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Tricking fellow hunters

I hope Gary reads this, what goes around comes around. What a pathetic trick to play on people. Maybe you should consider politics. On second thought we don't need another crooked politician. This is a hobby, let's enjoy our good finds and be happy for others who find good things also. Please re-consider your tactics.
 
I too have read this thread over and over and thought a little more about this... ALL and I say all successful pursuit oriented types protect their secret spots through most any means necessary. For us it could be employing some of the strategies mentioned above, for a commercial fisherman or gold panner, or hunter or trapper, its the same..they would never telegraph a hot spot to the competition, and would do all they could to discourage them or throw them off the trail and protect it at all costs from slackers that could not or did not find it on their own. Its got nothing to do with the in depth morality of a person brought up here. We are all in a competition against time and nature to find what we can, and though I have not read Drayton's works, I suspect thats what Gary was trying to get across, on a packed beach, heres a few tricks that might make you not get over run by ill mannered detectorists that did not get up early enough to find the place on their own, and are basically claimjumpers...so aside from saying "hey buddy, piss off" to an encroaching rude detectorists, and maybe winding up in a fight or a debate about public places, I see nothing deceitful about the trick he mentioned, slinging out a handful of nickels in the path of an approaching stranger with a coil does not constitute a moral failure, it just might buy you enough time to clear out the spot you found, and if the guy has any sense of propriety, he will not move in on you and you can go and get your nickels back. Just do the best you can with what time you have here, sleep well and get up early, don't worry about assessing the morals of others too hard because that knife cuts both ways, or assigning moral failures to what have always been the tricks hunters use to protect their zone..
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I can't remember if it was done by just a local beach enthusiast or not. But the strangest that I've ever heard about was that someone took a pile of copper pennies, chopped them all up, and spread them all through a beach area. Now that's sending a message.
 
Anybody watching other detectorists isn't paying enough attention to their own work and wont be finding anything. The only thing I watch when I'm out and about is to be sure some thug isn't sneaking up to rob me. If I happen to pass near another hunter, I'll stop and chat a moment but that's it. I had honestly never thought of watching anyone else hunt before this thread.
 
I think what Gary is talking about in his article was getting a fool away from a good known spot . If the person is greedy enough to hoard in on your general location then they deserve to be tricked. The beaches he is talking about are crawling with other M/D ers. And no doubt like with anything else a good portion of those people are members of what I like to call the something for nothing gang. They are selfish people who never want to think for themselfs.

Gary gives more to the sport in one article than 99% of these clowns will ever give back to anything!

And as far as him throwing back a few pulltabs and nickles. Well I'm sure he has hauled off way more than his and my share of pulltabs.

Let's be carfull not to over analyze and fail to see the humer in messing with dipsticks.:rofl:
 
Why is everyone else a dipstick or asswipe or some other derogatory name you dig up out of the slime....

What a miserable bunch you guys are... When someone ignores you when you need help, think of ll the disparaging you have done and realize you reap what you sew...:wacko:
 
I hunt a lot of "Public" property. Beach, parks, playgrounds etc. Other folks have the same right to be there with their detector as I have. I see no need to try to trick them off a spot that they are detecting. I hope that they would have the same consideration for me. I might make the mistake of tricking them off a spot onto an even better spot within a couple of feet of where I just detected. In my opinion doing something to trick a fellow detector is kind of a Crappy Attitude and shows a high level of Greed.
 
I must admit, last summer, I stooped low enough to trick a fellow hunter. There is a volley ball court less than five minutes from my home that I hunt often. Over the years I have found several rings and many coins there, last year I got two .925 ear rings, a matching set found a week apart. One day I went to that volley ball court and it was void of all targets. Obviously another detectorest was searching in "my" area. This is a public park and I have no real "ownership" of it, but it's still "mine". I placed a zinc penny in the sand under the net and checked back often. When the penny would disappear I replaced it with another zinc in a different location, noting the day and time. I discovered the other hunter comes at different days but always in the evening. I now hunt that volley ball court in early afternoon.
 
I have noticed the other hunter in "my" volley ball court is pretty good with a detector. The sand is completely empty of targets and the surrounding park has no visible damage to the grass or any other area from digging. Maybe in 2014 I will place another zinc penny in a coin envelope, write my contact info on it, and then place it in the sand. Perhaps we could get together and have some fun this year.
 
OldGuy I would not consider that to be tricking a fellow detector. It appears to me that you were doing some research to determine the best time and days to go detecting. In this Old Mans opinion that is much different than trying to trick someone into giving up a productive spot.
 
Yes that's it let's all just get along and share everything like one big happy commune. No competition just everything fare. No tricks or deception, just rainbows and butterflies. I can see it now its beautiful. I can't believe it's never been tried before. Such fresh ideas emerging from this topic. What a wonderful bunch this topic has attracted.
Let's have some volunteers start this off by donating all there worldly possessions to the big pot then another and another until that pot is full. Then let's put that pot in the commune square and let everyone just take what they need. Pushing and shoving lousy, oh no not here in utopiaville we will go in alphabetical order starting with me and my friends and then there friends. Now it's your turn Mr and Mrs Dipstick.

Woopsie all gone!

Dam reality getting in the way of communism again. Oh well I'm sure we will try again someday.

If you do not find this at all humerus then please go back and do a reality check before attempting to understand the point, also try reading some history books.
I do not mean to offend everyone just the :stretcher:and the:cry: and the:confused:.
 
you keep asking this same question on all the forums every few weeks. have you ever got any replies. good luck.
 
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