what have been your worst day metal detecting?

[olemudface]

how about when your metal detector breaks in the field or you lose your digging tool and have to try to dig with sticks,or hit by a car while driving your bike home,or threatened with arrest,whats makes a bad day for you,?It seems like everyone on this forum is lucky and never have a bad days or they just dont post them.!

 

[a4wdguy]

The worst day detecting is better than the best day at work, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[dirtmaster]

n/t

 

[Whitetail]

Couldn't agree more with 4wdguy and dirt

 

[a4wdguy]

The absolute worst thing I can think of is one day I left my bug repellant at home and the mosquitos ate me up.
How about this:
My wife and I were detecting, I was up on top of a hill and she was at the bottom searching around an old chapel. I found an old weathered buffalo nickel and ran down the hill to show it off to her.
She was very interested and encouraging. Then she showed me her perfect liberty head nickel. She had stuck her coil under the foundation of the chapel and found that nickel that had fallen through the floor in the 1800's and sat there out of the weather until she came to find it.
I was happy and excited for her, deflated and just a bit embarrassed for me...

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[Woodchuck]

Just this past Saturday took out my brand new whites M6 on its maiden hunt did not find a single coin ! what solid hits I got turned out all be junk even though detector said otherwise.Vey disappointed to say the least.My hunting partner did not fare much better he dug junk also but found one penny,he was using a Minelab GT.

 

[sayvor]

FINDING ROCK and MORE ROCKS..... moved to a town called Glen ROCK!!! I know,........................I'm learning more about the hot rock and filters, just not perfected the DFX yet.

LOL

 

[RELIC_HUNTER]

Myself and a friend were detecting in Schuyler Falls, New York in a open field. Now this part of New York has seen human activity since the mid 1500's...Over the past 20 years or so this field has yield many good finds...

My buddy and I arrive at this field and started to unpack for a weekend of hunting...About 3 hours into the hunt my buddy started jumping and waving...He had found a button, but attached to the button were the Skeletal Remains Of A French Soldier from the French & Indian War...

The proper authorities were contacted and then the French Consulate had the remaines returned to France...This has to be my worst day, my buddy was in the paper and on the news and me, well, I was left out, but still a very proud day and a good deed done...I have been eating CROW now for 7 years.

 

[woodchiphustler]

Finding a suicide in his car in the woods we hunted.

 

[a4wdguy]

Yeah, I could see how that would tend to put a damper on the day...

 

[tim dude]

n/t

 

[GTzer]

Over 30 yrs. Hard to pick one----Car totaled, Dead batts in the middle of nowhere (or with no $), forgetting headphones or a digger or my $%&#! scoop on a rare beach trip. Too many--predator people (taking the fun out of it but to chicken to engage)--kids reaching in holes as I dig, property owners (after permission) breathing down my neck and rubbing any silver I find with their dinosaur thumbs (no clue-even if you tell them WHY you didn't clear the dirt off). A time constraint for work resulting in a scratch on an otherwise perfect unc. Barber quarter (*of the hunderds of silver coins I've dug -probably only nicked 5 or less). ALL of the "well he's doin' it" a$$____s that have ruined permission spots for me.
Sure there is more.
Not really competative when it comes to other people finding good stuff or doing better than I for a given hunt. If they are out there (and ok people) I really hope they do well. BUT one sticks in my mind after 20+ years ONLY because my partner was following my footsteps (rare thing) one day.
There was a little glass & trash laden path leading from a manicured lawn into some urban scrub woods behind a meeting house. I mean-broken glass,tabs,bottle caps and trash. He went 1 foot further than me -right in that trash and dug a chain link cent about 3" down. We had both done that perimeter several times in the past and got some good coins each time we went there. That particular time he was following me about 10 feet back-a one and only time thing.

Still nothing as awful as some things I have read in these forums---like getting treed by a boar that smashes the MD etc.

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[Chloebilean]

The worst day detecting is better than the best day at work, as far as I'm concerned.

LOL As a totally newbie I was waiting for my first metal detector parcel to come. This makes me even more impatient.

 

[Roscue2]

Worst day would have to be being kicked out of a open school grounds by some blubber lady with here 5 dogs and 14 yr old daughter. Although the dogs and daughter were just dragged along and didn't mind me. I wasn't in a good enough mood to question her authority, but I will be back at that school someday. Just a matter of time and the annoying neighbor lady won't be stalking from behind the blinds on the day I want to hunt there.

 

[purplesage]

The wife and me had driven about 3/4 of the way to our destination....oh %$#@!@#$%$#@# forgot my battery pack!!:veryangry: