Time to move to the woods for winter

[p2c]

The eternal optimist in me wanted to see if a chicago park that had been producing a lot was still doable. Well, I got there and the snow was just a dusting. Swung, got a great sounding deep target. Went to dig ... it is solid. I doubt this weekend 'warm-up' will do much good, but then again I am not a pedologist (though my dad is a geologist; also that's pedo not paedo) so I really don't know warming and freezing times for soil.

A funny side note -- I saw a bunch of plugs that weren't mine (I do horseshoes, these were complete circles) popped up out of the ground 2 inches. I doubt it was laziness on the digger, but rather expansion of the ground pushing them up (I assume water in the soil causes it to expand when it freezes); perhaps another good reason not to push it on turf this time of year. Also a visual representation of hopefully what happens to some of the deep coins in the ground.

Have fun trying to get those winter hunts in.
-Jon

 

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[DPBOB]

Time to move to the woods for winter:


Your wife kick you out.....

 

[davebien]

Frozen ground, time to get the chainsaw out !!!! LOL Square holes !!!

 

[p2c]

Time to move to the woods for winter:


Your wife kick you out.....

Bob,
I said that I was going to hunt in the woods for the winter and -not- that I was going to be Tiger Woods for the winter.

 

[twistidd]

Time to move to the woods for winter:


Your wife kick you out.....

Bob,
I said that I was going to hunt in the woods for the winter and -not- that I was going to be Tiger Woods for the winter.

LOL!

I had a comeback joke for your Tiger Woods reference, but it was so awful and bad that I will refrain. Even I cringed when I thought of it, and I am the KING of bad jokes.

I will totally be out there in the three weeks between this week and the time school starts back up in Jan...

Joe

 

[watercolor]

I don't think I've ever been hunting OUT of the woods Too much trash & Zincolns :P

 

[kimsdad]

I don't think I've ever been hunting OUT of the woods Too much trash & Zincolns :P

You sir, need to get a Minelab before springtime turf hunting begins! 8) But I think you already knew that!

 

[outlaw007]

park hunting is alot easier then woods hunting!

 

[p2c]

park hunting is alot easier then woods hunting!

I agree with Etrac007. I would view the two a little more commensurate had I not had a lot of bad run ins in the woods. Anyway the turf was soft today! I'll post my one find a little later this evening.

-Jon

 

[twistidd]

I don't think I've ever been hunting OUT of the woods Too much trash & Zincolns :P

I spent years with a crappy detector, only hitting parks and tot lots, and thought it was the bee's knees. Then I met some of you guys who were hitting the woods regularly, upgraded the machine, and didn't think I'd ever want to hunt out of the woods! However, I've learned that there's actually more in the ground in the turf than there is in the woods, you just have to slooooww down and listen.

However, the reason I still love hunting the woods, is because it is one of the few places left that has not been disturbed, i.e. graded, moved, scraped, bulldozed, plowed, etc etc...so whatever was dropped there is still there. Unfortunately, not as many things were dropped there, but boy, when you get a good signal out in the woods, you get a GOOD signal out in the woods.

I learned to love turf hunting from being forced to hunt the grass in the hot sweaty summer months. I have found scores more old coins at parks and groves this year than any other year. But I know the likelyhood of finding, for example, a large cent at 4-5 inches in clean ground at a park is not too good. I still will hunt the woods, especially if I feel like I need to lose a few pounds!

Joe

 

[Lowbatts]

Joe you crack me up!

It don't matter where the coins are hiding, when you get there, they tend to stop being there too and you seem equally at home in the park or the woods. My only edge on you now is the skeeters, so I'm gonna spend the winter months reminding you of what the first five or six weeks of warm weather will be like. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz