Let's have a show of hands-------

[D&P-OR]

by anyone that's hunted for (say more than 5 minutes) with their Sunray in-line probe in the "on" position.-------Me first-- ---I hunted the full length of the inside of a building in an old fairgrounds once with it on (I'm not too smart)! ----I did have enough sense to go back & hunt the same ground over though!!! ----------Del

 

[LabradorBob]

[size=x-large]Me[/size]

Wait till you hit pinpoint and forget to turn it back off, Not that i did that or anything
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[filo]

Same here! I've done it at least 2x for fairly long periods and when I noticed I certainly felt stupid. Oh well. The value of having it far outweighs the trouble it may cause when it accidentally gets left on.

 

[Larry (IL)]

 

[D&P-OR]

Got a few honest people here!!!

 

[MAcle1997]

Happens at least once per hunt for me. I always try to find my last dig and start again from there. I've gotten better about it though and check more often.

Mark

 

[captn_se]

it was more like a minute or two, and I've done it multiple times.

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

 

[Barry NY]

always happens - you know after about 5 minutes when you get nothing but the same weird signal every so often...

 

[CT Todd]

Oh for sure.If you haven't then you haven't hunted much.Boy do I curse when I do that.I knew I wasn't the only one.

How many have managed to get to where your going and not have a digging tool.ME

 

[NebTrac]

GUILTY as charged! 7 min. was my first and I'd thought I'd found the trashiest place on the planet, because I keep my 8" CeeTee's (pliers) on my right hip and the coil also is right there when I'm swingin'. Have done it a couple of times since but getting better at recognizing what's going on.

Funniest thing is I knew I was blushing from embarrasment and there wasn't anyone else within a mile of me!

NebTrac

 

[D&P-OR]

I hear ya Troy---Plumb embarrassing, ain't it?----That happen at Broken Bow????

 

[NebTrac]

I hear ya Troy---Plumb embarrassing, ain't it?----That happen at Broken Bow????

North of there about 20 miles on a homesite my landlord owns. Cool thing was, after that embarassment, I hit a spot where I think the former houseowners cleaned out the car. I found about $2 in clad just waving the X-1 over a spot about the size of a car hood.

NebTrac

 

[Jesse W. McComas]

n/t

 

[wharghoul]

Yep,

For about 10 min. I'm thinking "Man, this place is full of pull tabs".....till I realized that my probe was on and it was picking up my wedding ring.

 

[archer]

I have had that "doh!" (THINK Homer Simpson) moment more times than I'd like to admit. Still, the sunray probe is great, wouldn't want to hunt without it.

 

[mickfin]

Well iv forgot in on a lot wen i first got it, I found a GOLD Ring with another Detector and i wear it on my Little finger I use to swing my E-Track ,
So wen i hear the same sound it tells me I forgot it on, And yes wen i dident have the Ring on my finger iv went over 5 min, hope this helps, Mickfin

 

[geodawn]

Me! It was with my DFX....I've only gone a minute or two with the Etrac.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

I have but it was intentional as I was using the probe as a mini detector next to some iron framework .Otherwise a couple of min. and the light comes on for me

 

[onemore]

I use a Pocket Uni-Probe, so don't have that problem. However, I have walked a long way to a spot, got a great signal, then I noticed I forgot my @#$% digging tool - ARGH!

 

[hardrock]

Hi all: yep and still catch myself but gotten much better, had a gent call me after purchasing an E-trac/Sun Ray x-1 and kinda reemed me a bit that it was broken and not working. I said lets walk through this and see whats wrong. Question 1 was did you set up the machine properly turn on etc, question # 2 is the probe switch to coil or probe, got real quiet on the phone, heard him say thanks and he hung up. Ended that session, I saw him recently and he says it is the greatest setup he ever purchased, his wife told me he was real embarrased after that call, I told her that I do it all the time. Hardrock