Anyone else have to back track to find lost things?

[Gorgar]

I wonder how common it is to back track and find your own lost accessories?
My second season and I have had to back track and find, my knife, my MD shaft, my blue tooth transmitter and my way out of the woods twice. !!!!!

[new jersey andy]

I always have a knack for losing my probe. Falls out of my pouch I would say 5 or 6 times a season.

[PhotoRob06]

I was detecting the common, was about to leave and couldn't find my keys It was dusk, and getting darker, so I was looking around franticly to find them in the 15 yard square of grass I'd been gridding. I couldn't see the
Anywhere!

So I began to worry that I'd put them down on the towel with dirt and accidentally poured it all back in a hole and put the plug back so I began scanning where I remembered digging last. I even called my GF at home to come help me look.

After 30 minutes of searching, I found them in the grass where I'd walked by several times.

[sirwalle]

I always wondered if there is a gizmo that you can put your car or whatever. To find your way back.

[Silversmith45]

Originally Posted by new jersey andy

I always have a knack for losing my probe. Falls out of my pouch I would say 5 or 6 times a season.

I've had to go back and hunt for my probe several times. I finally glued a nut to the base of the handle and sewed a magnet at the top of the pouch. Not it almost snaps into place and is still easy to remove. I never did find my Lesche. The guard was always catching on everything and I think i lost it when packing in a hurry because of a rainstorm. Somebody found it and kept it, even though they didn't know what it was.

[Gorgar]

Pretty funny scare to accidentally bury your own keys!!! You would have to re dig all your previous digs!!!! Wow.!!!! I found I am very methodical when I lose something. I think about the last exact time I remember seeing the thing I lost. I then can back tract to the exact spot and work my way forward. Works for me..................so far! Remember that old saying "You will always find it in the last place you look."

[DIGGER27]

My Propointer...twice!

Went back and found it both times, luckily.

Now I have a second one for a backup just in case.

[sirwalle]

I did forget my shovel once. So I went back and found a dad saying his kid was using it as a fishing pole. No string just pushing it in the water hoping to get a fish that way. the kid was about 5 ish. So I let the kid play with it a little more. while dad I was talked about Mding. Forgot what we talked about. Because that was about 2 years ago.

[joe4077]

They make GPS devices to help you find your way back to the car. Just mark the co-ordinates of the car and then go into the woods. When it's
time to return, follow the co-ordinates back to the car.

[mws_1984]

Haven't lost anything yet. I MD light. All I have is my detector and my digging tool. Any finds go in my pocket. Although the other day I was doing an area and I moved along to the playground and it was sand. So had to go back to the car. Left my detector behind(nobody else was around so it was safe) But running up a set of stairs my digging tool popped out of my back pocket.

[Charlives]

My wife thought it amusing when while metal detecting I lost my full size steel shovel...in my own yard. Two days to find it.

[Perry]

You MUST have a big yard!!

[Dustyloins]

I busted/lost my glasses when I tripped over a rock in a drywash. That's when I realized the value of learning the sounds of your detector and not relying on the display all the time.

Dusty

[Gaagii]

Originally Posted by Gorgar

<<snip>> Remember that old saying "You will always find it in the last place you look."

Not always true, because sometimes you don't even find it there.
But I dislike that saying enough, that I always look in one other place after I find something to make it always untrue for me.

[KingTotsalot]

not long after I had bought a cheap foam pad at a yard sale for 25 cents, I was using it at a city park....the next day I decided to go back there to finish my hunt and when I was looking in the back seat of my truck, I did not see my pad! I figured oh well easy come, easy go. As I was walking across the green area to get to the totyard...I found it! some kid had taken it from the playground where i had left it and used it to sit on while playing in the grass under a large tree! Fortunately when mama called, they just jumped up and left...and left it there for me to find!

But the worst loss was not a loss, it was a misplacement of one of my Masonic gold rings with a 1/4 carat diamond. I usually wear it on my right hand. I had stopped at a park and when I got ready to hunt, I put on my pair of leather gloves...and started my hunt. On the first signal, I dug my plug and it fell apart so I began to run the soil by the coil...grabbed a handful and beep...searched through it and nothing...grabbed another handful and beep...and same routine...then I realized...i still had my ring on my right hand. Well, I took it off and took it to the truck and put on the back seat and back to hunting. When I got home, as I was washing my hands, I realized I was missing that ring...Due to my poor memory, I thought, oh I just put it in my pocket! But it was not there...I had a strong sinking feeling in my stomach...I musta lost it out there where I was detecting...how could I tell my wife??? Nope, I would just go look for it the next morning...well, I slept poorly that night, like that darned dog in the commercial ...worry worry worry. so up at dawn I was and off to the park....hunted the entire area I had covered the previous day and no ring. Feeling really down about it...I went back to my truck and went to put my MD and digging tools into the back seat...moved a glove and WOW....there it was...had been there all the time! After I recovered, I decided...I will leave that ring at home on the days I hunt...and then when I got home from work that nite, I confessed the entire story to my wife! HA HA HA

[Beach Bum]

Of all things I have lost

I miss my mind the most!


I wish I could lose my wife, but every time I take her somewhere and leave her...she finds her way home

[PokerShark]

I would suggest painting stripes on your tools. If you can find glow in the dark paint (and yes they do sell it) all the better. At night my Pistol Probe looks like a weapon and I am not willing to get shot over a mistake. Not to mention if you lose these "striped" tools they are much easier to locate day or night when they are not all black as in the case of say a Garrett pointer for example. Painting them will also personally identify them if you are involved in group hunts or MD outings.....

Hunting in the woods?!? A GPS really is a must for many reasons. And they are so cheap now everyone can afford one. Not to mention a phone is also an essential tool in case you are injured or worse. Most phones will allow you to get home with their own GPS capability. I live in a desert and we learn about survival the hard way - by hearing weekly stories about those dumb enough to venture out in to the Mojave unprepared. Guess this is only Darwin hard at work "thinning the herd" so to speak. I have always said that stupid should be painful, but I hate to hear about folks proving my point with their lives.

My two cents,

The Shark

[Gorgar]

Yes. Good Point! I ALWAYS keep my cell phone secure and with the 'location' mode on so someone can find me 'on the wrong side of the grass'. I've been thinking about the inexpensive GPS at sports departments. They are getting cheaper. Its amazing how one can get lost in the woods. I usually get caught thinking 'is it better to go back' or ' better to go forward',,, that is when I am lost!!!!!!! BTW.... I lost my wedding ring, and I know where I lost it while climbing out of a canoe fishing right at the point on a lake.... I just have not had time to go back there. It was 20 years ago and cheap, but it might be interesting to find it.

[mws_1984]

I need a better way to keep my cell phone. I have pants that I wear out with a pocket on the leg. But it seems everytime I bend down the phone seems to be in the way. I'm afraid I'm gonna break the thing one of these days. It is a keyboard phone so it slides open. Seems like it's getting worn out. I find myself having to adjust my pant leg before I crouch down to dig.

[KingTotsalot]

Originally Posted by mws_1984

I need a better way to keep my cell phone. I have pants that I wear out with a pocket on the leg. But it seems everytime I bend down the phone seems to be in the way. I'm afraid I'm gonna break the thing one of these days. It is a keyboard phone so it slides open. Seems like it's getting worn out. I find myself having to adjust my pant leg before I crouch down to dig.

perhaps buy an inexpensive..around $10....belt loop carrier for it?