Hi to you all and Merry Christmas. Went out for a short hunt today, Monday the 8th. I went to a new place (for me) a very nice community park with probably 6 or 7 baseball diamonds and several soccer fields. Got out of the car, got geared up and went directly to the nearest area to detect. Well don't you know someone had beat me to it. All well and good..it's not private property. I could see that someone had been there probably within the last week or so because the place looked like a prairie dog town. Almost all the plugs had been replaced, rather haphazardly I might say but upon closer examination, I found that whoever searched the place had left any junk he found on the surface. Didn't even have the common sense to clean up after himself. I'm sure it probably wasn't anyone associated with this forum...I just needed to vent a little. Yes partners, I cleaned up his mess as best I could, tamping down plugs and removing left behind junk. It's hard enough sometimes to get onto property to hunt without clowns like this messing it up for everyone. By the way Bud...whether you don't know your instrument or you're just a piss poor hunter, I searched in the exact spots you did and had a great day, only clad but a lot of it. For all of you who diligently follow the unwritten code...good on ya!