Your detector is "Waterproof" and it is raining, do you still hunt?

[IDXMonster]

The ONE limiting factor for me besides the obvious(tornados,lightning,etc) is whether or not I can dig a hole...i.e. is it FROZEN UP? I’ve got rain gear,I myself am quite waterproof and the CTX doesn’t care. Heck,I just put it in the shower for a few minutes when I get home to clean it. I mentioned before that my wife frowns on this...
But yes,I will hunt in the rain as long as it’s not an absolute DELUGE,and like the Prof said....very peaceful because nobody else is around! Crappy weather is sometimes my favorite time to go,as long as the weather isn’t adversly affecting the machine,which it really never does.

 

[Tpmetal]

Heck ya!! If I'm finding stuff nothing is going to stop me!! But? if I'm not finding anything I'm running for the truck!!!

Bar of soap? Why? Isn't the rain enough? That's how we shower sometimes when camping, soap and rain. If no rain? head to the creek! A trespasser wandering into that area will be covering their eyes and shaking their head(or go blind) when they see my wife and I in the creek takin a bath! Ice cold spring water too!!! They'll think there are two ladies in that water. (ya, those that have "been there done that", will understand that short joke)

I tried to go swimming in lake michigan in the spring as a teenager. I swore for a bit that it would be shrunken forever

 

[IDXMonster]

I tried to go swimming in lake michigan in the spring as a teenager. I swore for a bit that it would be shrunken forever

“It”.... “It shrinks?....I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things”....Elaine Benice

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Yes of course I keep going. After all, when you spend some bucks to make sure you're safe, wouldn't you want to check it out?

 

[A2coins]

I found a coin spill silver this summer I was out in the pouring rain and loved it

 

[holepuncher]

As long as there isn't any lightning and it's not a downpour, too cold, or too muddy, I detect in the rain.

AHH where is your sense of adventure? LOL

 

[coinman123]

I will hunt in the rain, I did it today, and the outside temperature was only in the 30s. As long as it isn't completely drenching, I am normally fine with it, and have even braved heavy downpours once or twice. The only problem I have had is if the display on my T2 gets so wet that a little bit of water somehow leaks inside and fogs up the plastic screen for a few days.

My worst rain experience was walking a half mile to a cellar hole last year, only to have it start raining harder than it had all year right as I got there. The rain was so strong that I looked like I had just taken a long shower within a few minutes. I spent 10 minutes metal detecting, then decided to leave, right as I got back to the car after my half mile walk the rain stopped. I started to go back to the cellar hole and the rain started up again, I turned around and drove home after that, with only one flat button to show for my effort.

 

[Geobound]

I have a CTX and have no problem hunting in the rain. I did one submerged hunt in the spring and my “waterproof” gray ghost headphones crapped out. I sent them in (which cost $15) and they fixed them and sent them back (took a month) and told me they had a loose wire. Well, those things look loose again so I duct taped them and am back to hunting in the rain again but I don’t think I want to go full submersion with those headphones again. Not worth the headache.

It sucks when you can't use your submersible headphones for their intended purpose.

 

[Peter67]

Hell yeah

 

[washingtonian]

It sucks when you can't use your submersible headphones for their intended purpose.

Agreed. The company wasn't helpful either. They really hassled me about it. I was disappointed in that given how much I spent on them.