Greb147 6,808 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 minute ago, jukel123 said: You've never lived till you get that big pull on the line. Just been out with the dogs and one saw a cat and pulled on the lead. My first reaction was" its a pull on the line, strike!" Give it a try mate. You'll be hooked. I've been the odd time when I was a kid. All I was bothered about was seeing how far I could cast out. Lad who I travel with to work has got thousands of pounds worth of kit, feck that.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 minute ago, stumfelter said: Where are these dogging sites? Asking for a friend... Blidworth is the only one I've been to. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,847 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 9 minutes ago, mackem said: This guy wasn't birdwatching, well, he might have been but had a metal detector with him on land he shouldn't have been on, the last I heard he was getting prosecuted? I wonder how much is found and just gets sold on discretely, out of sight out of mind, finders keepers and all that Birdwatcher stumbles upon £800,000 hoard of 2,000-year-old Celtic gold coins WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Bird watching in a field in eastern England led to a find worth more than £800,000 for one keen... This is him..... Two metal detectorists charged with theft after discovering 1,000 Iron Age gold coins in Essex WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Shane Wood, 62, and Kim Holman, 61, are accused of failing to notify the coroner after... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, mackem said: This is him..... Two metal detectorists charged with theft after discovering 1,000 Iron Age gold coins in Essex WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Shane Wood, 62, and Kim Holman, 61, are accused of failing to notify the coroner after... Think I've found my career change, I'll end up digging 12ft for my steel toecaps. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 6,570 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 Just now, Greb147 said: Think I've found my career change, I'll end up digging 12ft for my steel toecaps. That ones as old as the one who jacked in his job at the helium factory. " No f****r talks to me like that" he said. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arry 18,633 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 I've all ways been interested in field walking finding stone age flints which I have found loads. Ferreting, fishing, shooting, foraging for fungi mushrooms, Photos etc so I got a metal detector, like I needed another hobby lol. I alway found it interesting and have farms river banks and beaches I can search on. Well river banks near me full of Bullets from an old rifle range and of coarse fishing weighs, drove me mad. Fields all I seem to find is plough shears horse shoes few modern coins and bits and pieces no hoards but here's hoping. Be nice to have a separate section on the forum. Cheers Arry 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurcherman 887 12,688 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 You know what they say, never trust a man without a hobby. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,848 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Greb147 said: What's the law regarding it all, if you find certain amounts of certain gear you have got to hand it in? He told me museum's are robbing cnuts and dishonest. This is a lad I used to knock about with; looks like it depends on the material whether you have to share it or not. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3615213/amp/Metal-detector-enthusiast-unearths-2-000-year-old-Roman-ingot-worth-250-000-Somerset-farm.html 47 minutes ago, mackem said: Nighthawks are nocturnal metal detector it's without permission, they are getting clued up, really techie nowadays with complex machines and sometimes carry thermals so they don't get nabbed. If you find anything of value don't hand it in, your find is often undervalued and it can take years sometimes to get your cash, there's dealers of antiquities advertise in metal detecting magazines who are discrete. Metal detectorists who refuse to hand over £12million hoard jailed for two and eight years WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK George Powell, 38, and Layton Davies, 51, failed to declare an 'invaluable' collection of buried... Bumped into a few fishing now, they're an odd lot. They love some of the beaches down here because of posh people with holiday homes and tourists 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 Would you Adam & Eve it, I'm only 5 mins from here. Anybody fancy lending me a detector. Roman Ridge - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,847 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 5 minutes ago, South hams hunter said: they're an odd lot. We are all odd in our own little ways, it's good to be a little different Gary Drayton the English professional metal detector it's from "Oak island" found an incredible gold ring once worth half a million dollars. If I was a kid again I wouldn't mind a year in Australia in the bush prospecting with a detector. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,536 Posted January 8, 2022 Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 Policeman jailed for keeping gold coin proceeds WWW.BBC.CO.UK PC David Cockle sold 10 gold coins for £15,000 despite a deal being in place to split the proceeds. This fella lives just down the road from me now. Cheers, D. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fireman 10,774 Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 12 hours ago, jukel123 said: Wonder if metal detectorists do a bit of moonlight detecting on protected sites? I've known some lurcher boys who got lost from their permission in the middle of the night. ????? Night Hawks they are called round my way and i've had a few phone calls over the years by farmers who's land i hunt to go check out the torch light in the middle of the fields... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
torchey 1,202 Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 Do a fair bit of detecting found some nice bits, found this the other week when I was walking the dogs part of a Bronze Age flint dagger 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,319 Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 14 hours ago, Greb147 said: As I thought, get hammered more than rapists and paedophiles. They didn't mess about them lads did they, until they got caught that is. Quite a few boys I no that were into poaching years back are now into hawking, greater rewards for lower risks basically, I bought my misses a metal detector when we moved onto the boat as there is a lot of Roman occupation around here and a few spots on the Severn the soldiers used to cross at low tide, we just haven’t had time to go out and use it yet 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greb147 6,808 Posted January 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 What's the crack with detectors, will you actually find more with a more expensive model, what's the cut off price between useless and good? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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