Beginner mistakes *face palm*

[sosage]

Tip #1 - dont wear steel capped boots        

(sadly it took 4 empty holes for me to realise what i had done) doh!

[Rwork]

Not only steel caps but some have a steel arch support. Take your pinpointer when shopping for shoes.

[scratchinaround]

Tip #1 - dont wear steel capped boots        

(sadly it took 4 empty holes for me to realise what i had done) doh!

                              jeeeeeezzzzzz,  only   four  holes    but  then  again, i  never went  to UNI. 
    ''  every  step  sounds  like  the big  bonanza '' WHERE  DOES  IT  SAY  THAT IN  THE HANDBOOK/MANUAL  ? ''
    THANX  FOR  NOTHING !   not  amused.                                                        

[Snoopy36]

Another mistake - wearing a wedding ring and then putting gloves on.

I grabbed a handful of dirt and the pointer was saying there was something in my hand, kept looking... and looking till finally there is like one grain of dirt left on my glove and the thing was still beepin! Ha ha ha then i realised i had my ring on! (true story - ask NSC)

Cheers
Snoop

[Ghostbat]

You can get composite tips on boots now.....no false signals 

[6666]

If you have a really good detector
dont wear shoes that have metal eyelets for the laces, and dont have laces with metal tips

[GemQ]

Another good one is the "lost" target.

Hey its not in the hole, not in the pile and when I put the detector over it again its gone.

You would be surpised how many targets get stuck to the extraction tool

[brian p]

Your not the only one Sosage.
I have made that mistake a few times. In my rush to get out detecting and away from work I have forgotton to change them so and so boots. I buy the el cheepos from Kmart they have no steel.
 Another tip. I put my pinpointer inside the side of my boot (elastic sided) to hold it while neeling and working on a hole. This works great when the ground is wet and muddy. Brian.

[panhead]

Don't feel to bad. Heading home after a couple of days detecting in the Triangle (with my ordinary shoes on). Decided to stop and try a little spot I'd had my eye on for a while. Very long grass and looked really "snakey" so I put my gumboots on just to be safe. I had about 10 minutes of extreme frustration with the machine howling and me fiddling with the controls for no effect, until the penny dropped. Steel caps in the gumboots. I looked around to see who was watching, cause there usually is when I do something really stupid. I thought I heard some laughter, but it must have been my imagination. Anyway, back to the car and continued home. To disgusted with myself to do any detecting.
                                          panhead.

[sosage]

Haha good to know I'm not the only goose on the farm.. 

That's a classic snoopy, guilty of that one too 

[werewolf]

I did that when I first got my Etrac Thought to myself 'this machine is a noisy piece of crap'!! Too keen to race out the door and in too much of a hurry to notice which boots I was putting on. Idiot

[Gecko]

Yep i have done the gloves on without taking the ring off trick.
Took me a while to figure it out as i dont have a pin pointer  but my girl didnt forget to take the mickey out of me for it.
hahaha
Gecko

[trevorpickettau]

I too fell for a problem continuous hits on a beach, it pays to look around as i was standing on top of a barrel drain covered in sand.