Willowslover
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how do you split it? do you tell people 50/50, do you give them have of the "value" I live in a very historic neighborhood and I am wondering about a little flyer or something to give out? just a thought. thanks!
You never find anything but clad and trash...
Everything is mine for I'm a pirate!
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I don't know if this sounds bad but sometimes not all the time if I hunt someone land and they live there if I find any silver coins input them in my shoe. I only show them the wheats in the clad. I'm not a bad person for doing this am I?
This is a great question, a lot of threads give tips on asking for permission , not much thought about actual ownership legal wise. If you found a jar full of rare gold coins and the owner sees you and makes a claim them , do you have any legal rights ? I plan on asking permission and thought it might be better to offer cash to hunt and a paper saying I will not sue should I get hurt.
I don't know if this relates , but in NYS we have a law to protect land owners from being sued by hunters . Basicly if you allow them to hunt they cannot sue if you charge for access they can .
The laws may differ some from state to state ,but in general who is liable for injury or property damage and who really owns the finds . On city lots there may not be many hazards but around country homes there are..
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I hunted an empty lot once and when I got the original permission, the guy said that if I found anything of value that we would split it. I said sure and started my hunt. The hunt did not go real well and I found some clad and a couple of wheats. When I went back to the house to show him what I found, his wife came up and said " I collect those wheat pennys so I want them. I told her of the agreement that I made with the husband but she insisted on taking the wheat cents. I just left all my finds with them and said thanks for the opportunity and left. I stopped sharing finds after that hunt because I just don't want to argue with anyone. Usually if the conversation turns to can we split the finds, I just go somewhere else. If I spend my money on the detector and my time in hunting, I'm keeping what I find. The only exception that I would make in that rule would be an identifyable keepsake of some kind that I could return to the owner or family or if I had been asked there to find something specific. Trying to figure out who keeps what in a split agreement is just too much hassle.
I agree, there's always that mess at the end to split things up and the hunter probably won't win, so why make the agreement in the first place. There are always places to hunt where nobody cares what you find.
I had no agreement with the land owner it was just a door knock and they said yes. I sometimes do what I do just in case they ask me to see what I found. Is it wrong to do this?
I'm happy to spend my own time detecting, and I won't charge them for the time I spend detecting ... so my 'labor' is free to the landowner.
If they want to split the actual items I find, or if they want to split the value of the items ... I will do that too - once they pay me for half the value of my gear. That way they are still making out, in that they are still getting free labor. (I will even let them use the gear or dig the targets if they want to pay me for half the value of my equipment!