Got a chain today!

[mudpuppy]

Its getting light at 5:30 now and they are playing Boston's "rock and roll band" on the radio every 15minutes, so I guess its officially Summer!

Beautiful morning, drizzling damp and warmish, no wind, was going to water hunt, took the 70 to a decent gold bearing chip totter to warm up my ears and wait for good light...hot spots picked clean by some other SOB besides myself!...So as is my custom, I swung the main open areas away from the toys, hoping for a missed target...got a foil/tab signal! kicked the chips and exposed this![attachment 313245 may16-15-3.jpg] In the gloam of the predawn, highlighted against the rotting chips, as I picked it up, I thought exactly this: "Take that! you butterfly chasing lepidopterist, scrapbooking, Buster Brown, beanie baby collector, Yogi bear blueberry pancake eating, golf ball washing, silver finding SOB'ing, birdwatcher, Jimtn!" (I dont know where that all came from, but it flowed nicely, and felt really good!)

WooHoo! Three cheers and a Bengal Tiger for me! Heavy gold! Sounded right and felt right! Back to Rosie for my readers, searching mightily for a stamp or hallmark to no avail... Slap me silly! A FAKE!
So disgusted, kept punching totters anyway! The really hard to hunt gravel ones. Any and all that I have found gold at in the past...pics of heavy kid spoor and garbage signaling Moms present.....[attachment 313246 may16-15-1.jpg][attachment 313247 may16-15-2.jpg] [attachment 313248 may16-15-4.jpg]while Rosie waited patiently..

Thats a lot of freaking cremesicles and left behind coats I figured, had to be some sort of loot!...heavy kid spoor like this generally means a decent totter stuffed with clad or something...dreaded the thought of wadering up and into the Big Lake, or even worse, going home.....So I just drove around listening to Boston, drinking coffee, smoking, and punching totters and home shortly after 9am with this stuff...[attachment 313249 may16-15.jpg] I may sell this chain at the garage sale and get maybe 5 bucks, or perhaps toss it out on a heavily hunted beach right under the volleyball nets and give somebody else a short thrill? Is that wrong? I dont know...my moral compass is skewing all over the place and cannot be trusted ...I sure hate fake chain wearing, coat shedding, cremesicle sucking, totlot trotting, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Tennessee Tuxedo trouser trout! I'm losing my mind here!..I need some gold!...'Rock and Roll band, everybodys waitin', getting crazy anticipatin', love and music, play, play, play! Yeah yeah!..Ahhhh, those were the good years before I discovered this strangely addictive sport, gas was cheap, and things were simple!.... Looking at the shot, I got quite a few nickels though, so I was on target, that has to count for something right?
Mud

 

[JimmyCT]

That was a mouthful you let out on a playground. Any left over food for the taking? Did you check the coat pockets? Coulda been loot in them.You are on the right path for finding the real deal mud. Hang in there summer is just getting ramped up.





"Take that! You damned butterfly chasing lepidopterist, scrapbooking, Buster Brown, beanie baby collector, Yogi bear blueberry pancake eating, golf ball washing, silver finding SOB'ing, birdwatcher, Jimtn!"

 

[mudpuppy]

I know right EPL? Thanks for that new word, "lepidopterist" by the way......

Yes, I check all coat pockets, and heartily eyeball for a big wad of bills, which one day I have no doubt I will find if I continue this early morning run?...I got a bucks worth of cans, so thats a good sign I beat the cannies which generally dont miss a beat..the Huffy riding, pedal pushing, park plundering, bovine bipedal beer beverage Daffy Duck distillery drop honey dipping hunters!...

Thinking about butterflies, they are as hard to find now a days as a leopard frog!...Used to find all sorts of them back 30yrs? Damn you Monsanto!...If Bill Gates pulled into my driveway today and said he'd give me a million dollars for a bucket full of leopard frogs, I doubt I could fill that order! 30yrs ago, I'd have that done in about 1/2hr tops!

Found a Luna Moth once, gosh, at least 30yrs ago? Remember it well, what a beauty!...Wish I woulda staked him out in a shadowbox or something, I let him go as is my trait with anything of value it seems..!...Re-reading my post, I think I might be in the advanced stages of dementia...probably from the headphones?...I wonder if thats covered by my health care provider? Oh wait, I dont have one, so probably not!

I'm questioning the health aspects of this addiction to getting up early and out hunting metal, maybe its not as good for a guy as everybody seems to think?...Physically sure, but mentally? I really hate fake gold...since I find a lot of it...thinking about maybe stamp collecting?

Those piccolo playing, , plum smuggling, philatelists are probably on the right path regarding a profitable pasttime,...plus, they get to lick glue, so double plus good right?...Rock and Roll band! Oh great, here comes Journey, "Dont stop believing" yep, Summers here for sure now, Cubs Win!...
Mud

 

[Elton]

When we all know he is a " ornithologist"

 

[ez4sure]

still a nice find, keep at it mud gold will turn up when you least expect it hh

 

[sturrat]

you had me fooled until i scrolled down. But I thought "He would have texted me a picture if it was gold". I have all next week off so let me know if you want to hit the water monday. Its going to be 83 degrees!

 

[jim tn]

Dang, I haven't looked those words up yet, so will say that I resemble that "take that" sentence......or book. You see Mud, good chains only come in holes with the amazing one cent coin. Still, you get a c- for effort. I do have a feeling there is a chain waiting for you out there. But be sure to dig the cent readings!!!!!!! HH jim tn

 

[IBdiggin]

He called you a butterfly chaser Jim-----------------Ib

 

[foreign object]

I was inspired by all this nonsense to hit it hard this morning. Got all ready to go and now its raining leopard frogs outside. Guess ill give Bill Gates a quick call.

 

[REVIER]

Awww, at least it was gold-ish.
Heartbreaker but they won't all be that way.
What you lack in volume of precious metal you more than make up in vocabulary.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks guys...yeah, I was on a real ripper yesterday as you could tell..I beg your forgiveness and appreciate your understanding!...Its a disease you know, so I cant help it, unfortunately, the prescriptions are not covered under health care, and have to come out of my clad pile!...

Fellas, let me introduce you to my friend Sturrat...I started running into this guy in all sorts of areas and weather a few years back and after a while of it, we got to talking...so we have been collaborating and sharing tearouts and hotspots when we find them...etc..The guy is good! He's been hunting for a long time, and knows his gear and has a nose for gold and old silver...plus, he dont give a tinkers cuss about clad!

We will have no doubt of getting into something big and goldie next week.!..We both are way overdue!
Mud

 

[amberjack]

I was going out tomorrow but now I don't have too after reading that incarnation of Elmer Fudd , those rascally rabbits in my head have calmed down

AJ

 

[gabbyhayes]

Nice find!!
Congrats

 

[lloyd0161]

None of the chains I have found have been real. But I know if there is one I will find it. I have had better luck with finding good rings. Strange how many rings are lost. Maybe not really lost but rather unwanted and tossed aside for loss of someone. Makes you wonder. I found a real nice heavy 18k wedding band in a park bench area. An acquaintance said "I wonder who got hurt over that one".