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[Californio]

How do you talk to property owners to let you metal detect on their property?

What about metal detecting state property?

What are the requirements to be a state treasure hunter?

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Knock, knock.

"Hello?"

"Hello. May I metal detect on your property?"


As far as state property I am sure it depends on the state and which property. The closest state park to me has designated areas and times of year when it is allowed.

Historical sites? Forget it.

State game lands? No problem.

 

[Escape]

Tell them you're performing a public service. Explain to them that years ago when you were no more than 5 years old. That you were at your grand-paws house on a warm summer afternoon. You were running barefoot, joyfully in the yard. Everything was wonderful until you stepped on a nail. The pain was terrible. That nail left a mark on your foot which went away with time. But the scar left by the incident never left you. So much so that today you wander from yard to yard asking permission to remove nails and other sharp metallic objects. All to make yards safer for everyone, especially children.

 

[Toecutter]

Tell them you're performing a public service. Explain to them that years ago when you were no more than 5 years old. That you were at your grand-paws house on a warm summer afternoon. You were running barefoot, joyfully in the yard. Everything was wonderful until you stepped on a nail. The pain was terrible. That nail left a mark on your foot which went away with time. But the scar left by the incident never left you. So much so that today you wander from yard to yard asking permission to remove nails and other sharp metallic objects. All to make yards safer for everyone, especially children.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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What about metal detecting state property?

What are the requirements to be a state treasure hunter?

I see that you are from CA. And I'm so glad you asked about the requirements here. They are quite simple and straight-forward : You pay me 30% of all your finds (I accept paypal). Ok ?

As for state parks in CA: Believe it or not, there is no specific rule that says "no md'ing". The only stuff that could apply, would be boiler-plate verbiage @ cultural heritage. Ok, fine, just don't find old coins (how good is your math ?). In other words: Just avoid obvious historic sensitive monuments.

An example of state park land here, where you can detect till you're blue in the face (and ... yes ... gasp ... even find old coins), is state park beaches (which is administered by the exact same park's dept, so technically, all the rules of inland parks would apply here too). Yet you can hunt them till you're blue in the face.

Just avoid archie conventions and obvious sensitive monuments.