Jerryhall
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Diggers tv show tonight on NatGeo
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Bonesquat
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Jerryhall
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Oh I hate metal detecting...I wanna see the show.
I cant find it on their website
UcanDigIt
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Why so many panties in a bunch. 
I get it, been detecting since the early 80's and competition is bad enough now. But really, complaining that they did not show how they filled in their holes. That would be boring for the type of t.v. audience they are targeting. A show on how to dig and fill holes properly would be a PBS kinda thing.
Also, I would only imagine the landowners or people in charge were present during filming. I don't hear or see any complaining about what happend on their land reagarding how they, or their land was treated in a negative manner. If they did not care knowing one rain and its good as new, why should others??? If a landowner says be neat, then you be neat. But if it's a field(or cow field) and they don't care. Then fill the holes and cover more ground and dig more targets.
Rain will clean the rest soon after, and I bet the cows care more about the holes wild pigs leave behind.
I recorded the show and watched it later with some young boys thinking they would get a kick out of it. They did! As for me it was kinda boring and I personally did not like the two guys they used as "diggers".
Will some that watch it go out and buy detectors.....Sure. Will they learn it's not as easy as they thought.......Anyone that has done this for any lengh of time know that answer is YES.
Personally I think the show is short lived. I also feel the other show on Spike is going to get way more attention with a celeberty host along with the way they do things.
Keeping fingers crossed these are short lived fad shows and the dust will settle soon so we can all be out swinging instead of typing.
I get it, been detecting since the early 80's and competition is bad enough now. But really, complaining that they did not show how they filled in their holes. That would be boring for the type of t.v. audience they are targeting. A show on how to dig and fill holes properly would be a PBS kinda thing.
Also, I would only imagine the landowners or people in charge were present during filming. I don't hear or see any complaining about what happend on their land reagarding how they, or their land was treated in a negative manner. If they did not care knowing one rain and its good as new, why should others??? If a landowner says be neat, then you be neat. But if it's a field(or cow field) and they don't care. Then fill the holes and cover more ground and dig more targets.
Rain will clean the rest soon after, and I bet the cows care more about the holes wild pigs leave behind. I recorded the show and watched it later with some young boys thinking they would get a kick out of it. They did! As for me it was kinda boring and I personally did not like the two guys they used as "diggers".
Will some that watch it go out and buy detectors.....Sure. Will they learn it's not as easy as they thought.......Anyone that has done this for any lengh of time know that answer is YES.
Personally I think the show is short lived. I also feel the other show on Spike is going to get way more attention with a celeberty host along with the way they do things.
Keeping fingers crossed these are short lived fad shows and the dust will settle soon so we can all be out swinging instead of typing.
Silver Strike
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o.k. so who's gonna be the one to add civ, rev, nector, juice and roundness to the metal detecting lingo glossary thread at the top of the general hobby discussion page
Oh I hope not. I'm already tired of that lingo.
CoiltoSoil
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The holes being filled thing does not bother me as i'm sure they probably were, it's just that these guys seem really new to the hobby and don't really seem to know what they are doing. I guess I can give them the benefit of the doubt and say they are just not use to colonial and CW relic hunting since they are from Montana but still, IDk. I would thing that most guys who have been in the hobby long enough and planned to have a show would have a better mix of equipment and coils for the different hunting situations. It looks like they just bought an AT pro, threw on the free cheap cal-rad style headphones from a package deal and started a show. Now the AT pro is an excellent machine but if I had a show and planned to hunt beaches and a variety of locations all over the country I would also have 2 or 3 other detectors and several different coils because even a beginner knows one detector and one coil can't handle all conditions.
Hotrod Tom
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o.k. so who's gonna be the one to add civ, rev, nector, juice and roundness to the metal detecting lingo glossary thread at the top of the general hobby discussion page
Member OZARKS did it already with an endorsement from OBX Franz. I will be ignoring all of their posts from now on. Is there a way to block people that like the show from my computer other than quiting this forum?? Please tell me there is.
AirborneDave
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wayne_etc
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You would have to know detectors to tell that they were using Garretts. Joe SixPack wouldn't notice.
They're Garrett dealers BTW.
http://www.anacondatreasure.com/detectors.html
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They're Garrett dealers BTW.
http://www.anacondatreasure.com/detectors.html
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Gauntlet
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Exactly! Lack of viewers is what will end the show, not emails to a Producer.
ronfin
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You're lucky. You wont see it. As the show was crossing the Atlantic it struck an iceberg and sunk two miles to the bottom of the sea, which, ironically, is about half as far as that one guy was digging his plugs in the show.
Mitter
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Anyone know when this will be airing again. I just need to see how stupid it was for myself. Not doubting you all, but Ya know......
pulltabMiner
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Block me too please, because I agree with Ozarks.
Hotrod Tom
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Et Tu Pulltab. My memory is bad enuf I think I need a listing of members that like the show and members that don't. Can we start some kind of official listing?
I was on the Stop National Geographic's Looting Facebook page. Some of their points are ridiculous in a post clearly hating on metal detecting. Some of these guys take their job way too serious...
Example... "If all the scraps of metal are dug up in the first two inches of soil, how will it ever be possible in the future to identify the greater significance of a site that might lie underneath? Even the pop can tabs and occasional coins are all important clues to past human activity and they are vital archaeological indicators that need to be left alone so that archaeologists can recreate a chronical order of the past in order to correctly interpret it. You erase history with each item you dig up and take. Its relevance to that place is lost forever. If you devote your life to knowledge and the understanding of past cultures and to preserving the very places they lived and died, you find it very difficult to stand by and watch others destroy what you have worked so hard for."
I hate to say it but I highly doubt that the 1 of 1,000,000,000 pop pull tabs at the picnic area at the state park is very historic. The more I read some of these archaeological posts the more I dislike their overall attitude and some show some real ignorance honestly.
Example... "If all the scraps of metal are dug up in the first two inches of soil, how will it ever be possible in the future to identify the greater significance of a site that might lie underneath? Even the pop can tabs and occasional coins are all important clues to past human activity and they are vital archaeological indicators that need to be left alone so that archaeologists can recreate a chronical order of the past in order to correctly interpret it. You erase history with each item you dig up and take. Its relevance to that place is lost forever. If you devote your life to knowledge and the understanding of past cultures and to preserving the very places they lived and died, you find it very difficult to stand by and watch others destroy what you have worked so hard for."
I hate to say it but I highly doubt that the 1 of 1,000,000,000 pop pull tabs at the picnic area at the state park is very historic. The more I read some of these archaeological posts the more I dislike their overall attitude and some show some real ignorance honestly.
Gauntlet
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It takes a lot of hard work to strategically place those pulltabs and soon-to-be-rotten Memorials
Just another prime example of why I don't "do" Facebook
exactly why i wouldn't sign any silly petition to stop the show, for one i enjoyed the show and besides that i certainly don't wanna be associated with the archaeologial group. i'm sure they would love to have a million signatures so they can use it against our hobby and lobby for stricter laws to ban detecting. glad i didn't sign anything.......
I did it more out of curiosity until I started reading more of what they are posting. They only have 300 likes on Favebook and are not getting much interest at all. Especially because of their big divide with us. Their numbers actually have gone down. Hahaha. I was just finding it funny how they think they have the right and almost a "I'm better then you" attitude. The show was horrible. Entertaining occasionally but the hosts I couldn't stand. I just found the above mentioned pull tab comment funny.
