Hardcore hunting problems.

[PENNYHUNTER]

O this morning I decide I'm going to hike into a spot I found as a kid. I think it's a old mining camp from the gold rush days. Anyways I get up I pack my camel pack. Fill up the water grab my detector and I'm off. I stop at Safeway to get something to eat and a coffee before I begin the drive into the country.
I get to the place I decide to park. I throw on my back pack grab my detector and I'm off. This hike should only take me an hour or so to get in to a place to start detecting. About 45 min into my hike I get a stomach pain. The kind of pain you don't really want to have in the middle of BFE. I have to make a choice. 1: continue and risk ****ing my pants 2: head back to my car and hope I make it to a restroom. Well I decide to risk it. Not even 5 more minutes pass and I can't take it any more. It's going to happen if I want it to or not. So I stop a handle my business. Well now I have a new problem. How am I going to wipe? I look around and all I see is poison oak. Crap. So I decide to cut one of the legs off my boxers. Worked like a charm. I continue my walk thinking I better find something to make this worth it. I get to the lake. I strip down and jump in to clean off.
Well now I'm wet and headed to my spot. I start detecting. Lots of square nails when all of the sudden my etrac screams. I grab my pin pointer and bam! I don't know what it is but it looks old and has an eagle on it. I throw it in my special find pocket and I'm off detecting again. Not even ten feet away and my detector lets out a yell. What is it? A seated dime. 1848 in really good condition too. So in this one spot no bigger then 30x30 I find pieces of old spoons a lead DuPont button? After about 6 hours my pockets were full. My water is empty and my butt is chafed. So I head back to the car which is now about two hours away.

 

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[PENNYHUNTER]

The rest of today's haul.

 

[CladGrabber]

Great finds/tough hunt LoL

 

[Zee]

Very nice finds! I have a few "sleeveless" shirts myself.... And no, I didn't buy them that way.

 

[WilliamH]

I would say that was worth the pit stop. Good thinking about the boxers. Awesome finds. Wh

 

[tennessee digger]

Great finds and a great story! That eagle tongue is really nice, see if you can go back and find the other piece. Love the coin too!

 

[PENNYHUNTER]

I'm going to need to get a smaller coil if I'm going to keep hunting these really trashy areas. I see a Sunray in my future.

 

[DiggerDave in Pa.]

Your story certainly put a smile on my face. Been there, done that. Nice finds. Thanks for sharing. DDinPA.

 

[CREEKGEEK]

Sounds like one of my detecting storys lol

 

[Sovereignelite]

I had the same sort of experience myself while hunting a yard in a residential neighborhood. I've been taking antibiotics for a week so when the urge to go comes on, there is little choice. I switched off my Etrac ran for my car and drove to the nearest gas station. I have to wait in line behind a lady who was writing a check (can't even remember the last time that happened at a gas station!) I ask for the restroom key and the lady says it's open, so I go out and it's locked I knock on the door and wait...no answer go back again wait again get the key and FINALLY get in the john! Sheesh...I'm glad I went back to the yard though did OK:

 

[TheRingFinder]

That's why you wear briefs, much easier to wipe with!!!! Tighty Whiteys baby!!!

 

[rlc1940]

HaHa! Great story a bunch of us can closely identify with!! I believe I'd go through that series of events (again) for those super finds. Maybe stuff a roll of paper in the backpack from now on,, huh??

 

[azmetaldetector]

I always carry to and spare pair of briefs..just in case. Loved the story...made me laugh!

 

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[RJGMC]

On an out of state trip, I figured out that a spare pair of roos" and those little packets of baby wipes do not take up much room at all. Like you said, sometimes there is no choice.

RJGMC
HI BOB!

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

LOL! I was looking at pics, before I read story, I kept wondering, why the crotch shot pic, HAD to go back and read.......
LOL!

Glad you don't have poison oak! LOL! Thanks for sharing, I think.......
I needed that laugh!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats on your finds! Hint-extra socks!

 

[SusanMN]

Three words for you, Kleenex travel pack. Small, cheap, useful to wipe a nose or a behind, slap over a bleeding wound or start a fire.

 

[PENNYHUNTER]

The irony to this day was on my way back to my car walking thru the woods I came across this

 

[blademaker]

TMI man! I think that has happened to most of us. COngrats on the nice finds!