**How Dumb are you ?**

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hi all,

A dumb story. I have not found any silver with my metal detector. So I did a test and put a silver dime in-front of it. The coin had to be 4 inches away for the detector to pick it up. So with grass and dirt on top, plus swing space. That gives me about 1-2 inches of search depth for silver. When most coins are at 3-4" so I am thinking. I need to get a new detector and pay 800 + dollars that I had at one point but don't any more. So I am thinking crap I will never find silver cause when I am I ever going to have 800 bucks again. Then it dawned on me the other day I just need a bigger search coil for $50.00 not a whole new detector! That I can do/try first!! DUHHH!!!

I gave you mine, so whats your dumb metal detecting story, how dumb are you?

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

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[JakePhelps]

By the sounds of it you don't need to pay 800 dollars or even get a bigger coil! Just upgrade to soemthing like the ace 250 or the cibola both are alot less. the quik draw got that bad of depth on a silver coin? My tracker can find them at around 4 or 5 inches at least As for dumbness, the most common one for me is leaving those little trowels i use to dig out in the woods, just found another one today that i left out last summer :P

 

[Willy]

You definitely should get better depth than that! Either something is misadjusted/loose or the detector/coil is defective. Your detetor isn't top of the line, but it still should do much better. ...Willy.

 

[Michigan Badger]

The dumbest thing I've done is not buying a Tesoro detector sooner.

 

[TORRERO]

I had a pinpointer that I took with me when I hunted ball fields and it was so long that
I put it down on the bleachers at a school I was at (long way from home) and you
know what happened.... I have no idea who found it or what they thought they had found...
I've since bought one that attaches to my machine....

Story number 2....
true story.... by the way...
When I was living in Spain, me and my X had just left the beach after finding a nice gold bracelet
on the beach, I decided to take it the Mall to a jewlery store to get an "Estimate of value"
$125.....
When we left the mall I had put the bracelet in my pocket to take home.... ?I knew this...
when we got home, after 1/2 an hour I started to look for the bracelet and could not find it.
Searched the house, and searched the car, and no luck.
So we decided to go back to the mall and lord knows what we expected to find right
Well we got to the parking deck and there were hundreds of cars so we could not park, but we pulled up to where we had parked before,. ... ?and looked on the ground...
Right under the door of the car that was parked where we were parked, on the ground was the
gold bracelet that fell out of my pocket when I pulled my keys out...

 

[DANNYGEE]

THIS IS DUMB.
I DROVE ONE HOUR TO A SITE ONLY TO REALIZE I LEFT MY BATTERY PACKS CHARGING ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER!
SUPER DUMB!

 

[dano91]

Hey Mud nice to see you bud!!! Where you been? Did you get a girlfriend?
We missed ya dude! I usualy hunt alone so noooo..Ive never done anything stupid, except the time I wanted to fight a bear over my stringer of fish. You can feed a bear for a day or you can give him a flyrod and teach him to fish for a life time. SOB probably has the state record by now, with my Grandpa's split rod.

 

[azmetaldetector]

A month after I started detecting, I wnet on a club hunt with the MD club I had just joined. I was a rookie and these guys were very experienced. Of course I managed to lose my pinpointer in the forest we were in, so I must have looked like a rookie. I think that mistake even made it into the club newletter. Of course at the next meeting, they ask the group if anyone left a glove at the site (of course it was mine and i didn't even know that I had lost it.Tlak about looking like a rookie)

 

[dano91]

They will start following you around to see what you lose, sounds like you made some friends.

 

[Jeffro]

Left my poke at the dredge site, never got it back. In return, I got a nice snuffer bottle that came floating down the river with about a pennyweight in it. Bad trade, but better than a kick in the butt!

Hey Dano- you seen this one? http://www.holylemon.com/bearad.html

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

ROTFLMAO, very funny everyone keep them commin!!

I have been around dano91, everything likewise with you.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[slow sweeper]

Left headlights on, draining battery, so truck wouldn't start, in the middle of nowhere.

 

[treasurekidd]

I find that air tests are unreliable for accurate depth readings on any detector. When I run an airtest using my ACE250, I find that the maximum I get a good strong signal at id 3-4", while I dig coins deeper than that in the field all the time. I don't think that air is as good a medium for the electromagnetic field as soil is, especially damp soil. The only thing I use air tests for anymore is to check the metallic content of something, like jewelry (is it silver or is it junk), because the belltones and target ID work well for that.

 

[Michigan Badger]

Okay! This one is dumbmer than dumb!

This is a true story.

Date: 1983 or 4

I was detecting by a WWI monument in a small old park somewhere.

I got this soft faint signal.

I dug down 9 or 10 inches and brought up a round gold object about the size of a double eagle.

At first I freaked-out thinking it was a $20 gold piece!

Then I noticed it was a watch.

Depressed I re-checked the hole and got another signal. I also brought up a very old silver watch FOB.

I went home and tossed the watch and fob into a drawer with other finds.

Two or three years later, I opened this drawer like many times before and noticed the old watch slid over some dug Indian cents. I grabbed the watch and threw it in the trash.

Six months later I heard a speaker mention a brand of very valuable watch--Rolex. This was the second time I'd heard that name. The first time was when I read it off the front of that 100+ year old pocket watch I had thrown away 6 months earlier.

It was shiny gold and very heavy.

Now I ask you, was that dumb or what?

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Zeb...I actually cringed when I read your post...I'm sure you kick yourself in the butt enough, I won't add to it.

Slow - > I'd would love to hear how you got home...

My "moment" concerned the weather.? I was hunting under the chairlifts at Grand Targhee ski resort (NW Wyo, W side of the Teton range).? I had hunted the bunny hill and main chair...lots of older clad, keys, etc.? I then hunted another chair on the N side that went to the top of the mountain.? While at the top I noticed a thunder storm heading my way.? It was moving along the mountains, S to N.? I could see the lightning arcing from from the clouds to the mountains.? I decided to head down, detecting along the way.? I realized that the storm was moving faster than I was, so I stopped detecting and started down the mountain in earnest.? I got about 2/3 of the way down and the storm hit.? Lightning and thunder overloaded my senses.? I could feel the electricity in the air.? Initially I thought about hiding under a big pine, but we've all been taught that that's the worst place to be.? I left my my detector and shovel leaning up against a tree, went into a clearing and assumed the position (fetal).? Within ten seconds the loudest and brightest thing I've ever experienced hit about 100 feet from my position.? Everything went white...there was no such thing as a shadow.? I waited a while, the storm moved down the valley, and I went home.? Later on, my neck hurt...I had bunched up so tightly when the lightning hit that I pulled a neck muscle...better than being turned into a crispy critter.? Lesson:? respect the weather and don't push your luck!

 

[Jeffro]

Out of curiosity, because I plan on hitting a ski area this spring, where did you get your best finds that day?

OK, back to the "dumb" stories- these are getting pretty good!

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Hi Jeffro, Under the chair...I had to keep looking up to make sure I was on the right track....

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Wow!!

Keep um commin!!

 

[dano91]

I've done some ski lifts, and was taught by a Pro how to do it. The best finds for us were where people fell or wiped out.
He told me don't bother hunting under the lifts 'all you'll find is pot pipes' and he was right lol 23 of them in about an hour.
I did notice that some people would lose the entire contents of their pockets when they fell. That was at Vail, and some NFS rangers came up to see what we were doing, they just kinda laughed at us. They thought it was someone playing with a toy.
We both had large trash bags 1/2 full of trash we picked up, so they thanked us for that, and left.

 

[The Beep Goes On]

I had good luck under the chair...64' half dollar, lots of clad, knife, etc., even a nice camera. No pot pipes....hmmmm. Hunting places where people fall is a great idea, though.