Frank1960
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Oh I love that one
Funny Things that Happen While Detecting
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Oh I love that one
Olds Digger
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sunder62
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Peanut Detector....
I was at my tot lot a few days ago after xmas. As usual I had about 5 kids following me around and generally being a pain (usually the boys) - Girls seem to be more polite and stay out of the way
So one of the boys found a peanut and tried to see if it would set off my detector. The other boy scowled at him and said " It's a Metal Detector stupid! - NOT a PEANUT DETECTOR" !!!
I was at my tot lot a few days ago after xmas. As usual I had about 5 kids following me around and generally being a pain (usually the boys) - Girls seem to be more polite and stay out of the way
So one of the boys found a peanut and tried to see if it would set off my detector. The other boy scowled at him and said " It's a Metal Detector stupid! - NOT a PEANUT DETECTOR" !!!
ProPointer
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I was hunting a local school yard on a Saturday. While digging a hole I was observed by a women, the princaple of the school.She said "Are you the ones digging the holes around here?" She seemed angry by the look on her face. It wasnt us so I told her "I will assure you, we leave no holes." She later said, "I thought the homeless only did this..." I was thinking...How could the homdless afford a metal detector?
I was hunting a local school yard on a Saturday. While digging a hole I was observed by a women, the princaple of the school.She said "Are you the ones digging the holes around here?" She seemed angry by the look on her face. It wasnt us so I told her "I will assure you, we leave no holes." She later said, "I thought the homeless only did this..." I was thinking...How could the homdless afford a metal detector?
Well..Michigan doesn't exactly have the best schools in the country.. Its now no mystery why..
eddy1V
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i dont do much beach detecting, even tho its one hundred yards from my back door. doesnt interest me. but i was detecting after a good storm bout 3 years ago.
we have these razor fish,when the tide goes out ,they bury them selves in the sand.
they are encased in a shell. but if the tide is out. you can pour salt water down the blow hole , the razor fish think the tide is coming in, and they pop up, you have to grab em quick. before they retreat back into the sand.
so this geezer asked me what i was looking for . well it was like a red rag to bull.
told him the magnetic field in the coil, dragged these razor fish to the surface.
cruel i know,,but couldnt help myself
we have these razor fish,when the tide goes out ,they bury them selves in the sand.
they are encased in a shell. but if the tide is out. you can pour salt water down the blow hole , the razor fish think the tide is coming in, and they pop up, you have to grab em quick. before they retreat back into the sand.
so this geezer asked me what i was looking for . well it was like a red rag to bull.
told him the magnetic field in the coil, dragged these razor fish to the surface.
cruel i know,,but couldnt help myself
bo8586
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Great stories in this thread!
I have had a MDer for two days now. Yesterday the UPS guy dropped it off and within an hour I was in my backyard trying it out! After about 5 minutes the neighbors 6 year old comes out and asks what I am doing. I explain what the machine is and what it does. He then proceeds to shadow me on his hands and knees and say "Check here!! Now here! Over here!" Then if the machine made a noise he would yell "ILL DIG!!". It was really funny!
I got a ton of hits in my yard but Im not sure if my land lord would like it if I dug up a few holes even if i filled them back in.
I have had a MDer for two days now. Yesterday the UPS guy dropped it off and within an hour I was in my backyard trying it out! After about 5 minutes the neighbors 6 year old comes out and asks what I am doing. I explain what the machine is and what it does. He then proceeds to shadow me on his hands and knees and say "Check here!! Now here! Over here!" Then if the machine made a noise he would yell "ILL DIG!!". It was really funny!
I got a ton of hits in my yard but Im not sure if my land lord would like it if I dug up a few holes even if i filled them back in.
Frank1960
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That would have been great to see and funny too.
Banemorth
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I was digging in my back yard the other day and I kept getting these really strange hits. One second it's there, the next it's gone. Over and over this would happen. Finally I realized that when my mini doxen would run in front of me, it would go off. Her collar kept giving me false readings! >_< Stupid little hotdog!
Robin D
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NuggettuggeN
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I was at my tot lot a few days ago after xmas. As usual I had about 5 kids following me around and generally being a pain (usually the boys) - Girls seem to be more polite and stay out of the way
So one of the boys found a peanut and tried to see if it would set off my detector. The other boy scowled at him and said " It's a Metal Detector stupid! - NOT a PEANUT DETECTOR" !!!
Hilarious!
MBV123
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I tell the kids that I'm counting worms!! Another one.....I'm looking for snakes! That one is good on girls and squeamish women. LOL!
NHdave
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this happened to me 3 weeks ago, it was about 9pm at weirs beach, nh and this younger asian couple stopped and asked what i was doing... I said Metal detecting... to which the man replied "ohhhhh.... rooking for mines..?.. :/" and hurried his girlfriend/wife away lol..
steve07
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My Backyard
In my backyard there is an old demolished Mica Mine from the mid 1920's, I took a lady friend up there to do some metal detecting in the fall of 2009.
Now when I was a child of 12 (1972) my brothers and I used to use the mine as a shooting gallery, because of the high cliff horseshoe shape. We used to have shooting contests of various kinds, and one brother came up with the idea of trying to shoot a hole through a dime, yes a dime, at 50 yards scoped 22cal. rifle. My brother made a wooden frame the several dimes were mounted in. I have 6 brothers and 3 sisters, 5 of us brothers were in this competition. in the first round, out of the 5 of us only 2 were successful at shooting a hole in the dimes, the other 3 were winged. Round two the 2 of us got to shoot again, one shot each. I don't remember what happened to the dimes.......
Back to the Metal Detecting, I thought this would be a good area for relic hunting because we had found such items before such as Railroad spikes, a Mattock, several Horseshoes, a couple of Sickles. So we started sweeping back and forth and my lady friend gets a good solid hit for coins at 4" inches, she started digging (left the pinpointer at home) and searching, she pulled up 3 dimes with holes shot in them, 2 of them were mine. She was rather disappointed and threw them back in the hole and reburied them. we also had a wonderful story for the next family gathering for Thanksgiving. My brother still claims he had dirt in his eye. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
In my backyard there is an old demolished Mica Mine from the mid 1920's, I took a lady friend up there to do some metal detecting in the fall of 2009.
Now when I was a child of 12 (1972) my brothers and I used to use the mine as a shooting gallery, because of the high cliff horseshoe shape. We used to have shooting contests of various kinds, and one brother came up with the idea of trying to shoot a hole through a dime, yes a dime, at 50 yards scoped 22cal. rifle. My brother made a wooden frame the several dimes were mounted in. I have 6 brothers and 3 sisters, 5 of us brothers were in this competition. in the first round, out of the 5 of us only 2 were successful at shooting a hole in the dimes, the other 3 were winged. Round two the 2 of us got to shoot again, one shot each. I don't remember what happened to the dimes.......
Back to the Metal Detecting, I thought this would be a good area for relic hunting because we had found such items before such as Railroad spikes, a Mattock, several Horseshoes, a couple of Sickles. So we started sweeping back and forth and my lady friend gets a good solid hit for coins at 4" inches, she started digging (left the pinpointer at home) and searching, she pulled up 3 dimes with holes shot in them, 2 of them were mine. She was rather disappointed and threw them back in the hole and reburied them. we also had a wonderful story for the next family gathering for Thanksgiving. My brother still claims he had dirt in his eye. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
steve07
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Upset
The reason she got upset was we spent all that time looking and all she found was three dimes with holes in them. Wish I had a picture of the dimes, but she reburied them.......
The reason she got upset was we spent all that time looking and all she found was three dimes with holes in them. Wish I had a picture of the dimes, but she reburied them.......
Bonesquat
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Why would she rebury them? That makes no sense. Why wouldn't she at least let you keep them?
Neil Diggit
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The guy at the store where my buddy and I got our detectors told us that a guy came up to him and asked questions about it like how it worked and mentioned that the technology had really come a long ways and then he said "where does the grass go?" 
Apparently he thought it was a weed eater. ??
Apparently he thought it was a weed eater. ?? DanS
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I was hunting a park a few weeks ago. It's too cold these days for me to run into anyone. I had a hit and was busy digging it. I still had my headphones on and was absolutely lost in the dig. Suddenly, I was aroused back to the real world when a big golden retriever started likcking the top of my bald head!
Bonesquat
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amxfred
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Helpers!
I had just got a metal detector and couldn't wait to try it out in my back yard. I started to get some hits and immediately started digging up some coins. While I am digging my two male Golden Retrievers are very curious and keep sticking their heads in the holes to smell. I kept pushing them away and finally I had to yell at them to get away and leave me alone. What a big mistake! Thirty minutes later when I finally looked up and decided to try the other side of the yard I could not believe what I saw. The boys (Thats what I call them) had proceeded to dig approximately 40 large holes in the yard and had even dug up some of my wife's newly planted flowers. The yard was a huge mess. We all got in trouble for digging and now I am not allowed to dig in my own back yard
I had just got a metal detector and couldn't wait to try it out in my back yard. I started to get some hits and immediately started digging up some coins. While I am digging my two male Golden Retrievers are very curious and keep sticking their heads in the holes to smell. I kept pushing them away and finally I had to yell at them to get away and leave me alone. What a big mistake! Thirty minutes later when I finally looked up and decided to try the other side of the yard I could not believe what I saw. The boys (Thats what I call them) had proceeded to dig approximately 40 large holes in the yard and had even dug up some of my wife's newly planted flowers. The yard was a huge mess. We all got in trouble for digging and now I am not allowed to dig in my own back yard
