Metal Detecting - Tips To Volunteer in Your Community

Great Ideas to Give Something Back to Your Community

1. Archeologists, paleontologists, and police are quite often extremely limited on funding, time, and personnel. Ask if you may be able to volunteer your services or participate on a dig / investigation. You probably won't be able to keep anything, but you can certainly take photographs. More importantly, you got to do what you love doing. Either Click here or here to volunteer!

2. Consider sharing your find with a local museum curator. If you followed the Code of Ethics, there is no reason why you should be afraid to learn more about your find from an expert. If they feel it is important to the history of your area, why not give something back to your community and donate it for all to enjoy? Quite often, it's the amateur that makes the great discoveries that probably would've never been made.

3. Do you like teaching, speaking, or just being around kids? Once you have a good collection put together, think about displaying it at the library or talking at your kid's school. If you set up a display, you can even use it as an advertisement to get more leads. Does your state fair accept collection displays to be judged? Nothing wrong with getting a ribbon, promoting the hobby, and getting new leads by talking to people all at the same time!! Any of these ideas can be an enlightening and enjoyable experience for all concerned!

4. Put an ad in the local paper to volunteer to search for lost rings. There may not be an easier way to gain permission to hunt somebody's manicured lawn!

Continue to build a good relationship with your community and professional counterparts and society can only benefit as a result. If you do decide to share yourself, think about taking it a step further and sending a news release to the local newspaper or news station. By providing selfless endeavors, not only will you ensure our hobby's future as a respectable activity, but when you've really helped someone, that feeling cannot be surpassed. It starts with You! Got any other good ideas? Send them in, and we'll post it. EMAIL

Disclaimer: All responsibility for the use or misuse of this information lies solely with the user. Treasurefish accepts no liability for any of your actions which directly or indirectly result from your visit to this site. Treasurefish is not in the business of providing you with legal advice. We are only attempting to be responsible by giving you an idea of the realistic parameters. There are many misconceptions across a broad spectrum from people believing that you can do anything you want on public lands, to thinking that you can't do any metal detecting. If you always follow the Treasure Hunter's Code of Ethics, though, you will never go wrong!