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| October 2017 | Metal Detecting Hobby Talk News Brief Volume 8 Number 90 | |
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Support The Hobby I would like to point out to the News Brief readers that there are a number of organizations taking on the challenge against various types of legislation dealing with metal detecting and gold prospecting. MDHTALK's recommendation is to visit their website and give strong consideration to joining the fight. In some cases your support may be to send emails and / or write a letter to specific legislators or to provide funds to help with the fight. Here are the organizations and a link to their website. |
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MDHTALK News Pages U.S. & W.W. News U.K. News U.S. Archaeology U.S. Legislation W.W. Meteoritic Other Media MDHTALK Article Links Return Stories MDHTALK Find a Club Read Newsletters FaceBook Clubs MDHTALK Event Calendar October |
What is a News Brief? The news brief provides a brief look into any news event. The intent of the news brief is to provide you, the reader, with news clips on what was taking place in the hobby last month. To read the whole story select the Article Link or go to MDHTALK.org. There are more news stories placed on the MDHTALK website for September the news stories listed in the MDHTALK News Brief are just a portion of all the hobby related news reported the past month. The news Brief is now available in Adobe PDF format, there is a link at the top of this webpage. The news brief is no longer emailed; it is only available on the MDHTALK website and can be downloaded. The Website's featured article for this month: Metal Detector Member Certification Program Article Download Here Printable Version of: MD-101, MD-102, MD-103 Colored Background Version of: MD-101, MD102, MD103 This article involves responsible metal detecting and the community. While practicing the hobby of metal detecting there have been a number of issues and questions that continues to come to one’s attention. These issues have been evident while metal detecting at large, at club hunts, in metal detecting conversations and during some recent club visits as VP of the Western Chapter. So what are the issues and questions? Generally, it is the lack of knowledge by both new people to the hobby and some old timers. This lack of knowledge covers issues like where one can / cannot go metal detecting, proper methods of pin-pointing and minimizing ground cover damage during target recovery. I am sure that most everyone who metal detects has been exposed to similar situations and has seem first hand the results of very poor target recovery, or has talked to someone who has been asked to leave a specific detecting place due to lack of permission. As more people start to practice the hobby proper training and guidance will become essential for responsible detecting. Without proper education / training the result will be damaged property, public entities banding metal detecting, and arrests; all negatively impacting the reputation of the hobby. |
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FMDAC Message |
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Hello FMDAC Members, Time is getting near for our Gettysburg event. If you wish to attend then please get your registration in. Don’t worry about the late fee. We are waiving it. The flyer is attached to this email. We will let you know the time for the pizza dinner at the Saturday morning hunt. A NOTE ABOUT THE HOTEL. A number of people have told us that the hotel said all the blocked rooms have been taken. That is totally false. We have discussed this issue with the hotel. If you have been told that then call back. Make sure you call the hotel directly. Do not know what the problem is but this is unacceptable. The deadline has been extended to Friday Oct 6. As we are in the business of helping to protect our hobby I want to report on a recent success. Actually it was pretty much the Tri-State Metal Detecting Club who scored the success. We provided some initial advice and they took it from there. This goes back actually a couple decades when a ban was enacted in the Mill Creek Metroparks in Youngstown, OH. However it was apparently not enforced. Permits were even issued up until a year or two ago. A new parks director took over and enforced the ban. There was a TV news report on the issue featuring the Tri-State club. |
The club contacted the director and initiated a conversation. After several
meetings they worked out a permit system with a set of rules. They even took
the man out and showed him what the hobby is about along with proper target
recovery. The director, Aaron Young, was very receptive. In the end the ban
was overturned and they are back to hunting the parks. With a few
limitations as to a few off-limits areas and anything of historical
importance must be turned in. Along with anything (rings for instance) with
identifying marks. Pretty much all common sense rules. This one went very well due to all parties proceeding in a respectable manner. We especially thank the parks director who did exactly what he is supposed to do. He responded to the request and worked out the differences. This is really refreshing to see and does not happen often. Usually we hit a wall and must take other action to break through it. We do not always have to get the whole organization involved. Each issue must be looked at individually to see what the best way to proceed will be. Much of it depends on how receptive those we need to deal with are. In this case it was a “very receptive”. In other cases it is a “not at all”. Those are the times when we call on the membership to make contacts. It is always better for those in office to hear from their own constituents. That is the first step. Only when that fails do we ask for the membership to make contacts. Hope to see you in Gettysburg. Flyer Mark Schuessler, FMDAC National President |
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Metal Detecting & Gold Prospecting Events. Now is the time to start planning and getting your club's 2018 hunt information on the web. The sooner it is out and available to the metal detecting community the greater the chance for people to see it and give your event some consideration.
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