MOST dangerous Situations you have been in while Detecting

Eastender said:
Most of the time while I am detecting I feel some danger. Since I hunt almost entirely in the woods sometimes miles from my car I have to worry about hunters and ticks. While detecting in the brush near wetlands I have flushed waterfowl towards hunters opposite to me. Deer hunters can be stationary, and I can push deer towards them, putting the deer between me and the gun. The deer get skittish when between two humans. And full on camo deer hunters in tree stands can scare the crap out of you. I hear plenty of shots and find many bullets, casings, and arrows. I come across dead deer, wounded and not retrieved. I pass my detector over skeletons to find rounds and arrow tips.

I usually like to get out when it gets cold enough to stop the ticks, and this corresponds to hunting season. Ticks cannot be underestimated where I live on eastern Long Island, NY. They carry so many debilitating diseases aside from Lyme's. I know of people admitted to the hospital for tick borne diseases attacking the heart muscle. There is also the alpha gal meat allergy transmitted by the lone star tick. Once you get it you cannot eat meat from cloven hooves without getting a reaction which closes off respiration.

I also see tremendous yellow jacket nests on the forest floor. One time I plunged my trowel into a nest while digging a target not realizing a nest was there. When the swam emerged I ran a forty yard dash, stopped to celebrate outrunning them, then they caught up with me and stung me 7 times around the neck.
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Thanks for sharing :)
 

Richard Guy said:
Walked right next to a large-bodied Copperhead, ... I slowly stepped to the side, ... frightening.

I've made some thick cardboard 'snake-guards' by rolling cardboard to fit my calf up to the knee. Duct taped in place. Cheap yet effective. I wear them under my jeans. Snakes seldom strike above the calf if on the ground. Mountainous areas are another story.
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Thanks for the tips
 

Gare said:
Thanks for the tips
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Not as scary as some of these, but memorable. Was searching an old abandoned homestead. Swinging near a pile of clothes & tents my detector starts going zup zup when I swing left. What the heck!?!? Shake the coil thinking bad cable, nope! Ah, new headphones must have a short. Check the cable end to end, hmm.... start swinging again zup zup. This time headphones off. Not coming from the headphones. Then I spot it! Under the edge of a pile of tent there's a rattler sticking out! Yup! You guessed it! I had literally been banging the snake on the nose with the coil! Every time I hit his nose he'd buzz. He could've struck me ten or fifteen times! Don't know why he didn't....... lesson? One ear uncovered, and a little more use of peripheral vision.

Also, way out in the boonies no cell phone in those days. If he had struck I'd be posting this on "dumbazzinheaven.com"
 

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I was out hunting alone on a hill top looking for an old camping area from the 1920's. While I was running my detector over the ground, I noticed a large tree with a dark, partially hollowed-out trunk. I thought to myself, "animals live in old tree trunks". Within two minutes, I heard a loud screaming sound and saw a badger charging at me showing it's teeth. "Oh shxx" , I thought. Must be babies in the tree trunk. It's going to attack my legs and no one knows I'm out here in these woods. I won't be able to get back to the car. "Oh, shxx", again. My survival instinct was to put the metal detector coil between me and her. She stopped about 10 feet away and then moved from side to side trying to get around the coil. After five minutes, the stand-off ended with her slowly walking back towards the tree, stopping a few times to look at me. Then I slowly left the way I came.

FYI.... From this event, I always text my hunting area GPS coordinates to my wife. And if she doesn't hear from me by dark, start looking there.
 

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boogeyman said:
Not as scary as some of these, but memorable. Was searching an old abandoned homestead. Swinging near a pile of clothes & tents my detector starts going zup zup when I swing left. What the heck!?!? Shake the coil thinking bad cable, nope! Ah, new headphones must have a short. Check the cable end to end, hmm.... start swinging again zup zup. This time headphones off. Not coming from the headphones. Then I spot it! Under the edge of a pile of tent there's a rattler sticking out! Yup! You guessed it! I had literally been banging the snake on the nose with the coil! Every time I hit his nose he'd buzz. He could've struck me ten or fifteen times! Don't know why he didn't....... lesson? One ear uncovered, and a little more use of peripheral vision.

Also, way out in the boonies no cell phone in those days. If he had struck I'd be posting this on "dumbazzinheaven.com"
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wow that is CLOSE ENOUGH !!! Thanks for sharing
I remember many years ago there was a headphone company. I think there were called Rattlers. It only had one ear covering . SO you could hear rattle snakes. Does anyone else remember this head phone ?
 

ken135 said:
I was out hunting alone on a hill top looking for an old camping area from the 1920's. While I was running my detector over the ground, I noticed a large tree with a dark, partially hollowed-out trunk. I thought to myself, "animals live in old tree trunks". Within two minutes, I heard a loud screaming sound and saw a wolverine charging at me showing it's teeth. "Oh shxx" , I thought. Must be babies in the tree trunk. It's going to attack my legs and no one knows I'm out here in these woods. I won't be able to get back to the car. "Oh, shxx", again. My survival instinct was to put the metal detector coil between me and her. She stopped about 10 feet away and then moved from side to side trying to get around the coil. After five minutes, the stand-off ended with her slowly walking back towards the tree, stopping a few times to look at me. Then I slowly left the way I came.

FYI.... From this event, I always text my hunting area GPS coordinates to my wife. And if she doesn't hear from me by dark, start looking there.
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WOW did you have to change your underwear ? LOL that is SCARY THOUGH > 111 Texting your cloordinates to a loved one is also a great idea
 

Gare said:
wow that is CLOSE ENOUGH !!! Thanks for sharing
I remember many years ago there was a headphone company. I think there were called Rattlers. It only had one ear covering . SO you could hear rattle snakes. Does anyone else remember this head phone ?
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Yup! Broke mine three days after I got em. Wish I had them 10 years earlier!
 

I would have to say last Saturday was my scariest moment when the UPS truck drove down the street past my house and had to do a U turn while my wife was backing out of the driveway, luckily she made it around the corner before she saw him drop off my new Deus 2. I carry pepper spray and sometimes a gun when I'm detecting though, not too worried.
 

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Gare said:
wow that is CLOSE ENOUGH !!! Thanks for sharing
I remember many years ago there was a headphone company. I think there were called Rattlers. It only had one ear covering . SO you could hear rattle snakes. Does anyone else remember this head phone ?
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Well mine isn't to scary I was prospecting a river with my detector and since it had some rocky areas I also had my walking stick and as I walked through an area with some basketball sized rocks I just about put my foot on a coiled rattler(probably around a 6 footer) that was partly under the ledge of a rock. So standing there with one foot in the air I pivoted around and started to leave but then and here is the part that my wife asked me if I am stupid, I poked it with my walking stick because it hadn't rattled when I was so close but it's head was under the rock so I guess that is why it didn't detect me but poking him sure woke him up, and this fat guy did a 40 yard dash up the hill to my pickup in world record time. The scariest part was telling my wife how dumb I was. I used to hunt them as a kid so they don't scare me much but that one did.
 

Gare said:
If you have been in any dangerous situations while detecting would you mind sharing the incidents with us. maybe it was animal related , Floods, Dangerous people

About 10 years ago maybe a few years less I had just paid around $2,500 for a Minelab CTX 3030 . I was detecting a park up near Akron Ohio and three guys came up to me and they looked like trouble . There was no one else around . I remember one tall person said "HEY WHITEY How much that GEIGER counter worth., Now i thought i was going to get robbed. I told them i had just got it last evening for 15 DOLLARS . To which he replied NOT worth it guys lets go. and they LEFT and then I LEFT LOL
Another time i was in a cane brake field near Vicksburg Mississippi and stepped on something thAT was wiggling under my sole. I had stepped on the tail end of a rattle snake. Not a very big one but it did not have to be . He was around a cane brake and trying to strike me. Mind you i had snakes chaps on but I still got very shakenup/.
Do you have any close calls you would care to share ?
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Ohhh yes! The MOST Dangerous! Trying to explain to my Honey how mud from a farm field in Kingston, Ny, got on her White Plains, NY, living room floor and rug. Trust me, I needed to change my underwear after that encounter!
 

Terry Soloman said:
Ohhh yes! The MOST Dangerous! Trying to explain to my Honey how mud from a farm field in Kingston, Ny, got on her White Plains, NY, living room floor and rug. Trust me, I needed to change my underwear after that encounter!
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Dude! Gives me the shivers just thinking about that one!!!!!
 

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All these posts is the reason I pack my pistol. Tennessee is a non permit carry state as long it's not concealed anyone can carry.
Never go out detecting anywhere except on private property without Lugar
 

USERNAME IS VALID said:
I would have to say last Saturday was my scariest moment when the UPS truck drove down the street past my house and had to do a U turn while my wife was backing out of the driveway, luckily she made it around the corner before she saw him drop off my new Deus 2. I carry pepper spray and sometimes a gun when I'm detecting though, not too worried.
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I am with you, Gare. My wife once gave me an ultimatum it was either her or metal detecting. I wonder where she is today.
 

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