Cold and Snow but got a keeper New Years eve

[Mirage]

As with most of the country the recent temperatures have been turning cold to frigid. We got 2-4 inches of snow last week and I thought the year was done. However, Newyears eve it warmed up to about 37 and rained a little. I felt like I had to get a little air/exercise so out I go. There still was a good two inches of snow and another two inches of rotting leaves & humus.

I got a very broken up signal. I Scrape back the snow and leaves.

The signal turn loud and strong. I thought it was going to be a wheat penny but turned out to be an IH:

All the stuff from the quick snow-filled hunt:

A few weeks ago I hurt my back (I am fine now). After laying around for a week I got out for an hour. I found a dozen or so items. The one piece of “junk” turned out to be a very cool name plate:

Also in December Nate and I hit a couple spots. Turned up a few silver coins including what I believe is a 50% silver Canadian Quarter ( they switched over to mostly nickel halfway through 1968).

Now it's time for Nate and I to clean our clad for the year.

Good luck to all in the New Year!


Bob

 

[garthbfan169]

Nice I.H. mirage looks cold out!!

 

[halfdime]

Bob, some lovely finds there! We're definitely shut down here for a while; I don't see it above freezing for weeks

 

[Dman]

Congrats on the I H penny.

 

[olegoat]

great digs

i'm too much of a wuss to go digging now, its 20% outside now and a high
of 33 tomorrow and monday, i just feeding the wood stove trying to keep
this global warming from freezing me to death

 

[jgas]

Nice stuff......A bit too cold for me though...I would have to cover the control box so the drifts would'nt destroy my detector ......Lake effect snow belt here....yuk... jgas

 

[rjw4law]

As long as you got all your fingers and toes. good job.

 

[gimifermagooskie]

Bad Climate = Good Finds.

 

[sfinder]

Looks like you had a great year. Thanks for posting.

 

[ModernMiner]

Bob,
You are a real trooper buddy. Only you could sniff out an IH in that ground. Great job.
Cool tag too. Glad to see you are still getting out.
-Doug-

 

[Nana40]

Whahhh...it's cold here too! And as much as I LOVE hunting, I just can't convince myself to get out there. I don't know how ya'll do it! Only suppose to be in the 30's during the day here for the next week and lows in the teens. I wanna know what happened to my mild Alabama winters? :P

Congrats on all those keepers! Really like that tag! That's very cool!

Happy New Year! Nana