Treasure/MEtal Detecting TV shows rant

[Daryn]

Does anyone else feel that all the shows on TV about our hobby make us look like a bunch of screaming, cart wheeling, yahoo idiots? My son asked me the other day if I acted as stupid as they do when I detect and if I yelled like an weirdo? I explained that those people do not represent "US", the average MDer and that most of if not all of the locations that they detect at are not open to the public to detect. He stated that it isn't fair for the people on the shows to have permission when no one else can. This is coming from a 10 year old.

I can't agree more with him. I'd like to see these yahoos trudge through the New England woods around here instead of hand picked honey hole sites. How about a show where the person has to dig through tons of bottle caps and garbage to find a single Merc?

Just my two cents from a frustrated hobbiest.

 

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[team sidewinder]

It is just TV. Watching a TV show about metal detecting would be about as boring as watching grass grow if it weren't for all the excitement and antics when they do find something. Metal detecting is not a spectator hobby by any means.

I know I get pretty darn excited when I find something great and would probably act the same way if I were younger but nobody is watching anyway. When I don't get really excited when I find something metal detecting it will be time for me to quit the hobby.

 

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[cedar6712]

Everybody knows it's all about ratings so their show will not be cancelled. Watching someone MD is like watching chrome rust, so they had to do something.

MDing is not a spectator sport. You can't show it like it is and maintain an audience. Like all reality shows, you have to dramatize or jive it up for the general audience. If the average MDer starting showing me home movies of his day in the city park, I'm afraid it would be a regular snooze-fest. If you can't entertain the non-MDing audience and keep them watching, then your show won't be on the air very long.

 

[lookindown]

Well opinions are like $&@holes. Everyone has one but no one wants to hear from or smell one. This site is really starting to be full of jerks. Either people are jealous over other people finds, call peoples finds fake or question what people say. Just sayin! What does just sayin mean outside of a trailer park?

You said yourself this was a rant and to me ranting is the same as crying. People don't agree with you and you start calling them names...whats wrong with you?

 

[The Dig Dig]

My biggest problem with the shows is American Digger has home owners now wanting to be paid. Diggers has home owners think we'll act like idiots if they allow us on their property. And the worst of them all is Dig Wars. They carry toothbrush's & actually use them and they're teaching that to the masses. Our finds need to be treated properly to be preserved. Not ruined by grinding them with a brush, which we all know will leave scratches & lesson its condition

 

[lookindown]

My biggest problem with the shows is American Digger has home owners now wanting to be paid. Diggers has home owners think we'll act like idiots if they allow us on their property. And the worst of them all is Dig Wars. They carry toothbrush's & actually use them and they're teaching that to the masses. Our finds need to be treated properly to be preserved. Not ruined by grinding them with a brush, which we all know will leave scratches & lesson its condition

Shouldn't they be able to do what they want with their finds?

 

[SusanMN]

I would feel much better about all of these detecting shows if they would start with a reminder to people not to hunt private property without permission and to follow metal detecting laws in the area they are going to hunt. If they wanted to be honest they would say that their finds are not representative of what most hunters are likely to find.

 

[sliverslave]

I like what she said! Thanks Susan

 

[Jcostin]

I would feel much better about all of these detecting shows if they would start with a reminder to people not to hunt private property without permission and to follow metal detecting laws in the area they are going to hunt. If they wanted to be honest they would say that their finds are not representative of what most hunters are likely to find.

amen!

 

[dholland02]

I dnt know how many homeowners asked how much thwy r gonna get. I just chuckle and say have a nice day and leave.

 

[lookindown]

I dnt know how many homeowners asked how much thwy r gonna get. I just chuckle and say have a nice day and leave.

I would tell them they could have half of my finds...that would be a heck of a lot better than what you get when you say have a nice day and leave.

 

[Nickleanddime]

There like any reality tv show, American Pickers ect. They just ruin everything.

 

[THRICK]

There like any reality tv show, American Pickers ect. They just ruin everything.

Ya, have you gone to a storage auction lately? Sheesh!

 

[Alan Applegate]

How many of you remember the (thankfully!) short Discovery series with Jessy Ventura? The first place he went was to HAARP. He depicted the place as a fed coverup, and somehow managed to include space aliens into the discussion. Ugh!

It just so happens I know one of the original designers of the array, and the builder of all of the hardware driving the array. Ventura's depiction was pure fantasy! It was, by any description, a vain stab at eliciting viewers, which failed miserably! Maybe we should all send a nasty-gram to David Zaslav, the CEO of Discovery Communications, voicing our displeasure!

 

[Jason in Enid]

Maybe we should all send a nasty-gram to David Zaslav, the CEO of Discovery Communications, voicing our displeasure!

NO! That will have the opposite effect. Love and hatred are the same the thing to television: Passion. This was discovered when Howard Stern became popular. The researchers discovered that the people who hated him tuned in even more than the people who loved in. That is why there is "no such thing as bad publicity".

 

[Rawhide]

Unfortunately we are all brainwashed and just keep tuning in. Turn it off and wait for it on On Demand after they cancel the show.