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Had one of the worst days detecting that I can remember..

Uncle Willy

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It was gorgeous out today and between 65-70 degrees. I hit the soccer fields that I hit this past summer where I found a ton of coins. I walked those suckers until my legs were worn down to my knee caps and found a lousy 57 cents. It was mind numbing. Then on the way home I stopped at a school playground hoping to pick up a quarter or a dime to up my total and all I found in that rat hole was one lousy penny. The detector Gods were really pizzed at me today. It's days like this that makes me want to hang it up - but of course I'll never do that. Only way I'll quit is when it's time to take a dirt nap. :rofl: And even then I'll have my tector buried with me. :)

Bill
 
we all have days like that Bill :cry: just think the next target might be a gold ring :thumbup: that's what i love about detecting you don't know what you"ll find next.
 
hi bill i paid $4000 for a minelab detector mid last year and found my first piece of gold in december and a small bit at that the saying goes you have to walk over it
 
Time to find some other places to hunt. See what happened to some of those places you hunted last year....nothing :rofl:
 
You must have cleaned out that location last season.:laugh:
 
At this point I could dig a bag of tabs and be happy! SNOW :rage:
 
There are plenty of places but this was close and handy - just not profitable. :) Besides I pretty well wiped it out tis past summer. Pulled about $25-$30 out of those soccer fields. Thought maybe some more had been lost since then but apparently not.

Bill
 
Sooner or later we all have a day like that. Mine have been worse when I have been completely skunked. nada. HH Ken
 
What????
When a detector gets stolen from the truck bed when I'm in the cab warming up the engine, and another time one gets run over by the tire because I thought I put it in the back of the truck - it's days like those I call bad detecting days. One was new a couple weeks old and the other only a couple months old.
Then have you ever have a big old rusty fish hook snag deep into the finger while digging for a target with the hand - well pass the hook barb because when I felt something not right, I yanked my hand out and didn't see the lure in the side of the hole which held anchored while I tried to rip it out of the packed dirt side by the hook in me. Felt like it pinned the bone.
Then how about the same month, actually the next hunt, you find a big old rusty nail through the sole and into the foot, yeah the one hidden in the leaves.
And the time digging a target and didn't know about the wasp nest was right there - 7 of them let me know.
Plus the one time, get done at about dark and find ya lost yer keys out there somewhere.
Those were my bad detecting days:veryangry:
 
I feel your pain. :) You shoulda got an Infinium. The big nugget pic I just posted - those were found with an Infinium.

Bill
 
Well I did a post not long ago where I was out with a noob by some baseball & soccer fields. It was his first hunt. When he dug something and held it up, I tried to shield the sun with my left hand to get a better see what he was holding over there - whack!!!! Someone drove a golf ball from the other side of the tree line and it found my left hand. I thought it broke my hand - yes went to see a doc. It hurt real bad. I am still recovering from that one. I can now hold a cup of coffee but it's not comfortable to do so. I was supposed to go back after the swelling went down but haven't. He wanted to make sure it was going to be okay, I figured he wanted to do more damage to the medical bill.
My right hand was injured 13 months ago but that was not during metal detecting.
I can't swing a light weight detector for long at all right now, only for a few very short sessions. So the heavier and off balanced detectors is something I can't do for awhile.
So the last bad day wasn't a dark cloud, it was that stupid golf ball that arc down from the sky.
My point is, I don't care if all I find is a tab. And if find at least just one penny, that's a bonus. When I do find silver coins etc, those are jackpot days. No matter, if I make it back without something happening to me, my gear, or my vehicle, and have something in the goods pouch, then at least I'll call that a good day.
I do have days where I bring home nice relics, or silver or jewelery - those are the ones that keep me going. If I let a few incidents stop me, then I would have gave it up about 25 years ago when a dog didn't like me swinging a detector. That's the disadvantage of using over the ear headphones and not knowing an angry dog was coming to let me know he didn't like strangers swinging a detector. Well I didn't give it up back then when that happened.
 
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