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[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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[rwmnc]

What I want to know is where to get the exact, long sturdy "sand scoop" they use?

 

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[Tony in Virginia]

Don't mind the stupid antics so much. What is really bad for the hobby is the way every find is given a potential value that is usually extremely high.They don't keep anythig they find, because they are digging for the Archies. Notice the flags and the Archies at the end of evey episode. Makes you wonder if NatGeo isn't trying to purposely sabotage the hobby. Last I heard , the Archies hated us, so why all of the sudden are they our best buds? Anyway, if they are not trying to hurt our hobby I would hate to see it if they were.

 

[lookindown]

I like the show, and my 8 year old son LOVES the show!!! We discovered the show last year together. He gets very little TV time so when he is interested in a show we watch it together, so I can make sure it's appropriate. It's a good, clean family show. I enjoy the finds and my son enjoys the finds also but cracks up on how they act, very entertaining. So our interest was sparked in detecting. He started with a kids $50 detector, and I let him dictate the use, as in we only went detecting if he asked, and he asked a lot! Now we both have Fisher F2's Now we have another great father/son activity to do together along with scouting, hunting, fishing, hiking, etc.. So thank you diggers, keep bringing the roundness!!!

Haters don't like to hear stories like this...glad you and your son are enjoying a new hobby.

 

[lookindown]

Don't mind the stupid antics so much. What is really bad for the hobby is the way every find is given a potential value that is usually extremely high.They don't keep anythig they find, because they are digging for the Archies. Notice the flags and the Archies at the end of evey episode. Makes you wonder if NatGeo isn't trying to purposely sabotage the hobby. Last I heard , the Archies hated us, so why all of the sudden are they our best buds? Anyway, if they are not trying to hurt our hobby I would hate to see it if they were.

I don't find the value they put on their finds extremely high.

 

[lookindown]

so I was right to wonder how they 'happened ' to find that gold coin in nawlins?

That is the best thing they have found and the home owners had found a gold coin in that spot with their eyeballs, that's why they were hunting that spot...so they didn't just "happen" to find it.

 

[lookindown]

Another diggers thread ? Bleh. View attachment 950504 Don't mind me..I've never even seen the show except one downloaded show to see what the fuss was all about. If I ever degrade to the point of acting the fool like that, I'll put some roundness in my own head lol. Mike

Life is too short...act the fool sometime, you might be surprised how good it feels to loosen up.

 

[lookindown]

Defending this show is so easy and sooo fun.

 

[montanagold]

I know I haven't been here in a while but thought I would chime in. KG and RM are my best friends and have been for many years. I have worked on a few shows with them and can certainly attest contrary to any rumors that the finds are not planted. The boys go to a site and are cut loose, each with a camera man. Not much to it, just two buddies out detecting, and yes that's how they really are in life. Go to the ATC website and buy all of the DVDs we put out before the show if you don't believe me. They have a very large following, bigger than you could possibly imagine and they still make time for the young detectorists. Not much we can do about it, they will be around for quite a while.

 

[jeff of pa]

so I was right to wonder how they 'happened ' to find that gold coin in nawlins?

Yes if you get to see that one again, watch their reactions. They get more exited over butter knives then they did over that gold coin

it almost looked like they wanted everyone watching to know
it wasn't their idea to plant that

 

[montanagold]

The gold coin was a total fluke, they had a very small area that they had to go over before the home owners paved it over so they dug and detected the piles. They also found seated there and a large cent. They got to keep the gold.

 

[montanagold]

This is on one of their breaks from the show

 

[montanagold]

So is this.

 

[Rick James]

I know I haven't been here in a while but thought I would chime in. KG and RM are my best friends and have been for many years. I have worked on a few shows with them and can certainly attest contrary to any rumors that the finds are not planted. The boys go to a site and are cut loose, each with a camera man. Not much to it, just two buddies out detecting, and yes that's how they really are in life. Go to the ATC website and buy all of the DVDs we put out before the show if you don't believe me. They have a very large following, bigger than you could possibly imagine and they still make time for the young detectorists. Not much we can do about it, they will be around for quite a while.

Thank you for shedding some light on how those guys are outside of the show. So many people around here are negative about the show its ridiculous. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, sure, but if you don't like something, go post a response in a thread about something you like, instead of hatemongering here! I bet KG and Ringy are a blast to hang out with. I'm looking forward to the new season, I believe tomorrow night?

 

[jeff of pa]

Thank you for shedding some light on how those guys are outside of the show. So many people around here are negative about the show its ridiculous. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, sure, but if you don't like something, go post a response in a thread about something you like, instead of hatemongering here! I bet KG and Ringy are a blast to hang out with. I'm looking forward to the new season, I believe tomorrow night?

tonight it is Tuesday here for over an hour now

 

[montanagold]

They are just as crazy off set ( not g rated ) lol new season starts tomorrow night and already talking about next season.

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

Once again, everyone is free to change the channel and watch C-span, no one tries to be funny on that channel.

 

[RustyGold]

Very cool pictures Montanagold! Thanks for the inside info!

 

[BC1969]

Its not about hate...it is about perception, and that is the bad word. Since the world nowadays judges everybody they see, acting like a nutcase, will make your typical john q. Public person quick to stereo type and lump all others in the same way.
Now that said, I only watched one episode, but the one I watched, was at some old mansion with a manicured lawn, and the guys were making horrible looking craters to pop coins!!.
Now say some person sees that show that's never seen a metal detecting hobbyist before and is shocked by the mess of that lawn..how well do you think I would do asking permission to detect their lawn, when all they know is seeing that show that I watched ??..I'll tell you how it will go..buh bye..sorry.
No point in explaining, or trying to that I can pop coins at 8 inches using nothing more than a screwdriver and a small slit in the soil.

So yeah, to go on TV and try to be stewards to the hobby/lifestyle that I have loved since the mid 70's and act like that, and dig craters like that..they should be ashamed!!!
This is just my opinion, but after all these years in the hobby, I feel the right to share it, since I have witnessed first hand what happens with perception of a bad apple digging craters..as in almost everywhere is closed to our hobby now.

Mike

 

[wingmaster]

They act like they been metal detecting for years and the one show he says its the first large cent he has ever found, I detected for four years and have four large cents now. They are pretty new to it or are really bad at it, I think its both because of some of the places they get to detect and I find more stuff at one old farm house and I've only detected in Indiana.

 

[montanagold]

It's the same every year when they start the new season. Some people love it, some hate it. It's all good, they are just riding this fun train till the end it's a great opportunity they were afforded, now the average person isn't knowledgeable in this field so I'm sure they aren't looking at how the lawn looks, or how to use proper detecting etiquette. They are just watching two crazy ass dudes digging up cool stuff. There have been treasure hunting shows since the 1990's and the hobby is still here not lost forever. Just watch and enjoy, or don't watch and enjoy. I and for the record I was the only ATC member that has ever found a large cent before the show (1857) we have a rule among us 4 Tim and George can't count the stuff they find on the show as ATC finds because they wouldn't normally have the opportunity to dig those kinds of things. Montana is not a very old state so finding something from 1850's is a real big deal here.