Stretch Da Truth
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- Jan 13, 2017
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- XP Déus & a Carrot!
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So my son decides he wants to go out swinging today so I am all excited and we round up all the goodies, load up the car and head out.
We go down to the field I have been swinging at and gear up. It looked like there was gonna be a ball game a lil later in the day at the ball field (not the field we were swinging at, right next to it) and I was pondering leaving and coming back later to avoid all the people but we decided to go out swinging.
My son grabs the White's and I get him all setup. I grab my Deus and we get out on the field. I went over some settings with my son and off he went swinging. I started a few paces off to the left as that way we could help each other out. Got a few targets here and there and started with a few regular pennies and dimes and then we started hitting the goodies!
Had 3 regular pennies and 3 Wheatie's... A 34,39 & 45!
We scored a couple of dimes as well. 2 were clad but the last hole I dug was hiding a 35 Merc! Pretty good shape!
I get up from filling in the hole and see a Police man walking over to us. I wave Hi and he waves me over.
He was a pretty cool guy. Asked if we found anything and I said a couple of pennies and dimes... haven't found the Arc yet! He laughed and said the Holy Grail would be the killer find! He then mentioned he received a call about people digging so he had to respond. He said he was watching us and we looked like we knew what we were doing and were filling the holes real good. He said he didn't have a problem with what we were doing but has to respond to calls... I said A Looksie Lou called to complain cause she had nothing better to do? He nodded. I said ok, we can pack it up. Guess it would be better to come at a later time? Less busy time? He nodded, smiled and said thank you.
My son was a lil bummed and I explained the situation. We don't have any bylaws saying you can't detect and the Police were cool about it so better to leave and come back at a less busy time. He wanted to find out who called to complain and I told him we would never get that info. Some miserable person who wants to stop people who are having fun probably. So we came home to clean up the finds, post up this post, eat some dinner and head back out at 7.
Having read enough threads on here about issues like these, I figured it would be best to make Johnny Law happy, keep him on our side and hope the Looksie Lou's find other people to bother.
Will wait to see if Tom responds... hope I did good?
We go down to the field I have been swinging at and gear up. It looked like there was gonna be a ball game a lil later in the day at the ball field (not the field we were swinging at, right next to it) and I was pondering leaving and coming back later to avoid all the people but we decided to go out swinging.
My son grabs the White's and I get him all setup. I grab my Deus and we get out on the field. I went over some settings with my son and off he went swinging. I started a few paces off to the left as that way we could help each other out. Got a few targets here and there and started with a few regular pennies and dimes and then we started hitting the goodies!
Had 3 regular pennies and 3 Wheatie's... A 34,39 & 45!
We scored a couple of dimes as well. 2 were clad but the last hole I dug was hiding a 35 Merc! Pretty good shape!
I get up from filling in the hole and see a Police man walking over to us. I wave Hi and he waves me over.
He was a pretty cool guy. Asked if we found anything and I said a couple of pennies and dimes... haven't found the Arc yet! He laughed and said the Holy Grail would be the killer find! He then mentioned he received a call about people digging so he had to respond. He said he was watching us and we looked like we knew what we were doing and were filling the holes real good. He said he didn't have a problem with what we were doing but has to respond to calls... I said A Looksie Lou called to complain cause she had nothing better to do? He nodded. I said ok, we can pack it up. Guess it would be better to come at a later time? Less busy time? He nodded, smiled and said thank you.
My son was a lil bummed and I explained the situation. We don't have any bylaws saying you can't detect and the Police were cool about it so better to leave and come back at a less busy time. He wanted to find out who called to complain and I told him we would never get that info. Some miserable person who wants to stop people who are having fun probably. So we came home to clean up the finds, post up this post, eat some dinner and head back out at 7.
Having read enough threads on here about issues like these, I figured it would be best to make Johnny Law happy, keep him on our side and hope the Looksie Lou's find other people to bother.
Will wait to see if Tom responds... hope I did good?
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The silver and wheaties are cool! Congrats!
