Colonial Copper and detecting at night

Colonial Copper Zeus · Nov 29, 2008

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 · Nov 29, 2008

Congratulations on 31 Coppers thats a great feat! :thumbsup:

KG6YLL

VERMONTPACKRAT · Nov 29, 2008

I bow to the COPPER GOD

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

VPR

phantomfinder · Nov 29, 2008

Cool finds WTG :thumbsup:

civilman1 · Nov 29, 2008

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 :thumbsup:

CRUSADER · Nov 29, 2008

Your Avatar is still out-of-date :thumbsup:

Maybe think of updating on a Qrterly basis at the rate your going 8)

Colonial Copper Zeus · Nov 29, 2008

kg6yll said:
Congratulations on 31 Coppers thats a great feat!

KG6YLL

Thanks man I think so also.
Chris

Colonial Copper Zeus · Nov 29, 2008

VERMONTPACKRAT said:
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. :thumbsup:

Chris

Colonial Copper Zeus · Nov 29, 2008

phantomfinder said:
Cool finds WTG

Thank ya thank ya.
Chris

Colonial Copper Zeus · Nov 29, 2008

civilman1 said:
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 · Nov 29, 2008

CRUSADER said:
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 · Nov 29, 2008

Colonial Copper Zeus said:
CRUSADER said:

Your Avatar is still out-of-date Maybe think of updating on a Qrterly basis at the rate your going 8)

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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 :tard: