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Minelab's latest video production...

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Barry NY

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Minelab Americas developed this video to encourage every metal detecting enthusiast to try to create local programs under the Artifact Detecting Team umbrella.

This production showcasing the positive relationship between metal detectorists, historical societies and local land owners is suitable for your use in trying to get a local program started.

Try to get this video into the hands of your local historical society or land preservation group to show them what a great fundraiser metal detecting events can be for them...

Thanks for watching. PS - thanks to etracjoe for his appearance...

Barry

[video]http://vimeo.com/28966027[/video]
 
Excellent Barry
You do great stuff for this hobby
 
No problem Barry, and thank you for starting this exciting project and I hope it takes off across the country and opens doors as your program has done in long island.
 
Thanks Guys - Minelab understands that they need to be at the forefront of helping to create opportunities for us detectorists to pursue our passion.

If there are no exciting places available to detect then who really needs the latest and greatest gear or who will want to enter the hobby - if this happens then the "market" for their (and the other manufacturers) products will quickly shrink.

Right now expanding the overall metal detecting equipment market to new customers is more important than the manufacturers fighting amongst themselves for existing market share.

Minelab, as a market leader, understands this and has various programs being developed across all their different categories from gold detection to water detection to coin and relic detection....
 
The Idea is good but I dont understand why one needs to pay so much money to hunt especially if one already pays a membership fee. I think it would be a good idea to explain where that money goes.
 
Hi Goldmanjace,

The money flows as follows:

The reasonable $25 membership fee goes towards all the expenses related to managing, maintaining and running the program plus all members earn a huge discount on the hunt fees and also get a Minelab logo item - however, you are not required to pay for membership to join the hunts - you are free to pay the non-member price.

The hunt fees go DIRECTLY to the not for profit Historical Society and are fully IRS 503(b) tax deductible.

The $100 weekend hunt fee is a competitive price when compared to other organized hunts that are out there. However, we believe there is no other group in the US offering the potential to make the type of finds that people can and have made on one of these hunts.

I believe in other areas of the country the hunt fee can be priced by the local organizer and the not for profit to suit the potential of the properties.

I hope this answers your question.

Thanks.
 
Sure, thanks. My intention was not to offend anyone I just thought it would be a good idea to show that there is no profit involved :clapping:
 
Oh - not offended at all - it's a valid question. Unlike some of the Civil War relic hunt events out there where the organizers are pocketing 10's of thousands of $$ (and I'm not saying they don't deserve it) - this is strictly a program to have historical societies come together with us detectorists on common ground - they need donations and we need places to hunt...it's a total win-win and creates tremendous good will for our hobby.

I "sold" the program into the board of directors by making the analogy to that of a charity golf outing - you know when there is that exclusive golf club in the community that costs $50,000 to be a member that no normal guy really gets to golf on...well sometimes they open up that course on a Monday to support a local charity and anyone can golf and have lunch/dinner for a $250 donation - this is the same general concept - you get to detect on a property that you would never ever have the opportunity to detect on for a reasonable donation to a local charity.

Understand that once these properties are detected twice - once in the fall and again in the spring after the plowing - the find potential diminishes to the point where we would not go back ever again...so you run through available good properties pretty fast. We keep the event small, manageable and fun - usually having just 15-20 people per every 25 acres...

Barry
 
I enjoyed the Video. I would like to be able to attend one of these Hunt in the Fall of 2011.,but I live in North Carolina and I will be at Nigara Falls in the 1st week of October for a week. Please keep us informed on a Fall schedulegoldnugget-Charlotte,North Carolina
 
Barry, you did great. Having seen your enthusiasm about this concept since you first introduced the idea, I can only say how pleased I am to see it followed through. It is my hope that not only will this continue far into the future, but that someday I will be able to attend.

Thank you.

NebTrac
 
NebTrac - thanks for the kind words.
The biggest thrill I get from this program is when someone comes out to hunt and makes their "find of a lifetime" - to be have been able to facilitate that for them is one of the best experiences one can have...
 
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