"I don't like to hunt parks too much anymore because of this very same reason."
"it's the ridiculous laws that are out there"
You made a good post and I agree. Metal detecting is suppose to be fun and it certainly isn't fun if a person has no where to hunt or if they have to go through too much BS to hunt. As I tried to relate in my previous post here on the subject, I don't think the law is really defined here and I think the best way to find out (or better not find out) is to go and detect the park but in a different way. I do not think it would be illegal to go to this park and detect.
It sounds like you can detect here if nobody complains. That is of little relief to the person that wants to show up with their buddy and detect whenever they want during park hours. When a person is faced with this situation they can just not detect this park or they can get further involved and try to get it to where they can detect this park in the future without going through any BS. So it is a tough decision because by trying to get the position of the authority to state that it is okay to detect this park whether anybody complains or not may just further restrict it.
This is how I see the situation as it is now.
"it's the ridiculous laws that are out there"
You made a good post and I agree. Metal detecting is suppose to be fun and it certainly isn't fun if a person has no where to hunt or if they have to go through too much BS to hunt. As I tried to relate in my previous post here on the subject, I don't think the law is really defined here and I think the best way to find out (or better not find out) is to go and detect the park but in a different way. I do not think it would be illegal to go to this park and detect.
It sounds like you can detect here if nobody complains. That is of little relief to the person that wants to show up with their buddy and detect whenever they want during park hours. When a person is faced with this situation they can just not detect this park or they can get further involved and try to get it to where they can detect this park in the future without going through any BS. So it is a tough decision because by trying to get the position of the authority to state that it is okay to detect this park whether anybody complains or not may just further restrict it.
This is how I see the situation as it is now.