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Fill in your holes!

B

Buried Crap NJ

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Now I really hate to complaint about this I know this is the beach. But if your not scooping in the water or really wet sand where there is wave action, give a little kick of sand back in the hole. I was on the beach two days with about 11 different guys that I saw go by me, none of which I know. I would say I saw very few fill in there holes. Where I was there were lots of people coming down to take a look see at the damage. There was always 30 people looking off one of the many boardwalk area's that once had stairs.Many were walking the beach not the wet sand! It looked like a bomb zone. I saw one lady take a tumble in a large hole left by somebody. I also saw lots of beer/soda cans that were dug and left next to the open hole. If you dig it and its too big to take with you put it back in the hole and kick sand in it. This is not a big deal as we are in beach sand. But this storm left very little sand at all. One scoop and I was in red dirt! There was no sand! That's why I was digging coins from the 1870's.These people remember what they see, makes us look really bad in the public eyes! They also remember when you knock on the19th century home to ask to detect!!!!
steve
 
Steve, I put everyting I dig at the beach in my pouch and fill in the holes. Gotta do it, we are in the publics eye and we don't want any complaints made. Hey, they put up No Smoking signs at the beach, and who knows, they may be itching to put up No Metal Detecting signs.
 
[size=large]After big well publicized Noreasters.....every bozo with a detector shows up to dig their fortunes......they have no clue that we live by a code of ethics and they don't really care....just be glad that they hunt one maybe two days and then like a 6 year old on Christmas morning with too many new toys.....they simply lose interest and go away till the next big storm comes along.....I call these folks "SKIMMERS".....all you can do is try to persevere....and get through those two days after the storm and they will go away....it's not so bad....after 34 years in this hobby...I'm kinda used to it....LOL :bouncy:[/size]
 
hey surfdigger-hope your right and the newness wears off quickly it doesn't take much effort or time but some people are forever stupid
 
I totally agree. One guy I know never fills in his holes. An astute life guard kicked him off the beach. I hunt the same beach almost every weekend and the life guards have never bothered me. I am very conscious about filling my holes as I somehow realize I'm not the only person using the beach and I was a forceps born baby. This is not rocket science.

Harvdog
 
So glade you guys brought this up. i was at the beach Sat. and Sun and the Skimmers (as Surfdigger calls them) were out hot and heavy. never seen these people before they were asking me how to use there MDs and I helped them with their settings in any way I could but I asked them to please kick the sand back in the holes and most of them were doing just that but a few clowns were just in it for the immediate gratification oh well most were doing the right thing. I hope people don't loose there minds and do the right thing out there. I love this hobby and I sure hate to see the Fly by nights blow it for us...Thanks guys
 
Saturday I came across a line of unfilled holes and started filling them. A young guy who was detecting came over and asked why I was filling them since the tide would fill them in later in the afternoon. I pointed out some teens (not too far from his age) running up and down the beach with a dog; watching the dog and not where they were going. I asked "what if they step in one of these holes and break something in a fall?" He went ahead of me and quickly filled the remaining line of holes. I am not positive they were his holes, but was pleased with the result.
 
Anyone ever have to fill your holes twice? One day I worked my way up the beach, dug about 30 to 35 targets, I decided to go back the other way, looked and all my holes were dug out. This little 5 or 6 year old kid was behind me digging them out again. he seen me looking at what he did and he ran like a rabbit. so I had to fill them all back again. never seen him the rest of the day. I guess he thought I was gonna beat him with my scoop. (not) but I would have like to talk to his parent's about filling holes for other people safety. Gene
 
Steve, I agree and try to do the same here. There are a few here who leave open holes. If I see them, they get counseled. It is bad form.
 
Those rare occasions that I work the wet/dry sand I go the extra distance to refill the hole and pack it down, a soft sand hole is perhaps more treacherous than an open hole - you can turn an ankle just as easy but you can't see it coming. For those dummies that dig a trash target and then throw it down on the beach so that they can dig again the next time they hunt that beach, I suggest you join a gym so you can enjoy working out uselessly. I only dig junk targets once because they go into the trash bin.

Once is enough,

BDA:cool:
 
Speaking of trash, I think I've dug more bobby pins than there are grains of sand. I keep thinking as I empty them into the trash that they have to be the last ones on earth...but I'm always wrong.

Harvdog
 
I hear you on the bobbie pins, never dug them until I got a Whites DF. They come up as a double blip usually but today I dug a double blip anyway and what a surprise. No bobbie pin this time - got a Heineken beer cap instead.:poke::rofl: I really have developed a distaste for bobbie pins.

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
 
A double blip can be a double edged sword as you probably know. Nine time out of ten a double blip will be iron but that one out of ten could mean two good targets close together or some other wierd anomoly where it turns out to be a good target. I dig them just to get them out of the way but it is a losing battle. How long do you think a bobbie pin can survive in a salt water environment until it disintegrates enough to become an unreadable target? My guess is one can survive about three to four years but I could be wrong. Any other guesses?

Harvdog
 
I would say that the life span on a bobbie pin in saltwater would depend upon the salinity of the local waters and the average temperature of those waters, corrosion is an endothermic reaction (or is that exothermic - I always confuse those two):lol: Basically, the higher the salt concentration and the higher the mean temperature the quicker the bloody bobbie pins will corrode to nothing. I'm guessing a couple of years in Bermuda and probably a little longer on the north-east coast of north america because the salinity is a little lower and the temp is cooler.

Maybe global warming will help to speed up the demise of bobbie pins. Every cloud has a silver lining.:bouncy:
 
When I used to hunt beaches I got sick and tired of other operators not filling in holes, and leaving the rubbish on the sand. I try to do the right thing, whether it's required or not. I prospect 5 days a week in central Victoria (OZ) and when on a patch I'll rake and stick pick, but at the end the ground is returned to the original condition (minus the gold). Even in the bush most prospectors leave their holes open. If we are not careful one day all the beaches and even the bush could be off limits to us because of inconsiderate mongrels. It takes a second to fill in a hole, not rocket science. Nugget
 
I went out today for about 4 hrs same beach as the last few times. I was the only guy detecting. But I could see others had been on the beach the day before. Its no wonder that we are looked at as bad people. I saw holes 18 inches deep and a soda can next to the hole, or a broken bottle & top with jagged glass next to a hole! I for one have jump on these guys when I see them doing this. I read some forum that you should turn them in. I am not sure this is a great idea? Well the hunt was with a new used CZ-7 and I hunted with only iron discriminated out, I dug many targets but non were gold or silver, just clad and not much at that. This beach after the storm really produced as it always does. Most of the sand has comeback up high but the lower section was steep to the water. steve
 
We should take a picture and start an offender web page...lol. That would fix it right up!
 
Thanks for reminding everyone to cover the holes. Reminds me of a State that I was driving thru. It seemed like every car burned only one Headlamp so they would have a spare.
 
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