I’ve removed this page in anticipation of the next move by KY Lawmakers.
There apparently is a compromise in the works, and I will do my best to get information on this page about it.
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I’m in Georgia and sent letters to your reps supporting the Bill. I know all of you are very smart people, but I want to ask one thing of you. Please do not cut and paste anothers’ letter to your rep. Be original. Use other letters as guides to stay on point, but write in your own words. These emails will be seen by staffers, they see the almost all of them. If they begin to notice copies being sent, this will nullify all effect the letter may have. Please, for your own sakes, write, but be as original as possible.
I think I may have given some of you the wrong impression, I’m sorry.
What I meant is you can send your own letter to ALL reps, and they can all get the same letter from you. That is acceptable and common practice. It is NOT necessary that every rep get a different letter from you about the same subject. The problem comes in when different folks use the same letters that other people have sent..
Not against metal detecting as a rule. I will say laws needed to regulate where it cannot be used.
Such as: Known battle fields like Perryville, Ky.
Many Graves are still there and unmarked. This is sacred ground.
Besides the safety factor in unearthing artifacts that has been exposed to embalming fluids is a deadly hazard to any one that may handle an article that is unknown but is contaminated with Arsenic which was a main ingredient in the embalming fluids.
We must beware of the hazards of the fun of finding these things.
David M Wilkins
Lexington, Ky
Agreed completely. We not only should support professional archaeology on justifiable sites, but help them keep those sites safe. I have never met a detector hobbyist who would deface a grave. I’ll hunt around cemeteries but never inside. 99% of unmarked burial sites are beyond the detection range of even modern detectors. However, sometimes on hillsides erosion will expose a site – and in those cases we should report the location to the local police and ultimately to professionals.
I think we should be able to use it anywhere even on Battlefields. If there is unmarked graves there, don’t the soldier deserve recognition for his service no matter on what side he fought and a headstone.If we did dig up artifacts they should go to a museum and not E-Bay. anywhere else is fair game.
To each his own, individualism is the key. Treat these folks as individuals, don’t let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. NO REGULATION,, NO RED TAPE,, LEAVE THEM ALONE! (from a truly uninformed, but aware land owner).
Ditto!
I do not see any harm in it. There are people that are digging up things every day and calling it research. If a person using a detector and finds an item. Is that not research. I do not feel that they should make money even though there are some things found that are not of importance (things people have lost) Not to include war artifacts or items of historical importance but just one person might find some thing that will help in the reseach of some thing that might have been missed by others. If it was not for people probing for things and digging them up we would not know about a lot. And our history would have been totally lost to us. So i say if they are not in it for a lot of profit let them do it. I do not do it my self but i do not see any thing wrong in it as long as they have permission from the land owner and it is a public site they should be able to search for things.
Many of the C.W. artifacts that I have dug “on private land” are almost unrecognizable or eaten up due to the fertilizer placed on the crops annually. These are typically not graves, but sites where the soldiers spent the night or many nights waiting for orders. I’ve taken my relics to “I Love to Read Day” at a local elementary school. I read them a story about a boy who has to help tend the neighbors farm while the mother has to go and retrieve the wounded father. Buttons, buckles, minies and a cannonball add to the excitement of the lesson.
Sounds better than having them stacked in a dusty archive to never be looked at again. This is the type of thing that the MD community needs more of. Real, hands-on history that sparks the kids. And yes, some of them may become respected archaeologists leading properly documented site excavations. Way to counter the crap on TV and the site-hoarding academic interests. HH
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Doesn’t this bill “allow the use of metal detectors in public areas” and is adding the requirement of registration of use of metal detectors in State park or monument offices?
I’ve sent emails to state reps asking for support of our hobby but this bill seems to support the hobby.
Yes, we are seeking SUPPORT of the bill to allow such.
As a metal detecting hobbyist from Nevada, I have sent my letter asking that HB 352 be passed out of Committee. I just want to add my support to the folks in KY in this time if need.
I agree with Ronald Corder when he said, “To each his own, individualism is the key. Treat these folks as individuals, don’t let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. NO REGULATION,, NO RED TAPE,, LEAVE THEM ALONE! (from a truly uninformed, but aware land owner).”
My best wishes in the passing of this Bill.
Ron Peete
grow up America! What now we cant dig in the dirt? wtf? I would keep doing it any way. Graves/cemetaries, or historic sites, NO! But a field, park, yard, beach, ect. why not? If you dont want someone finding your change, stop dropping it!
I for one hope this bill passes. I’ve traded in early Kentucky and Civil War relics for the past 40 years and the pickings are getting harder and harder to come by. If this bill passes, anything I dig up at Blue Licks, Perryville, Mill Springs, or any other Kentucky state park is mine. Its my business If I want to sell any of it at swap meets or on eBay. The hell if I’m going to leave my findings at some park just because I found it on park property. If it gets legal to detect at a Kentucky state park, then finders keepers.
Besides the way I see it, a Kentucky state park is public property, so that makes me one of the property owners. So anything I find on my property is mine to do with as I want.
I also believe in the freedom to hunt, but I would also be happy to put my finds from these locations into a collective for everyone to enjoy. I never sell my finds – and enjoy sharing them with my kids, friends, etc. If there were a way to put my finds “on loan” to academia and museums for study or public display I would be happy to do that. I don’t feel the need to have everything in my box, and never have a profit-mindset.
so did this pass or?
killed in committee. Did not pass.
Here is a recent chat with my uncle Brent Yonts state rep for district 15. He will help back a revised bill.
Brent could you tell me if this bill passed? http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10rs/SB6.htm and if so would this allow me to be able to detect the beach area and campground because it would be improved areas. Thanks
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March 4
Lynn Yonts
Hey Brent just wondering if you know anything about this bill http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB105.htm
I wondered if you could look at it and support it. Thanks Lynn
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October 9
Brent Yonts
sorry for delay. did not pass, too many problems. a compromise is being worked on,.
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2 seconds ago
Lynn Yonts
THANKS I feel that as long as you are responsible and don’t leave holes everywhere it should be legal to do and would attract more people to parks. Its something I enloy doing and many other people do as well so thanks again for any help you can give to it or a ammended bill