i feel like an idiot too/ the mistakes i've made

[GRAY GHOST]

hello all. it's a good topic, prohoofcare, but i just had to go a little further with it... thankyou, sir. oh man, the dumb things i've done... i bought an older whites, guess i was about 16, for the then princely sum of 5 bucks, sight unseen. everything was great about it... until i tried to turn it on. nothing. it had been gutted! no electronics whatsoever! that was not good. just try digging holes all day with a borrowed butterknife! ouch!!! and no headphones on near a busy highway!!! duh. no wonder i didn't find anything. i had heard about an old house foundation and went looking for it. took all day. finally i just sat down, tired, trying to remember what i'd been told. it was sooo hot, it was all a big jumble now, and i was mad at myself for forgetting the directions. then, dejected, i hung my head down, wait... there's a piece of old glass...a kid's ring...i jumped up, looked around me, and there was the foundation! i was sitting right on top of it. duh. or the time i happened up on this huge black snake who wouldn't stop following me - i guess i invaded his turf - so i started talking, then making motions toward him to make it go away. well, it only excited the snake more, so i kicked the ground, but struck a rock with my heel. ouch!!! sprained ankle...not worth it! another hot day, we were in the middle of a drought, and i just wasn't getting any beeps at all. i shouldn't of gone detecting that day; i wasn't in a good mood. the mayflies started dive bombing me, and the mosquitoes launched their separate attacks. i was miserable, but too hard headed to give up! cursing the weather and my stupid, non - working machine, i got a faint, deep signal. hmmmphhh, i thought, another darn tab. i reluctantly dug the hard ground, and out pops a 1773 spanish 2 reale! couldn't believe it. all i could do was stay on my knees, feelin' foolish, looking at it, and promised myself then and there to never act like that again. and i haven't. ...or the time i was in a huge hurry to get out, drove 2 miles to the site...no shovel. drove back and got it. drove back to site... no earphones...ummm, this is not your day, ghost...drove back and got 'em... drove back to site...and had a great day! i found out a long time ago to be ready and prepared for your hunt, and to have an open mind and a good attitude when you go. it really helps the hunt in general and increases your finds. iv'e forgotten my batteries too. and i've forgotten to turn my machine back on too. i'm just glad that nobody witnessed most of these. 'cause i sure enough would have looked like an idiot, and felt like one too. thanks for reading, hope to hear from you, and hh,

 

[echostar61]

Great post GrayGhost , Thanks so much for sharing it with us . I know I've had tons of
those experiences over the years,most I've forgotten. The good days detecting always
out weigh the bad ones

Terri

 

[rmptr]

IF, I can get to the park when not a single soul is in the vicinity, it goes very well for me.

I walk to a commanding position, looking across the terrain and set my recovery pouch before me.
Holding my Silver Sabre out at arms length, I quickly make the mark of Zorro and all the clad jumps from the ground into my pouch.
Perfect.

Here in California, though, seems like there's always someone else around.

HH
Recovers Many Pull Tab Relics

 

[on-edge]

i walked up to the edge of a tall grassy feild one time with a cellar hole bairely in veiw, took a deep breath stuck my chest out and made a charge like a conquistador on a mission,came out wimpering and plucking ticks off me left and right!

 

[tabdog]

We like to show our finds and it may seem only too easy.

But the truth is that most of us have to experience things

that are down right miserable and embarrassing.

It ain't as easy as it may seem. I have spent many days

that I should have never even attempted.

But!!!..... On the other hand????

How would I have got to where I am if I had not gone through

those experiences.

I now know better how to prepare both my equipment and my

mind to increase my quality of finds and also how to better

enjoy this hobby. You get out of it what you put into it.

Some good luck never hurt anything either.

HH,

 

[ProHoofCare]

I stopped at a local park that normally pulls in a little clad and my favorite....the Hot Wheels car! Well who do I see but the local MD EXPERT. I have seen this guy before and tried to tell him if he put his coil closer to the ground he could find more stuff and got an 1/2 lecture on how great his machine is.You know the type he has his coil at knee level and swinging it like he is cutting weeds. Well I walk to the other side of the park and he comes over to me. He tells me that there is nothing to find in the park as he cleaned it out. All I was going to find was a lot of pull-tabs around the swings. Hmmm....pull tabs. I tell him thank you and walk straight over to the swings. He follows me. Sure enough I get a strong pull-tap single and scoop it up. I look at him and say "How about that? I just got a nickel.". He watched me pull out 11 nickels from under the swings. He starts complaining about how his MD don't work and all sorts of stuff and walks off. I am rolling as one time before I walked behind him picking clad he left behind. He did the same thing. His machine cost about 4 to 5 times the price of mine. I am almost tempted the next time I see him to do a trade.

 

[Canewrap]

Tabdog, when it comes to MDing, no truer words have been spoken. When it comes to life, its also not unlike what you said. When we leave this world its only your experiences, good or bad, that you can take with you.