Metal detecting ban on parks

[amberjack]

juice whats the other one "roundness"

AJ

 

[happycamper08]

There is one reason and one reason only this is happening more and more.
Fools sitting on their couch watching a DIGGERS metal detecting show gets all excited thinking they can make tons of $$$ metal detecting.
Then they go to the park with a post hole digger and re-create the surface of the moon.

These shows need to stop showing the "prices" that one can get for a crappy condition King George Copper.
These shows need to OVERSTATE again and again how to dig a hole with a drop cloth etc.

I hate these metal detecting shows. I had an opportunity to get an AT-PRO added to my arsenal and I wont now since I do not want to look like an uninformed
detectorist looking for "juice"

This year they are not showing "prices" and they are working with an archeologist on camera. And if you really think diggers is a problem than you tube must make you furious. Way more people are exposed to you tube tan diggers.

 

[mudfoot]

Where I live you can only hunt the parks with an eight inch screwdriver with a tip no more than 1/4 inch wide. Schools are off limits due to a child being injured once after tripping in a hole left by an idiot.

To get a permit you must demonstrate that you can pinpoint well and then dig "retrieve" a target by rolling the grass back in a circle and poking around with the screwdriver. Grass is rolled back by inserting the screwdriver at an angle and levering it away from the target center, working around a circle.

It's recommended that you use a rag or a frisbee for any dirt removed. After retrieval the grass is pinched back and then heeled down.

The sweet old lady who issues permits has battled with the city for decades and has convinced them that this method, developed by her and her late husband, leaves no scars. All this predates the tv show of course, but idiots have been around for a long time.

A good pinpointer is pretty much a must-have. Targets deeper than 4 or 5 inches are damned difficult. In hard ground with lots of small rocks I often find myself crying for my Lesch. But I was surprised by how much dirt I can move with only a screwdriver!

This is a prime example of how detecting slobs can ruin our hobby. We still hear of park workers finding holes and we all would love to be the one who spots the bastards.

Sorry for the wall of text. Mostly just venting.

 

[amberjack]

guess I am lucky I live in a country where 90% of detectors head for the beach, I know sometimes in the night or when tired I can get a bit sloppy but I do not leave open holes ever in the dirt.

so yeah I do hope that stuff doesn't happen here well not until I am done

if you seen the field I was on today after the winter rain and games of footy on the thing and a stolen car been doing circle work on the ground then no one even knows I have been there.

schools look like jails here with 10 foot fences around them pretty sad that's what the civilized world now calls normal, sure wouldn't be sending my kid to jail I mean a school like that.

so yep schools have been targets of vandalism and brake in's and up go the fences some don't but 95% do and I don't care in a detecting way but its pretty bloody sad that this is the world kids are being bought up in, anyway nothing I can do about it but here detectorists are the least of my worries for everything having a fence.

when I cant detect how I want to its time to sell up or go bush looking for nuggets

AJ

 

[jld66]

There is one reason and one reason only this is happening more and more.
Fools sitting on their couch watching a DIGGERS metal detecting show gets all excited thinking they can make tons of $$$ metal detecting.
Then they go to the park with a post hole digger and re-create the surface of the moon.

These shows need to stop showing the "prices" that one can get for a crappy condition King George Copper.
These shows need to OVERSTATE again and again how to dig a hole with a drop cloth etc.

I hate these metal detecting shows. I had an opportunity to get an AT-PRO added to my arsenal and I wont now since I do not want to look like an uninformed
detectorist looking for "juice"

i feel the same way. these TV shows with these goofballs on them have done more to hurt this hobby than anyone not filling holes good or leaving their trash behind on the ground. i watched about 10 minutes of one a good while back. this guy dug up a crusty old wheat penny, started jumping up and down yelling yippie, yippie. every idiot now thinks he can buy an ace or at-pro, go dig everything up and get rich. it hurts us normal people for getting permission i imagine. land owners are like, i dont want one of them morons around here. i will not buy any garrett products because of them shows, none. i dont care how good they claim to be. im not against companies getting an edge on making money. but, selling more junk detectors is all they have done and makes us all look like those nut cases.

 

[Dirtdigger33]

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[amberjack]

its all about money always has been always will be detector company's are in the business of making money full stop.

guess it just depends who they are willing to sell their soul to too get that money seems like garrett like juice show me the juice baby

yep and its all outta our control.

but I understand how you feel.

AJ

 

[HaroldILL.]

Well I said it before and was called gloom and doom,But there will come a day when all public sites will be closed to detecting. It will be a Federal Law as just to many people doin' it and diggin' places up with shovels. These Manufactuers don't realize the short term gain they get from the shows when bite them in the end as no one will buy a detector if there is no where to use them.

 

[chuck ky]

what would be too many people. I've seen a few more people hunting in the last few years but its no where near as many as there were during the early 70's

 

[HaroldILL.]

Where I live it is the new yuppie hobby as I guess they got tired of Golfing at the Country Cub or Playin' Biker on there shinny new Harley. We lost 68,000 arce's of Forrest Preserves and many Parks followed. Some have enough nerve to say plenty of spots left to hunt? I say B.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GeorgeinSC]

It is Not Always the fault of some newbie that detecting gets banned in Parks. In my area the archaeologists have the ear of the powers that be. They have been able to get metal detecting Banned in All of the property that belongs to the City of Charleston and in all Charleston County parks with the exception of the three beach parks. And at the Beach parks one can only detect on the beach and not the shore side of the park.

The Archaeologists are afraid that some one with a metal detector will find a relic and they will not get it. Of course the lazy rascals are not out checking to see if there is anything in those parks, playgrounds etc. They are just letting things rust away to never be found.

 

[ironsight]

It is Not Always the fault of some newbie that detecting gets banned in Parks. In my area the archaeologists have the ear of the powers that be. They have been able to get metal detecting Banned in All of the property that belongs to the City of Charleston and in all Charleston County parks.......They are just letting things rust away to never be found.

Just a guess.
Could maybe it be along with the archy's drive to ban detecting, there were hole digging complaints also that could of added a lot of fuel to the archy's argument?

I agree, before long most historic relics left will be un-recognizably corroded down to nothing.
We got State and County land here some of which has had long gone homesteads that is off limits to detecting. When i read the official rules, it seems digging will ruin the plant life and disturb wild life. Yet in these places, they continue to cut trees down, allow hunting by permit, cut new roads, mow, dig ditches, burn off weeds etc.
Makes absolutely no sense to me. Go figure.

 

[pghmole]

We just got banned in Pittsburgh pa,just posted my last finds in the today's finds section