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[lawman0210]

When hikning into your site or scouting for a new one what is the best way to carry your detector? Do you break it down and put it in a pack?

 

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[Nashoba]

I do indeed break mine down, but I don't put in IN my pack. It goes nicely on the back of it and doesn't require me to open my pack. I have been backpacking for a long time and one thing I do NOT like to do is unpack it for any short duration. Seems like I can never get everything back in the darn thing. My pack has a nice setup on the back to lace thing into, and parachute cord is my choice of material with which to tie things.
~Nash~

 

[treasurejack]

If you're talking just for the day, you can buy "just a replacement frame" for a frame style backpack. This is what I use, a few bungy cords and clips and you can carry everything you need, even a small daypack.

 

[lawman0210]

Yes thats sounds good. Being a former military guy I have all the packs and mole carrying equipment. I even have my molle vest. I think that or my pack will work along with tying it up with (you guess it) Rnager cord/parachute cord.

 

[hollowpointred]

Yes thats sounds good. Being a former military guy I have all the packs and mole carrying equipment. I even have my molle vest. I think that or my pack will work along with tying it up with (you guess it) Rnager cord/parachute cord.

sounds like your on the heels of a new hunting spot! dont forget to fill us in on the details!

 

[JCsilver]

I have a pack just for my detector (broken down) and few digging tools. I do that so I dont give away my hunting spots. Cause if you saw somebody walking with a detector in plain sight wouldn't watch to see where they go?? I know I would, unless your hiking 20 miles then you can have that hunting spot... Anyways I break mine down into a pack.. -JC

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

I am almost always keeping it swinging.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I am almost always keeping it swinging.

Me too. I've found some interesting stuff dropped by hikers and hunters. By mid summer, though, the undergrowth can get too tangly. Thats when I just reverse it and carry it handle-forward in my left hand.

Don't want my arms to grow different lengths from always swinging it with my right.

 

[boogeyman]

Depends.. A walk in the park, I break down into an aviators helmet bag. Long hikes in raggity areas broken down into a used gun case two bungees and awannabe alice type frame. And still got room for the misc. doo dads.

 

[Tom Walter]

Let your wife carry it!

 

[Shortround]

This is the reason I had kids - Actually, I swing mine on the trail. Never know what you will find.

 

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