Hunting the frozen tundra

[cottonjim]

I received my new Ace 250pro at the end of tlast week, spent a little time getting used to the controls and the settings etc... Once I felt comfortable I hit the ground running, well, slowly walking but you get the idea. I am new to mding and I thought that the frozen ground could be a problem but i couldn't have imagined how much of a problem. Where I am at in Minnesota we just received our first measurable snow on Saturday night so the ground was bare on Saturday for my first hunt. I picked up on a target not 5 minutes into my search. I pinpointed the target and comenced digging.... kind of, more like chipping then pounding then cussing then home drinking. I gave up after 10 minutes of trying to break the topsoil with my small digging spade.
Long story short, does anyone have any suggestions or ideas of a good way to dig frozen soil or do all treasure hunters in Minnesota hibernate for the winter? TIA

 

[Eddy1H]

Go to the bank and buy coin rolls then search them till the weather permits detecting again, I do that here in Texas when the weather is the pits, keep me busy , and I find some really cool coins, wheats silver ect,, Happy hunting, either detecting or roll hunting
Eddy

 

[Kas]

I don't dig 'um in this weather, I just mark 'um with a bamboo skewer and dig when it warms up. On my private hunting areas, that is.