Hard to Figure

[bradwheat777]

I tell you people are funny. About 10 years ago I got a chance to hunt my great uncles farm house and found a beautiful 1920 walker. So being the nice guy I asked my cousin if it would be okay for me to go back out, thinking it would be just fine. Well I was wrong. I was told her daughter's family wanted to be the ones to find stuff around the place. She even said that she lost a ring when she was young and I offered to look for it and would be glad to give it back. No dice! Oh well I'm over it now but people sure are unpredictable sometimes. HH

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[oneguy]

yeah they are...... Years ago I got permission to hunt an old motel site by the owner. He'd told it's been hunted MANY times before and he had also hunted it himself but he said to have at it if I wanted. I headed straight for the old metal posts that used to hold up the laundry clothes lines and in about 2 minutes I'd dug up a ben franklin and a washington silver quarter. He then decided imeadiately that he'd rather I didn't hunt there anymore........

 

[SpiritRelic]

My hunting buddy thought i was going behind him and talking about hunting a old gris mill or what ever it is call.He told me if i go to his sisters house and hunt the old gris mill on the property that i would be hurt.People get real protective sometimes, thinking you are going to find the holy grail on the property or something :-C

 

[GeorgeinSC]

It is called Greed. Folks think we are getting rich on the valuable items that we dig up. Little do they know the number of hours and dollars that we invest just to find a single silver coin or something along that line. I have had folks tell me that it would be okay to detect but they want a share of what ever I find. I pass. If they want a share then go spend the over $1500.00 that I have invested in equipment, spend the time to learn to use it properly and then go find yourself a silver dime that is now worth a little over a buck. Television shows like those idiots on "Diggers" and "Digging Wars" are definitely not beneficial to our hobby as they give the general public (1) A bad impression of how we conduct ourselves and (2) Inflate greatly the value of what is found.

 

[Rainyday101]

Yep, it all boils down to greed. Greed brings out the worst in people. How many people do you know that have had their families torn apart by greed over a will when their parents pass away? I can't even count how many I know. Everyone thinks that the silver dime you found is worth a mint. A silver quarter and they think you have hit the retirement jackpot. I agree with GeorgeinSC, they have no idea of how much time we put into detecting digging modern clad and junk. Sure it pays off once in awhile, but that is usually only after hours and hours of persistence.

 

[Elton]

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[cypearl]

Its true that some people believes you are going to find something to be valuable and that thing might belong to them or not they want it, once I found a brass ring it was valuable I sold it for 50$ and the one i was hunting with definitely not a friend got jealous and stole from me five gold rings all presents from friends and family. I rent a back room of my house to him and he had a chance to get in my house from my opened window while i was at work. I had him on a low rent as well.

 

[Goldstrike]

Ditto to all the above posts.
We all get asked 'the' questions......"what are you looking for"?....."what did you find"?....."what's the best thing you have found"? etc;. I have to bite my tongue many times and tell them that all I've found is some loose change, or mostly junk around here...or something to that effect. I tell the small kids that I'm looking for "buried Pirate treasure" on the beach!!
I have told enquiring minds in the past that I've found gold rings and such but the problem there is that people get an incorrect perception of the investment of time and money as George in SC pointed out. They NEVER ask "how long did it take you to find that/those coin/s"?...."how many pull tabs did you have to dig to get that 10K ring"?...."how much gasoline did you have to use to get that junk jewelry"? Instead, a lot of people see how 'easy' it is.
Anyway......first and foremost this is a hobby and my advice is don't quit your daytime job! unless your super serious and have a ton of money and time to invest in it.
IF I could live my life over, I would be a professional treasure hunter but that's another story!!

 

[azsh07]

That takes greed and paranoid to a whole other level. I hated prospecting for that reason....and everyone carries a gun ( fine by me)...but they are too twitchy.

But on the relic hunting point....I lost a good friend over his paranoid delusions that I was leaching his sites he took me too. Funny part was for one I could not even find my way back to most of them as they wer 60 miles away and on back roads I was not familiar with and back then I did not have GPS. Second ironic part was....dumbass found out it was another old partner of his who was shadowing him on the forums and seeing what he posted for finds. then he would stalk him when he went out and go back at night and leach his spots.
Dumbass was posting all of his sweet spanish silver and colonial coins......and so this old partner knew exactly where to go back to.
So...first lesson learned....I never posted finds after that. I learned the prospectors answer to did you find any gold.....nope not today. Funny thing..never met a prospector who found gold when we ran into them but they sure had alot of gold!!

 

[kaolinwasher]

I remember playing with toys in the sand box , and thear was a toy that had not been played with in ages, but as soon as i picked it up , the other child wanted his toy , Kinda like the U,S GVT with our tax dalliers.

 

[KinTN]

I remember playing with toys in the sand box , and thear was a toy that had not been played with in ages, but as soon as i picked it up , the other child wanted his toy , Kinda like the U,S GVT with our tax dalliers.

Exactly. We are becoming a nation of overgrown children. I just want to scream Grow Up, but that wouldn't be very adultlike.

 

[JimmyCT]

You are right on Gunnar lol funny but true. bradwheat - sorry to hear of "greed" getting in the way but unfortunately that is obviously what has happened. Do you have more than one detector? Maybe you can convince one of them to hunt with you on the property. Worth a shot. Sometimes when you ask them to come along on the hunt, they will put their guard down and pick up a detector. Think about it, if they can pick up a detector and go along on the hunt (and not have to invest hundreds of dollars) they may feel this is the better deal.... Once they start finding nails, pull tabs, aluminum foil, etc etc, they may just tell you to go have fun by yourself

I remember playing with toys in the sand box , and thear was a toy that had not been played with in ages, but as soon as i picked it up , the other child wanted his toy , Kinda like the U,S GVT with our tax dalliers.

 

[Sonorguy]

Maybe it's the state I live in, or maybe the country,
but I think it's more the state of the country that is
the issue we face.
We are so far beyond the point of no return, that
it has faded out of the picture, and the here
and now is a gleaming facade so
bright that it blocks the view of common
sense in the the eyes of
those who need to see it most!
Our heroes, the ones who lay it all down for
us and even for those who are far to self absorbed to
really care less, too often come home to fight a much
bigger battle, living out the rest of
their lives with the best
form of sanity they can muster, while
dealing with a reality that most will never
see as reality, and to those heroes, I say thank
you! It's because of you some will live as if
there was no you!
But It's because of you
we freely say we Honor You!!