Parks and sidewalks

[chuckaaron]

Does anyone know whether its ok to hunt county-state parks in Florida?
Also--many have commented on how the edge of sidewalks and such are productive-- but most of the ones I seem to try--will not read because of I guess the rebar? in the concrete.
Is there a solution when around areas like that.
Also many play grounds now have irrigation systems that can drive you crazy with a million spots that all read 180--any help there.

 

[erikk]

You can hunt the parks as far as I know. I do and have no problems. Just fill the holes!!! What kind of a machine are you ronning. I have no problem around sidewalks with an EX 2. Just don;t overlap the concrete and check to see if there are burried wires. Sometimes they like to burry them along the walks Where in FL are you?

 

[DonNWF]

You will find very few Florida State parks that you can hunt. I have never had any problem hunting County parks, however with pressure from the State they too may start banning hunters.
Up until a couple of years ago you could water hunt in selected State parks. However Florida changed its so called "Isolated Finds Law " A state law that permitted artifact hunters to recover spear-arrow points, etc., from state rivers and coastal waters. The outcome for Metal Detectorist (the state makes no distinction between types of hunters) was that hunting in the coastal waters and rivers within most State Parks is now a no-no. Some you can still hunt from the high water tide line to the dune line They define the lines. There are archaeological factions, including all state historical societies that have close ties to Florida State Officials, who want to ban all types of artifact hunting (Anything old taken from the ground or off the ground, underwater - or not) in this state. If they had their way they would ban hunting on private land too. If its public land - they want it banned.
Alabama recently took a giant step forward (After strong and dedicated pressure from artifact hunters) to eliminating all restrictions to artifact hunting on public lands (Not otherwise identified as historical or sensitive) and went so far as to define which found items could be called artifacts.
Florida hunters, the great majority who are beach hunters, need to get motivated and get their heads out of the sand.
More than you wanted to know?? Turkey calls HH

 

[adam in cal]

on the places that read 180 try lifting the coil , if it is a sprinkler head or irrigation pipe it will still ring in loud after rasing the coil up 6 or 8 inches , a coin will fade quick while lifing the coil , near a sidewalks edge use the smallest coil you have, I see some that are unhuntable due to the sidewalk having either rebar or too much iron in the concrete . others I can work clean up to cement ...... and I know absoutley nothing about Floridas state park system ...... good luck Chuck