A tip for all you newb detectorists...

[njnydigger]

Just thought I'd do a kindness and mention this embarrasing debacle that occurred yesterday. Hopefully, it will prevent the same thing from happening to someone else

After I dug my hole and put my pinpointer in it, the target completely disappeared. And this was a strong, repeatable, 360 degree, high pitched, sweet sounding silver target, so, I surely wasn't giving up on it.

After cursing my pinpointer a few times and re-checking the whole again with my detector, still no signal. Gone.

Dug a bit more and again checked the whole with both detector and pinpointer. Was starting to think "phantom hole" caused by decomposing iron in the dirt or such. After which I casually glanced down toward my lesche...

And noticed a coin stuck in a clump of dirt on my digger. The target was there all the while

BTW, it turned out to be a common dime. Never worked that hard for 10 cents my whole life. And how was YOUR day

 

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[JOE(USA)]

Been there,done that! Thanks for the memory. Joe

 

[Iron Patch]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

 

[deepskyal]

And don't wear steel tipped boots....or so I heard.

Al

 

[Iron Patch]

And don't wear steel tipped boots....or so I heard.

Al

My friend did that..... once! He came straight from work to get a little more time to hunt and it took him a little while to figure his coil was seeing the boots. I tend to keep my coil pretty close to my feet and can't wear shoes with even the slightest amount of metal.

 

[shaun7]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

Deep pockets or little legs?

 

[Iron Patch]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

Deep pockets or little legs?

Neither, a kicka$$ detector.

 

[shaun7]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

Deep pockets or little legs?

Neither, a kicka$$ detector.

It's been a bit dormant lately though

 

[Iron Patch]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

Deep pockets or little legs?

Neither, a kicka$$ detector.

It's been a bit dormant lately though

Indeed it has!

 

[shaun7]

One time I was hunting a field with a friend, my detector was acting crazy, and I was frustrated to the point of wanting to break the thing. I tried everything I could imagine for the 40 or so minutes it was acting erratic, but nothing would fix it. That was the last stop for the day, and only near the end did I realize when I brought my coil in close to my feet to pinpoint a target the coil was picking up a can of bug spray I had in my front pocket.

Deep pockets or little legs?

Neither, a kicka$$ detector.

It's been a bit dormant lately though

Indeed it has!

Mine too IP

 

[colorado14ers]

it happened to me once and it wont happen again!!! I always check my hole, then check the area around the hole, then i check my leache

 

[dld]

one time I was checking a hole with my pinpointer and it keep going off, I tried to adjust it to no avail.
I notice some dirt near the tip and tried wiped it off, it would not move it was a small magnet stuck to the end of the pinpointer I had picked up in the hole

 

[Bev]

One time I was digging and running the detector over the clump of dirt in my hand. It was going nuts, but I didnt realize that the detector was actually picking up the plate and screws in my wrist. Now I have to use my other hand!

 

[Smudge]

happened to me once until i figured out i had forgotten to take the wedding ring off of my finger. now i make sure i leave that thing at home!

 

[liftloop]

You mead Your detector had a high sweet clad pitch. " My detector told me it was silver"Lol

 

[liftloop]

You mean Your detector had a high sweet clad pitch. " My detector told me it was silver"Lol

 

[Iron Patch]

One time I was digging and running the detector over the clump of dirt in my hand. It was going nuts, but I didnt realize that the detector was actually picking up the plate and screws in my wrist. Now I have to use my other hand!

 

[TerryC]

One time I was digging and running the detector over the clump of dirt in my hand. It was going nuts, but I didnt realize that the detector was actually picking up the plate and screws in my wrist. Now I have to use my other hand!

No, you don't have to use the other hand.... just raise the discrimination.... LOL... just kidding! TTC

 

[Bev]

The bionic woman!! That's cool!
Love dirt humor!

 

[locolarry]

I just laughed out loud at the guy wearing steel-toed boots and having weird problems with the detector...........that was ME last Saturday...got in from work, put new batteries in the Whites..went outside to "look around by the driveway"..detector was absolutely NUTS! Finally went back in the house muttering...sat down to untie my boots..........steel-toed boots!...looked around to see if anyone was watching.......