is there any here MD in the philippines are we allowed?

[k0y18]

as titled thanks

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Are md'rs from the Philippines allowed here? Of course you are welcome to post here. Why wouldn't you be? But be aware, the cost for anyone from the Philippines is $100 each. Just paypal to my account

Seriously now, welcome aboard. There's probably some other hobbyists from your country here.

 

[Sandman]

Welcome to Tnet friend. Everyone is welcome here.

 

[TORRERO]

as titled thanks

Not sure but I think he is asking if anyone else on this forum metal detects in the Philipines and if you are allowed to metal detect there....

I think.....

could be wrong....

 

[k0y18]

yes youre right mr. TORRERO, im asking if anyone from the Philippines here using MD, and are we allowed?thanks mr sandman..

 

[Tom_in_CA]

There is a subsection of T'net forum specifically for the Phillipines, but it doesn't get much traffic/posts. But a quick look down the page at various topics there, and I see your question has come up before. And at least one answer was, that you can detect (the beaches anyhow), with no problem. You might scroll down that list some more, and perhaps the question has come up in different ways in more threads on there.

But of course in the Phillipines, there is a lot of "treasure lore", so a lot of people who talk about wanting to detect the Phillipines, are after giant treaures (which they're convinced lie in every cave ) So when the question of legality of detecting in the Phillipines comes up, it may get colored in some sort of broad brush of national treasures, exporting of gold bars, and other such things. So if you just meant casual coin-hunting, well ....... those same shipwreck salvor type laws, and trying to "secret gold bars out of the country" type things, might not apply to casual beach-goer resort type question. Because it appears from the philipines forum, that there are hobbyist there doing the beaches at least.

 

[k0y18]

thanks for the answer tom

 

[bearcat7]

hi to all im also from the philippines and new to this forum to answer coy18 question yes it is ok to metal detect here in the philippines but you got to ask for permission from the property owner. sad to say that metal detecting is still in its infancy stage here in the philippines and almost all the time as far as my personal experience is if they see you metal detecting the thing that goes to their head is you are looking for cache or japanese treasure lol!

 

[jeff of pa]

Welcome

if you havn't found it yet, here is the
TreasureNet section for > Philippines

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/board,655.0.html

 

[bearcat7]

coy from what part of the phil are you from? me im from palawan

 

[RETROJETS]

Did a lot of detecting up in some foothills above port of San Fernando in 1999-2001 and found lots of neat stuff-- Nambu machine gun strips and Arisaka rifle rounds on 5 round stripper clips along with "used" Japanese hand grenades-- top only blew off so they can be used as pencil holders on a desk....returned here in 2009 and the area is so overgrown with vegetation I hardly could find it...to search I gave the local farmers some surplus folding German Army shovels to let me search.. we both were happy.. no problems as long as you compensate the locals with something useful

 

[jacksingh]

Hi, I am just a beginner and I want to find anything related to World War 2. If anyone from you can help me get the right location to do relic hunting. Thank you

 

[Coconutman]

Hey Jack, I'm a new guy also. Am located in Agusan del Norte, Mindanao. Looking to beach hunt after arrival of new machine from states. PM me if you want.
Berto

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Persus , you had me laughing my b*tt off. Thanx for the post.

 

[renantagum30]

if you are looking for a Japanese looted treasure in the Philippines, you will most likely fail 99 times over a hundred tries.

metal detecting is allowed in PH.it needs no license to detect. But be prepared if some multitude of crowd will watch over you while you detect. metal detectors are so unusual here in the PHilippines. In fact, in the minds of the common folks, if you have a metal detector, you will surely get it. But they don't know the truth.