Diggers

[Diggin4nails]

I just want to she if anyone else love the show Diggers Juiced on National Geographic. Man I love this show.

 

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[montanagold]

These two clowns do not help us in the slightest. Over the last thirty I have been given access to several historical sites because I made serious and well-researched requests for access. I can't imagine allowing anyone on one of these sites with a couple of half-witted morons like these two guys. Every time King George puts a blade in the ground I keep hoping for him to hit a landmine or a box of discarded blasting caps. He is one of the most obnoxious person that I have seen on TV in a very long time. These buffoons make the rest of us folks with metal detectors look like a pack of idiots. At their Seventh Calvary dig they tried to tie everything that they found personally to Custer. It just made them look idiotic - a role that they fill quite naturally. Diggers could be a great show if the producers weren't trying to create so much drama. I haven't finished watching the Custer episode. I am still holding out hope that they will find that five-megaton H-bomb that old 'Yellow-Hair' lost at his camp before heading out to his destruction. I sure hope the pressure detonator is still functional. <g>

Yep, they are the morons, they are the ones making this hobby look bad^^^lol! You should totally pitch your idea for a show to some producers, it sounds soo much more interesting and riveting.

 

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[Silver Simon]

These two clowns do not help us in the slightest. Over the last thirty I have been given access to several historical sites because I made serious and well-researched requests for access. I can't imagine allowing anyone on one of these sites with a couple of half-witted morons like these two guys. Every time King George puts a blade in the ground I keep hoping for him to hit a landmine or a box of discarded blasting caps. He is one of the most obnoxious person that I have seen on TV in a very long time.

These buffoons make the rest of us folks with metal detectors look like a pack of idiots. At their Seventh Calvary dig they tried to tie everything that they found personally to Custer. It just made them look idiotic - a role that they fill quite naturally. Diggers could be a great show if the producers weren't trying to create so much drama. I haven't finished watching the Custer episode. I am still holding out hope that they will find that five-megaton H-bomb that old 'Yellow-Hair' lost at his camp before heading out to his destruction. I sure hope the pressure detonator is still functional. <g>

Wishing that people die simply because you do not enjoy entertainment is not funny at all, in fact it is a little disturbing. And I notice that was your first post on this forum, not a very good first impression. Things are different from ""back in your day", you should try to be a bit more civil.

 

[NHBandit]

T.V. shows can definitely have a negative and positive effect on a hobby. One of my hobbies is trapping. There are several shows now that include trapping and super high price quotes on fur. For instance they say a beaver is worth say 50 bucks on the show, this can be true but is not likely, you could get 50 bucks..if it was perfectly prime, big, and had good color, but your average is going to be much lower. Since these shows have been running I am seeing some really desperate and disrespectful guys out there thinking they're gonna get rich trapping, I actually had a guy knowingly set traps within 5 feet of mine on private land, part of what influenced this could have been high fur prices, and I am not attributing this entirely to T.V., but these shows certainly have peoples attention. The bottom line is the more people you have introduced to the sport the higher the chances you will get some bad apples, chances of having bad apples is much higher when you have 10,000 people doing something as opposed to 100. The positive is some of the new comers may be a really great addition to the hobby, maybe they are going to invent a new detector that blows everyone's minds, maybe they practice law and will keep an eye out for protecting dectorists rights, or maybe they will simply be a good steward to the land and have positive interactions with the community, giving the hobby a good reputation. For the record, I don't think the dude needs to run around like a kid that just ate 60 pounds of sugar for people to watch, and I do think your buddies are ridiculous Montana, I think people would still watch if they just yelled and ran over to each other to see the finds. I am sure they are great guys but running into a tree with your crotch just really isn't necessary.

I agree with TV shows causing people to think they are going to get rich. I live in rural East Tennessee. I fully expect that this Summer the woods will be overflowing with brand new Ginseng hunters.

 

[NHBandit]

No I'd go run up tree dive through a dog box so they can see how stupid they look.

Huh ?? Press 1 for English...

 

[jeff of pa]

Huh ?? Press 1 for English...

? Press 2 for reading comprehension

I understood him

 

[NHBandit]

? Press 2 for reading comprehension I understood him

Guess it's me then. Carry on.. Edit.. Maybe you could help me with the question I just posted in the "help" section ? It just now happened again with this post..

 

[lookindown]

T.V. shows can definitely have a negative and positive effect on a hobby. One of my hobbies is trapping. There are several shows now that include trapping and super high price quotes on fur. For instance they say a beaver is worth say 50 bucks on the show, this can be true but is not likely, you could get 50 bucks..if it was perfectly prime, big, and had good color, but your average is going to be much lower. Since these shows have been running I am seeing some really desperate and disrespectful guys out there thinking they're gonna get rich trapping, I actually had a guy knowingly set traps within 5 feet of mine on private land, part of what influenced this could have been high fur prices, and I am not attributing this entirely to T.V., but these shows certainly have peoples attention. The bottom line is the more people you have introduced to the sport the higher the chances you will get some bad apples, chances of having bad apples is much higher when you have 10,000 people doing something as opposed to 100. The positive is some of the new comers may be a really great addition to the hobby, maybe they are going to invent a new detector that blows everyone's minds, maybe they practice law and will keep an eye out for protecting dectorists rights, or maybe they will simply be a good steward to the land and have positive interactions with the community, giving the hobby a good reputation. For the record, I don't think the dude needs to run around like a kid that just ate 60 pounds of sugar for people to watch, and I do think your buddies are ridiculous Montana, I think people would still watch if they just yelled and ran over to each other to see the finds. I am sure they are great guys but running into a tree with your crotch just really isn't necessary.

Several shows tried doing it the way you suggest and guess what happened to them...gone.

 

[releventchair]

While I don,t subscribe to cable I have seen a couple episodes at a friends place. The guys passions pokes out enough for sure. They are not destroying the landscape or yards so there,s a big plus. Also when I,m park hunting people think there is nothing of any value being found as I,m not rolling on the ground or tree climbing. So that,s good?Much more normal hunting is going to be a very dull show to the general public now a days. Any one who does their homework,while few do, will shed a more true light on the mundane that,s more common for more average use of detectors. Being compared to the show would make me grimace a bit but there,s lots worse to be thought of than zany with a passion for history.

 

[bottlecap]

Several shows tried doing it the way you suggest and guess what happened to them...gone.

If you're referring to detecting shows maybe you're right, but not reality shows as a whole. There are several successful shows that don't have grown men running into trees and eating dirt.

 

[bottlecap]

Several shows tried doing it the way you suggest and guess what happened to them...gone.

If you're referring to detecting shows maybe you're right, but not reality shows as a whole. There are several successful shows that don't have grown men running into trees and eating dirt.

 

[jeff of pa]

Guess it's me then. Carry on.. Edit.. Maybe you could help me with the question I just posted in the "help" section ? It just now happened again with this post..

yep Check your help thread, I'll see what I can find out

 

[dholland02]

Hahahha sorry replied with my phone I ddnt proof read it hahahha sorry guys.
Im tapping out of this thread its gone on too long now. Have fun guys.

 

[Neildo85]

Wishing that people die simply because you do not enjoy entertainment is not funny at all, in fact it is a little disturbing. And I notice that was your first post on this forum, not a very good first impression. Things are different from ""back in your day", you should try to be a bit more civil.

You beat me to it! I deal with dummies all day in my line of work and I have learned to be tolerant.

 

[Neildo85]

I agree with TV shows causing people to think they are going to get rich. I live in rural East Tennessee. I fully expect that this Summer the woods will be overflowing with brand new Ginseng hunters.

Probably some with little to no respect for the proper harvesting technique.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Yep, they are the morons, they are the ones making this hobby look bad^^^lol!..

Now you're talking!

 

[lookindown]

If you're referring to detecting shows maybe you're right, but not reality shows as a whole. There are several successful shows that don't have grown men running into trees and eating dirt.

I was referring to detecting shows...I would watch a detecting show with no antics but it wouldn't appeal to the general public...Im glad they are doing it their way so at least I have a detecting show to watch...there is no right or wrong way to act as long as your having fun and not hurting anyone or anything and there is no proof Diggers has hurt anything.

 

[lookindown]

These two clowns do not help us in the slightest. Over the last thirty I have been given access to several historical sites because I made serious and well-researched requests for access. I can't imagine allowing anyone on one of these sites with a couple of half-witted morons like these two guys. Every time King George puts a blade in the ground I keep hoping for him to hit a landmine or a box of discarded blasting caps. He is one of the most obnoxious person that I have seen on TV in a very long time. These buffoons make the rest of us folks with metal detectors look like a pack of idiots. At their Seventh Calvary dig they tried to tie everything that they found personally to Custer. It just made them look idiotic - a role that they fill quite naturally. Diggers could be a great show if the producers weren't trying to create so much drama. I haven't finished watching the Custer episode. I am still holding out hope that they will find that five-megaton H-bomb that old 'Yellow-Hair' lost at his camp before heading out to his destruction. I sure hope the pressure detonator is still functional. <g>

They make up a lot of scenarios for the stuff they find and use quite a bit of sarcasm...if you don't understand that, I could see how the show could annoy you...when you say "rest of us folks" don't include me because I might not act the way you do when I detect.

 

[pete4638]

It you think that these guys are the best that that this hobby can produce, then embrace it. If you allow your standards to be set by some hack reality TV show producer then you are going to go through life skipping over some very low bars.

Are you suggesting that this show could not be a whole lot better if the emphasis were placed on: equipment, technology, research, and good technique instead of a couple of buffoons running around screaming "roundness," "nectar" and so on? And I'm not even going to get into their silly end of the show pie in the face BS.

Yep, they are the morons, they are the ones making this hobby look bad^^^lol! You should totally pitch your idea for a show to some producers, it sounds soo much more interesting and riveting.

 

[pete4638]

Come on - grow a sense of humor. Do you really think that there are any lost land mines at Custer's old camp or stray five-megaton H-bombs lying around at the Little Bighorn? Honestly, you didn't pick up on any of that?

My day is right now, just like yours. The guys on Diggers are clowns. They do nothing to promote the hobby. I remember when no respectful archeologist would allow a metal detector on a dig. It took years to convince the archeological community that people with metal detectors could make a contribution to a dig. That did not happen by letting people like King George and his sidekick on a site.

If you like these guys for their entertainment value - fine; I don't care. I'm really happy for them that they thought that they found everything that fell out of Custer's pockets in the days leading up to the battle at the Little Bighorn.

Pete

Wishing that people die simply because you do not enjoy entertainment is not funny at all, in fact it is a little disturbing. And I notice that was your first post on this forum, not a very good first impression. Things are different from ""back in your day", you should try to be a bit more civil.

 

[pete4638]

What the are doing is providing a lot of filler for the produces to pad the show with easy and cheap to film comments from the two actors. The History channel and H2 have made this sort of fluff into an industry. I am guessing that they spend only a day or two on site for each show. I don't see sarcasm and I know sarcasm when I hear it. These low-budget reality shows are on tight time constraints and budgets.

I would just like to see a good show on metal detecting that embraced the technology and skills instead of the buffoonery of the actors.

Pete

They make up a lot of scenarios for the stuff they find and use quite a bit of sarcasm...if you don't understand that, I could see how the show could annoy you...when you say "rest of us folks" don't include me because I might not act the way you do when I detect.