How often has anyone seen one of these dug up from a woods??:super:

[deepdiger60]

Talk about loud copper signals !!!! i was using my S-12 and holy molly my head phone,s screamed i said what the heck ? i was woods hunting for a while not much this time until this !! i think it is a French horn copper, in side the front it say,s made in India it was only about 5 or 6 inches deep i had to cut roots that grew over it when i pulled it out finally i started laughing never have i seen something like that dug ever !! lmao iam going to try and clean it up i took a few photo,s enjoy and dont laugh to hard lol . Jim

 

[bootyhoundpa]

never.....now thats funny......

 

[gear box]

That's cool! You're probably the only one who dug one of those.
Good luck gary

 

[hershey1]

Darn tootin that's a nice find! Congratulations. HH

 

[Critterhunter]

WOW! Good job on digging a big signal like that. Might have been a cache. When I'm in the woods I hope for a large signal because of cache potential, as usually the woods I lurk in are fairly remote to there isn't a bunch of large trash like cans laying around, so I will dig even big iron signals if I come across them. Especially I like to search around any large bolders I find as they tend to be rare in many of my woods and I think they'd make great cache markers. Trees might be logged, but big bolders are rarely moved. Also a good idea to hunt around them for a wide radius as they might have only been used to pace off to the cache.

Hey, that horn...You live in a state that had civil war activity? I don't have much civil war knowledge but thought I remember reading that some troops used any horn they could lay their hands on due to a shortage of the typical bugal or something. Anybody? If that be the case, might want to research the name on that thing and any serial # or such. Might exist in civil war records as official equipment= BIG MONEY.

 

[Raven69]

Cool find. Well done

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Jim ,nice, possible fox hunters horn? Thanks Ron

 

[deepdiger60]

Jim ,nice, possible fox hunters horn? Thanks Ron

Thats it Ron fox horn i could not think the name thanks Jim

 

[deepdiger60]

i found this video on fox hunting horns mine is not as big but ill clean it and next field hunt me and my buddys do ill blow the horn to start tally ho and hunting we will go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijOSJaGY1xE

 

[Critterhunter]

You're probably right, but I'd still research that horn if you can gleam a serial # on it or something. Not just for civil war possibilities, but perhaps prior wars? I'm probably wrong but I swear I remember hearing that in some war(s) they would use whatever horn they could get their hands on due to the shortage of the typical bugals.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Jim,The Metamora Hunt rode with the club for a year.Might be in back of the pack with the group of riders.The photo of the hounds on the hill usually we would group there and take out the whisky flasks and have a couple of shots.HH Ron