Originally Posted by
Beefcake
I remember the beating Angie... Blindsided him too I believe. :blackeye: I guess I'm greedy or something...BUT, I didn't get into this hobby to return stuff I find... Alot of us have a lot of money invested in our machines...Heck, I've got about $2500 in my collection.. If it is a class ring perhaps, but if someone is dumb enough to wear a $1600 ring to the beach and butter themselves up to go into the water...I'm not losing any sleep over finding their ring and definately not going on a manhunt to find the owner. I look back at how stupid I was when I found my first ring at the beach (The big spinner ring). I was just asking someone to come and scam me... Thankfully it didn't happen, but I was a sitting duck for a scam. I hunt with a guy (same one in the vid with the morgan) and he had permission to hunt this old farm house. He had just began in the hobby and found a capped bust half... The owner lady came over and asked what he found and he showed her the awesome coin... In congratulations, he got a You've got to leave! Now! and she kept the coin... Depending on the owner of the property, I don't show them everything I find, unless it is someone I know. I don't know, I suppose it is unethical, but I always like to keep my coins. If an owner wants to keep the coins I find...I move on. Let them spend the money on a detector and find them theirselves... I guess, when I was first getting started I might have been willing to give them my finds, just to get onto a site, but unless it's a super valuable hunk of gold or something...It's mine. Am I the only one that feels this way?