission back then.
I then lived abroad for almost 20 years and work life got in the way.

I'm happy to say search permission was granted last week and yesterday, I went in for 'a reccy'
It's tough. Serious undergrowth and sloping hills.
Hence, my reason for asking whether or not the "Vista X", might switch itself off as I negotiate my way because I did a fair amount of 'backing up' yesterday!

I had a Garrett pin pointer with me and trawled across exposed areas under large trees and into old stone walls: found two coins, screwcap & a rusted junk item.
Going back in today with a 'Deus Lite'
Such a pity I don't have a "Vista X"!
I did ask.....

 

[Des D]

Came across an interesting dilemma in this 'new-to-me' site.
I've got permission to search but, contained within is a seperate property that I don't have "verbal" permission and, unlikely to get it because the owner lives abroad and I don't know who that is or how to contact them?

The "main" site is a cracker, full of hilly and sloping pasture fields bounded by thick old woodland with numerous trails within.
Last day netted several coins from 1800-1914, tons of brass cartridge ends and with the "Deus" set up in Deus Fast, I'm getting 'lovely buzzing sounds' on a multitude of ferrous scrap contained there! Dug a few and many were old rusted piping ( think home plumbing sizes )
Going in again tomorrow as weather looks promising?