I retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1990 from Travis AFB CA. I spent 16 years of my career in California and 8 more years there after retirement.
I have never said or thought or suggested dowsing was a super nature thing. I say my quoting Einstein in my signature box shows that. But when, it comes to the skeptics that say dowsing cannot and does not work just because people like Randi says so, that's not correct. Randi's experiments have contributed little to nothing on the subject.
I have read several times about how some dowsers say that when they walk faster while dowsing, their dowsing accuracy improves. Along with that, I watched a video on youtube how some people went to an airport to do a dowsing test. They had one or two (I don't remember for sure) dowsing rods in a box that they placed on a table, with the rod / s pointed towards the runway. As the airplanes went by, either on takeoff or landing, where both are at high speeds, there was an unmistakable reaction from the rods. This was while no one was touching the rods with any part of their body. In fact, they stepped back a foot or two. There was a mathematical equation that showed how it worked. For me, forget the math part. I have a hard time adding 2 + 2. I have tried to find that video but have not been able to.
So, it must be necessary for either the target to be moving or the dowser to be moving to get a more accurate response than with no movement at all from either one. Like airplanes that build up static electric charges while passing through the air, the movement of a dowser or the target evidently produces an electrical charge. In our case, it would be the dowser that is moving.
Art built and posted a picture of a frame he built where you do not touch the rods with your hands and gets a rod response also. Several dowsers have tried it and posted that it works. He has also detected targets at great distances while on the move in his car. To me, this all adds up.
We had 3 1/2 inches of snow on the level fall yesterday and the temperature is dropping right now. I'll get back to posting dowsing finds as soon as I can.