GarrettPredator3Massachusetts
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Does anyone have tips that would help in asking ones permission to scan there property??
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GarrettPredator3Massachusetts
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what are some ways to approach people??
Make sure you can recover targets without tearing up their property first!
Be courteus. Stress how you will treat their property with proper respect, offer to let him watch you recover a few targets. Let them know that if you find the ring his wife lost last summer, you'll return it. Offer to let them use your spare detector and hunt together.
With public places I like to bring the maintenance guys coffee in the morning or cold drinks (beer is always good) when it's hot. You can do a lot of bonding while sipping a cool can of suds on an 80 degree day. I offer to let them inspect my recovery techniques, most never care. In fact most will tell you what has been lost and give you an idea where. I have never found any of these. I do listen when they tell me where people congregate and when.
Sometimes it takes a long time to get permission. With a local volunteer fire department it took me month to get permission because nobody was willing to give it. They finally raised it at a trustees meeting and called me granting me permission. It was an awful place to detect and I found about 35 cents in two hours and a million pop tops.
I strongly prefer to stay on public land. Many times when somebody sees me detecting and starts a conversation, I ask them where they live and if I could detect in their yard or if they can think of other spots I might detect. I get a lot of great tips this way.
Chris
Be courteus. Stress how you will treat their property with proper respect, offer to let him watch you recover a few targets. Let them know that if you find the ring his wife lost last summer, you'll return it. Offer to let them use your spare detector and hunt together.
With public places I like to bring the maintenance guys coffee in the morning or cold drinks (beer is always good) when it's hot. You can do a lot of bonding while sipping a cool can of suds on an 80 degree day. I offer to let them inspect my recovery techniques, most never care. In fact most will tell you what has been lost and give you an idea where. I have never found any of these. I do listen when they tell me where people congregate and when.
Sometimes it takes a long time to get permission. With a local volunteer fire department it took me month to get permission because nobody was willing to give it. They finally raised it at a trustees meeting and called me granting me permission. It was an awful place to detect and I found about 35 cents in two hours and a million pop tops.
I strongly prefer to stay on public land. Many times when somebody sees me detecting and starts a conversation, I ask them where they live and if I could detect in their yard or if they can think of other spots I might detect. I get a lot of great tips this way.
Chris
treasurefiend
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If you give me a cold beer, I will let you detect my parking spot in the alley, 
, but you will only find a million of these:
, Im JK, but that is solid advice and im sure it will come in handy sometime...
, but you will only find a million of these:, Im JK, but that is solid advice and im sure it will come in handy sometime...GarrettPredator3Massachusetts
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Wow thanks a bunch guys!!!! I will do like you said. HH all.!!!
jackintexas
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When I find a place I would like to hunt, I look the address up on the county appraisal district. That tells you all about the house and who owns it. Then I knock on their door and call them by name and inroduce myself Explain about the hobby and you won't make large holes in their yard. They will almost always say what is in it for me. Instead of being uneasy I say what do you want to be in it for you. At that point they usually go ahead and give you permission.......Jack