What do you do with your taint????

[wainzoid]

Every time that I went hunting this past year, I dumped my pouch out on a work bench in my barn, before I would go. My treasures I would clean and put away each time I got home. A few weeks ago I decided to go thru my pile.. The pile would have filled a washtub. I had a coffee can full of lead, sinkers, wheel weights, ect, that I will melt for bullets, lures, and soldiers. I had a drywall bucket full of aluminum, cans, slaw, tv antenae that ill take for scrap. A half of bucket full of iron, farm parts, broken shoes, ect, that I will scrap. I had a bucket full of junk, like foil, cream tubes, clinkers, ect, that I will toss in the garbage.

And then I had this stuff.....Its not the good and its not the bad, its that area between the jewels and the crap. I guess it would be my taint !!!

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There is hotwheels(who hasn't found a General Lee?), ammo, harmonica reeds,spoons,pocket knives and watches, keys, locks, all kinds of stuff. There is a few keepers in there yet I need to pull out. But what do you do with your taint??

 

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[gleaner1]

You sure do got some awful good looking taint there mister I almost had to do a double take on the pic of your huge load of taint I imagine you got some good tectin spots wainzoid awesome how many silver ya get last year??

 

[creskol]

I use to take stuff like that and mix a few goodies with it and "seed" a big field on my farm. I then would bring in groups of kids from schools, under privileged kids from the city, etc, and turn them loose with Radio Shack detectors and let them have a treasure hunt. It was all treasure to them. They could keep what they found, but at the end of the hunt, we laid it all out on the table for identification and group discussion, while we served up hamburgers and hot dogs off the grill. I sure do miss those days!

 

[creskol]

I have also seen boxes of "taint" being sold on Fleabay for some pretty substantial prices. It amazes me the stuff people buy!

 

[CoilyGirl]

A lot if the stuff my mister buys is taint from other relic hunters,usually broken pieces of harmonica reeds, lice combs, old bone handled toothbrushes,melted lead bits here and there. He can put together some pretty amazing Ryker boxes out of these items that sell well.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

....i was expecting a complety different conversation

 

[spickate]

hamburgers and hotdogs sound good. too bad its mid winter in the northeast

 

[diggummup]

....i was expecting a complety different conversation

Taint has a totally different meaning to me too. lol.

 

[Number9]

Taint has a totally different meaning to me too. lol.

Yes sir.. I believe that "middle ground" is no-mans-land"!

 

[BosnMate]

Taint has a totally different meaning to me too. lol.

Yup.

 

[Dave44]

Wow. That looks exactly like my bench! It drives my wife absolutely crazy!

It is a good question. What to do with it all? I have buckets of it.. As much as I used to like the harmonica reeds they sure are a nuisance. ( and durn Copper jacketed bullets and bras shells!!! AAARAGH)

Riker boxes huh coily?

And I just can't make myself call it that.. There has got to be a better name?

 

[worldtalker]

I recall in my younger years of hunting if you didn't castrate a buck deer it would taint the meat.

 

[wainzoid]

You sure do got some awful good looking taint there mister I almost had to do a double take on the pic of your huge load of taint I imagine you got some good tectin spots wainzoid awesome how many silver ya get last year??

Thanx gleaner. Yes I got some silver too. I don't like to post my finds or my hunting spots. Too many locals that lurk here. I spend too much time researching and obtaining permission, then find people hunting there a couple days later without permission and leaving messes. So I don't like them to know where I find what.

 

[wainzoid]

A lot if the stuff my mister buys is taint from other relic hunters,usually broken pieces of harmonica reeds, lice combs, old bone handled toothbrushes,melted lead bits here and there. He can put together some pretty amazing Ryker boxes out of these items that sell well.

I've got the junk, just don't have the artistic talent to arrange it. Maybe I will give it a try!

 

[wainzoid]

Yes sir.. I believe that "middle ground" is no-mans-land"!

Yep, middle ground.....right between the jewels and the crap

 

[wainzoid]

Wow. That looks exactly like my bench! It drives my wife absolutely crazy!

It is a good question. What to do with it all? I have buckets of it.. As much as I used to like the harmonica reeds they sure are a nuisance. ( and durn Copper jacketed bullets and bras shells!!! AAARAGH)

Riker boxes huh coily?

And I just can't make myself call it that.. There has got to be a better name?

tweener? in between

 

[wainzoid]

I recall in my younger years of hunting if you didn't castrate a buck deer it would taint the meat.

We always cut the glands off the inside of there back legs, it was said to taint the meat.

 

[BerntOut]

Scrap yard it!

 

[onfire]

Yes sir.. I believe that "middle ground" is no-mans-land"!

Taint that the truth

 

[bikermike]

wainzoid,

It all goes in the trash here. I don't hunt enough to even bother scraping.

Mike