About what Ray posted...Lurkers...

[Jim C (Mich)]

..tis true. I posted on another forum where I found that bust coin/pendant last weekend. Just yesterday I recieved a private message informing me that 3 guys from the Detroit area are coming Sunday to detect that park and asked if I would like to meet up with them.
I mean its not my park or anything but this just goes to show ya. You gotta keep quiet if ya don't want to alert others to possible good sites and them horning in on them. All parks are open game but if your finding good stuff and others think it is hunted out. Keep shut. The spouting whale gets the harpoon.

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[John M (Ct)]

That was an old road with 3 cellar holes on it.We have made some great finds there.It has never been detected before we got there and only two of my dtecting friends know about the spot.None of us go there alone or with anybody other then the original three.It is too bad that everybody can't be trusted.When we bring our finds into the club meetings we never reveal the location because we just know somebody will jump the spot.

Sory to hear that this is happening to you.Too many people just don't do the research and then use others that do it.

Take care, John.

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[General Ray]

A few years back I use to hunt with a friend from another state, he would post his finds with pictures on the Minelab forum. After awhile he notice when he went back to his sites that somebody else was there since his last visit whice was usally only a week. He knew somebody lurking on the forum was hitting his sites during the week after he would post his finds after his weekend hunts. So he made a false post and posted some nice old coins from a park that he knew was pretty much hunted out just to see if somebody was hitting his sites after he would post his finds. Sure enough, he posted finds on sunday night and the very next day he went by this park a few times and around 9 am two hunters showed up and hunted this park most of the day, it sure does happen alot.

Ray

 

[Craig in Alabama]

Seems some Yank is apparently living in my area and is already talking about hitting my parks while I'm out of town. What can ya do

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[General Ray]

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[Lawrence in Alabama]

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[floydandtina]

i have people trying to find my spots. in fact they wemt into one area and cleared the brush out but they missed the spot, huck, huck

 

[Don/Michigan]

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[MK_(MO)]

I can totally understand your feelings....
everyone has the right to detect... but respect is appreciated.

When I was living on the Oregon coast I spent 9 years figuring out the currents and found a truly rare spot where the ocean deposited rings, coins, and other items. It was a rocky area so items settled into the rocks and were somewhat protected forever. I found some great 100+ year old coins there. Then one day this guy follows me and discovers this rare site. I was OK with it and kind-of liked sharing our detecting finds, theories etc.

This guy almost ruined the hobby for me. I will never think the same about detecting after seeing the extreme greed that he detected with.

He lived 25+ miles away but he hammered this spot 7 days a week for hours, didn't fill holes, and had zero respect for the area. Over the next 6 months he tore up the bottom of a steam which was habitat for endangered species salmon. That got the local environmentalists upset and talking about outlawing detecting. They never cared about detectors before then.
I knew of other unique sites but I was so discoaraged by his actions I almost hung up my detectors forever.

By the time we moved to Missouri in 2005 he had detected that spot so hard it was near impossible to find anything.
I don't know if local anti-detecting regulations were ever put in place.

I hope I never meet anyone like him again.

 

[Keith IL]

My hunting buddy and I showed up to the old beach site and found 3 guys hunting there.We never even broke out our gear and just watched them get frustrated digging old cans and gabage.After about an hour they left but while they were there they were cussing as if someone stole Rays oatmeal and this was in a quiet neighborhood,just not good for public relations if ya know what I mean.After they left we went in and Dave went over to the edge of where they were hunting and hit only one target( a 57 class ring)which if they had found we would have never gotten rid of them.Lucky for us they were off the mark by about 20 yards and left empty handed or else I would have had to open a can of whup ass on em. At least 3 times Dave had been hunting in either Wisconsin or downtown Chicago and detecorist who he has never met(he knows quite a few)actually asked him if he knew me and where I was finding stuff.Theres more but you get the drift. It's poor etiquette to claim jump and ya never know when an accident might happen like getting in the way of the working end of stainless scoop.

 

[General Ray]

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[General Ray]

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[Alabama Jim]

Well,I'm a real friendly guy and anybody that wants to detect in my area is welcome anytime! Oh! and the fort is in my area.

 

[Elson(La)]

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