Certain TV Shows Setting The Hobby Back?

[Mike(Iowa)]

So, I was talking to a coworker today (who owns an old farmhouse and a nice piece of property) about my weekend, and how my Son and I hit a cellar hole in the woods. His first question was, "So how long before you drove in the backhoe like they do on that Savage show?".

It occurs to me, that the last 20 years I have detected, and many more years by some of my friends and fellow club members, is being diminished by certain TV shows. We have struggled with convincing land owners that we aren't there with a pickax or a bulldozer to dig up their yard. This show is doing a few things.

1. It makes land owners think everyone has a 20% split of thousands of dollars just hidden under the soil.
2. Makes the ill-informed think that we are all modern day pirates, ready to scrape off half the yard to find one rifle barrel.
3. Proves that there are people out there who don't care how much damage they do to other artifacts while they roto-till someone's yard up looking for arrow heads. Kind of proves the point archaeologists have been trying to make about us for years.

The reality is much less lucrative than people are seeing on their television, but you would never convince anyone of that now. I look forward to the day these shows go off the air. About the only people who I see benefiting from these shows, are detector manufacturers.

Just my humble opinion, curious to hear yours (even if it is in disagreement with mine).

 

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[SusanMN]

Of course I mean no disrespect to anyone still cruising their pacer, trippin' on blotter, cranking the 'Mode, sporting the mullet, cutting with the butterfly knife.

Careful buddy, I really loved my 1975 Pacer, until it died and I bought a Chevy Chevette. And it has made me a stronger person who is able to maintain her self worth despite the scorn of others for her automobile or detector choices.

 

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[matrix master DBA]

Careful buddy, I really loved my 1975 Pacer, until it died and I bought a Chevy Chevette. And it has made me a stronger person who is able to maintain her self worth despite the scorn of others for her automobile or detector choices.

I loved my 4 door chevette...

 

[Coin Gopher]

I loved my 4 door chevette...

Had one too. Beat the heck out of it. Always ran.

 

[MT_Joe]

When I was a kid I was camping at a lake with my parents and grandmother a few miles from home. Grandma was drinking whiskey and sometime that evening she decided to drive her 1980 Pacer home. She rolled it on a sharp corner. She escaped with just a few stitches on her knee. Have you ever seen a pacer after it has rolled? Not much left of it when the glass is gone!

 

[Paul from SFbayarea]

Anyone watch "Meteorite Men"? Yeah, those 2 guys are only looking for one thing, but they don't jump around, don't have funny little terms (juice, roundness).....and definitely don't yell BOOOM BABY!!!

 

[matrix master DBA]

That's a good show! Haven't watched it in awhile..

 

[austin]

Careful buddy, I really loved my 1975 Pacer, until it died and I bought a Chevy Chevette. And it has made me a stronger person who is able to maintain her self worth despite the scorn of others for her automobile or detector choices.

Check out Skee Lo on youtube. Old rap called "I Wish I Was A Little Bit Taller". He has a Pacer...

 

[SusanMN]

I loved my 4 door chevette...

Me, not so much. I took my three week old brand brand new Chevette on a trip from Minnesota to Wyoming. Made it as far as Yellowstone before the transmission went out. Left Yellowstone via towtruck and spent 3 days in Jackson Hole waiting for repairs only to find it would take weeks to get the parts. Hitchhiked with my 13 year old son to the greyhound bus station and then had 36 hellish hours to reach home. Then had to Fly out three weeks later and drive the POS home, where it was repaired a few more times before going back to Chevrolet under Minnesotas lemon law.

 

[Mike(Iowa)]

Don't be hatin on the Pacer, or the Pinto, or the Gremlin!

You funny!

My cousin's mom had a pacer back in the day. That car was kinda scary.Though an alien might be looking to abduct/probe me every time it drove by. LOL

 

[Mike(Iowa)]

Me, not so much. I took my three week old brand brand new Chevette on a trip from Minnesota to Wyoming. Made it as far as Yellowstone before the transmission went out. Left Yellowstone via towtruck and spent 3 days in Jackson Hole waiting for repairs only to find it would take weeks to get the parts. Hitchhiked with my 13 year old son to the greyhound bus station and then had 36 hellish hours to reach home. Then had to Fly out three weeks later and drive the POS home, where it was repaired a few more times before going back to Chevrolet under Minnesotas lemon law.

OUCH, not a good chevette story. Come to think of it, considering their propensity towards spitting oil up into the air cleaner, I don't have a lot of good chevette stories. Heck, I think the dealership paperwork said "dare you" next to the spot the car buyer would sign. No offense though.

 

[Mike(Iowa)]

Careful buddy, I really loved my 1975 Pacer, until it died and I bought a Chevy Chevette. And it has made me a stronger person who is able to maintain her self worth despite the scorn of others for her automobile or detector choices.

Ouch, sorry Susan. Sometimes my foot is way bigger than my mouth.

 

[Rawhide]

Owned em all, used to buy and sell old cars in the front yard, and found them easy to repair. Now we had a chevette in the family that ran for years. Everyone in the family owned it lol.

 

[matrix master DBA]

Chevette should be spelled shoveit. If ya know what I mean!

 

[desmobob]

I have a two-part response to this thread.

1) Shoot your television. I pulled the plug on TV in 1995 and never looked back. Regardless of what you think, watching it does influence you. After a few years of not watching TV, I started to notice it in others. That made me realize it also happened to me. =:-0

2) My buddy's parents had a Pacer Wagon when I was in high school. I loved it. My mom had a Chevy Vega! And later traded it in for a new Chevette!

Good hunting,
desmobob

 

[ZR2guy]

Savage would make even the cheesiest dirt ball used car salesman look good.I can't believe that Spike still airs this trainwreck.

 

[goldentruth]

Diggers don't bother me so much, except when they act crazy, but that Rick Savage is stupid. No way he sells stuff for that much money, and why do he and all of his guys dig with their Army shovels like it's a pickaxe? That bugs me more than anything! If there was something in the hole they'd break it, or dent it, or scrape it!

My opinnion,You are so right! I got a army shovel and it does not cut into the ground here where we got a lot of rocks in our soil. Notice they NEVER dig the % of junk we do! They make it look easy and always a valuable relic. Looks set up for the TV Hype. Thats all I can say

 

[JoeB_OH]

I absolutely agree! These "shows", should at least include proper techniques & the M.D. Code of conduct. I am already seeing the holes left, garbage, scrap left behind by (I'm sure), new "diggers"!

 

[panhandler]

ol savage looks like he's gonna go Boom and pass out he's so fat and outa shape, and his ugly wife wearing wrestling boots in the heat is well lets just say a fashion faux-pas what a bunch of losers, I wouldn't let them dig in my yard. it appears to be a typical dysfunctional family, and the show seems fake to me.

 

[matrix master DBA]

I absolutely agree! These "shows", should at least include proper techniques & the M.D. Code of conduct. I am already seeing the holes left, garbage, scrap left behind by (I'm sure), new "diggers"!

I agree joeB I was at an old park yesterday and found 3 holes left open with can slaw laying next to the hole! I spent the next 30 mins fixing there mess just so someone didn't think it was me! They should talk about the code of conduct and proper digging technique!!

 

[Jason in Enid]

I absolutely agree! These "shows", should at least include proper techniques & the M.D. Code of conduct. I am already seeing the holes left, garbage, scrap left behind by (I'm sure), new "diggers"!

The problem is that these shows featuring metal detecting and treasure hunting aren't really ABOUT metal detecting and treasure hunting. They are just another un-reality show about being stupid and argumentative. They are no different than the other crap on TV like hardcore pawn, auction hunters, etc. It's all fake fights and drama and planted items for unreal prices.