OK Guys....Be Honest And Bold! What Stupid Thing Have You Done With Regards To Metal Detecting:rage:

[togg77]

Gitterdug this is to you:
Back in 72 I had what I thought was the detector that put every Chinaman in danger of having his dental work detected--the MetroTec. Anyway I was in a deep gully in Vicksbutg looking for a 13" mortor ball and I got this huge signal,perfectly round and about 5 feet across--Had to be a mortor ball. I always dug with a WWII entrenching tool,the kind you can straighten the handle out on. Well I started to dig my mortar ball,dug as far as I could with the shovel folded,straightened the handle and continued to dig. The signal remained Strong and I was laying on my stomach and digging--the hole was at least 3 feet and theMetroTec was still blaring. Only solution--I needed my LHS-long handle shovel--drove the 120 mile round trip and when I got back to my hole it had just about filled with water. So I began to dig a side trench to drain the water--about 1 foot from the side of my hole"CLANK", what the hell, as I continued to dig this big circle of iron it became the iron rim of a 5 foot diameter wagon wheel. Talk about disappointment--I still think about it--sometimes I laugh and sometimes I want to cry. Good hunting. Gene

 

[gitterdug]

I am MUCH older and wiser now.....

I had no idea that the barbed wire roll was a highly collectible type.....DOH! LOLOL I'm not EVEN gonna tell the story of how I threw away tens of thousands of dollars rolled up in aliminum foil, as well as a 4 ct. diamond ring......mainly because that didn't involve my metal detector, just an old house I inherited.....and MY STUPIDITY!

HH

Dennis, aka gitterdug

 

[tarajudy]

left detector against trunk of car then backed over it NO KIDDING. Could not understand why it would not ground balance anymore.