Sunday 20 May 2012

Frosty Morning Hunt

Heard it was supposed to get down to -4 this morning,
so i decided to get up early and was out n about by 6:00am!

Hagley Park with a frost and low layer of fog looked quite cool :)

I'm going to go buy a decent camera to take along on hunts this week comming.

In the end , I got a few dollars, few pre dec coins
and a stainless steel Skagen ring from the areas i hunted at this morning.


Looking forward to having a few days off comming up,
so ill be back hitting the new silver producing area soon ;)

 (Yes, gloves were on this morning - lol)


more pics - to come, sometime.




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8 comments:

  1. Metal Kiwi20 May 2012 at 20:40

    -4! Gee your keen Ash.
    Still I suppose you would have the park mostly to yourself.

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    1. Ash_T20 May 2012 at 21:17

      Might have a few days off comming up soon, so hopefully will be out n about more, and maybe even some nugget hunting comming up, if i end up getting a week off or so :D

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  2. Unknown20 May 2012 at 21:36

    Brings tears to my eyes just looking at that frost,you sure are keen good on you,try trademe for a loupe I think I paid about $12 for mine and it works a treat(hard on batterys though if you do what i did and leave the light turned on)

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    1. Ash_T21 May 2012 at 14:45

      Thanks Jim, I'll have a look on TM tonight :) Just recently ordered some rechargeable 9v's a few days ago on there ;)

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  3. Max21 May 2012 at 12:00

    Nice Frost! It is better when it is -1 rather than +5 in auckland due to humidity :-(

    I've visited CHCH couple of times during winter and felt way better in jacket+scarf+gloves in a cold dry air....

    Good Luck with Hunting :-)

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    1. Ash_T21 May 2012 at 14:44

      Cheers Max,

      Yea i guess ill be needing to go buy some more of those cold weather supplys if im going to be heading south for a gold hunt aye! lol ;)

      Actually got the rest of this week, and most likely a bit of next week off work, till the next job comes thru,
      so i'm be planning to shoot down or across to the coast sometime very soon, a a bit of a noobie scratch around! ;)

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  4. NZ Treasure Hunter21 May 2012 at 17:43

    Looking forward to seeingwhat you come up with in your new silver spot. Beware the rechargable batteries, I looked into those too and after some inquiries with our electronics gurus at work I decided against them. Apparantly its all in the amp/hrs not the voltage and the rechargables only last about 1/2 the time of standard alkaline batteries. Ok I guess if you have a couple of sets charged and ready to go. My F4 goes for about 15 to 20 hrs on a set of std alkaline 9v batteries, that would have been cut back to around 7 on rechargables.

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    1. Ash_T22 May 2012 at 19:59

      Hopefully the next clear lot of pics will be taken this week sometime with a new camera of my own ;) I've got 3 shillings (34,41,45) and a sixpence(34) along with a couple pennys 1922,1943), from the new spot so far, so it shows promise for a proper grid search of the whole area ;)

      The GBpro uses one 9v batt. I guess it lasts longer using headphones, as i basically ran a alky out today in 6 hours without them on - lol :) I could get packs of 4 AA's for $3 for the ATpro, but the 9v alkys are a little more. Guess i gotta start finding more goldies ;P

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