X- Terra in the snow

[porter505]

So I've been going a little crazy because of the weather and just dying to do some detecting here in NE Indiana, there is 12 inches of snow still on the ground but I just had to try it. Much to my surprise I was still able to find targets down to 6 inches in the ground through the snow with the 10.5 inch MF coil on 505 , I'm not complaining just trying to understand how this is working ,all Tid's were acurate ,pulltabs sounded like pulltabs , iron sounded like iron and coins sounded like coins . Just curious on how the coil reacts through the snow , any thoughts ?

 

[Old Longhair]

Well, I would imagine that since 12" of snow equals about 1" of water and 11" of air, it probably works pretty close to air.
JMO

 

[benzoflex]

My compliments for getting out in the snow!

 

[mapper65]

We've had some pretty decent finds in the snow. TID's can be a little off depending on how much the ground is saturated underneath the snow.

I found this love token/pendant carved out of an Argentine Peso and it was about 8 inches down in an area that I had detected a few times before when at least the outdoor conditions were much more favorable. On this day the ground was not frozen all the way down and once I got so deep the hole kept filling in with water.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

I'm glad that you guys were able to find somethings when their was snow and the ground being froze but the few times that I have tried it I just could not get any depth and I use the X505 with the 10.5 MF DD coil.

 

[fdl]

So you can actually dig a hole 6" to 8" inches down through the frost? Anywhere in the upper Midwest I'm guessing there has to be at least a foot of frost in the ground. What do you use for digging?

 

[pax]

I sharpen up my lesche with a fine file and it slices through fozen ground pretty well

 

[Old Longhair]

I sharpen up my lesche with a fine file and it slices through fozen ground pretty well

That's not going to work here! You couldn't drive a Lesche into the ground with a sledgehammer right now.

 

[pax]

are you in eastern Canada?

 

[Old Longhair]

are you in eastern Canada?

My location is in my sigline......Michigan. Might as well be Canada.
The ground here has been frozen too hard to dig for about 2 months, and it's going to be another 2 or so before we'll thaw enough to get back to it.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

They say that in upper Iowa we have at least 2 foot of frost and for the past month we have not seen temps much above zero.... No MDing for me, I've been ice fishing every weekend

 

[tjhoosier]

[size=large]I hear you Mark. I've been trapping coyote and raccoon. But here in central Indiana it's been mighty cold and mighty snowy. Come on Spring![/size]

 

[Connecticut Lovejoy]

While I live to find a large bury treasure, I am willing to wait until it gets warmer and snow gone in Connecticut.