Metal Detecting Ethics Proposal

[SouthTexasHunter]

As quality targets become more and more scarce with every find, I have come up with a strategy that should give current and future detectorists a better shot at a quality find.
Keep fishing ethics and laws in mind as you read.
I think a "catch and release" sentiment would be a good idea. If you find something good, just take a few pictures with your find then put it back in the hole and cover it back up.
Coins would have to be of "legal age" before they can be harvested. Say any coin less than 65 years old would have to be returned to it's resting place until it matures.
Jewelry would have to be valued at a minimum of $100 to be kept and even still, most ethical detectorists would put it back in the hole and cover it back up so another hunter could enjoy it as well.
A limit of 5 "keepers" per day should be acceptable.
The future of our hobby depends on conserving our resources. As quality targets are depleted, getting our youth involved in the hobby becomes harder and harder. We must keep this hobby we love alive.

As we don't care for government and laws to dictate what we do and how we do it, it is imperative that we police ourselves and hunt ethically and keep the future generations of dirt fishermen interested and involved.
"Don't be a glutton, put back that button"

Thanks for reading.














As I hope yall figured out, this is just a joke. HH

 

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[aa battery]

hmmm i have no words for this

 

[patiodadio]

These newer clad coins won't last very long. If we put them back, the next guy or gal that finds them in a few years won't have anything left to find but an un- recognizable piece of metal that might have been a coin.

 

[Fletch88]

I think this would be a great thing except that a large percentage of the general population are greedy and do not care about the future generations or certainly not future detectorists.

 

[TheHunterGT]

Read the bottom line people....he is joking.....

I thought he was bat-poop crazy at first read.......

 

[against the wind]

Sooo, they do have moonshine in Texas

 

[Terry Soloman]

That was more like "Four Way hit of Orange Sunshine" stuff dude..

 

[bigfoot1]

what the heck...lets take it further...take 10% of your earnings and buy silver coins and jewelry of value and just plant it.No No I got it...lets just all put dollar bills under the windshield wipers of every car we park next to.No No lets just open our homes and pantrys to the homeless,they will be cool I'm sure.Or just vote for bernie and accomplish it all at once.

My vote for funniest post of the year !!spit beer on my monitor when I read it !!thanks for the laugh,I needed one.

 

[stefen]

what the heck...lets take it further...take 10% of your earnings and buy silver coins and jewelry of value and just plant it.No No I got it...lets just all put dollar bills under the windshield wipers of every car we park next to.No No lets just open our homes and pantrys to the homeless,they will be cool I'm sure.Or just vote for bernie and accomplish it all at once.

My vote for funniest post of the year !!spit beer on my monitor when I read it !!thanks for the laugh,I needed one.

Been sniffin airplane glue again...

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Pretty funny post.

I've often wondered if this "put the coin back in the ground" solution would work to stay within cultural heritage laws. Because there's a lot of places where detecting is not specifically dis-allowed , yet it falls under cultural heritage concerns. Well gee, if you re-insert the coins older than 50 yrs. old BACK into the ground, aren't you technically in compliance then ? haha

 

[aa battery]

Been sniffin airplane glue again...

oh you gave yourself up

 

[relic nut]

Maybe I'll take a job as a Relic warden. I'll write tickets and confiscate your finds. We'll even have decoy coins.

And remember guys, no baiting. You must give the relic a sporting chance
HH, Relic Nut

 

[vince76]

Or maybe collect them and than put them all in a hole so the others will have a lot of coin spills. I will try it but with the coce cans [emoji1]

 

[Loco-Digger]

I'll paint my zincs silver and replace all silvers I dig, with a silver zincoln.

 

[vince76]

I'll paint my zincs silver and replace all silvers I dig, with a silver zincoln.

[emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]

I'll make my own coins with the reverse: vince was here [emoji12]

 

[Peyton Manning]

My feeling has always been this-

When detectors are outlawed, only outlaws will have detectors..

 

[Jason in Enid]

As quality targets become more and more scarce with every find, I have come up with a strategy that should give current and future detectorists a better shot at a quality find.
Keep fishing ethics and laws in mind as you read.
I think a "catch and release" sentiment would be a good idea. If you find something good, just take a few pictures with your find then put it back in the hole and cover it back up.
Coins would have to be of "legal age" before they can be harvested. Say any coin less than 65 years old would have to be returned to it's resting place until it matures.
Jewelry would have to be valued at a minimum of $100 to be kept and even still, most ethical detectorists would put it back in the hole and cover it back up so another hunter could enjoy it as well.
A limit of 5 "keepers" per day should be acceptable.
The future of our hobby depends on conserving our resources. As quality targets are depleted, getting our youth involved in the hobby becomes harder and harder. We must keep this hobby we love alive.

As we don't care for government and laws to dictate what we do and how we do it, it is imperative that we police ourselves and hunt ethically and keep the future generations of dirt fishermen interested and involved.
"Don't be a glutton, put back that button"

Thanks for reading.














As I hope yall figured out, this is just a joke. HH

Its a bad joke.

 

[TheHunterGT]

Its a bad joke.

Winter time jokes automatically get bumped into the tolerable category. Right below mildly humorous.

 

[Crappies-n-Coins]

My feeling has always been this-

When detectors are outlawed, only outlaws will have detectors..

But the real outlaws will use Outlaws

 

[SouthTexasHunter]

How about if we just follow logger's philosophy and any time we harvest a mature coin from the soil, we plant 3 juvenile coins in the same area? Nobody is going to preserve this hobby if we don't.