Whats your wierdest/most absurd find in your metal detecting adventures?

[nachos10]

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[TrpnBils]

syringes...in my back yard. I live next to what is essentially a slum. Nice.

 

[cudamark]

A thread like this has been done before but I'll give you one I had a couple of years ago. I was beach hunting and got a decent signal. I dug down a couple of inches and found what I thought was a small silver ring. I reached down to grab it and found it was the tip of a fishing pole and the signal was the top eye. After digging a 10' long trench and digging down about 2' at the reel end, I finally removed the whole rod and reel assembly. The carbon fiber rod was broken but the reel still worked!

 

[cudamark]

syringes...in my back yard. I live next to what is essentially a slum. Nice.

In just about any urban park you'll find those.....yuk!

 

[TrpnBils]

A thread like this has been done before but I'll give you one I had a couple of years ago. I was beach hunting and got a decent signal. I dug down a couple of inches and found what I thought was a small silver ring. I reached down to grab it and found it was the tip of a fishing pole and the signal was the top eye. After digging a 10' long trench and digging down about 2' at the reel end, I finally removed the whole rod and reel assembly. The carbon fiber rod was broken but the reel still worked!

I had read this twice...the first time I misunderstood and thought it was a fishing pole buried vertically. That would be impressive!

 

[abbynormal]

Hmmmm...I haven't found too many oddball things, but the best would be a smoking pipe (the briarwood and brass kind, not the crack kind) that was in the middle of a random field. It was kinda weird to find it there. This is a field planted with soy and corn. Guess the farmer likes a smoke.

 

[scotty544]

Hmmmm...I haven't found too many oddball things, but the best would be a smoking pipe (the briarwood and brass kind, not the crack kind) that was in the middle of a random field. It was kinda weird to find it there. This is a field planted with soy and corn. Guess the farmer likes a smoke.

I found a heads I win tails you lose naked chick coin in a church yard lol!

 

[vandaria]

My fave funny find was a pig flipper. About the size of a quarter had a pig face on one side and its butt on the other. Was advertising for Motts Brothers in Rockford. When I saw the pig butt I literally LOL'd

 

[diggummup]

A goat's head in the sand at a beach in Fort Lauderdale, still had tags in his (or hers,lol) ear.

 

[Landlord Jim]

I was detecting in Daytona Beach couple of years ago and dug a brass crematorium tag for someone who had their ashes thrown out to sea! The tag was from Springfield, Mass.

 

[cudamark]

I was detecting in Daytona Beach couple of years ago and dug a brass crematorium tag for someone who had their ashes thrown out to sea! The tag was from Springfield, Mass.

Interesting that you should mention that. I found one also, at Ormond Beach, which is just north of Daytona. Mine was from Ohio!

 

[luvsdux]

Shortly after I first began detecting, I was hunting near an old, abandoned house. Off one back corner, I got a very strong hit. Removing a light covering of soil, I found the top of a large, flat stone. Having read that people often hid trasures under stones or other misleading objects, I began to get excited. When I finally got the stone up and turned over all that was under it was an old, rusty ring gear from an early automobile differential. I didn't bother to put it in my pouch.
luvsdux

 

[VERDE]

Hey nachos10!! How about a 25 pound meteorite!! It is still posted on the internet as the Grayton Beach Meteorite!! GOOD LUCK and GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[aliciakay1981]

Ok Iv been waiting for a thread like this to pop around.......about three weeks back i was detecting a lot next to a church and found a bag of crack, not a small bag, a ziplock back full of little bags of crack ready for distrabution, of course i called the city police and when i said i would like to report a big bag of crack layn on the ground the dispatcher was like WHAT!!! they had a cop out there in like 2 minutes to get it. glad i found it and not some kids........

 

[jaloglow]

@cudamark - This is completely off topic, and I also haven't anything to contribute to this thread-- However, when you mentioned Ormond Beach, it brought back so many fond memories. My husband and I have enjoyed many vacations at "Ormond By The Sea". We love it there and plan on vacationing there THIS summer once again. Now that I have been bitten by this hobby I most certainly plan on taking my gear with me this time. Oh, I cannot wait! But I hope I don't find a crematorium tag or an Urn!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Found an old toilet parts, a lot of them, spread all over the property of an old home.

 

[kenstein]

Just reading the question, before seeing any responses, my first thought was a syringe, filled with a purple liquid, that I found just lying on the ground in the woods where I went to detect at my childhood campsite. I buried it in one of the holes I dug, not wanting the police to even question why it was in my possession. I guess it wasn't as unusual as I thought! SAD.

 

[lookindown]

Shortly after I first began detecting, I was hunting near an old, abandoned house. Off one back corner, I got a very strong hit. Removing a light covering of soil, I found the top of a large, flat stone. Having read that people often hid trasures under stones or other misleading objects, I began to get excited. When I finally got the stone up and turned over all that was under it was an old, rusty ring gear from an early automobile differential. I didn't bother to put it in my pouch.
luvsdux

You did move the gear and check for a signal under it, right?

 

[dieselram94]

I was detecting in Daytona Beach couple of years ago and dug a brass crematorium tag for someone who had their ashes thrown out to sea! The tag was from Springfield, Mass.

Just last October I found a tag from an Orlando crematory on a beach in Florida...

sent from a potato...

 

[luvsdux]

Yes, I did check the hole after removing the gear.
luvsdux