malenkai
Full Member
I avoid sharknados and cocaine bears, and do just fine. The deadliest creature around here is the Lyme tick; I'm doubting firearms would be too useful on that. I don't carry and have never even seen anyone carry (I don't even know if open carry is legal here), but it seems a good way to draw unwanted attention. I'm almost always in sight of an occupied building or road, even if sparsely populated, so it seems inappropriate, at least to me.
I'm always nice to people that come up to me, and it has lead to permissions. Just chat 'em up, and you never know. Detecting a public park behind a Victorian era house and the owner comes up to me, and asks if I would like to detect her yard. Bingo! Easy as pie. Happened a few times, but that was the best. Just dress nice and be civil -- it can work both ways. I think the cammo look is not a good one for this, at least in the old towns we have around here.
Weirdest experience is when a karen came up to me and asked if I was looking for oil. I was detecting the sideline of a sports field at a public park at the time. I says "yeah, the drilling rig is in my car".
I've had karens call the cops on me twice at public parks. Both times they just said "carry on, we have to respond to all calls". Once I was detecting a fairgrounds and a cop drives up to me and says I can do that here, but I need to see your ID. I wasn't so happy about that one, but at least I had a choice -- comply or leave. Since the place was absolutely loaded with silvers, I complied.
I'll admit I get annoyed at the endless "what are you looking for". I usually say "solitude", and they go away. I don't reckon I'll get a permission from the "what are you looking for" morons anyway. And of course their is their cousin "did you find anything, like a diamond ring". Yeah dude, I'm gonna tell a complete stranger that I am carrying a diamond ring or old rare coin.
A good comeback is that I collect 70s era car keys, and that's what I'm looking for. Outweird the moronic ones, and they go away; and never, ever take anyone or anything too seriously, except of course for Lyme disease, which I've gotten 3 times now.
I'm always nice to people that come up to me, and it has lead to permissions. Just chat 'em up, and you never know. Detecting a public park behind a Victorian era house and the owner comes up to me, and asks if I would like to detect her yard. Bingo! Easy as pie. Happened a few times, but that was the best. Just dress nice and be civil -- it can work both ways. I think the cammo look is not a good one for this, at least in the old towns we have around here.
Weirdest experience is when a karen came up to me and asked if I was looking for oil. I was detecting the sideline of a sports field at a public park at the time. I says "yeah, the drilling rig is in my car".
I've had karens call the cops on me twice at public parks. Both times they just said "carry on, we have to respond to all calls". Once I was detecting a fairgrounds and a cop drives up to me and says I can do that here, but I need to see your ID. I wasn't so happy about that one, but at least I had a choice -- comply or leave. Since the place was absolutely loaded with silvers, I complied.
I'll admit I get annoyed at the endless "what are you looking for". I usually say "solitude", and they go away. I don't reckon I'll get a permission from the "what are you looking for" morons anyway. And of course their is their cousin "did you find anything, like a diamond ring". Yeah dude, I'm gonna tell a complete stranger that I am carrying a diamond ring or old rare coin.
A good comeback is that I collect 70s era car keys, and that's what I'm looking for. Outweird the moronic ones, and they go away; and never, ever take anyone or anything too seriously, except of course for Lyme disease, which I've gotten 3 times now.
