Colonial Copper and detecting at night

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

It's supposed to rain and snow all day tomorrow so Kirk, Kyle and I decided to do some Saturday detecting. I worked until 1:30 and it gets dark at 5:00 so by the time we were ready and prepped to detect we only had a couple of hours of daylight detecting so we decided to bring our headlamps to finish out the hunt in the dark. We decided to revisit the site where I found my last half cent. After swinging for an hour or so and walking a couple of miles in the fields I had a loud penny/dime reading on my workhorse analog xl pro. 3 or 4 inches of doit and a nice King George III copper is staring me in the face. NICE 10 minutes later a dropped musketball. It was beginning to get dark so I shifted toward Kirk's car which from where I was standing looked tiny due to the distance. I have to say that I never detected in the dark before so this would be a new experience. I loved it from the get go. The only complaint I have is that if you are doing a wide open space like we were than you can get a little disoriented due to the small area lighted. It was hard to judge at any given point where I was in relation to other landmarks. I did find the other dropped musketball and the shot one and also the duck doohicky in the dark.Looking at the stars and the planets above I realized this would be a great spot to set up my 8 inch Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. I must ask the landowner. That's 31 coppers this year from me, 2 today from the group and 66 total for the group this year. Kyle found a nice copper also.It's possible we may get out tomorrow morning if the precip holds off for a while.Enjoy everyone.........Chris

 

[kg6yll]

Congratulations on 31 Coppers thats a great feat!


KG6YLL

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

I bow to the COPPER GOD

How do you do it....... Great job again

VPR

 

[phantomfinder]

Cool finds WTG

 

[civilman1]

Unbelievable Chris....I'm up to a cool "6" .....Get em' all cleaned up for an end of Pic,love to see them.As far as the night hunting goes,never tried it yet but the time will definetly come.Congrat's on 31 but for some reason it won't stop there

 

[CRUSADER]

Your Avatar is still out-of-date Maybe think of updating on a Qrterly basis at the rate your going 8)

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Congratulations on 31 Coppers thats a great feat!


KG6YLL

Thanks man I think so also.
Chris

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

I bow to the COPPER GOD

How do you do it....... Great job again

VPR

Thanks VPR. I have no idea how I do it I just do.
Chris

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Cool finds WTG

Thank ya thank ya.
Chris

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Unbelievable Chris....I'm up to a cool "6" .....Get em' all cleaned up for an end of Pic,love to see them.As far as the night hunting goes,never tried it yet but the time will definetly come.Congrat's on 31 but for some reason it won't stop there

Thanks civilman I appreciate every one of your responses. 31 coppers will be hard for me to beat.
Chris

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Your Avatar is still out-of-date Maybe think of updating on a Qrterly basis at the rate your going 8)

Thanks Crusader, I was wondering what you were talking about by my avatar needing updated. It just dawned on me that you are probably referring to the atomic weight # on the perodic table for copper that is on my avatar. Maybe i will get ahold of them to have it changed by the # of coppers that I have at any given point.
Chris

 

[CRUSADER]

Your Avatar is still out-of-date Maybe think of updating on a Qrterly basis at the rate your going 8)

Thanks Crusader, I was wondering what you were talking about by my avatar needing updated. It just dawned on me that you are probably referring to the atomic weight # on the perodic table for copper that is on my avatar. Maybe i will get ahold of them to have it changed by the # of coppers that I have at any given point.
Chris

oh....never was any good at science....lol When you got 30 last time, I noticed the Avatar & made a wrong connection that you had upped the count by 1

 

[kdismuke1]

YOU ARE THE BEST. CONGRATS.

 

[Captn SE]

There's just nothing stopping you, Chris. Day, Night, Wind, or Snow; If something good is there, you will find it.

Congrats on another oooold Coppa!!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Ed-NH]

There's nothing to make your day like a sweet hunk of British copper!!! Congrats on your finds.

 

[dfx willy]

COPPA COPPA COPPA! gotta love it. willy.

 

[collector01]

Nice finds and congrats on 31 coppers that's awesome I bet you'll beat that next year! HH! and HH!

 

[treasurefiend]

Damn - all of this time I was preying to Krom for a COPPA when I should of been praying to Zeus...

 

[ringfinder]

Quack! Quack! Quack!, Neat finds, Gotta love those "Coppas"

HH,Ringfinder

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the copper! I have done a lot of night detecting, very hard to keep a grid going and not get disoriented. HH, Mike