Metalpickle
New member
Well I'm new and none of my friends give a damn about MDing so I figured I could vent to you guys LOL. But really though, in the words of Jimmy Hendrix, "what a frustrating mess!"
I live in Essex, Canada. I went camping at Proud Lake which is in Michigan about forty minutes over the border. Rented a mini cabin with my girlfriend and her two kids. It was gonna be awesome! While looking for places to camp my girlfriend said "ohhhhhhh look honey, this place has a metal detecting icon in their activities legend." I was frickin' pumped. I pictured the whole two days; goof around with the kids in the canoe, eat, have a few beers with the woman, don't get too drunk so I can get up at 5 o'clock each morning, sleep, get up and go. And that's exactly what I did. Yeah I was out there with all my gear and not a person in sight. It was so early my reflection that was suppose to be looking back at me from the water was still at the cabin counting lost coins! Anywho, I'm in knee deep water and not ten minutes in when I hit an American nickle, cool, then something else....it's an American coin but I don't know what it is and, remember I'm new at this right, and at the top it reads Indiana 1816 and a picture of a cannon below it and I was like holy #&%$! Right away I put it in my special coin pouch made of leather and all that jazz and was looking around like "yeah just trying and take my new found treasure you hellion pirates!" Then.......I went into deeper waters.........then..............deeper. My chest waders were being fully tested at this point. All of sudden the AT Pro starts going crazy, you know, when you're right on top of something close, that, but.........it wouldn't stop when I pulled it away from what I thought was a target. I headed for shore and noticed immediately that inside, under the display, water. I was pissed. You mean to tell me after all the shopping around on the net, and all the comparing of one detector to another, and all the concerns of budget and should I even spend this much cause Lord knows it's not just the detector it's the Garrett Pro Pointer, and the Olympic water scoop, and the water sifter, and the drybag for the cell phone and car key you can't get wet and on and on and on...like really? Wow! I just stood there for a minute. I stood there and thought how much treasure was in the water if I could find an American 1816 what ever it was in the first ten minutes of being there. Yeah what was that coin? I pulled it out of the pouch and as I was I was thinking about the people at the metal detecting club I just visited and met all these guys for the first time and how they all bring their finds to the monthly meeting and show off all the goodies they collected all month and how everybody votes on the best find for each category and how "nobody is gonna find an American 1816 what ever it is from Indiana this month cause I'm here and their there" and I get it out and really look at it and yup it says Indiana all right 1816 all right. Yup, there is a picture of an old looking cannon on it from some old war I'm sure of it. Yup, it's old all right. Then I look right below that for the first time and there is has 2002. 2002? I look real hard and realize that the cannon is really a race car and below it says "crossroads of America." Now I'm reallllllllllllllly pissed. Went back to the cabin, opened the door, looked at the girlfriend and the kids, sat down. The oldest child asks "so what did you get?" I said "Thirty cents!" "OOOOOOHH thirty cents, big deal!" He said. "Thirty cents more then you got!" I cheered then gave it to the little one. LOL. Pretty funny.
I live in Essex, Canada. I went camping at Proud Lake which is in Michigan about forty minutes over the border. Rented a mini cabin with my girlfriend and her two kids. It was gonna be awesome! While looking for places to camp my girlfriend said "ohhhhhhh look honey, this place has a metal detecting icon in their activities legend." I was frickin' pumped. I pictured the whole two days; goof around with the kids in the canoe, eat, have a few beers with the woman, don't get too drunk so I can get up at 5 o'clock each morning, sleep, get up and go. And that's exactly what I did. Yeah I was out there with all my gear and not a person in sight. It was so early my reflection that was suppose to be looking back at me from the water was still at the cabin counting lost coins! Anywho, I'm in knee deep water and not ten minutes in when I hit an American nickle, cool, then something else....it's an American coin but I don't know what it is and, remember I'm new at this right, and at the top it reads Indiana 1816 and a picture of a cannon below it and I was like holy #&%$! Right away I put it in my special coin pouch made of leather and all that jazz and was looking around like "yeah just trying and take my new found treasure you hellion pirates!" Then.......I went into deeper waters.........then..............deeper. My chest waders were being fully tested at this point. All of sudden the AT Pro starts going crazy, you know, when you're right on top of something close, that, but.........it wouldn't stop when I pulled it away from what I thought was a target. I headed for shore and noticed immediately that inside, under the display, water. I was pissed. You mean to tell me after all the shopping around on the net, and all the comparing of one detector to another, and all the concerns of budget and should I even spend this much cause Lord knows it's not just the detector it's the Garrett Pro Pointer, and the Olympic water scoop, and the water sifter, and the drybag for the cell phone and car key you can't get wet and on and on and on...like really? Wow! I just stood there for a minute. I stood there and thought how much treasure was in the water if I could find an American 1816 what ever it was in the first ten minutes of being there. Yeah what was that coin? I pulled it out of the pouch and as I was I was thinking about the people at the metal detecting club I just visited and met all these guys for the first time and how they all bring their finds to the monthly meeting and show off all the goodies they collected all month and how everybody votes on the best find for each category and how "nobody is gonna find an American 1816 what ever it is from Indiana this month cause I'm here and their there" and I get it out and really look at it and yup it says Indiana all right 1816 all right. Yup, there is a picture of an old looking cannon on it from some old war I'm sure of it. Yup, it's old all right. Then I look right below that for the first time and there is has 2002. 2002? I look real hard and realize that the cannon is really a race car and below it says "crossroads of America." Now I'm reallllllllllllllly pissed. Went back to the cabin, opened the door, looked at the girlfriend and the kids, sat down. The oldest child asks "so what did you get?" I said "Thirty cents!" "OOOOOOHH thirty cents, big deal!" He said. "Thirty cents more then you got!" I cheered then gave it to the little one. LOL. Pretty funny.
