OK.....Fess Up! What Have You Lost While Searching (Metal Detecting) For Targets? :detecting:

[John-Edmonton]

OK.......my baddy. Worst was a set of prescription glasses lost in a park. Spent 2 hours searching for them and never did find them. And to add to the list, an electronic pinpointer, a lesche digger , a lesche relic shovel and a large cent which I accidentally threw in the garbage when it got dark out.

 

[JimmyCT]

Yesteday, my Lesche Digger took the high dive off a steep hill and into the river below.

 

[vlad]

Took my wife out detecting once. I cut a plug, popped it and a worm started crawling out. She backed up so fast her feet went out from under her.
She got in the car and left. (never asked to go again)
Sometimes, good things happen by accident.

 

[rlchntr]

I've gotten myself lost a few times...

Also lost a Lesche digger at an organized hunt a few years ago. Spent an hour looking for it before giving up. Later that day I found a Lesche digger in it's sheath that had been on the ground for a couple seasons by the looks of it. Digger cleaned up nicely and became a replacement.

 

[azsh07]

I have lost two pinpointers a set of car keys and once a 1 reale I foolishly just tossed in a pocket instead of my pouch.

Oddly...I have found a metal detector twice while detecting...both were cheap ones. both were lying in grass and been there a while.

 

[JDMiller]

Gonna be hard to beat that John. My wife says i lost my mind. Lol

 

[vlad]

I hear woman telling men that everywhere I go.
(especially casinos)
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[slingshot]

Lost a metal detector (stolen) testing two models at a site. Now get this- about 30 years later, an elderly lady's husband passed and she knew I loved the hobby so she brought it to me and said she wanted someone who would appreciate and use it to have it! IT WAS THE SAME MODEL BFO AS THE ONE STOLEN FROM ME! Talking about chills running down my spine! God is good!

 

[Eliteuser]

I lost a set of car keys out hunting , a friend found them and gave them back.................10 years later

 

[Rick(ND)]

So far since 1973 when I started detecting I have lost many screwdriver probes, a Sampson relic shovel (actually 2 as one I borrowed out and dont remember who got it) Been 2 Lesche diggers and lost one of my hearing aids I had put in my Pocket and was gone when i went to put it on after hunting. Spent a good 45 minutes looking for it with no luck, $1600 lost there.


Rick

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I have lost Two Hearing aids. Was 500 miles from home doing some detecting. Had a habit of taking my headphones off to hear the pin pointer. When i finished detecting i discovered that the hearing aid was missing. Spent a good bit of time searching with no luck. I no longer take my headphones off. If i do i check both hearing aids to make certain they are in place.

Second time i was at the beach and had just had the tubes that run from the aid to the ear piece replaced and the audiologist had used the wrong size tube. The aid had come out of the tube. I had lost it walking from the beach to the car. The ear piece was still in my ear. The Audiologist said i didn't know what size to use. Of course she did not think she was responsible for the loss.

Thankfully both times the hearing aids were still under warranty and the loss was covered. All it cost me was two trips of about 225 miles each round trip to the Military Audiologist that i get my hearing aids from. I refuse to fight the Va.

 

[vlad]

Drove down to to the Louisiana Big Thicket Preserve (7 hours?) and had lost the headphones pigtail......
......turned around and drove back home.

 

[doc holiday232]

Lost the first gold nugget i found--I used it to tune my PI detectors and somehow lost it below Rich Hill in AZ.

 

[UtahRich]

What Have You Lost While Searching for a target?

My patience.



Rich -

 

[bootyhoundpa]

I lose track of time mostly.. wife says you weren't detecting that whole time were you? I did lose my car keys in a farm field last year,about 1 week later i bumped into 2 guys in the same field arrowhead hunting..they found them within 5 minutes. .

 

[brother steve]

I lost my car keys. Had to use my detector to find them. It took a few hours.

 

[Gold Buddy]

I lost a hearing too .like you said $1600

 

[LTimedigger]

I lost my Lesche digger once but the most embarrasing thing to lose at least temporarily is the object you just popped out of the ground

 

[WV62]

Lost coins as fast as I was finding them. My brother tracked me down picking up a trail of lost dirty coins. He walked up to me and said I believe these are yours and we looked and my apron pocket corner was coming un stitched.

Good thing we were only clad stabbing, so I wasn't dropping silver coins all over the field.

Ron in WV

 

[Ivan]

OK I am an Idiot............................When I first started detecting back in 1974.......I got a new Whites Coinmaster 4....overconfident with my new machine..........I did a test .buried my 18K wedding band ...deep..deep...covered it and then could not get a SIGNAL. middle of a soccer field ..ten minutes to dark!!! Went back many times through the years.......with many different detectors...never got that one. Now I know what it feels like to lose a ring!!! Either someone found it or it is deep past the range of most units. I buried it about 10 inches deep at the time......what was I thinking??? To top it off it was my wedding band!!!!!