How many Honest people here?

[LabradorBob]

Ok,
How many after they first got an x1 probe,at some time or another was detecting,
and was trying to figure out all the weird signals,only to figure out you forgot to flip your switch back to your coil.

I admit it ,I did it.

Harold

 

[hershey1]

More than once. But anybody can find stuff with a big coil. You have to be good to find stuff shooting from the hip with a 1 inch coil. HH

 

[howlow666]

Yes ok same here, but on my old Quattro. Made me feel silly.

 

[dewcon4414]

What do you mean when i first got it.... i still do it. The way i know is it gets quiet and i only hear high tones. Takes me about 4 or 5 steps and i go crap... did it again.

 

[Buddysox]

I kept getting really high and strange tones, then couldnt get them to repeat. Keys and coins in right pocket! GUILTY!

 

[EZrider]

One of the many nuances of the probe. After getting and using the Pro Pointer. Using the Sunray almost seems like a hassle. This is no offence to the company, products or people who use them.

EZ

 

[montanagold]

Still find myself looking down at times to make sure it is in coil mode or to make sure I didn't bump it out. Small price to pay for such a great pinpointer. I had the propointer but wont hunt without the X-1 anymore.

 

[Willy_MN]

Ok,
How many after they first got an x1 probe,at some time or another was detecting,
and was trying to figure out all the weird signals,only to figure out you forgot to flip your switch back to your coil.

I admit it ,I did it.

Harold

I won't have mine until the end of the month. But, I'll just add my name to the list right now -- because I know I'll do it!

 

[pat (chicago)]

n/t

 

[dirt doctor]

At least once every couple of trips but I'm getting getting better at catching myself faster .

 

[Eddie(AL)]

Happens most every trip. Even if I am good about remembering to switch it to the main coil, I find that it often gets flipped back to the probe when working around brush and in the woods. Once I get a good signal or two that disappear or don't repeat I'll finally check the position.

 

[Amartin1955]

hell i hunted for 2 hours with the coil off lol

 

[PJ]

You guys make me feel a lot better. I thought I was the only brain dead one.

 

[Mojave]

I don't think there is anyone with a sunray probe who hasn't had this happen.

 

[Big Fang Coin Biter]

n/t

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

Hey, it is the nature of the beast. You get excited over a good find and forget to switch back. Still it is worth the trade off. Quick recovery, mindless mistake. Still, I would never get rid of this tool. HH...Jesse.

 

[Patrick(MI)]

I'll tell ya what happened to me one day. I used the probe, put the good find in my pouch and in my excitement got up and started hunting again. Thought I had stepped into some noisy ground and zig zaged for about a hundred feet wondering why the ground had all of a sudden gotten so noisy. Started looking at my settings, battery power and then shut the machine off. Turning it back on it was acting all kinds of goofy and I thought, "great I just found a good spot and my detector takes a crap". So after about 30 - 45 minutes of time since my last target dig it dawns on me that I forgot to throw the probe switch back down. Fortunately I could see where I had been kneeling to dig that last good target and could go back to that point and start again. But I lost a good 45 minutes of hunt time dinking around with the machine. That will leave ya talking to yourself.
So what I did for a while after that was tape a dime onto the shaft where the end of the probe sits in the holder. That way when I put it back it makes that good coin sound and it reminds me to flip the switch before I get off the ground and get started again.

 

[jbow]

One of the reasons I stopped using it on my Sovereign but not the main reason.... i've had to re-swing quite a few sq ft of ground... laff

J

 

[Virgile in Okla.]

n/t

 

[grumpyolman]

Add my name to that list as well. I sometimes wonder what good stuff I wandered by when I've been in the 'small coil' mode.