Mike(Iowa)
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- Dec 18, 2003
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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).
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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Most of these shows seem to be geared towards showing people how NOT to do something! "Bearing Sea Gold come to mind as a "HOW NOT TO" show." Maybe if they set up something in the show like a "Hunt clock" to show how much time the people actually spent swinging their detectors before they actually found something other than trash is would help but I kind of doubt it.
