Permission

[Sledgod2]

SO since a friend of mine got me into MDing I've been wanting to MD a vacant house and lot that butts up against my backyard for quite some time now. I haven't as I don't have permission and I'm not about to start outlawing on someone's place. I've lived here going on 14 years and while the lawn is always mowed (somewhat) I've never seen anyone living there or otherwise until this last Sunday, there was an older gent out mowing lawn and I thought I'd saunter over, introduce myself and see if he knew the landowner, turns out he IS the landowner and this is his spare/fixer upper house (needs a lot more fixing IMO). after conversing for awhile I broached the subject of getting permission to hunt his lot and he tells me he owns an old metal detector and has already gone over it and he found some old coins (he wasn't even sure what they were) when he first bought the place So he then starts going on about his recent trip to Colorado and everything else under the sun until after 20 minutes of this I have to go and gently ask again about hunting his lot... Nope he said we'd better wait on that Talk about disappointing!

Oh well maybe he will sell it someday and I can try again with the new owners

 

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[finderskeepers]

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[Tom_in_CA]

I too have had people tell me things like "I have a detector and I've already done it here". Or "my son has one of those, and he already did it". Or "someone else already came by and did it", etc.... And in each case, I tell them "I'm willing to be disappointed, and see if they/you missed anything". And most of the time, it's as if no one ever hunted it before. The average newbie with a detector wanders out to his own front yard, finds a few pulltabs, and sticks the thing in the closet from then-on-after.

Oh well, you can't argue with a "no".

 

[mr helton]

Oh well, you can't argue with a "no".

Actually I've had good luck arguing with a no by offering to split my finds :P

 

[Dave P]

I asked the owner of a local old flea market to metal detect his flea market and he said "Nope, whats in the ground is mine". LOL

 

[christo000]

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lol i know the exact meaning of that,