Clad to the rescue

[Monty]

Needed a few bucks today for a manly item I wanted to purchase but the boss said we didn't have the extra $$$. I remembred my clad jar where I toss all my clad when I come home from "prospecting". I hadn't checked it to see how much I had since the first of the year so, I went down to the coin star machine and poured it in. Came out with a little over $56.00 for a nice surprise. It mounts up fast don't it? Anyway, that was my find for the day and I got to purchase that item and everyone is happy. The item? My new hunting and fishing licenses for this year. Got them and a Fiskers digging tool to boot! Monty

 

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[aa battery]

Monty my wife says the same thing

 

[fossis]

I need to buy mine also, but only have (Rusty Relics).


Fossis.................

 

[Montana Jim]

Man... I turn all mine in too.  

Last year I found enough clad to drive my Dodge V-10 on one MD'ing trip and back.  It goes quick!  

Glad you got your license!  One hobby pays for another... awesome!  

 

[civilman1]

I'm with you Monty.....Job Well Done I still have last year's clad,$110 plus this year's find's.My deposit for this year's trip isn't due until the end of the month...Yep,definetley going back,filmed the whole hunt by myself,even "the shot".....If I can put the video on here I'll let you know.....Wise move.....HH!!

 

[Nana40]

It's only February and you already had $56.00! WoW! I think I'm up to m a y b e $5.00!

Congrats on getting your manly items today, Jim.

Nana

 

[spotz]

Hey Monty! I know just what you mean. I just had the same lecture about bidding on some coins on ebay. I rolled my quarters from 2006. I didn't get to hunt at all for the last seven months of the year but I still had $250 in quarters. Don't have any coin star machines around here so all the other clad is in a big jug just sitting around collecting dust. Might sort it some time & roll the dimes, then maybe make up a big cache from all of the junk & bury it someplace & hand out a few clues.

Oh Yeah! I already got my new license & tags too. Disabeled vetran permanent license sure helps keep the cost down but I would rather pay the money than to have the disability.
Spotz

 

[Bavaria Mike]

One hobby supporting another, very good! HH, Mike

 

[Charlene]

In typical women's logic I ask, how much did that coin star machine charge you?

 

[EDDE]

its 7.5 cents for every dollar here in illinois

 

[Pulltab Parson]

$56.00 $5.00 man you guys get out, I have a grand total of .10 cents (granted there is 2 feet of snow on the ground).

Coin star is great, but 7.5 cents to the dollar is knida steep. My bank has a coin machine and if your a member of the bank its free!!! (My .10 cents didn't take long to process)hehehe

I went to wally world and picked me up a coin sorter, they have all kinds of different models. If you have a lot of clad you can get one that sorts pretty quick, granted you will have to change out the rolls often but its faster than counting all the pennies and its rolls them right up for you.

 

[Night Stalker]

Nice haul Monty! Too bad Coinstar doesn't take pull tabs!

Congrats, NS

 

[ModernMiner]

Way to go Monty. It's like a late Christmas gift.
By the way, I wear the pants in my house. They are my WIFES pants though.
-MM-

 

[Monty]

I confess I had about half of my clad in pocket change that I added to it, but I do dig a lot of clad. I see other people out detecting but they don't dig clad for some reason. I can go along behind them and pick up all kinds of change. I dig just about everything and the clad is a bonus.
By the way, that's a great bear! I've never hunted bear but I bet it's a thrill and I'd love to see the film. I lease some property and have a 20' camping trailer set up on it and just hunt whitetail. We have an occasioinal black bear sighting but there aren't enough kyet to hunt. They were planted in Arkansas and have migrated across the border. We have a few elk to but can't hunt them yet either. Herd is still growing. Monty

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Not dig clad? Well that's just too uppity. I have a quart sized pickle jar with a slit in the screw-on top just for clad. I run it through a cartridge case polisher with aquarium gravel and then roll it. Our bank takes it that way.

Took this little fellow while still-hunting (walking) at 11 yards with a recurve bow and cedar arrows I crested and fletched myself. I've taken much bigger, but this is the only set of antlers on my wall. Took a while to get so I didn't need to use the training wheels or sights on my bows.

 

[Monty]

There are a few Native Americans around here that still make bows and arrows by hand. The bows are made from bois d'ark and the arrows made of cedar. I've heard of a bow being made of cedar too but never seen one. I have seen several of the handmade bows and they are a work of art. There use to be an old Indian man not far from here that made his own bows and held several state and national records for bow shooting competitions, but he was in his 90s when I was a kid. We use to go over to his house and he would show us his trophies. I can't remember his name right now but he has been dead and gone for many years. He would select a just right limb for his bow, cut it, and seal both ends with pitch and then put it under his bed to age for a year before he made a bow. He told us that if the ends ween't sealed they would cause the finished bow to split. His bows were not recurve, but more like a shortened longbow. One of them I remember had a hundred pound draw and he use to laugh at us trying to pull it. He still could pull it at his age. Of course that was long before anyone ever thought of a compund bow. Neat stuff. Monty