What Is The Craziest Thing You Ever Dug Up Metal Detecting?

[John-Edmonton]

OK......it's January and a lot of folks are not metal detecting for a variety of reasons. We need humor....we need entertainment and we need to see what some not so great finds you have made. If you can't post any, at least give an entertaining response.

 

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[John-Edmonton]

I was out hunting with a buddy. I get this great signal, dig it up and out comes a 2" square silver jewelry box. And to even compliment it further, it was wrapped with a string of pearls. I called my buddy over, told him that I just found the find of a life time. I pulled the box from my pocket, harrassed him some more with comments like "I wonder what could be in here." So, I slowly unwrapped the string of pearls, opened the lid and inside was a tiny dead frog. The name AXLE had been inscribed on the silver box, so I figured I had dug up AXLE'S Tomb. I threw that box into the woods with AXLE still inside as far as I could. I was pissed! What a let down. My buddy laughed so hard that he wet his jeans......

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Well this will become someones find someday, when I was a kid my sister and I had hamsters and they went Hannibal Lecter on each other so we buried them in a set of aluminum salt & pepper shakers in our backyard so someone is going to find those and freak out when they pop them open. Oh by the way we couldn't sit for a week after Mom found out what happened to her set of shakers.

 

[RobRieman]

There's a huge thread on here somewhere with people craziest finds posted.

 

[Produce Guy]

I found an old school banana seat ,that went on a bike,it still had the red deflector on the back.

 

[TheRingFinder]

I found a stinkin Lincoln once

 

[mineralized_miner]

This may be inappropriate to many, but while hunting the beach, I am a bit reluctant to dig many foil signals. I get the occasional contraceptive packaging (of course used), and prefer not to touch them at all. I see a lot of them, and I don't even touch them. It is also especially embarrasing to try to explain what they are to my 9 year old sister, so I usually just say it's an old candy wrapper, and they don't make them any more because they were awful.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I found an old school banana seat ,that went on a bike,it still had the red deflector on the back.

That's funny. I too had one on my CCM bike some 45 years ago. I remember doing wheelie stands, and one time I tried to pop a wheelie and the metal attachment bust and my groin got a nasty hit flying over the broken bike.

 

[foiler]

a school bus. don't ask

 

[RobRieman]

This may be inappropriate to many, but while hunting the beach, I am a bit reluctant to dig many foil signals. I get the occasional contraceptive packaging (of course used), and prefer not to touch them at all. I see a lot of them, and I don't even touch them. It is also especially embarrasing to try to explain what they are to my 9 year old sister, so I usually just say it's an old candy wrapper, and they don't make them any more because they were awful.

Hopefully she will value your wisdom and not try the candy herself to form her own opinion of the taste. Lol

 

[mineralized_miner]

Hopefully she will value your wisdom and not try the candy herself to form her own opinion of the taste. Lol

I very dearly hope so...

 

[roaddust66]

I was hunting a civil war camp in Tennessee once. It was my first time there. I was alone there several hours. I was getting tired and sleepy as I walked out into a clearing. I got a great signal , very very deep . i dug and I dug some more with my entrenching tool until I hit something. I probed and struck another blow with a shovel and realized the target was a big pipe. I stood up and walked a few feet and that is when I saw THE SIGN... Plantation Pipeline ! I almost blew up the whole neighborhood and myself ! Keep Alert , keep alert to your surroundings , dont get so tired that you could make a judgement error like I did.