"D'OOOOH!" What's the DUMBEST Mistake You've Ever Made?

[Dark Chameleon]

Mine was arriving at a park and checking the totlot and my machine was all over the place, moved to the park and checked that for about an hour, same thing...damn my machine was playing up big time, went to the lakeside beach and checked for another hour...same thing...im thinking this at pro needs sending in, something was wrong..id tried using it for more then three hours and it played up all the time.

Then I realized id not ground balanced it...I was too excited to get started...I was running at revere beach settings (37) in my local park which was at 93....and in pro zero it was picking up a fleas necklace.....I didn't have the patience to go over it all again so called it a day

 

[RyanChappell]

My hunting partner lost his lucky wheat penny token, and I was looking for it and a guy asked me what I was up to and responded, "So ya'll came here metal detecting and you lost something? How ironic."

 

[dfxing virginia]

well

I found some sort of round disc a few days after I found my peace dollar....this could have been a coin but ill never know now. I never thought my electrolisis setup would destroy it over night. But yeah. Last time I ever tried cleaning a coin.

 

[SalemScott]

One night I walked to a local park late at night, maybe 1am or so, I don't really remember. I'm on my hands and knees digging a target and all of a sudden I feel something between my legs. My first two thoughts were, "Hmmm, my wife walked down here?" instantly followed by, "OMG, there's an animal between my legs!" I screamed like a little girl, jumped up, turned around and there was a guy standing behind me! I then proceeded to chase him down the street with my lesche, possibly yelling some very homophobic slurs. He was a much faster runner than me so I never caught up with him. The next night I go back with a fellow forum member (Bottlecaps) to the same spot (hey, this spot was producing ) Doesn't he decide to prank me, coming up behind me and putting his coil in the same spot. Once again, I screamed like a little girl...followed by more unrepeatable slurs, LOL. I tried finding that original post from that night but can't seem to find it in my history, IDK where it went. Moral of the story...keep one ear cup off and keep a constant eye behind you.

 

[DenDen]

Buying a used Whites V3i thing never did work right and was out of warranty. best thing I ever did, got rid of it!

 

[U.P. Detecting]

Waving handfulls of dirt over the coil for an hour trying to find the target until I realize I was wearing a watch which I never do when I detect but I forgot to take it off that day.

 

[Isaac43]

I used to swing the coil too fast... (not really a mistake but it looked real dumb)

 

[BeepNDig]

Traveling down a long beach for 3 hours, then once finished, realized my pinpointer was gone Good thing was, the next day back at the same beach, it was found lying in the sand

 

[herb n surf]

Drove for close to one hour and half to do some water hunting at the beach.When I'm about ten minutes from the beach I realized that I had forgotten to load up my long handled water scoop..

 

[Chad]

Oops #1: Hiked 1.5 miles into the woods on a sweltering summer day. Finally reached the spot, went to turn on detector and left my battery pack on my kitchen table.

Oops#2: Detecting in the woods for about 2 hours and didn't get one signal. Look at my screen and I'm in pinpoint mode. Yeah, I now leave the threshold volume up, don't care how annoying it is.

I'll leave Oops #'s 3 thru 544,869,933 for another thread.

 

[Silversmith45]

Getting in a hurry because my detecting partner was ready to leave. I was quickly digging a quarter signal and scratched my oldest coin, a 1855 French ten dix.

While attending a club hunt in another state, I arrived early and was invited to hunt with the Club Presidebt's son at a site about a mile away in the woods. I grabbed my detector and halfway there realized that I had only grabbed the rod of my hip-mount, leaving the control box in my car.

While hurridly packing up during a rain, I lost my Lesche. It was at a soccer field used by a bunch of young mexican boys. When I asked if anyone had found it, Suddenly none of them spoke English. I never did like the Lesche anyway.

 

[itsaring!]

Took apart and cleaned my DFX a couple nights earlier.Got sidetracked.Two days later drove 45 miles to a school.Realized my armcuff was missing.Try swinging a detector without one I made it 20 minutes and had enough! It had fell beside the couch.Now i double check

 

[ronfin]

Driving to the park, trying to turn the MD on, and thinking it was broken for about 10 minutes before I realized I never installed the battery.

Kneeling down in dog poop only to dig a Memorial.

Farting while having my headphones on, only to turn around and see a couple of teenage boys and girls laughing hysterically. I forgot I can't hear how loud I am when the headphones are on.

Scratching the only capped bust dime I ever found literally ruining it and removing one of the digits off of the date.

 

[alumaman]

My first water hunt after i bought the ATPro. We took the pontoon to a lake with a long history of wealthy people, now run down and all the money people long gone. When we left it was raining and miserable so i was hurrying. When i got home i unhooked the pontoon and went in to have a cup of coffee. That's when i realized i left my Pro, along with my wallet and cell phone in my shoes on the dock at the public beach. (90mph and a full 45 minutes from the time i left the boat dock i pulled up and to my disbelief every thing was still there. I can only thank the rain for keeping people home that day. To this day i kick myself for that one so it don't happen again.

 

[CTCurt]

Scratching this with my Lesche.......

 

[Chad]

Farting while having my headphones on, only to turn around and see a couple of teenage boys and girls laughing hysterically. I forgot I can't hear how loud I am when the headphones are on.

Oh man that's great!!!!!

Something tells me this thread is going to make it to quite a few pages lol...we all do dopey things lolllllll

 

[FAL guy]

I searched at a local park carefully for over 30 minutes thinking someone had really done a great job of cleaning out the trash, then I realized the switch for the Sunray probe was in the "probe" position.

 

[ronfin]

Oh man that's great!!!!!

Something tells me this thread is going to make it to quite a few pages lol...we all do dopey things lolllllll

I always forget to check my BACK-BLAST AREA before letting one rip when I'm hunting. It's happened more than once that I disturbed someone with a friendly toot. The darn headphones make me think no one else can hear anything too! haha

 

[choppadude]

Got to my favorite local hotspot only to realize that I left my battery pack at home. Only took a few minutes to go back to get it but that was all it took to lose my momentum. Dug nothing but pennies and pull tabs that day.

 

[turkeyhntr]

The second silver I ever found was a 42 dime that was mint, no wear at all, on a lunch hunt. Went back to work and rinsed it off, wrapped up in a tissue and put it in my shirt pocket. Got off a little early so decided to hit a park on the way home, yup, bent over too far at some point and lost it. Went back next day and it was not to be found.