| # | First Name | Last Name | State | Country | Comments |
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| 1051 | darrell | ward | TN | US | please allow coin shooting in state parks |
| 1052 | lee | summers | AR | US | I am new to the hobby and unlike any other hobby is very descrimitive as to where and how one can enjoy it . This gives the ordinary person the opportunity to get out have some exercise and enjoy nature |
| 1053 | David | Brown | AR | US | I am a retired surveyor. I always protect the rights of then public in my endevors.
Davdi Brown |
| 1054 | Anonymous | Anonymous | AR | US | I feel like Arkansas needs to relax it's laws to let metal detecting be done in the state parks without confiscation of the finds. This is our state, and we have a right to keep what we find as long as we don't destroy the property of the park. |
| 1055 | michael | true | AR | US | why keep us from harmless fun |
| 1056 | John | Wing | TX | US | |
| 1057 | Matt | Morton | AR | US | |
| 1058 | Tom | Kamrowski | MI | US | I am very interested in visiting Arkansas. I have heard many good things about the natural beauty of the state and would really like to try my luck sifting for a diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. I cannot visit Arkansas, however much I'd like to, because the State discriminates against the use of metal detectors on State Land. One more State Government that has fallen under the sway of the Archaeologists and their lies and mistruths about the hobby metal detectorist. The archaeologists with their Mine! Mine! Mine! mentality who call metal detectorists "looters" and "vandals" and "thieves of history" while those same archaeologists recover items and hide them away in their private collections in their homes, never to see the light of day again, and they do so with YOUR Arkansas State funds which are gotten through taxes imposed on the Citizens of the State of Arkansas and through sales tax and license/permit fees of those visiting the state. So WHO in fact are the REAL crooks, I ask you? The archaeologists, who are the REAL looters, have been spreading their mistruths about the metal detecing hobby for years and it HAS TO STOP. These state-sanctioned graverobbers are so overcome by their greed and lust to expand their private artifact collections that they have duped Arkansas lawmakers into believing that EVERY object under the ground on ALL land, public and private, somehow has archaeological or historic significance. For instance an 1895 Indian Head Cent found on , lets say, State land where a farm once was has absolutely NO archaeological and/or historical significance whatsoever. And neither do 99.8% of the things that metal detectorists find. Stop buying into the lies of the legalize-looter, state-sanctioned grave robber archaeologist. The ONLY reason that detecting is not allowed on Arkansas State park land is because these scum have duped the Arkansas Lawmakers into believing that EVERY SQUARE INCH of Arkansas State Land has "Archaeological and Historic Significance". These people are greed-driven criminals who are doing more to harm your history than help it, because they believe that it is better for an object to deteriorate into a mere soil discoloration, or to be "encapsulated" by the construction of yet another strip mall over the objects, than to bear the thought of having anybody other than THEMSELVES discover it. Until the State of Arkansas comes to its senses about amateur hobby metal detectorists, I shall not be visiting the State, even if only to pass through it, and I encourage others who share my hobby to do likewise. Thanks you for your time. -SSG Tom Kamrowski Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq |
| 1059 | Anonymous | Anonymous | AR | US | i think that as long as we do are part in covering up any traces of us digging,i think we should have permission to go anywhere. |
| 1060 | raymond | wilson | AR | US | |
| 1061 | Militon | Wofford | | | |
| 1062 | paul | whorton | AR | US | |
| 1063 | Ryan | Powers | AR | US | |
| 1064 | jill | criddle | TX | US | |
| 1065 | Anonymous | Anonymous | TN | US | i want to detect at the Crater Of Diamonds to find all the stuff lost by diamond hunters over the years. |
| 1066 | Bradley | Evans | AR | US | |
| 1067 | Marcy | Brown | AR | US | |
| 1068 | george | guess | AR | US | our "finds" might just prove to be of value to the state. |
| 1069 | Tim | schlup | OK | US | I would come to arkansas to go metal detecting and stay in local motels. And spend money in local resaraunts and my wife would be shopping. |
| 1070 | Kelley | Bailey | AR | US | I feel that as long as we leave the park as we found it, we should be able to look as much as we want. The reason they don't want us to is that they want to keep it for themselves. That's greedy. |
| 1071 | Richard | Rackley | MO | US | What a wonderful thing for a hobbyists to be able to enjoy Metal detecting in or on State Parks,it seems like people that do use detectors when you look in there bags you see alot of bottle caps and pop tops that seems to me that would help clean State Parks of Ar. |
| 1072 | Samuel & Rebecca | Isaac | AR | US | |
| 1073 | Mary | Wylie | AR | US | |
| 1074 | jonathan | goodson | AR | US | |
| 1075 | Clay | Almond | AR | US | |
| 1076 | Anonymous | Anonymous | TX | US | |
| 1077 | Billy | Littleton | AR | US | |
| 1078 | Brian | Crittendon | | | |
| 1079 | Anonymous | Anonymous | AR | | |
| 1080 | Chuck | Jones | CO | US |
| 1081 | Mitch | Lampman | | | |
| 1082 | Anonymous | Anonymous | VA | US | Remove the ban! Make the parks available to all hobbyest! |
| 1083 | Daniel | Brylla | TX | | |
| 1084 | Anonymous | Anonymous | PA | US | |
| 1085 | Michael | Klawuhn | MO | US |
| 1086 | Marvin | Lasseter | NC | US | |
| 1087 | Tony | Lovatto | IN | US | |
| 1088 | susan | vanriper | PA | US | |
| 1089 | James | Starr | KY | US | |
| 1090 | Joe | Montoro | PA | US | |
| 1091 | randy | richardson | | US | bad move during a bad economy |
| 1092 | Walter | Shipley | OH | US | |
| 1093 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | US | |
| 1094 | Marilyn | Waid | AR | US | Gentlemen: I would appreciate your allowing
the good, and responsible metal detectorists to use metal detectors in your state parks. We appreciate the use of your parks and do our best to leave them in good order while we are there,and we enjoy the privaleges of using metal detectors in the parks,and will elimate and remove what trash we find. Hoping you can change this hobby regulations as this is a great pasttime of enjoyment. Thanks Marilyn |
| 1095 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | | |
| 1096 | Anonymous | Anonymous | WA | US | |
| 1097 | Wyatt | Ward | AR | US | |
| 1098 | Steven | Smith | AR | US | Please revise a old and outdated policy |
| 1099 | Justin | Gentry | AR | US | I am new to the state, and am disapointed by the strick laws here. I have donated several artifacts to a local museum in Texas where I was raised. Most items found by metal detector would never be found another way. But would return to minerals and reclaimed by the ground. Each time this happens, we loose more of our history. |
| 1100 | beau | conway | OK | US |
