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Future of Metal Detecting

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What do you think the future holds for metal detectorist? Todays coins corode away before they get old. States like Texas are making it next to impossible to find places to hunt. It won't be long, and it will be against the law to hunt in your own yard here. I know there will always be relics, and rings, but it seems sad to me that the joy of finding a really old coin will be gone or extremely rare. Just some thoughts on a cold winters night.
 
And I plan on enjoying detecting as best I can. After the last two layoffs I stopped trying to figure it out and just go for what I can.
 
Well, if your one dollar coins get into circulation, coin shooting will really take off. Sure, the coins break down fast, so the name of the game will be to get them sooner, and to work harder and think smarter.
 
As far as restrictions go it depends on what state you are in. Here in my part of the world everything is wide open and one can hunt about anywhere. Oregon is big on personal freedom.

Bill
 
If ya can't get out because of stupid laws find a secluded spot and detect..Respect the ground you hunt.Remember this is our country and if it's public property .IT'S OUR LAND..........
 
Pa is still pretty much Ok to :detecting:

Ill keep goin tilli cant , or Im
not allowed !!!!!

THINK SPRING

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way :usaflag::usaa:
 
As for me and honestly, nothing Fuels my equipment and gas bill like the dark stained quarters that are laying near all over. Anything else is just gravy.
 
junklord3139 said:
1st off they have a state antiquities law saying all lands are owned by the state.:sad:

2ndly under the state antiquites code---all items 50 years or older in the ground or water belong to the state.:ranting:

3rd--all State Parks and any National Parks in Texas have a ban on metal detecting.:thumbdown:

some cities have banned detector use and in Harris County all county owned parks have banned metal detectors--even having one in a Harris County, county park can get you fined/and or your equipment taken from you.:cry:
 
Wow. That really changes my image of Texas.

Never thought I'd see it start to sound like California.
 
The part that really bothers me is the threat of the tector being confiscated. Something is wrong when you can make a simple hunt and actually be victim to loss of equipment. It's be different if you were detecting on sacred ground, or if the signs against metal detecting was glaringly obvious. That's why I haven't done much "away from the house" hunting. Yea, the future of this hobby is going to be a problem IMO. martin
 
The Recreation areas and National Forest around Conroe and Livingston, Tx. have federal regulations against digging ,excavating, cutting wood, digging up plants etc.
But the local cycling clubs can come in, with permission of coarse and can hack and dig away making their new bike trails and we cant so much as dig up a coin
with out being arrested.
I am convinced that government here is full of brain dead tree hugging morons.
They are convinced history will be lost forever if we dig in the national forest. That is about the lamest excuse I have ever heard and I told them so as well, not that it helped anything
but they heard it anyway.
Tell me this, what good is it if its in the ground and NO ONE KNOWS ITS THERE!
Yeah they are really preserving history alright to the point so no one even knows it exists.
I have to stop my blood is boiling now.
 
This is only the tip of the iceberg of what is to come as far as our rights and freedom being stripped away.
Our country's rotten government is so power and control hungry that they will not rest until they eventually strip the air you breath from you.
Wont be long we will all be wearing regulators and meters on our heads so they can tax us for the air we breathe and exhale.
 
"Tell me this, what good is it if its in the ground and NO ONE KNOWS ITS THERE!"

Reminds me of "ole Spot", he buried a bone in the back yard and not once did he ever
dig it up, never had any intention of digging it up, but watch out anybody or other critter
that dared to get within ten feet.
 
Go on line and look at England's Portable Antiquities Scheme at http://finds.org.uk/ . You can hunt most private property where you can get permission and if you find stuff over 50 years old, you have to let the Find's Liaison Officer look at it, and determine if it's treasure or something one of the museums might want. If they keep it the museum pays a fair market price for it which is split between the finder and the land owner. I found the 2000 year old Celtic gold stator that I use for my avatar in 2007. I thought for sure they would keep it, because it's near mint, but they didn't and it's now mounted as a necklace for my wife( in a mount where it can be removed without damaging it). They are so enlightened about logging the finds of detectorists that it makes us look like we're in the Dark Ages. Largely, I think it's because Archaeologists over here don't like us on general principal. IMHO Skip
 
Mr. Beard said:
junklord3139 said:
1st off they have a state antiquities law saying all lands are owned by the state.:sad:

2ndly under the state antiquites code---all items 50 years or older in the ground or water belong to the state.:ranting:

3rd--all State Parks and any National Parks in Texas have a ban on metal detecting.:thumbdown:

some cities have banned detector use and in Harris County all county owned parks have banned metal detectors--even having one in a Harris County, county park can get you fined/and or your equipment taken from you.:cry:

Yes, but they encourage you to carry a gun.

Willee
 
Texcavator said:
This is only the tip of the iceberg of what is to come as far as our rights and freedom being stripped away.
Our country's rotten government is so power and control hungry that they will not rest until they eventually strip the air you breath from you.
Wont be long we will all be wearing regulators and meters on our heads so they can tax us for the air we breathe and exhale.


Think "Carbon Tax" and you will see that it aint far off.

Willee
 
law enforcement will be too busy with other, more violent things to pay you any attention.

We have gone over the cliff but we are like the cartoon character who stands suspended in space before falling. If every worker in the USA were taxed at a 100% rate, we still could not pay our debt... we are too far over our heads. Both we andour government have borrowed too much. For about 200 years the British sterling was the world reserve currency, after WWII they decided to move in a socialistic direction and it didn't work out. They devalued the Sterling 13% overnight and the sterling was dropped as the world reserve currency. At that time the dollar became the WRC. The dollar has been the WRC for about 50 years but will soon be replaced. When that happens the price of everything in the US market will skyrocket, we will have hyper inflation and there will be shortages of everything. People will riot, cities will burn, and there will be marshall law. You need to have a way to purify water. Some rice, beans, and canned foods set aside along with medical supplies and hygene products... it is coming soon. It is a great time to buy silver and be sure you have some ammo. Silver is better than gold... 1932-1964 dimes and quarters are 90% silver and much more spendable, if you need to buy something, than gold is. Silver is more practical in a time of real need. If you are patient you can buy silver coins for under the current spot price, or right at it online. Power sellers or a lot of good feedback. Locally Craigslist. Or... from a mine: http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/Home.asp
Historically silver is 1/16th the value of gold... right now it is still undervalued but going up. I got 4 rolls of quarters a while back for about 400 bucks, they are now worth near 1k. I expect them to be worth over 2k in less than a year... but that is pure speculation, a guess... a risk... but they will always be worth more than 25 cent a coin.

The soap box has not worked. The ballot box is not working. The only box left is the cartridge box... I pray I am wrong, but I know I am not. The dollar is going to fall, not if but when... and all signs point to very soon. Most people cannot accept it and will be surprised. You cannot go wrong by preparing... there is no down side to preparation. Also, if you live in an urban local... it might be a good idea to try to have somewhere more rural lined up where you can g when the 5hit hits the fan, maybe a relative. Times seem hard now but they are going to be really hard soon.

What having the dollar as the WRC does is it means that other countries buy dollars in order to buy the things they need, like oil, from other countries. They have to produce enough to balance out so that they can get their needs met. Since the dollar is the WRC, we can just print more instead of producing more... we are producing less and less and when the dollar is replaced as the WRC... we are going to have no cards to play. The best thing we coulddo is to reset now, before a total economic collapse. Wipe out personal, corporate, and government debt... total default. Reset the currency and start over without waiting on the collapse... sort of a "year of jubilee" but... you and I know that is not going to happen. The elites, the government.. don't care about the people or the country, they only care about themselves and when this happens they will do nothing to help individuals, the government will only be concerned with saving the government. They couldn't even save New Orleans... we could well have anarhy for a while and if 10% of people go "wild".. that is 30 million people who are out to steal, rape, and kill.... better to be ready than to be caught off guard... and again... remember what happened in NOLA... most people saw the danger and just sat there... they didn't believe that it could happen.
If you don't have a sidearm, buy one. If you don't have a shotgun, buy one and get some of these: http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/AMM823-5.html

So... soon there will likely be no one policing any national forest or park... at least for a while no one will bother you but places that are not safe now will then be deadly... so the woods will be a good idea.

OK... I know this sounds extreme but things like this that "can't happen here"... always sound extreme...until they happen. Most will be caught unaware, not you... right?
Better safe than sorry.... and be ready to hit those paces that you can't hit now. These sites belong to the people, not to the elite.

If you don't believe me google "the dollar" or "world reserve currency" or "US debt"... google anything related and read some.

I'm sorry to go so off-topic but it is all related to WHY you will soon be able to detect places you now cannot detect and you won't be able to detect places that you now can detect...(because of personal safety concerns). Research and know where some old homesites are in national forests and WMAs. FDR took most of what is now national forest land from hnest landowners in the 1930s when government made the economy so bad that the people couldn't pay property taxes... so the feds took the land, tore down houses and barns and planted trees. So there are some ood places in the national forests. Maybe the government will one day start selling the land it holds back to the people. The federal government currently owns about 30% of the land in the USA... WHY??

Julien
 
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