103 Degree heat, buttons and Snakes..

[Gonehunting]

Yes, Evan is in Oklahoma and that is why the age of his relic finds are so amazing to me. He is finding pre civil war military relics in Oklahoma. There were just a few forts established in Oklahoma in the early to mid 1800's. Congrats Evan on some more great finds.

Randy

thanks Randy.. I have only been to one other location similar to this one but the relics are no where near as plentiful.. different but not much at all...

I've looked for civil war battle sites and camp sites in north Texas and can't find much. Seems there might be a few in east Texas but not much NW of Dallas. I guess the Chisolm Trail is just west of here and east of Ft. Worth. Maybe I'll see if I can find more research on that. I'm not sure if Evan has done any research on the trail through Oklahoma.

:clsoedeyes: not me.. lol, but most of the roads I am hitting were heavily used supply routes, river crossings that appears to have had camps and/or staging areas...

I wish we had snakes like that in Ohio. That is awesome!

lol yeah you say that.. wait till about a 6 rattler coils up on ya.. they can lash out almost half of their body length.. then we have the aggressive cottonmouths that will try to come in the boat on you, then the copperheads,, they are so camo'd you don't hardly see them till you step on them... You can have em' all. lol..

 

[Gonehunting]

n/t

I hear ya..

 

[firefighter254]

Very nice finds and i would have s%^# my self if i saw that snake good thing you didn't panic and beat it with your detector lol HH

 

[Gonehunting]

Very nice finds and i would have s%^# my self if i saw that snake good thing you didn't panic and beat it with your detector lol HH

No kidding wife wouldn't have let me come in the house if I had tore up my detector.lol

 

[niterider_58]

OMG I HATE SNAKES

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Darrelled you aren't right. LOL LOL
I'm sure Gone would be glad to send them all your way so would the rest of these guys too. LOL LOL.

Made me laugh, I guess you must really like snakes and spiders and such.

Here we also got ground bees that live in the ground and dry dirt and man does it burn when they sting ya.

 

[pspr]

Anybody wear snake chaps or gaiters when hunting in the woods in the south? So far most of my hunting has been parks and older home sites in town. If I find some places to hunt in the woods or prairie in north Texas I would certainly consider getting a pair. I hear the instep is also a common spot snakes strike. A snake bite would really ruin your day and probably your year.

Spiders are another story. If you want to see a grown man run screaming just drop a big spider on me or watch me accidentally walk between two trees where a spider has built his web. Yooowww Weeeeee! The only good spider is a dead spider.

Evan do you have a source you can share to locate civil war staging areas, river crossing areas and supply routes? I've tried searching for battle sites and camp sites but don't find much online that isn't already a national or state historical site.

 

[Derrelld]

Hahaha I have had an obsession with snakes since I was a little boy.. It went as far as my dad building me a little shelter outside filled with fish tanks so I would stop bringing them in the house Im not as bad these days, but i still cant pass one up without thinking I can catch it lol. I guess we never grow up
I have never came across one of that size in the wild... I would still give it a tango

 

[Bell-Two]

I wish we had snakes like that in Ohio. That is awesome!

DoubleD...we do have them that big, when I was in high school a friend and I lived in Centerville...when it was all country...I caught what we called a Corn Snake that was over 6 feet long. Use to catch 4 and 5 foot black snakes too. The meanest thing though we ever caught was a very large Snapping Turtle out of Holes Creek it filled the bottom of a very large wash tub and would snap off a branch the size of your thumb with no problem...would probably done the same to your thumb!

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

That snake is crazy. I'll never go back in there with you in the summer! Lol

 

[Gonehunting]

Evan do you have a source you can share to locate civil war staging areas, river crossing areas and supply routes? I've tried searching for battle sites and camp sites but don't find much online that isn't already a national or state historical site.

there isn't really. A source. I have spent hours in the library and on the net reading officer and soldier accounts of different campaigns... Find a fort local to you, then find out which companies where stationed there, then research those troops find out who there commanders and see if there are records of troop movements, orders, troop sizes etc... It takes a while but pays off.

 

[Gonehunting]

That snake is crazy. I'll never go back in there with you in the summer! Lol

come on Big Boy. It's just a snake lol I'm ok as long as I see them before they get that close. Wasn't expecting it to be in a tree....

 

[bigboar]

ewww!!! my day would have been over as soon as I saw that thing!

 

[pspr]

Evan do you have a source you can share to locate civil war staging areas, river crossing areas and supply routes? I've tried searching for battle sites and camp sites but don't find much online that isn't already a national or state historical site.

there isn't really. A source. I have spent hours in the library and on the net reading officer and soldier accounts of different campaigns... Find a fort local to you, then find out which companies where stationed there, then research those troops find out who there commanders and see if there are records of troop movements, orders, troop sizes etc... It takes a while but pays off.

I'll give that a try. Thanks for the pointers.

 

[Okiejack]

Hello I'm new to the site but have been on freindly metal detecting and tnet for years . I was wandering were you are located at in Oklahoma ? I'm in Mayes county well locust grove to be exact .