Colonial Copper Zeus
Bronze Member
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
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
Upvote
0
.....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 
