bigscoop
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- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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- All Treasure Hunting
You just never know what you might find, and here's why!
Sometimes it’s hard to look upon a piece of ground or section of water with a positive attitude. “Sure, we’d all like to hunt on those prime pieces of land or sections of water with long and rich histories, but what you’re about to learn here is that just about any piece of land can harbor a long and rich history that you may never hear word of. A few cases in point:
A few years back two men broke into a house one night and without realizing it they stole a very valuable coin collection. In fact they stole several things without having any real knowledge of collectible values, they just needed to turn all they could into cold hard cash. During this robbery they stole the coins because they were easy to grab and to them the coins represented instant spendable cash. During the getaway after their successful heist, as they were driving around in the country, they sorted through the coins and they kept anything that looked like it could be easily spent, the rest they tossed out the window, not once, but twice. The first time they tossed the coins out the window the car was moving and the handful of coins ended up being tossed into a homeowner’s front yard. The second time they tossed the coins out the window the car was at a complete stop at a county road intersection, these coins ended up being tossed into the corner of a farmer’s field. All of this is a matter of record as the two men were eventually caught by local authorities. Now the problem in all of this was that the two robbers couldn’t be sure of the exact yard or intersection so it became impossible for the local authorities to recover the coins. At that time it was estimated that those two handful of coins was worth about sixty thousand dollars. Those coins are still there, in some uncertain country front lawn and in the corner of some uncertain country farm field. All that is known for sure is that two men did in fact toss the coins and that after the heist the two robbers spent a great deal of time driving about in the country in an area that included several square miles of two different counties. And as I stated earlier, this is an actual documented case that took place in northeast Indiana.
On more then one occasion while holding various conversations with older people they have been more then happy to tell me about the many valuable rings and other valuable items they had known to be lost in their time. Some were lost in gardens, others were lost while swimming off the end of a lake pier, or in the church lawns, and so on and so on. These are valuable little histories one might never hear about in regards to that not so exciting piece of land or small spot of unappealing water. Sometimes you can narrow these locations down and gain permission to hunt them, sometimes you can do neither, but the point is this; “If you get a chance to hunt somewhere, hunt it, because you just never know what you might find.”
Sometimes it’s hard to look upon a piece of ground or section of water with a positive attitude. “Sure, we’d all like to hunt on those prime pieces of land or sections of water with long and rich histories, but what you’re about to learn here is that just about any piece of land can harbor a long and rich history that you may never hear word of. A few cases in point:
A few years back two men broke into a house one night and without realizing it they stole a very valuable coin collection. In fact they stole several things without having any real knowledge of collectible values, they just needed to turn all they could into cold hard cash. During this robbery they stole the coins because they were easy to grab and to them the coins represented instant spendable cash. During the getaway after their successful heist, as they were driving around in the country, they sorted through the coins and they kept anything that looked like it could be easily spent, the rest they tossed out the window, not once, but twice. The first time they tossed the coins out the window the car was moving and the handful of coins ended up being tossed into a homeowner’s front yard. The second time they tossed the coins out the window the car was at a complete stop at a county road intersection, these coins ended up being tossed into the corner of a farmer’s field. All of this is a matter of record as the two men were eventually caught by local authorities. Now the problem in all of this was that the two robbers couldn’t be sure of the exact yard or intersection so it became impossible for the local authorities to recover the coins. At that time it was estimated that those two handful of coins was worth about sixty thousand dollars. Those coins are still there, in some uncertain country front lawn and in the corner of some uncertain country farm field. All that is known for sure is that two men did in fact toss the coins and that after the heist the two robbers spent a great deal of time driving about in the country in an area that included several square miles of two different counties. And as I stated earlier, this is an actual documented case that took place in northeast Indiana.
On more then one occasion while holding various conversations with older people they have been more then happy to tell me about the many valuable rings and other valuable items they had known to be lost in their time. Some were lost in gardens, others were lost while swimming off the end of a lake pier, or in the church lawns, and so on and so on. These are valuable little histories one might never hear about in regards to that not so exciting piece of land or small spot of unappealing water. Sometimes you can narrow these locations down and gain permission to hunt them, sometimes you can do neither, but the point is this; “If you get a chance to hunt somewhere, hunt it, because you just never know what you might find.”
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