We had a beautiful sunny day for our December meeting at the Sedgwick County park. Attendance was great and a good time was had by all.
As I expected, some very good finds were made and I wanted to pass along some advice:
We are ruminating on ideas for the next year. Stay tuned.
pulltabMiner.
We had our first club meet yesterday since the departure of our beloved founder and leader, Steve. Alas! he will be missed.
It was a good turnout and the weather was near perfect. At one point we were visited by a cookie-sniffing winnie dog but the cookies were chocolate chip so he couldn’t have any.
We conducted the club’s business which included ideas about leadership models. People seemed to like the concept of 3 month leadership teams. More on that later. Also, we spoke briefly about the possibility to hold classes only for club members, aiming at spreading the knowledge from the more experienced hunters to the rest of us newbs. Information will go out to the members as these plus other ideas take hold.
Have patience with us as we sort things out. For starters, I will try to keep this page updated. Steve if you read this, it may be nice for you to write a thing or two about your experiences in the frozen north.
Again, thank you all for your patience and happy hunting!
pulltabMiner
Here are some more details. Hope to see everyone there! Feel free to email us with questions.
Good afternoon, I wanted to take a moment and let you know about an exciting upcoming event. Mark your calendars for April 17th 2016 for our first ever “Family Spring Fling”. This will be a fun event for the whole family. We will have kids hunts, ladies hunts, food, and prizes. Stay tuned as more details come available. It should be a good time!
Good evening, I just wanted to let everyone know that we will be meeting at North Linwood park on Sunday the 13th from 3-6 PM. The weather should be great and we will have some interesting things to discuss. I know there have been some great interesting finds around town lately and I hope everyone will bring some goodies to the table.
Also I wanted to let everyone know that I have created a short survey since it’s been a couple of years and I’m certain there are some opinions out there. Please take a few moments to answer the questions by clicking the link below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gX9GXO6UJx1YyrsgXw7qrXVLYUg3KDAVRc-UguYxEhg/viewform?usp=send_form
Look forward to seeing everyone.
Steveouke *\_
Good evening everyone. Sorry for the late delay about this weekends meeting. My bride and I have been traveling and staying busy. Vince mentioned that this is our two year anniversary and I wish we were able to plan a big happening but I haven’t had the time. Now my suggestion is that everyone brings a guest and a dish to our June meeting on Sunday. I think we should head out west to Sedgwick County Park and try to secure us a pavilion. I’m thinking our best chances will be in the northeast corner of the park. Hope to see you there at 3:00 on Sunday the 6th.
Other stuff-
We have been invited to work with the fine folks at Cabelas to bring some metal detecting information to their customers. They are asking if we would like to present a seminar similar to our class 6 times throughout the weekend of June 13th and 14th. In return they are giving us a $100 Cabelas gift card. We will discuss volunteering opportunities on Sunday. I think it is important for us to accept this proposal and I am hoping to get a few people that can help at least in short shifts next weekend.
July 11- We are scheduled to do a class on July 11th with the City. I hope things with them have settled down and we can get back into the swing of doing classes. However I think we need to discuss what we would like in return so if you have ideas we can discuss them as well.
Thanks and I have to apologize for the late details about the meeting. However we don’t want to get tooooo organized!
Good morning all, I wanted to take a moment and let everyone know that today’s class has been cancelled. We will reschedule soon.
Thanks
Steve
I just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone that makes this club possible and contributes to our success. I personally have been extremely busy and I want to thank Miner for stepping in and posting to the site. I also want to thank Vince for helping out in the big town of Mulvane on a lost ring post. These things mean a lot to me but I haven’t had time to focus on metal detecting and I’m thankful for everyone’s help. At any rate I just made plans (albeit loose) for our January meeting. I think we should try to metal detect at Cypress Park which is at 300 S. Edgemoor in Wichita. I hope to see everyone there and hopefully mother earth cooperates with us so we can all enjoy what we love so much.. Swinging!
On a much more serious note I hope everyone has had a great Christmas and I hope that you guys have had a great time with the people that matter most in your lives.
Steveouke *\_
The smile on her face says it all. Good work Vince
I just read a book titled The Fred Factor, by Mark Sanborn. The book is an inspirational little book about delivering superior service for the sakes of delivering superior service.
One of the things Mr. Sanborn suggests is to find a way to deliver superior service every day, even in the smallest of ways. So I started to think about something I do often where I could do just that. Then it hit me, I metal detect often. I love my hobby so I thought there is no better time to apply the principles of the book.
So, as the book asks, I identified my customer. The way I see it, my customer is the public who shares the parks and other public spaces where I metal detect. Having identified the customer, the task at which I would want to excel is digging a plug and restoring the ground once I am done retrieving the target. In this way, the other users of the park will never be inconvenienced in any way because of what I do. So for 2015 I vow to absolutely master how I retrieve a target from the ground when metal detecting.
The other thing that I thought about is to clean the park as I go. I have done this in the past in a very modest scale but I think in 2015 I will up my efforts to pick trash as I detect.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and any other holiday you may celebrate this season.
pulltabMiner.
A few years back I read an online article by NASA Tom that set me on a journey to try to find the deepest detector around.
In his article, Tom discusses a project he undertook at the site of an old fort in Florida. You can read the original article here but the gist of it is that 95% of all desirable, non-ferrous targets (coins and relics and such) are still in the ground being maliciously masked by iron AND that there is a plethora of such targets at 12.5 – 14 inches deep!!
I know some of you don’t want to dig a 12 inch hole but if you do, take heart, your efforts are likely to be rewarded.
Happy Hunting!
pulltabMiner
