How does the weather affect your detector...cold vs hot ... or does it ??????????????

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HEY GUYS AND GALS

Made it out today for a 4 hr hunt.

Temperature was +5 ...awesome day to be out !!!!

Here is my findings on weather conditions hot versus cold. This is SALTWATER HUNTING.

We have been out in a lot of cold weather detecting this winter...cold as -19 and a lot of days -5 to -10.

There have been very few days this winter where the temps have gotten above 0.... but what I did notice was this.... USED THE CZ 21 AND COUSIN ED F75.

Went to a spot 4 days ago that we have been to numerous times...TEMP WAS -10. The targets are obviously getting less and less...on this day I hit only about 15 targets which is fine cause 3 of them were good ones WHICH IS STILL A GOOD DAY OF COURSE. I covered the ground very good ..or so I thought !!

So when we got back to the truck we both agreed that this spot needs a rest cause it is getting beat .

Today we were undecided as to where to go...TEMP WAS +5 . I said maybe we should give it another try cause there is always a chance of finding something special there.

I could tell COUSIN ED wasn,t really thrilled.....but away we went anyhow. Well everywhere we went there was targets. Places I know for a fact that I covered really really well numerous times had targets all over the place.

WHY IS THAT ?

I dug and kept 55+ targets !! ED had many more targets than ever before also...even more than the 1st time he hunted this spot.!!

AND... we both were seeing smaller targets than previous days.

This happened last time we had a mild day with + temps......this is with 2 different detectors ...so it isn,t just the user.

I just kept shaking my head in disbelief all day....I really don,t understand. But it was very obvious that the detectors were much more sensitive than previoys days.

Must be TEMP related ...OR IS THERE ANOTHER EXPLANATION ?

Anyone else experience this ?
 

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I have been using hand warmers straped to my battery pack with painters tape and then coverd with a heavy sock to hold the heat in now for 3 years . Even on land hunts when the temps drop below 40 degrees or so . It may be a placebo but it makes sence to me that warm batteries discharge faster . I also will not use copper top akaline batteries . even though they may last longer . I want to discharge as much power to the circuitry as I can . MaineRelic

That sounds like a solution !!

Hopefully I won,t have to do that til next winter....weather starting to change...however slowly.

TY for sharing the info.
 

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