"American Digger"

[bobbyHall]

Show is terrible...cant stand the way he acts...

 

[Hotrod Tom]

I hope this show goes away before it makes this hobby go away.

 

[georgiaboy0824]

American diger

Its all about research research research and then were in there like swim where lol

 

[twkarl]

I made the mistake of watching the show once......never again I have not been MD'ing for long but I realize you are going to pull more junk than valuables from the ground. I highly doubt that you are going to use a back hoe and pull out 3 to 5 grand and then fix it all back in 1 night . And still come out with a large profit ????? come on get real

 

[NHGreg]

Lifting up an old moonshine still building with your mini excavator and instantly finding a metal box containing an old pistol and cash? I don't buy it.

And more importantly, why does the show always end showing that they always stayed on the property and found several thousands of dollars more in relics? If they did that well, why aren't they showing us what they found?

They're not relic hunters, they're media hounds looking for a quick buck. He was a wrestling actor and is still an actor. The show isn't real. Just like the show Moonshiners and many of the other reality TV shows out there.

 

[attacktheX]

ive caught this show a few times and it paints a COMPLETELY inaccurate picture of what metal detecting really is. the heavy editing for time makes it look like they sweep for a minute or two before easily pulling mindblowing finds out of the ground. im sure alot of naive people will be buying detectors only to find out that the hobby is nothing like the show depicts. if there is one thing required of this activity, it is patience, and none of that is shown on Diggers.

 

[It's A Trap!]

Pike head

The pike head that they dug up on tonight's episode was probably the biggest indicator so far that the show was fake. It didn't even have any rust on it, and they should have found A LOT more garbage and broken glass in the dirt too.

 

[Dirtfishin]

The shows a joke..

 

[HiDesertHunter]

finding a metal box containing an old pistol and cash?

The cash in the jar did it for me. We ALL know jars rarely stay intact in the ground. None of the many mason jar lids I have found over the years ever had the jar attached - just a ragged rim and the glass shards in the hole. The money was in way too good of condition also. Moisture would have most likely made it's way in and rotted the bills even if the jar had remained unbroken.

 

[CoiltoSoil]

These guys find guns and boxes filled with money and treasure every week. This forum alone has several thousand members many of which detect a few times of week and out of all of our combined detecting efforts all over the world how often are any of us finding guns, boxes of money, or similiar rare treasures once in a lifetime let alone once a week (more if you believe the "we spent 4 more days on the site and found $16k" B.S.) The show is an obvious hoax and any of us guys from the northeast know how quickly and badly steel rust in the gorund here so for them to find rist free guns and knives etc. is a dead giveaway that everything is planted. They should legally have to put a disclaimer in the show that states that the finds are plated.

 

[Silversmith45]

They say they found one of the first double-action revolvers. It looked like a single action to me. How can grips disolve in a metal box while the rest of the gun stays in good condition. His quart jars of moonshine look more like pints to me. The gun out of the privy was in too good of condition to be buried. It could have been used in a crime to be disposed of like that if it was real. You don't sell those type of items at a flea market. The gun would have fell under the current gun laws and federal forms would be needed to be sold. That show is even more fake that when he was wrestling.

 

[Crooklynways]

How about that Detroit show where they found the air filter that would have brought them tons of money.. Air filter? but find instead i nice CLEAN cloth with a Clean string with all those coins inside i don't now how the soil is out there but here that cloth would have been chewed up after 6 months out here in NY

 

[dogpound]

that show is funny, finding guns that the cylinder still spins right outa the ground........yea right.

 

[clgman001]

Could this show possibly be more staged!!!????

 

[TRYKER]

i'm not a big fan of the show, but, last nite when he pulled that classic frosalone shell puller switchblade made my mouth water. i've been lookin for one for my collection for years.

 

[CoiltoSoil]

that show is funny, finding guns that the cylinder still spins right outa the ground........yea right.

Yeah in a supposed privy hole, that gun would have been rusted in days and weeks let alone a century yet the one they found still worked. You would think they would stage more realistic finds. Every hunt they have oddly ends up being worth about $5k no matter what the finds. We need to form a petition to make Spike tv add a disclaimer stating that the objects are planted. They don't even change it up any, every show ends with "We only have a few more feet to search or else we will lose a ton of money on todays hunt" then BAM, they just happen to pull a huge find that makes the day worthwhile.

 

[mws_1984]

I don't care for it, but I watch it anyways. They make it off to be too easy to find stuff. How many times have they found junk? Like once, even then it had a coin cache in it. Shady if you ask me. But they can get away with making it off like that's how things turn out.

 

[Silverado6x6]

I would expect sometime in the near future we will be seeing new members on all MD forums whining that they are not finding eye popping finds, that the rusted tools they are taking to the pawn shops are worthless and the labor involved is too much.
Because people are going to believe this TV show.

I saw two episodes, two too many, no more ever.

 

[harleyeater]

pro wrestler

This show pretty much shows the reason he's not a pro wrestler any more,, they have to act for a living!

 

[Lindz]

I agree that this show is pretty... Alright SUPER far fetched but I still watch it because I find it entertaining. I agree that it won't give us diggers a good reputation but it gives me something else to watch.