I'M DONE!!!!

[Danbythecreek]

if I didn't reach down in desperation and pick up this shiny fresh dropped zincoln, today would have been the worst day since my 1st day metal detecting

 

[JimmyCT]

You aren’t alone. I have had many days like this. The thrill is in the hunt. Good days are coming to you.

 

[Danbythecreek]

Yep! Soon as my beautiful precious creek goes dry. That'll be sometime in October I Will be popping them old silvers then

 

[jim tn]

If one's been doing this a while, most of us can identify with your pain. The next hit just might be a big silver, that's the draw of this great hobby. HH jim tn

 

[fwcrawford]

I have found sites that I just knew were going to fun and productive only to realize after hours of detecting, there is nothing there…. Sometimes it just happens… hang in there.

 

[Ronstar]

Bright side, the zincoln is bankable!!! Like advised above there are days you are the bug and then some days you are the windshield. I’ve had sub $1 days for 3-4 hrs of swinging and somedays of near $10. Patients grasshopper.

 

[still looking 52]

I've often had my best coin hunting days at Aldi's getting quarters from their parked shopping buggies, my wife just shakes her head when I turn a quarter into a dollar in about 60 seconds.

 

[gunwolf]

we all started having days like that.. some continue... I have been doing this for over 20 years now... I have seen many come, and many go... it's not all silver and gold like the youtube videos and most posts on MD forums... it's ALOT of research, coil to the soil, and digging trash to find what we are looking for. here is my trash box just from this past week... yes... one week... 99% of the items are aluminum, brass, and copper... with the occasional rusty nail.... those all hit in the sweet zone... if you don't dig them you will never find what your looking for.
I have found more gold with my Ace 250 than with my Minelab E-trac... and that's a fact! dig all good repeatable signals... if you get a good signal turn 180 and if it's still there dig... a few times it will be a bottle cap or twist top... then the good stuff comes....

 

[C.J.M.]

IF you can still find the coffee pot in the 4 am mornings consider yourself blessed,at 80 even this one looks good

 

[nwdetectorist]

I remember a day like that many years ago while using an XLT with some cheap headphones.
At some point I realized only one side of headphones was steady with signal and even then...
Some home soldering and back to same baseball park --- several dollars in change and a nice silver ring.
The next cash flow; I purchased new Black Widows.
Bang! Too many finds after that for my bad back.

HH

 

[MikeO]

If you are a serious detectorist it’s happened.
I have good hunts and bad hunts.
If it was a slam dunk every time everyone would do it.

I have always enjoyed the hunt just as much as the finds. I have met soooo many nice people and gotten tons of fun and exercise doing this hobby. Great finds are just the icing on the cake.

 

[HanoverDigger]

if I didn't reach down in desperation and pick up this shiny fresh dropped zincoln, today would have been the worst day since my 1st day metal detectingView attachment 17604

I've had MANY days of being skunked! Not even ONE civil war bullet or relic. All part of the hobby...at least for me. I keep on hunting!

 

[Missouri -- Ma Betty]

we all started having days like that.. some continue... I have been doing this for over 20 years now... I have seen many come, and many go... it's not all silver and gold like the youtube videos and most posts on MD forums... it's ALOT of research, coil to the soil, and digging trash to find what we are looking for. here is my trash box just from this past week... yes... one week... 99% of the items are aluminum, brass, and copper... with the occasional rusty nail.... those all hit in the sweet zone... if you don't dig them you will never find what your looking for.
I have found more gold with my Ace 250 than with my Minelab E-trac... and that's a fact! dig all good repeatable signals... if you get a good signal turn 180 and if it's still there dig... a few times it will be a bottle cap or twist top... then the good stuff comes....

Instead of banning MDer's from detecting parks & ETC, they should welcome & pay the good guys & gals for cleaning up the trash & getting rid of it by selling the metals are disposing with the Trash haulers & then they dispose of it in the town or city DUMPS! Put those who mess up everything should be sentenced into doing Community work --Far better work learning ethics than jail time--where they learn how to do BIGGER CRIMES! Ma

 

[wildwilly]

Right on, ma.

 

[gwsears]

As my mentor told me years ago... some days you zigg when you should have zagged.

Discriminate ferrous and dig all repeatable signals.

 

[Mark kus]

And some days you make that little change in direction and make a great find and say wow !!!if I did not make that move I would have missed that great find!
Mark