Digging holes

[kansas]

Hi all.. I and my wife metal detect mostly for the fun of getting out. And we see more an more people hunting with metal detectors in the same haunts we do and that's fine with us. But the problem is some of them don't fill in their holes. So please if your one of theses people fill your holes back in cause it gives all of us a bad name. Make a game out of it and see how good you can get, make someone like Daniel Boone have to work hard to find it lol.

 

[khouse]

If you can't get those other hunters to fill their holes then it's up to you. If you don't your likely to loose that hunting spot. It's sad I know.

 

[Digger]

Whether it be obtaining permission to hunt, filling our own holes, or filling in the holes that some other person left behind, it's up to each one of us to do all we can to represent this hobby in a positive manner. HH Randy

 

[majesus]

I don't understand how people can just leave their holes in the ground. It looks UGLY. Then the next thing you know it, we will all be band from digging in public places. Some people just have no common sense or just don't care that they aren't the only ones living on this planet.

 

[D&P-OR]

I've "PREACHED IT' the best I know how!----It's going to KILL us if something isn't done about this problem.----Del

 

[Bill_S]

I kind of make it a challenge when I dig a hole. I try to make it where someone could not even tell I have dug a hole in the gournd after I am done.

 

[D&P-OR]

That's the BEST "challenge" you can take up in metal detecting Bill.---It does you and ever last one of us a "world of good"--with that kind of attitude.---and I wish you the VERY best of success in all your treasure hunting.------Del

 

[Beale]

I agree 100% about covering holes. It only takes a minute or 2 to do it. So if you dig the hole, cover it up please, Beale.

 

[foot69]

I may sound stupid but is there an easy way of cutting plugs and filling in? I'm sure theres some joker comes along when my backs turned and puts more dirt in the pile than I've dug out of the hole..

 

[Bill_S]

After I dig the plug I just kind of flip it over and then if the target is deeper still I lay down a cloth and put the dirt I dig out of the hole on the cloth. After finding the target I then dump the dirt from the cloth back into the hole and then press that dirt down a little with my hands then I flip the plug back down and then I usually step on it just enough to get it even with the rest of the ground....Seems to work good.

 

[wichita6]

A while back, during the spring, my wife and I were getting ready to hunting a park where there were several fresh holes that were not filled in. We both hate to see this so my wife and I got out of the car without our detectors and started to fill them in when a man who took care of the trash there stopped us and ask what we were doing. We appoligized for the previous th'ers and told him that most th'ers were not like this and that we would fill them in before we started our hunt. He told us that he was in charge of the place and that he always had to refill the holes just about every weekend after the same guy finished(Thats a shame). He thanked us for the help and offered us his property to hunt which goes back 3 generations of his family.

There is always going to be a bad apple in the basket. I just do what I need to do to make things right. I don't complain about it or it will just eat at me so my advice is to re-fill any holes that you find as someone may be watching you and it just might catch on!

I just dig that history?
wichita6

 

[back2thehunt]

Yeah, and it's easier to fill 'em than to dig 'em so why not put 1/2 the effort into making sure we can all continue to hunt. I personally like to see how well I can patch a plug just for the challenge. I'm mighty surgical in my removal AND replacement!

 

[Boris]

We now even have to be more care-full now that the dry season is here.

 

[rifleman]

If I see someone not filling holes, I try in a nice way to educate them. Many times it works, sometimes not. I'd rather leave a target than make a hole that I could not fill and make it look nice when I'm done. It kills me to pass something up, but sometimes it's just the best thing to do. I need to get better at probing. I'm going to have to practice that technique. I just got a handheld pinpointer. I'm going to make good use of it.

Good Hunting, John K

 

[nero_design]

If I can see it on Google Earth, your holes are too deep or you are using a GPX!

But seriously, this is just about the worst thing detectorists can do because just one bad press release can trigger a cascade effect for the rest of us all around the world. I'm in Australia and unfortunately, many private leaseholders (who were once fine with Detector use on their property) have begun to reject requests to detect on their property. Forgetting to fill in a hole may result in injury to livestock etc and it's such a shame that just a few bad apples have caused so much trouble for the rest of us.


I saw a guy dig holes up the side of a hill with his detector and he wasn't filling them in. So my Prospecting partner walked up to one of the holes and whooped and hollered and pretended to find something amazing in one hole before moving onto the next and going through the same routine again. The hole-digger wandered over to see what my parter had found and he brought out his lucky nugget that he sometimes carries. You should have seen the anger on this guy's face when it dawned on him that he might have ignored a 4 ounce nugget. He kept trying to re-balance his detector and, just as he walked over the crest of the hill, my friend would whoop and carry on again at another of the digger's holes. The digger half-jokingly suggested that we "go dig our own holes" and this was the trigger to my partner who let fly with a tirade of verbal beatdown on the digger for not filling in his holes. Now bear in mind that the shallow holes we dig are absolutely nothing compared to the craters and holes that the Wombats leave behind. But a great example of how long a hole can remain is easily observed near old diggings. 160 years of erosion has left the holes by the early prospectors pretty much the same way as when they were first abandoned.

The hole-digger eventually got annoyed that his detector wasn't working properly and left. We filled in his holes and left a handful of lead shot in one - along a handwritten note on plastic with a waterproof marker to remind the jerk when he returned that he should fill in his holes in future or face our wrath.

We have shovels: I'm tempted to bury one of these useless morons someday and leave them there.

 

[Docwalker]

How about this:

Maybe one of the "Graphics" people on the forum could create a "Welcome To The Finds Treasure Forum",
with the Site URL on the face and a short "METAL DETECTORS CODE of CONDUCT" on the back.
Small print could ask for co-operation so the rest of us do not loose out privilege.
If the card was business card size, it would be easy and very cheap to have printed.

I for one no longer like or look for confrontation: (I'm not afraid to bleed, but I do not heal like I used to),
however,I would not have a problem handing out properly worded cards to the "offender(s)" and
non-offenders alike.

Good Idea? Bad idea?

Any ideas on what to write... remembering some people will not hand out a card
as it possibly should be written.

Doc

 

[majesus]

If I can see it on Google Earth, your holes are too deep or you are using a GPX!

But seriously, this is just about the worst thing detectorists can do because just one bad press release can trigger a cascade effect for the rest of us all around the world. I'm in Australia and unfortunately, many private leaseholders (who were once fine with Detector use on their property) have begun to reject requests to detect on their property. Forgetting to fill in a hole may result in injury to livestock etc and it's such a shame that just a few bad apples have caused so much trouble for the rest of us.


I saw a guy dig holes up the side of a hill with his detector and he wasn't filling them in. So my Prospecting partner walked up to one of the holes and whooped and hollered and pretended to find something amazing in one hole before moving onto the next and going through the same routine again. The hole-digger wandered over to see what my parter had found and he brought out his lucky nugget that he sometimes carries. You should have seen the anger on this guy's face when it dawned on him that he might have ignored a 4 ounce nugget. He kept trying to re-balance his detector and, just as he walked over the crest of the hill, my friend would whoop and carry on again at another of the digger's holes. The digger half-jokingly suggested that we "go dig our own holes" and this was the trigger to my partner who let fly with a tirade of verbal beatdown on the digger for not filling in his holes. Now bear in mind that the shallow holes we dig are absolutely nothing compared to the craters and holes that the Wombats leave behind. But a great example of how long a hole can remain is easily observed near old diggings. 160 years of erosion has left the holes by the early prospectors pretty much the same way as when they were first abandoned.

The hole-digger eventually got annoyed that his detector wasn't working properly and left. We filled in his holes and left a handful of lead shot in one - along a handwritten note on plastic with a waterproof marker to remind the jerk when he returned that he should fill in his holes in future or face our wrath.

We have shovels: I'm tempted to bury one of these useless morons someday and leave them there.

Wow, that's a funny story. Hehe, I wish I could of been there to see that guys face when a "nugget" came out of from one of his holes. I can't understand why some people don't fill in their holes. It is so easy, doesn't even take me 30 seconds to push the dirt back in...

 

[TerryR]

I usually pick up the cans and paper also. People are pigs but anymore smashing the cans and recycling them is not to bad. Hate the holes almost as much as a mowed can.

 

[ffman]

It seems so easy but for whatever reason some folks don't get it.