Why I dont dig with a pick , or my hands

[GunnarMN]

found this tetnas infested rusty knife, gladd i dont dig with my hands, found a live 44 bullet gladd i do not dig with a pick, what can happen is digging with a pick, you may fire the round off sending shrapnel into the eye blinding you , so say you are in arizona now blind and can not find your way back and run ito a rattler or fall in a mine shaft or over a cliff, or just dehidrate,

 

[daddyflea]

I dig with a heavy pick because our ground is always rock hard. you never dig the signal, you dig under it to lift it out. Otherwise you will scratch every good coin.

 

[DougF]

You need to get a tetanus booster every once in a while. The same shot will also protect you against diphtheria and whooping cough (Adacel). Whooping cough is making a comeback. It's possible to contract tetanus without being stabbed by a knife or nail. All it takes is a small open wound which gets dirt in it (if the dirt has tetanus bacteria).

 

[Critterhunter]

Tet-nus isn't caused by rusty items. It's caused by germs and rust has nothing to do with it. Actually, the real risk for tetanus is the kind of wound you get. If it's a puncture wound or a deep one where air can't get in there and it can't be cleaned well, that's were it likes to thrive.

Once as a kid I stepped on a nail and it went almost all the way through the bottom of my foot. I was so scared of getting a shot I didn't tell my parents and pretending for a few days to play "broken foot", because I had to walk around with a bat in order to keep a full load of weight off my foot (it hurt really bad). These days I just shake my head and think how stupid that was. Being a puncture wound I could have died, and all because I was afraid of a little old shot.

 

[MarkCZ]

I don't see how a person could PUSH a probe or dulled pick into a cartridge primer and make it go off! its takes a Strike! or blow to ignite the primer compound.

Now, the getting cut part with something under the ground is a real possibility, although I don't wear gloves and I often probe targets out of the ground and I have yet to be cut.

Mark

 

[GunnarMN]

I dont know about anthrax but -U could pick up a tape worm if you had dirty hands and went to eat , or like the kids that splashed water up thear noses died from an evil germ,

 

[Critterhunter]

I wear gloves summer and winter now. They are those cheap ones found at home improvement stores that have rubber/silicone on the palm/front side of the hand and fingers, but on the back of the entire hand it's just the cloth glove with no latex or whatever is covering the front. Not only does it keep you front getting a cut, but it also keeps your hands dry, yet lets them breath in the summer too because of the backsides not being rubber/whatever. They are great, and when you take off your gloves your hands are clean as a whistle.

 

[Critterhunter]

I like the front (palm) side of the fingers being latex too, as it keeps my fingers from getting wet on a winter day and such. The back side of the fingers and hand are still just cloth, so no sweaty hands on a hot day and also the back of the hand area is great for wiping sweat off my face on a hot day. I REFUSE to hunt without those gloves now. The other day I started hunting and I kept thinking "what is missing here?" I felt naked for some reason but couldn't pin down what I was missing. When I bent down to dig my first target I realized what it was. I had left my gloves in the trunk. If you watch for them in gas stations sometimes they have even nicer ones at a very cheap price. Some hold up better than others. The pair I'm using now the rubber/latex/whatever is pealing off the front of the fingers and the darn stuff is sticky like pop was spilled on them even though there wasn't.

 

[rseasy1]

I hunt mosly parks and with it so hot and dry I don't want to make no bigger of a hole than I have so on the really shallow targets the ones that the PP with hit
from the surface I just use my screw driver to open a small slot then use my little finger digger,It would scratch a silver coin easy but
theres not much silver in the parks ware I live.I much prefer hunting field and woods but the crops are in so no more field hunting for now but I can use my shovel
I made.