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How about a contest!!!!!!!!...........

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Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"

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Been too much junk going on the last couple weeks! Let's have some fun! :)

Three part contest for a neat prize! Must have posted here on this forum this year to play.

First part.......

Tell us a short funny detecting story! I will put all the entries in a hat and draw half to see who moves on! :)
Have fun!
 
My first week as a detectorist I was doing my back yard and got a good signal. Man, it was there & I kept digging & digging. Finally , I could not find it so got a big shovel and "widened" my search. It turned out to be a basket ball hoop and I was inside it.
Steve in so az
 
I was detecting with a friend of mine who "hates "snakes". Well, we were hunting the woods and all of sudden I heard what sounded like a little girl screaming, yep. it was my buddy. He stumbled into a 6" ring-neck snake and you would have thought it was a cobra.I laughed so hard my side hurt.He ran the whole back to the vehicle and called it a day.
 
n/t
 
I was out in the woods detecting in a swampy area, I didn't want to get my gloves muddy, so I took them off. A few days later my hands broke out super bad from the poison Ivy roots that I was ripping out... It was the end of winter and the leaves had not grown in yet. Moral of the story, gloves are meant to protect your hands, don't worry about getting them dirty!!!!:rofl:
 
mentioned it before but here we go........Little girl came to me while i was MDing the park...she says.." Watcha doing?" I said...Looking for lost things in the ground..Her reply...like what? my reply...coins..pennies and stuff....she asks..Why are you poor?
 
first time my son ever detected, Paul came over and met us and we hunted an abandoned trailor park. Paul brought over a bounty hunter for my son to use, and off he went, digging all signals. While Paul and I were busy digging zinc pennies, my son hollars "dad I think I found gold!" and sure enough he found a 14K heart charm from a necklace. So he being a first timer skunked both Paul and I......lol
 
From the land of the Bluenose.......I'm sure that we all have encountered the proverbial questions like...
"Hey mister what you doing?'
"Are you testing the water?'
"Do you do this for a living?"
"Will I get electrocuted if I come too close?"

Well one day I was a swishing at Chocolate Lake and had had enough so I answered, "I'm looking for leeches!" One of the little gippers started crying and ran up onto the beach and told his mother what I had said.

From the beach came the word from the mother, "You should be ashamed scaring my little Bobby?" She could be heard I'm sure for counties....at least through my head phones while her 1000 yard stare lowered the water temperature a good ten degrees cel! Some day you can't win!
 
found a nice large cent. Phil's reaction to his find was worth the price of admission. PICTURE THIS....I'm a good 100 to 150 feet away in my "zone" and totally concentrating on my hunting...when I heard this unearthly bellowing in the distance. It sounded like something off of Wild Kingdome. I slightly turned ...and out of the corner of my eye I saw this big hopping blur in the distance.:jump: It's jumping up and down...barking out some kind of gibberish...and flapping it's arms wildly:jump:
I've just sighted BIGFOOT?....or some kind of prehistoric creature in pain?....NO it was just Phil...in dire need of a clean pair of shorts:rofl:
 
Already laughing and mine isn't so funny but here goes! My son David and I went to a large park quite a few years ago and while I was MD'ing, there were some Waxwing Blackbirds dive-bombing these two boys, so I moved in a big circle around the tree and while detecting this one man came up to me and asked what I had found in the time I had been detecting! Well, I told him lots of coins and some silver but not much gold! He left and just about that time I found a nice 3/4 inch wide 14-K gold ladies wedding band. I looked around for the man but he was gone and I was going to tell him he brought me good luck! I've often wondered if he was an angel from God!

Then my son and I went to another area of the park and there was a man who looked like an old prospector out of the old west! We were talking and he said he uses a douser (using the metal he's looking for) or ? to find gold! This was an interesting day and I still wonder about the 2 men....maybe they were the same angel but in different appearances!! I like to think so!! :)

God Bless! :angel:
Betty
 
I've only been out a few times at the beach and nothing really funny has ever happened. So dont include my name. The other stories were pretty funny.
 
I was detecting at the beach with heavy sun glasses on, when a female tourist from S.D. asked her boyfriend... honey, what's the matter with that poor man, is he blind?....LOL.

Phil
 
the other day we went to a park where there are alot of homeless people hanging out and my hubby was detecting out in the soccer field when a mom was trying to show her son about kindness and they approached my hubby to give him some spare change thinking he was homeless looking for money guess you just had to be there :bouncy:
 
My kids had a boy on the bus ask them if we were poor when he seen me detecting. I told them to tell him how much that detector cost! :lol:
 
I was detecting at an Elementary school here in town and there was a boy scout meeting going starting. Next thing I know I have six or seven scouts around me asking all kinds of questions. The scout leader asked if I would give an impromptu lesson on metal detecting, so I did. After about a 10 minute lesson and a short demonstration the scout master thanked me. As the scout were walking away I heard one say to another, " that looks like fun, I am going to do that when I get old." Apparently my 44 yr. old body is not aging gracefully.
 
Funny, malaquin! Youngsters think over 20 is old and I guess when anyone passes 40 then we must look really old to them! :rofl: :blink:

God Bless! :angel:
Betty
 
I had a speaking engagement at the antique bottle club about two months ago. I brought all my Civil War cases in to talk about finding CW relics with a detector. Before setting up we were in the hall and a boy about 10 years old asked me ( Are those old bullets?) I said yes from the Civil War. He said
(Were you in the Civil War?) :lol::heh::rofl::blink::unsure: Then I told him it was 140 years ago! :)
 
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