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What did DW folks think of the Hoard Hunters the other night on TV ????!!! ;)
Your thought will be interesting ........

It was okay,, I will watch all the episodes. My only critism was that I felt that there was a bit too much messing about, it's nice to have a bit of humour but it seemed to take up too much time.

agree with jassy , nota badshow buttheguy with thehat was a bit of a johnny vaughn type and spoiled it a bit

just thought it was 1 big advertisment for the ctx.

They should have followed their own advice with their Do`s and Donts.

Wear Gloves when detecting and certainly do NOT place a dirty Roman coin in the mouth for a wash off. :o Jerry.

PS I will be watching the following episodes.

its got a chance to be good for detecting but that was to much from gary grandstanding for the cameras lets hope it improves

the same as Mike really, I think that bloke with the hat was a bit
over the top with the megaphone, I would like
to have seen a bit more detecting and maybe they could have done
 a section on the show about  different detectors. One thing that did suprise me
was that iron anvil. after discriminating out iron or abandoning deep digging iron,
it makes you wonder what we may have missed or left behind.

Is there anywhere to watch or download online?

They had the chance to let Dave Phillips and Barrie Plasom,who you saw at the start to show them how to hoover up the Roman coins. ;) :) Jerry.

I enjoyed the program and found it interesting  :)

The guy with hat needed leaving down one of those deep iron signal holes

I think you've got to remember that the program isn't aimed at detectorists so we are probably not the best people to judge.
Gary was not as manic as I feared but Gordon was definitely dumbing down to allow input from the "Archaeologist" later (I can't believe Gordon couldn't remember what a Urbs Romana is called), Hoard Hunters is a limited company and the guys, who by the way also have their own video production company so are no strangers to the camera, are making the programs as a business to make money and good luck to them.
I personally don't think that (on one episode) it will have any effect on the views of detecting by the general public and the viewing figures will point to it's success or otherwise.

i have met Gary Brun and Gordon Heritage in person and they are great guys with a deep love oif this fantastic hobby.,.They have promoted the hobby with the minelab forum and videos..They probably have no control over the editing and have restricted time on site..But good luck to two great members of our hobby :)

Rob Hoard Hunters Ltd is run by Gary so I expect they had full control over editing but I from a public perspective I can't see anything wrong with it. A few Roman grots may be just another day for many of us but try remembering how it felt when you found your first....when I've shown them to passers by who have asked "have you found anything" by their reaction anyone would think they were the crown jewels, so it's probably exciting to joe bloggs  ;)

 Heres the second episode......
Hoard hunters 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Llu4AeMVHU#ws)

More power to their elbow, but maybe just a little less comedy and a bit
more detecting. I might apply for a job on POINTS OF VIEW, move over
Ann Robinson.

Excellent! ;D

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Didn't bother watching it, total rubbish promoting Minelabs  ::)

They don't use Minelabs do they!, I never would have known.  ;D

 One of them uses a Deus  ;D

Old age is creeping in!  :D

Steve message sent to you on here and are private site

They should have let Dave Phillips and Barrie Plasom loose with their Deus machines they are masters at the hobby.

Gary seems to like his Deus. ;)  :) Jerry.