Stupid IS what Stupid DOES

[Holedigger]

I hate to admit it, but I was stumped. I was out detecting about a week ago with a few guys. I didn't do bad, a Barber dime, a Mercury dime, a bracelet, wheat pennies, etc. The dew that morning was very heavy and my feet were soaked wearing tennis shoes. The next day we decided to return to the very same spot / place at 7:00 A.M. When we arrived we had the reminents of hurricane Rita raining on us. Fortunately I put on my water proof boots so my feet stayed comfortable and dry. I put a plastic freezer bag over my Minelab control head to protect my machine from the rain.

We didn't make fifty swings before a buddy found his first Liberty Half Dollar in excellent shape. I'm all excited and ready to find mine but, my machine is falsing like mad. It's like a pop corn machine with false silver signals constantly bombarding my ears and senses. I'm thinking the water got to my Explorer and need to send it off for repair. Not to worry, I have a spare Minelab II for such an emergency left at home.

Took the day off the following Tuesday. The dew is very heavy and wore my boots so feet stayed comfortable and dry. Brought my spare Minelab hoping I would find my first old silver half dollar also!

At the same area, with the same hunting partner that found the beautiful half, my second machine is doing the very same thing, falsing and popping like high silver pop corn in heavy grass dew? I can't believe it... Surely, what are the odds of "two" machines going out at the same time, doing the same thing? You can not hunt with falsing like that, believe me...

I reset the machine to factory settings, lowered IM and sensitivity, hunted in auto, etc. I set the machine so low to eliminate the falsing I couldn't find a target. By now I'm despondent and depressed. I had to quit after half an hour of constant popcorn silver falsing.

I was thinking electrical interference, solar flares, or something causing my "machines" to malfunction" the same way...

That night I went to bed thinking about it. At 1:00 A.M. I awoke because I thought of something disturbing. It couldn't be!

I got out of bed, put on a pair of shorts, grabbed a battery and my detector and my boots and went outside.

Sure enough, my "steel toe" boots were causing my falsing. Been out twice since and no problems wearing non metalic footwear...

Stupid is what stupid wears!

 

[Dave Z]

I remember hunting a spot a few years ago.About this time of year,it was morning and the grass wet from the dew.I tried to hunt the spot with a Cz7apro.It would just constantly false,no matter what sensitivity I set it to.I took my XLT out of the car,ground balanced it and it worked fine.Later,when the grass was dry I tried the Fisher again.It worked fine.It happened two days in a row at the same site,wet grass both times.Try your Explorer back at that spot when the grass is dry.I believe I remember some guys here having trouble over wet grass.You'd have to ask them about that however.HH.Dave

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

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[Dan-Pa.]

Watch the mettalic holes for the laces, Explorer is a powerful machine which can be influenced..I have seen these new fangled machines act up on sunny days, rainy days, cold days, and yep high humidity can play havoc with many top of the line units,,,Thanks for my smile this evening...