Russia bans all metal detecting?

[TwoRivers]

Has anyone heard any news on the new Russian laws?........If it's true I feel sorry for all those who have enjoyed our hobby there.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Do you have a link to this? There's plenty of detecting going on in Russia, so I wonder what started this notion to "make a law" by the powers-that-be ?

I had a detector listed on an internet classified forum about 10 yrs. ago, and got a reply from someone in Russia. Turns out, they were coming here on a business trip, to my part of my state (near silicon valley/San Jose area). And so they had looked ahead on-line for-sale forums, because they wanted to get a detector, while here in the states (apparently difficult to get american goods where they were/are at). So we met up while he was here, at an appointed place, and he bought this XLT I had for sale. For awhile thereafter, I kept in touch with the fellow via emails, and he was finding old coins last I ever talked to him. But that was years ago.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thats a big place!...like what 7 time zones? Who'd be enforcing this alleged ban? From what we know here, seems a guy could just about bribe themselves in and out of all sorts of areas... I'd be hunting the heck out of that place laws or not! Ok, so I like the cold...and it would be pretty cool to come across some mammoth ivory along the way...just saying....
Mud

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Do you mean this link :

http://www.metaldetectingworld.com/detecting_in_russia.shtml

Notice it's "1913" or older. Any any subsequent talk of "no detecting", or "no picking up coins" [even eyeballing] etc.... can all be understood in the context of that 1913 age limit.

Ok, so what? So if you're detecting, you're not finding coins older than 1913, ARE YOU ? I mean, sheesk, same for here in the USA: do any of us go waltzing over to bored rangers waving old coins, asking someone to come to the math with a calculator? I have utterly no doubt, that if I walked in to my local city or county hall, with an 1880 $20 gold piece, and said "can I keep this?" that someone would also tell me "no". Ok, so what? Who goes around parading their stuff for people to see the ages of stuff, to begin with ?

And I wonder if these things even apply to private land. Ie.: farmers lands with permission, versus public lands, to which (duh) public land use laws apply. Yes I know it says the "entire country", but that can be taken to mean "all public land" in the "entire country".

For example: the same can be said of Britain. Where no one waltzes into public parks and hunts for old coins. Why? Because they belong to the queen or whatever, since they're on public land. But what a farmer does in his own potato field, is his own business, outside the laws governing public land use. So too might this be the case there, where such things are to be interpretted as applying to public land, not your own flower garden, etc....

 

[Tom_in_CA]

In the aforementioned link, you'll need to insert the following words, where you have the ##'s at:

metal detecting world (remove spaces)