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Metal detectors.
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river 7am...St. Phatty
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Yeah I need to built a working Miller Table.
Medfinder
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Medfinder
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so far...after becoming an GPAA...LDMA.. gold prospector and working claims in california the past 7 months...
lots of beaches (on east coast of US & Florida) don't allow metal detecting. not allowed to hunt for Paleo points on state land here in TN. well, you can LOOK for them, but don't get caught picking them up & putting them in your pocket. state did not use to mind, but assholes started digging holes & folks going out on lake beds in winter to fish were getting stuck in them...
Timj
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I know this is an old thread. I'll try to bring it back to life. My Whites IDX pro and I just replaced my old pin-pointer with the new Garrett shown. I lost my wedding band from my second marriage so I needed this to extend that happy marriage a few more years. The ring was platinum and the Whites IDX PRO had no problem finding it. Other than that, I've found enough loose change to pay for a full set of batteries.
Timj
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Nice find. Here in NY state. Anything found in the ground of value, must be handed over to the state of NY. That's why you'll never see any gold miners finding anything here, everyone claims they find it in Pa. We can't even keep anything found on our own private property. Once again, sweet finds you have there.
Timj
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Lucky for me, I never found anything worth handing over. Other than my own wedding band. I have found some cool looking stuff. But, mostly pull tabs,bottle caps and modern coins.Yea thats a bullshit law that should be illegal , i wouldnt be handing shit over
Ive found plenty of old coins and buttons and an old pipe ,id like to find a gold soverin tho that would be cool .
That rock in the last pic had 3g of aluvial water warn gold in it from an old creek bed that is now on a hill .
Timj
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Very cool finds. If I focused more on one hobby I'd likely get better at it. I don't think I'd ever find any gold here in NY other than maybe some lost jewelry. I've tried many old home sites. I thought I'd discovered deep in the woods only to find out when speaking with another detector friend he had already been there.
good luck with your endevour and never say never once you find your first bit you will be hooked 
I have a minimally used Garrett AT Pro. There are different antiquities laws in various states and countries.
A former friend in SE Alaska who lives/lived in a remote location pulled into a bay one day and aside from his malamute having an altercation with a black bear on the beach and biting it in the ass, he spotted something sticking up from the sand below high tide mark. The tide was more or less out at that time, and he investigated. No metal detector needed.
It was a Russian musket from the 1800s sticking up like a proud tent stake, that ended up hanging over his doorway into his kitchen at his semi-remote cabin for many years.
Antiquities Act laws have a purpose in re. to preserving a jointly owned history, especially if found on lands deemed 'public'.
Again, different places permit detecting, such as many Territorial/government campgrounds in the Yukon Territory, though there are specific First Nations sites that are taboo to even camp on, let alone doing metal detecting. Values also play a role as to who has to be notified. Finding shapes like spear trips, tools, or arrow points on the beaches, which is not uncommon, technically trips those wires.
But like with my friend's Russian musket, many people make personal allowances for themselves or each other. The outcome is that some places are pilfered for what is sometimes valuable history.
There are places where you can keep what you find, sometimes depending upon value (taxes, etc.), and places where detecting isn't even permitted, let alone keeping things found there. Even in some remote protected places, such as remote abandoned historic First Nations river communities that are mapped as First Nations' turf in the Yukon Territory and elsewhere.
My last trip to Aishihik Lake this summer (2 trips up that road in a week) I found a dead barred owl in the road in good shape, which had likely been clipped by a vehicle while swooping in on prey and had its neck broken cleanly. Legally I wasn't supposed to touch the bird, but I did pluck 2 very nice wing-tip feathers and brought them back across the Border. Hardly the same as taking publicly owned materials worth money or significant history, but more a protected bird that denying possession of is one way of keeping that critter safe. Though I knew I didn't kill the thing. No harm, no foul (no pun intended).
I also brought back an old rusty railroad spike from the Carcross end of the White Pass Yukon Route (narrow-gauge) railway, as a keepsake from my time there in the 1970s. They're not rare, and the history is far less significant in that case than other finds that are more restricted.
A former friend in SE Alaska who lives/lived in a remote location pulled into a bay one day and aside from his malamute having an altercation with a black bear on the beach and biting it in the ass, he spotted something sticking up from the sand below high tide mark. The tide was more or less out at that time, and he investigated. No metal detector needed.
It was a Russian musket from the 1800s sticking up like a proud tent stake, that ended up hanging over his doorway into his kitchen at his semi-remote cabin for many years.
Antiquities Act laws have a purpose in re. to preserving a jointly owned history, especially if found on lands deemed 'public'.
Again, different places permit detecting, such as many Territorial/government campgrounds in the Yukon Territory, though there are specific First Nations sites that are taboo to even camp on, let alone doing metal detecting. Values also play a role as to who has to be notified. Finding shapes like spear trips, tools, or arrow points on the beaches, which is not uncommon, technically trips those wires.
But like with my friend's Russian musket, many people make personal allowances for themselves or each other. The outcome is that some places are pilfered for what is sometimes valuable history.
There are places where you can keep what you find, sometimes depending upon value (taxes, etc.), and places where detecting isn't even permitted, let alone keeping things found there. Even in some remote protected places, such as remote abandoned historic First Nations river communities that are mapped as First Nations' turf in the Yukon Territory and elsewhere.
My last trip to Aishihik Lake this summer (2 trips up that road in a week) I found a dead barred owl in the road in good shape, which had likely been clipped by a vehicle while swooping in on prey and had its neck broken cleanly. Legally I wasn't supposed to touch the bird, but I did pluck 2 very nice wing-tip feathers and brought them back across the Border. Hardly the same as taking publicly owned materials worth money or significant history, but more a protected bird that denying possession of is one way of keeping that critter safe. Though I knew I didn't kill the thing. No harm, no foul (no pun intended).
I also brought back an old rusty railroad spike from the Carcross end of the White Pass Yukon Route (narrow-gauge) railway, as a keepsake from my time there in the 1970s. They're not rare, and the history is far less significant in that case than other finds that are more restricted.
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Timj
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I can understand historically significant finds. But, nothing of significant value in NY state can be kept. If you find precious metals in NY state that have little to no historical value on your own land it has to be handed over to the state. That is what I do not agree with. Even though we own the land and pay taxes on said property it still belongs to the state.
My comment about not handing anything over was to do with gold that no body has seen or even touched not artifacts ,i really couldnt care about thise id probably bury them again and leave it where it is
