Dflan83
Elite Member
Hello everyone
I am just curious how you guys would approach this permission or maybe in the past have had something like this come up.
I regularly hunt some old fairgrounds that are public property in town. Cops come by every now and then and ask me if I am finding anything, I show them my junk finds and tell them just cleaning up the fairgrounds then continue my hunts. These fairgrounds have 100 years worth of trash in them so its a bit like digging out a dump. Anyway there are 2 roads in town that run into the fairgrounds that have some old properties on them. I was looking at the GIS maps and noticed that 4 of the properties, those nearest to the fairgrounds are owned by the city fair association. Most of these properties are overgrown and 1 has a house with broken bottles, old tires and junk lying about along with overgrown weeds. I would love to get permission to hunt these sites but I am unsure how to approach it. I don't really think I should consider it free hunting grounds but what would you do?
Should I approach the fair association let them know I enjoy metal detecting and clean up the grounds quite a bit. Maybe offer to clean up these properties by picking up the trash and mowing a bit around them in return for being able to hunt them? In other words I don't want to mess up what I have now or risk a no
I am guessing it would be hard to get in touch with someone on the fair grounds association and I don't have specific permission to be on the fairgrounds in the first place but no one has ever said anything and it is public land.
sorry this is getting long. what would you do?
I am just curious how you guys would approach this permission or maybe in the past have had something like this come up.
I regularly hunt some old fairgrounds that are public property in town. Cops come by every now and then and ask me if I am finding anything, I show them my junk finds and tell them just cleaning up the fairgrounds then continue my hunts. These fairgrounds have 100 years worth of trash in them so its a bit like digging out a dump. Anyway there are 2 roads in town that run into the fairgrounds that have some old properties on them. I was looking at the GIS maps and noticed that 4 of the properties, those nearest to the fairgrounds are owned by the city fair association. Most of these properties are overgrown and 1 has a house with broken bottles, old tires and junk lying about along with overgrown weeds. I would love to get permission to hunt these sites but I am unsure how to approach it. I don't really think I should consider it free hunting grounds but what would you do?
Should I approach the fair association let them know I enjoy metal detecting and clean up the grounds quite a bit. Maybe offer to clean up these properties by picking up the trash and mowing a bit around them in return for being able to hunt them? In other words I don't want to mess up what I have now or risk a no
I am guessing it would be hard to get in touch with someone on the fair grounds association and I don't have specific permission to be on the fairgrounds in the first place but no one has ever said anything and it is public land.
sorry this is getting long. what would you do?
