Normsel
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- Sep 10, 2012
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- Detector(s) used
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E-Trac
Equinox 800
Equinox 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I was out with my new AT PRO the other day and was at a park and in the 1st 50' I found $3.74 in clad. I thought wow this is like a honey hole here and was filling the hole I had just dug when a guy came up and said wow I can't even see where you dug. I said i always try to leave it just like I found it. He said that's good but I am the parks and recreation supt and we no longer allow people to metal detect anymore. I said i am sorry i didn't know. He said someone has come in here and left holes like a gopher and not only ruins the grass but kids could trip in them and get hurt. I said I apologize and tried to find out who to ask and the clerk at the city said it was ok. He said well there is no ordinance against it because as of last week I decided to stop anyone from it and it will be brought up at a council meeting next week.
He said sad to say but if everyone was like you we'd let anyone do it but because of one idiot that tore the sod up all over and never even tried to put it back everyone is banned from doing it. He said I know who the person is and I ran him off telling him never to come back or I would call the police and have him arrested for destruction of public property.
I apologized again and he thanked me for filling my holes and not complaining.
In a nutshell one or two idiots are getting detecting banned in an entire town.
One more thing. I was in a tot lot that was filled with woods chips and my new AT PRO went nuts. I keep beeping and squealing even when i turned the sensitivity down as low as it could go. I moved to the grass and ground balanced it again and it was fine. It also happened yesterday in a real trashy area and no matter what i did to balance it the darn thing did it again so I moved re-balanced and it was fine.
Just curious what i did wrong.
I found a new honey hole where I dug $4.70 in an area less than 5'x5'. I got tired after digging 52 holes because most were pennies and dimes and quit but left my detector on while I investigated an area about 200' x 200' and it rang like a telephone in the entire area. Guess where I am going this morning.
He said sad to say but if everyone was like you we'd let anyone do it but because of one idiot that tore the sod up all over and never even tried to put it back everyone is banned from doing it. He said I know who the person is and I ran him off telling him never to come back or I would call the police and have him arrested for destruction of public property.
I apologized again and he thanked me for filling my holes and not complaining.
In a nutshell one or two idiots are getting detecting banned in an entire town.
One more thing. I was in a tot lot that was filled with woods chips and my new AT PRO went nuts. I keep beeping and squealing even when i turned the sensitivity down as low as it could go. I moved to the grass and ground balanced it again and it was fine. It also happened yesterday in a real trashy area and no matter what i did to balance it the darn thing did it again so I moved re-balanced and it was fine.
Just curious what i did wrong.
I found a new honey hole where I dug $4.70 in an area less than 5'x5'. I got tired after digging 52 holes because most were pennies and dimes and quit but left my detector on while I investigated an area about 200' x 200' and it rang like a telephone in the entire area. Guess where I am going this morning.
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