Need advice on Florida hunting

[johnnyblaze]

My family came here in 1635 from England on the ship Elizabeth and Anne..
They lived poor hard lives in the woods losing many children...
The only reason we came here was to escape the church..No welfare,medicare,food stamps etc..
We earned our keep thats for sure..



Blaze...

P.S. isnt Ivan Russian

 

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[ivan salis]

yes I was named after a jewish lawyer that help my injuried father win a injury law suit (my father had been injuried onboard a ship while my mother was pregnant with me) * it was a difficult case so my family thanked the lawyer by naming me after his first name -- Ivan

Ivan translates as "john"

salis used to be Salise"-- before it was angloed during the spanish american war era - 1899 *

 

[RELICDUDE07]

The wildlife in Florida is different than in other places. Everything either bites, stings, scratches, mauls and/or is poisonous.

.........and those are just the northern tourists.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

yes I was named after a jewish lawyer that help my injuried father win a injury law suit (my father had been injuried onboard a ship while my mother was pregnant with me) * it was a difficult case so my family thanked the lawyer by naming me after his first name -- Ivan

Ivan translates as "john"

salis used to be Salise"-- before it was angloed during the spanish american war era - 1899 *

Nice story Ivan

 

[johnnyblaze]

So my best friend i grew up with is a cop in Citris County..I figure he knows everyone in town and he could get me on some old farms..
Im just not aware of what to look for as far as poisonous reptiles etc..My dog is my hunting partner.
Although you dont have the old colonial sites with walls and cellar holes in Florida do you?
I must say i enjoy the deep woods colonial sites here in New England.



Blaze...

 

[ivan salis]

st augustine in florida is known as "america's oldest city" -- the spanish settled along the coastal edge of florida quite early on in a effort to protect the spanish treasure fleets from raiders and to provide aid to shipwrecked treasure fleets -- in 1565 the spanish and french settlers fought over control of florida (the french were wiped out and st augustine was set up ) -- not too much in the way of cellerholes as in the new england area ( no hard freeezes here to speak of so the cold weather storage type winter food storage root cellers were not made / used too much)

now there are several things to look out for if one has a dog of the jack russel size

-- snakes * deadly ones -- we got BIG eastern diamond back rattlers 6 to 8 foot , canebreak (aka) pigmy rattlers only a couple feet long but their venom is very strong so just as deadly as a reg rattlers is -- we got water moccasin's --which are highly territorial and rather aggressive -- we also have coral snakes whcich are very deadly thankfully their mouth is small and its hard for them to get a good bite unless your really stupid with them ;

then theres the gators -- bobcats and coyotes and larger raptor type birds of prey ( owls and hawks)who will just eat em

there are also dangerous spiders -- black widow and brown recluse --

as well as several posionious insects and bugs and frogs which a dog could try to eat that could harm him

 

[johnnyblaze]

Thats funny i lived in St Augustine in 2003..
I have been all over that island fishing and site seeing..
And your talking about Castillo de San Marcos .
I have hung out there many times..They were fixing the towers when i lived there..
St Augustine was great but the girl i was living with was nuts and i left her and moved into this house in R.I.



Blaze...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Lets see, we have 6 poisonous snakes, diamondback rattlesnake, the canebrake rattlesnake, pygmy rattlesnake, cottonmouth water moccasin, copperhead and coral snake, along with that are our 5 species of venomous spiders, the southern black widow, northern black widow, red widow, brown widow and brown recluse, don't want to forget Lyme disease from the deer ticks, although that is rare, mosquito's that carry dengue fever and encephalitis and of course the gators and sharks....

Be sure to try detecting along the shore of Lake Jessup.....

 

[ivan salis]

we got colonial stuff in florida --its just that its more spanish than english (except from 1763 to 1783 time frame peroid when the brits ruled florida *) -- florida was the 14th british colony * but since it stayed british loyal --it did not become part of America at the wars end --the british having lost the other 13 colony's had little use for florida -- so the british gave florida back to spain and withdrew ---spain later handed it over to the USA in 1821

 

[johnnyblaze]

Be sure to try detecting along the shore of Lake Jessup.....

Do i have to wrestle a gator to prove my manhood...No problem....


Blaze...

 

[diggummup]

Be sure to try detecting along the shore of Lake Jessup.....

Do i have to wrestle a gator to prove my manhood...No problem....


Blaze...

Maybe, you can wrestle a gator and lose your manhood.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Heyyyyyy Magnum...Good to hear from you again..You always have something nice to add...
You look just like Magnum PI with those glasses on...WOW
Im impressed


Blaze.....

 

[LM]

So my best friend i grew up with is a cop in Citris County..I figure he knows everyone in town and he could get me on some old farms..
Im just not aware of what to look for as far as poisonous reptiles etc..My dog is my hunting partner.
Although you dont have the old colonial sites with walls and cellar holes in Florida do you?
I must say i enjoy the deep woods colonial sites here in New England.



Blaze...

Citrus County has some older development and some protected historic areas but its European settlement doesn't go back that far. Great for Indian Artifact hunting, which I'm pretty sure is illegal now too, on State Lands anyway.

St. Augustine is one big damn protected historic area.

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[colorado14ers]

eihh, i think i could live without northerners. I live in SW Florida so its not very old down here but the more north you go up, the older it gets. i wish i lived somewhere like Arcadia or Seabring where its old. boy, i cant wait till Easter comes(you Floridians all know why )

 

[diggummup]

eihh, i think i could live without northerners. I live in SW Florida so its not very old down here but the more north you go up, the older it gets. i wish i lived somewhere like Arcadia or Seabring where its old. boy, i cant wait till Easter comes(you Floridians all know why )

We say bye-bye to all the "snowbirds". I used to travel to go detecting in that part of the state before gas cost an arm and a leg, now I just go when I can stay the weekend. I have family in Sebring and friends in Lake Placid.

 

[johnnyblaze]

eihh, i think i could live without northerners. I live in SW Florida so its not very old down here but the more north you go up, the older it gets. i wish i lived somewhere like Arcadia or Seabring where its old. boy, i cant wait till Easter comes(you Floridians all know why )

We say bye-bye to all the "snowbirds". I used to travel to go detecting in that part of the state before gas cost an arm and a leg, now I just go when I can stay the weekend. I have family in Sebring and friends in Lake Placid.

The only thing you guys are gonna say bye-bye to is all the good finds when i get there and hammer
that state with my T2 Special Edition..

 

[colorado14ers]

eihh, i think i could live without northerners. I live in SW Florida so its not very old down here but the more north you go up, the older it gets. i wish i lived somewhere like Arcadia or Seabring where its old. boy, i cant wait till Easter comes(you Floridians all know why )

We say bye-bye to all the "snowbirds". I used to travel to go detecting in that part of the state before gas cost an arm and a leg, now I just go when I can stay the weekend. I have family in Sebring and friends in Lake Placid.

The only thing you guys are gonna say bye-bye to is all the good finds when i get there and hammer
that state with my T2 Special Edition..

lol, as long as you dont go to naples

 

[diggummup]

The only thing you guys are gonna say bye-bye to is all the good finds when i get there and hammer
that state with my T2 Special Edition..

All this from the guy that wanted to know whether he should take his little snack sized doggy detecting with him. Snap out of it man! Lay off the wacky weed, it's starting to affect your sense of reality!

PS- Staying with the topic, don't forget about all the pythons that live in the wild down here too. They get pretty big.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

The only thing you guys are gonna say bye-bye to is all the good finds when i get there and hammer
that state with my T2 Special Edition..

Good luck using your T2 in the water here where the best finds are found. The best hunting areas here are our beaches, the majority of the good finds are in the water and you can't hunt in the water with a T2.

All kidding aside, if you do hunt the beaches here, be sure to cover your T2 control box with a plastic bag if there is any breeze at all ( it is almost always breezy on the coasts), the salt spray in the air can damage your electronics. Also though the T2 coil is listed as waterproof, some have reported they do leak. I highly recommend you test it in fresh water first to be sure it will not leak, fresh water will not damage it if it leaks once, but a salt water leak can and will damage your coil as it will rust the windings.....

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Blaze,

I have been coming to Florida all my life and have lived here twice including the present time. It is a fascinating place with endless amounts of history. It has more diversity and variety than any other place I have been too. As to your comments about different ethnic and demographic backgrounds here, it simply shows that the great state of Florida allures all walks of life with its alluring charisma.
I came from Kentucky and can tell you we suprisingly had our fair share of other nationalities. One town over from where I'm from became known as "Little Mexico" by the locals. A lot of other ethnic groups and populations have also made it their home, but you don't see Kentucky being unfairly characterized.
Florida seems to be viewed under a microscope for many reasons, and for that I think it shows how impressive, important, and sought after it has always been. What I can't understand is why so many "yankees" yearn for her but yet always bit#@ and moan behind her back or after they leave. This is once they have taken up her precious air, water, space. This is after they have littered, abused, and taken for granted a sweet slice of the South. Rhode Island reminds me of what Florida would sh#@ out as a turd after consuming a big ole' helping of rude northerners.
Anyway, why would you want to keep coming back to a place that is so awful?? Hmmmm, I would like to ask a few million other haters that very same question. One thing we all share is treasure hunting/metal detecting