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Yesterdays finds.....

C

Chris in Hamilton (Canada)

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Went to another wooded area yesterday looking for an old house site. I think I came close but didn't find it, brush was so thick you could only see 20' in any direction. Try again in the fall.

Decided to hunt the trails going through the woods and came up with some goodies. The first coin dug was this beauty 1861 British half penny with die cracks. One starts at the rim and runs up Victoria's neck to her ear then travels across the side of her head to just above the bun. The second starts at the rim, between the F & D then branches in 3 directions. Don't know why but I can't seem to get the detail scanning a copper coin that I can with silver. This one is AU.

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After that the only coins I dug were small cents. 42 of them! The oldest was a 1919 Wheatie. The bullets are Enfields. The ring is sterling with a nice garnet and the bar pin is sterling and dated 1907. The iron is the biggest and most ornate I've ever seen and the only one in iron. Eyeballed that.

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Conchita picked me up at 3:30 and when we got in she was the 1st to reach the bedroom. She said "Honey there's a pigeon" We've been having a lot of trouble keeping them off the balcony this year and I thought she meant it was there and started to head out but then she said it was in the bedroom. I went in there to find there were two of them that had come in! Pigeon dirt everywhere :( I wanted to wring their necks but she wouldn't let me so I fast balled them off the balcony. Sure wish our government was a bit more lenient on weapons. I don't think you can even buy a slingshot here anymore.

Thanks for looking & GH, Chris
 
.... you need to build yourself a "Pigeonpult".

Use some bulk bungee cord you should be able to buy at the local hardware store. You'll need four strands.

Take an aluminum colander and attach the four bungee strands to it equal distance apart around the colander. Attach the other bungee ends ... the upper two to the ceiling / roof eve, the remaining lower two to the deck rail. The idea is to adjust them so that you get the proper trajectory to catapult the offending feeding pigeon far off into the distance when you trigger the device.

The trigger can be a length of small string or rope just strong enough to hold the pigeonpult in place, one end attached to the colander, dead center of the bottom, outside on the deck / porch, the other end secured just inside the door where it can be tied off when it's "locked and loaded" with pigeon food bait inside the colander.

Grab a bottle of good old Canadian pale stale ale and wait for a pigeon to start feeding when standing inside the colander.

When the time is right, cut the string and launch that bad boy like a jet taking off from an aircraft carrier. This device works well on squirrels too! Each additional beer makes you a better shot and causes uproarious laughter.

Send me your E-mail and I'll send you a video of a Squirrlepult in action. It's a riot.
 
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2014446452

It's way funny.
 
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