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Me and a buddy of mine have been detecting a section of beach near my home that has been considered public access ever since i was a little boy. The area is a very small sliver of sand about 100 foot from water to swamp and less than 1 mile long. Apparently the area had been divided up into partials way back when but was never built on because it was unfeasible. The area is used every day by dog walkers and people riding there golf carts back and forth on the beach. But yesterday i was informed that i was trespassing all the while people were parking and walking there dogs and people picking up seas shells! I was informed that i needed written permission to detect this beach. I even talked to a local cop that i knew and he said it was public access, as there is parking on the street by the beach from 8 to 6pm only. I was really at a loss for words!
 
I know the feeling.
I HATE to hear what you are now going to have to go through.
I was also informed (by a P.O.ed officer) after several years of hunting local parks
that it was not legal. I had checked years ago with the parks dept.
and got the OK. Come to find out you can DETECT, but you can't DIG>
What a bunch of liberal BS!!!
Now your being watched by a jealous bored person, and you have to make sure it's legal.
Nothing else you can do.
Just make sure the people you elect in local elections have a real understanding of liberty
(most likely the republicans) and won't try to dictate EVERY single aspect of your life.
Once I found out I couldn't do it legally, I'm selling a LOT of equipment.
I know a bunch of people that still hunt the parks, but I've been entered into the system and
will be ticketed if found detecting again.
Will hold onto a few units for the beach (not the same as relics and old coins for me) and traveling to Europe and elsewhere, but I'm
really upset regardless.
Hope it turns out in your favor.
Deep Digger
 
In FL you can hunt between the waterline and the dunes and in the water if there is no treasure lease there.

Hilton Head Island, you cannot legally detect even on your own property... I would have to exercise a ilttle "civil disobedience" on that on... on principle.

If I were you I would talk to either your county comissioner or city counsel member... then go back. You need to know who it is you have to have permission from.. if indeed you have to have it.

J
 
Deep digger,
Sorry to hear the problems that you are having there. Seems like when the Democrats get in charge that they don't want anyone to pursue any hobby that involves violating their Mother earth. They some how think that the Earth is God or something. Look what they have done in California to the gold prospectors. They can't even us a small hobby dredge in the streams, which completely eliminates any tourists visiting for prospecting purposes. I always enjoy reading your comments.

Ohio Bud
 
Ohio Bud,
I'm feeling bad for the California gold seekers who have spent TONS of $ chasing the yellow stuff.
I am SO SICK of trying to deal with those in "charge" in order to enjoy my hobby.
A local state park beach that has been open to hunting for ever from Sept. to May, but was closed to
detecting indefinitely with no notification to the public via the parks website.
Imagine my surprise when I show up opening day only to be told to "go away".
I called a lot of people in the stare parks dept. and was basically told too bad for you.
I was even told that nothing on the beach was ever mine, it belongs to the STATE!
They were afraid someone was going to find a priceless historical artifact....ha ha ha.
The audacity in which I was told to go pound other sand (pun intended) made me vomit.
Keep up the good fight and NEVER quit fighting for you rights!
Deep Digger
 
Yeah it is strange how people think that it is better for something of historical significance to rot away in the ground rather than someone find it and enjoy it. IT would be different if they had archeologist doing it there to place it in a museum. Maybe we need to organize with a magazine to get our own lobbyist to help preserve our hobby that is rapidly getting taken away one bullshit bill after another!
 
Keep all your trash,can slaw,pull tabs,wire,nails, everything,and put it in a walmart sack and keep at least one sack with you everytime you go hunting.
I was at one of our local parks when a lady came up to me while I was recovering a deep wheat penny,she watched how I cut my horse shoe plug and then placed all of my dirt on a towel and was very impressed but said they had some complaints about us detectors digging in the park.
Well to make a long story short she was the( Park Director) I took her over to my truck and showed her all the trash that I had recovered from that park this summer,she was amazed,and told me to carry on that detectorist were the best thing for the park and that no city officials would bother me.

Pieces of sharp metal,wires or nails can be a huge liability to a city if someone gets hurt!!
 
Excellent comment. Leaving the area better than when you entered can have an amazing impact on some people, and rightly so. I bet you displayed a calm, positive attitude as well. There are some people who detect and do so impeccably, but when confronted, they get all huffy-puffy and blow it. Attitude is important along with your excellent ideas.
 
I live in Alabama. You can literally not get elected here unless your a Republican and we have some of the most restrictive laws concerning metal detecting. You can not hunt on State land at all. Now you can kill on the animals you want on state land but you can not dig up pennies, go figure. I know people are always looking to blame somebody and thats human nature, but I really don't see "liberals" and "democrats" being any more of a threat to metal detecting than any other politician.
 
Some years back at a public beach in southern Illinois my wife and I was water detecting in pretty deep sand. On one signal a very jagged broken soda bottle came up in the scoop. I put it in my trash pouch and was latter confronted by a life guard about detecting there. I showed her the jagged broken bottle. She took it and put it in the trash can and we were never confronted again about metal detecting that beach. That bottle could do some serious damage to some one, and the fact we removed it was much appreciated.

Rick (IL)
 
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