When your detector starts acting weird!!!

[Chug And Red]

While detecting today My Whites classic started chirpping on every pass I made!!!!! I would get a gold reading and dig up a dime I would get a silver reading and pull up a penny!!!!! It was driving me insane!!!!!

After a half an hour I decide to turn it off for a bit and rest!!!!!

When i turned it back on it was doing a constant chirping sound even though the coil was not moving and there was a slight breeze!!!! I was hunting in a lot of leaves and wet grass!!!

I took a look at the bottom of the coil and saw a wrapper from a candy stuck on the coil!!!!! with an edge flapping in the breeze!!!!

OK I will wait for the comments now!!

 

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[boogeyman]

What comment?!?! WELCOME TO THE CLUB. Only thing worse..... Not remembering you've got steel toe boots on while nugget hunting, and there's 3 others close by. Think I'll ever hear the end of that one?

 

[dogpound]

glad ta hear that it wasn't a major repair

 

[desertfox]

No comments, just having a wet coil is enough to give you fits. Glad you found the problem.

HH

Desertfox

 

[andy from de]

I know what you mean Boogyman, I did the steeltoed boot thing my self once. Makes ya walk kind of funny. I didn't want to go home and change shoes so I just coped with it. My back hurt for three days after that. I'll never do that again. AA

 

[Chug And Red]

.

 

[sniffer]

how about waving the handful of dirt under the coil and looking for your target and then realizing you're still wearing your wedding ring.
no, what you did was an accident nothing more. by the way, what kind of candy was it?

 

[Iron Patch]

That's a pretty freak situation having something stuck that had enough movement to make the detector sound off. You can probably detect for the next 25 years and it not happen again.

 

[sniffer]

kind of weird, huh?

 

[Smudge]

That's nothing.

Try driving nearly an hour to get to the beach and then realize you left all your digging equipment at home.

Yep. That was me!

 

[GibH]

That's nothing.

Try driving nearly an hour to get to the beach and then realize you left all your digging equipment at home.

Yep. That was me!

Better than getting home and realize you left your digging equipment at the beach

 

[boogeyman]

That's a pretty freak situation having something stuck that had enough movement to make the detector sound off. You can probably detect for the next 25 years and it not happen again.

HA! 25 years?!? The way my luck runs, I wouldn't hold my breath for 25 minutes

 

[sniffer]

maybe we just get so excited about getting there, we forget all the important things

 

[Iron Patch]

My big one was leaving new Shadow X-5 on the top of a car while we all went in the field to hunt. It wasn't somewhere where there was a ton of traffic, but definitely would have been seen by a few.... and it was completely out of our view. Probably sat there for a few hours and I was very happy to see it hadn't walked away.

 

[sniffer]

IP, I'll bet you were sweating bullets

 

[Iron Patch]

IP, I'll bet you were sweating bullets

No, just felt pretty good seeing it was still there once I realized what I had done. That day was the first time I had used it, and decided it was not for me so was going to be sold. Would have been a costly mistake because those things weren't cheap when they came out.

 

[sniffer]

at least it was still there when you got back

 

[GibH]

Geez, hunted for a couple of hours today. Stopped and rinsed off my detector, scoop and sand out of shoes. Get to the car.....left my scoop at the shower. Guess I'm going to have to velcro everything to me.

 

[boogeyman]

My big one was leaving new Shadow X-5 on the top of a car while we all went in the field to hunt. It wasn't somewhere where there was a ton of traffic, but definitely would have been seen by a few.... and it was completely out of our view. Probably sat there for a few hours and I was very happy to see it hadn't walked away.

Around here, they'd throw the detector in the bushes & steal the car.

 

[wyobuck]

Been there done thaat, how about 2 hours drive.