Funniest Mistakes

[24kilo]

As a Noob to this I've been reading all I can. But As I know you learn by other peoples mistakes, So what's your funniest Mistake?
I guess I'll Start

If your going to MD after work bring diffrent shoes.
Never Detect with steel toe shoes on, It give's lots of false targets. LOL

[joee5]

Wearing steel tipped shoes while I was hunting in a park. Only took about 10 minutes or so before I realized my mistake but killed my day.

[Dig Joy]

Scratching 100+ year old silver coins....

or

Finding goodies in an old plug/hole that I didn't search well enough the first time...aka going too fast!

[KingTotsalot]

On the 3rd revisit to the same totlot...over a 3 month period, digging up the same iron cutoff posts hidden under the mulch from old equipment .....for the 3rd TIME!

When you dig as many totlots as The King, you just cannot remember the details of every one!

[Kyle45]

Hunting for 5 or 10 minutes without even a beep....then realizing I forgot to turn it on after my short break.

[allank]

Going out to my favorite island on the Sesquehanna river when I lived in Pa and not making sure I had good batteries,sure hated having to paddle back over to the dock reload the canoe for the 2 minute drive to the 7-11

[LebcoPAhunter]

Originally Posted by KingTotsalot

On the 3rd revisit to the same totlot...over a 3 month period, digging up the same iron cutoff posts hidden under the mulch from old equipment .....for the 3rd TIME!

When you dig as many totlots as The King, you just cannot remember the details of every one!

Hey King did you give the royal cartographer the day off? You could always label a rough drawing of totlot and mark previously located junk and want not. Just a thought from a humble MD-R

[Merc]

My house was built in 1938. I have detected my yard a little here and there. Only found 2 wheats. But one day while planting flowers, i dug the hole and out popped a silver Rosey. Who would have thought. Lol

[Michaeltime]

One I may be making a lot and I have detected since 1973 off and on with different new detectors is not digging up the lower readings avoiding pull tabs and screw tops pullring. I only found one or two gold rings doing that. But one funny one mistake is leaving the adaptor jack in and not hearing sounds then I notice and pull it out. Had to re detect a area thinking it was so clean.

White's M6 and wondering if I will gain finds if I buy a DD coil for it. Maybe for use in fields and woods. I have seen where their finds aren't any deeper than some of my finds but old coins. I know in a field I will want to work fast as fields are huge and finds will likely be far and few. Just love it when I see a video and they pull up a silver half out in a field. Anyone in the Greenvill Michigan area message me if you want to do some searching together.

[Michaeltime]

Wonder if forgetting your dig tools and headed out of the house is close to forgetting your detector. All a sudden I notice I felt too light.
White's M6 I will have on a jean jacket to put my finds in and junk in the side pockets my stainless steel digger in my back pocket. Sometimes I am dressed to warmly a black hoodie with a front pouch for my suckers and smokes.

[(Heavy)]

control your synthehol levels while operating high tech electronics

[pete k]

1- Knocking the headphones off my head from low hanging branches...
2- Realizing after a few minutes that the reason my MD was going crazy giving signals in the air was because the coil plug had detached from the device...
3- Scraping silver coins while digging them up with my Lesche (that's actually not funny)...
4- Forgetting to bring a bag to put the junk metal in...
5- Slipping on uneven grass...falling on my ass...
6- Running out of battery mid-hunt...
7- Catapulting dirt at my face while digging...
...And I know there are more silly things I've done in my short time of MDing and yet it continues to be one of my favorite hobbies.
HH

[rivvers]

im still new to MDing,
but when my sister gave me her Bounty Hunter detector, i went to work in the yard,(first time using a MD), got a hit and started diging, when my sister looked over and saw my 3 foot deep hole she asked what the heck am i doing... i responded digging something, the detector says it 6 feet down., she replied its inchs not feet dummy.

true story.

[007tallguy]

Originally Posted by rivvers

im still new to MDing,
but when my sister gave me her Bounty Hunter detector, i went to work in the yard,(first time using a MD), got a hit and started diging, when my sister looked over and saw my 3 foot deep hole she asked what the heck am i doing... i responded digging something, the detector says it 6 feet down., she replied its inchs not feet dummy.

true story.

[mamahound]

So focused on swinging that I batted a fly that was biting the !!!! outa my ankle. Only problem was, about the time I swung I realized I was holding my true temper digging tool. Yep you guessed it. Took a chunk outa my ankle. According to hubby, I was doing some sort of dance that he's never seen before (mostly on one leg). Finely got bleeding stopped and down to a dull ache and went back to swinging. Lesson learned. Do I sound hooked on MDing?

[young gun]

I found a very rusty lockplate to a cap and ball pistol and bullet cutting shears but I thought that it was just a decorative metal oval and a regular pair of pliers. I gave it to the landowner that i got permission from when he asked me if I found anything good at the end of the day. I should have taken a better look at it and not be so quick to get rid of unknown finds.

[sllingshot47]

Well-and this one hurt. I was at the very First International Treasure Hunt and had done very well with my Garrett American TR. I had found out by accident that I could hold the retune button in and it acted like a slow retune and I kept the threshhold at max at all times. We decided to hunt a little after the main hunt and so-o-oo many pulltabs I switched it to tabs. Well, to make a long story short, I guess you know which mode I hunted in the second day of the competition and as you know in tabs mode the sweep detection area was greatly reduced in the old TR's. First prize was a new pickup. With only 18 targets the second day, I was eliminated by a few coins for the final day.

[Jo ann]

Originally Posted by rivvers

im still new to MDing,
but when my sister gave me her Bounty Hunter detector, i went to work in the yard,(first time using a MD), got a hit and started diging, when my sister looked over and saw my 3 foot deep hole she asked what the heck am i doing... i responded digging something, the detector says it 6 feet down., she replied its inchs not feet dummy.

true story.

ROFL OH I'm dieing

[stewart73]

I always used to forget to take my ring off so in the days before I had a propointer I would run handfuls of dirt over the coil...and every one would be ringing! Usually took me an hour or so to catch on.

[stapler101]

Just last week we stopped at a local hardware store and bought 4 9v batteries.
$14.00!!
Drove about 20 minutes to hunt, put the new batteries in, and in less than 10 minutes two cz6-a's were dead!
Looked at the battery package and the guaranteed fresh date was 2006!
I will not buy batteries again without looking at the date!