Murphy’s Laws of Treasure Hunting....An all Inclusive Thread

[BigWaveDave]

Whether you’re a gold planner, CRH’er, dumpster diver, detectorist, fossil hunter.....any form of hunting here on Tnet....what peeves you on an almost expected result.
You know, things are going well.... then there it is, a head banging moment that happens just often enough to where you are no longer upset by it.

I’ll kick it off....

A dateless Buffalo, ok fine.
It has an S mintmark. Really?

 

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[releventchair]

Scratttttch...mark on the best find after carefully extracting junk all day.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Walking 3/4 of a mile into the woods to a colonial cellar hole, turning on my detector and nothing but silence! It doesn't work if you don't put the rechargeable batteries back in before leaving the house...

 

[sheep.dog]

I found my first Reale last week, I thought about it/looked at it all the way home, pulled into the driveway and realized my Lesche was still stuck in the ground next to where my jeep had been parked at the site 25 minutes away

 

[GB1]

out in the middles of the woods and find nothing but next to a big tree you only find a merry widows tin from the 20's

 

[DDancer]

Been detecting for gold for a week and getting nothing but old timers tins and trash, hit a big signal in a shallow run off near the tin pile. Junk, almost used my pick to stake it and toss it out. Few days later partner walks in with a 5 oz nugget and takes me to show me my "Tin Can".

 

[Muddyhandz]

I drive into the parking lot on a week day and YES, nobody's here! Soon as I get out the detector, a car pulls up to mine.....
then a young chick comes from the other end with a dozen kids from a nearby daycare.......
Next thing you know, everyone and their dog shows up!
Doesn't anyone work during the day?

 

[Ogre1190]

Seeing that they just mowed the clover-infested field where I want to hunt. Yay! 🙌 No bees!!!!! And two steps in, clouds of gnats envelope me. 😞

 

[Mackaydon]

Was treasure searching on a Honduran island. Had a videographer as part to the crew. Morning session of video went well; so did the afternoon session--at least so I thought. Back on the boat I asked to see the video. The videographer had reset his camera back to the beginning--and video-ed over the first video--total loss.
Don......

 

[BigWaveDave]

I see lots of guys here score big at garage sales.....
Maybe I should start asking for gold, silver, and watches...
Because every time I ask if they got coins, I’m told either no, or they just sold them to a guy earlier.

 

[holepuncher]

I hit the local park, got geared up then went for about 10 min hike and started detecting, got a good tone, went to grab the pinpointer. gone. I knew it was on my pack when I geared up, Did a backtrack and about 20 ft. from the jeep there it was. I got lucky this time.

 

[GB1]

you open a roll of dimes with white rims staring back at you pick it up crap steel Canadians

 

[trdking]

Teaching someone how to metal detect and dig nothing but pop tops until you hand it to them......

 

[Justin1978]

spiderwebs!!!!! spanning inches feet, spiderwebs between every branch, and everytime you walk thru one and it lays across your head and face like a blanket on a bed, the only thing that you can do is hope the spider wasnt on it. the shitty part is after you wipe the web away, every bead of sweat that rolls down the back of the neck feels just like a damn spider

 

[holepuncher]

spiderwebs!!!!! spanning inches feet, spiderwebs between every branch, and everytime you walk thru one and it lays across your head and face like a blanket on a bed, the only thing that you can do is hope the spider wasnt on it. the shitty part is after you wipe the web away, every bead of sweat that rolls down the back of the neck feels just like a damn spider

If you get lucky you walk into a banana spider web ( spider is about 3 in. long) and if you stop quick enough you can just back up and the web will snap back and leave no web on you.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

spiderwebs!!!!! spanning inches feet, spiderwebs between every branch, and everytime you walk thru one and it lays across your head and face like a blanket on a bed, the only thing that you can do is hope the spider wasnt on it. the shitty part is after you wipe the web away, every bead of sweat that rolls down the back of the neck feels just like a damn spider

Good gracious, I'm arachnophobic! I tend to dance around swatting all over me. Nowadays I carry a long stick to clear the way in front of me.....

 

[chub]

having 'me time' interupted by a trail of curious kids....who then start to *help dig every signal.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

good question - did murphy have kids?

chub

 

[b3y0nd3r]

Spotting an old baseball field on top of a mountain in a 1930's airel photo. After a 35 minute hike up the mountain, then only finding a single wheat penny.

 

[Stringtyer]

Getting back into metal detecting after 30 or so years, new detector, plenty of time with every possible metal learning what the numbers mean. Great signal looking like silver, dug about 12" through and around roots to find a cadmium plated siding nail. Arrrrgggghhhh ...

 

[Stringtyer]

Good gracious, I'm arachnophobic! I tend to dance around swatting all over me. Nowadays I carry a long stick to clear the way in front of me.....

My doctor always says I need more aerobic exercise. That's because she has never seen me walk into a spider web. Plenty of exercise is had. I look like a one man Zomba class.