What a dummy!!!

[whoknows52]

When I MD, I don't use a pinpointer all the time and this was one of those times...working behind a school, on the ball field I got a mans wedding band, it fit so I stuck it on my finger, I don't generally wear rings, so my next hit I dug and couldn't see it so I swept over the pile of dirt I had dug and it was in it, so i took a handful and swept across it and there it was, at least thats what I thought but I couldn't find it...OK it must have slipped through my fingers...I picked up more dirt and it hit again....but it wasn't there....after a couple of times doing this....it sank in....I was picking up the ring I had put on...what a dummy!!!!

 

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[free4dan]

LOL LOL OK since you broke the ice here.....I've been guilty of the same thing. Gotta look around to see who busted ys huh? LOL Thanks for the story.
Dan

 

[staceysallaboutu]

Thanks for the Smile and ive done it too but with my own wedding ring..

 

[Night Stalker]

LOL! I think everyone has done that before!

 

[BobinSouthVA]

I'm new to this hobby but I can't tell you how many times my son has said "Dad its just your ring"

not sure ill ever learn

 

[txkickergirl]

been there done it also. Its kinda like picking up a beep from your shoes and walking backwards trying to find it again.

 

[Wasabi]

LOL, He He He,
I have to admit I have done the same thing with my watch and wedding band.
It was driving me crazy.
Now of course I take it all off and leave it at home, just so I don't loose my wedding band for one of you to find.

 

[dr-quest]

Done it with my silver ring and got extra excited thinking the penny signal was really silver.
Not once but a lot

 

[Wheezy]

I'm guilty also. First time out years ago and I was so frustrated that I darn near threw my detector away. I just could not figure out why I was getting a signal with each hand full of dirt, then when I slowly and methodically sifted it out of my hand, I wasn't finding a thing! About the 5th time, there I admit to it, 5 times and then it hit me like a brick! My wedding band was setting it off. Since than I've learned to remove them and then last year my son got me a pin pointer for fathers day.

Wheezy

 

[Maryland Searcher]

Im a newbie but I learn quickly (sort of).
During the first outing I learned after about fifteen minutes that my steel toed boots were the culprit of false readings. I need to get a tall mans pole for my XLT and/or good fiber-toed safety toes.

In a nutshell, I lost count of how many times I pinpointed my feet with my XLT.

Ive also had eroneous readings from targets dug. I have located, pinpointed, checked the depth after the dig and gone through the handfuls of dirt but never recovered the target or even picked it up again with the detector! It mysteriously vanished! Maybe my shoe again.

 

[goldgrubber]

Got me too!!!

 

[anteater]

Thanks for the chuckle! I needed that!!

 

[Nana40]

Congrats on those ring finds!

Nana