okay, so Im an idiot...

[Mud Hut]

Well .. at least you know that you'll be able to find your boots when you need them.

 

[Higgy]

Let's see now....The learning curve had me wearing steel toes, checking finds under the coil wearing a watch, looking down while wearing a hat and nailing my head on the end of a kids playground 2x4, having my hat/glasses/headphones yanked off by branches, digging in my sweaty ears with grubby fingers and getting an ear infection etc. Ya, I had a few rough patches along the way.

Yep, the detecting life can be a long rough journey with rewards along the way!

 

[dirtyJohn]

I've done it. Even posted on here to a few years back. It does kinda make you feel dumb but you're not alone. Besides you can say you found a nice pair of steel toed boots with your detector.
HH
John

 

[New Orleans Relic]

Just over three years detecting now. Just over a hundred hour I'm thinking and haven't joined this group yet.
But I feel I'm in an even more exclusive! Last year, probably two hours in on a three day visit to Natchez La.
4 hours from home, I learned rolling down a ravine, the AT Pro shaft wont break your fall!! Friends friend had a broomstick and hacksaw. Twenty mins later I was scouring the land with the others. Not styling though but worked well.
Returned and ordered another shaft from Garrett. A few days later and under $20.

 

[DigginDownUnder]

My stupid moment was when I went detecting, and left my detector at home .

Was a sinking feeling when I opened the boot if my car lol

 

[boogeyman]

Most of you probably aren't old enough to have carried a pile of hot rocks back to the truck knowing you've found the motherlode, only to find out they were only Leaverites.......... Then came detectors with discrimination!!

 

[NWMP]

Yep, the detecting life can be a long rough journey with rewards along the way!

I love the hobby so much that I actually go into a mild withdrawal when the ground freezes, I kid you not, lol. Oh, I forgot to mention that I urinated all over myself on a cold blowing spring day in a field. I was wearing two pant layers and apparently my ''short'' comings weren't quite free to do its thing. But as you said, we do reap rewards. That same day I dug up a large silver fur trade broach from the late 1700's.

 

[NWMP]

My stupid moment was when I went detecting, and left my detector at home .

Was a sinking feeling when I opened the boot if my car lol

Funny that you mentioned that. I've looked back more than once to check if it was there, on the way out of town.

 

[BosnMate]

My stupid moment was when I went detecting, and left my detector at home .

Was a sinking feeling when I opened the boot if my car lol

Drove 9 miles to park and camp ground, discovered I left my batteries at home. But in my bag of stuff, as a back up I had the adapter for regular batteries. It was late fall, and I was in the camp ground all by myself, ready for a great day. No big deal, I could salvage the day, and drove a couple of miles to a small store, purchased really expensive batteries, drove back to the camp, and the gate was locked, they closed it for the season. If I'd had my batteries to begin with, I don't know if they would have let me stay when they closed the park, but I was hot anyhow. I just went home, didn't hunt at all that day, and was a very grumpy old man.