coins and cans

[mudpuppy]

Up and gone before the dawn! Hit the beach, picked up 34 cans...hey, they are a dime a piece, and one was Full! Nothing better than drinking a warm free beer at 6am on the beach for breakfast! (I may have a problem, jurys still out) One was too crushed to run through the can machine. Tried to work the sand, but my one foot was killing me from a touch of gout. (too much beer helping my cousin move last week) Foot all swooled up and hurting to be danged!...Hit some peaceful totters after taking the laces out of my shoe, and a school and felt much better by the time I quit pouch heavy at 11. One dollar coin and a milled penny, a Justin Bieber watch, two working lighters and a junk ring. 120 coins for 9.13 plus the 3.30 in cans = 12.43
Big Triathalon going on and some BaseBall games at the parks...will be a good day tomorrow. Also found where a big group of Rich Wimmen do sunrise yoga on the beach! Gotta stain the deck this afternoon and take the Wife dancing tonight Both of which means I will be one tired out puppy by tomorrow am, when I will arise at 4, check the forums, drink a pot of coffee, run some coins through the Coinstar, and go out to see what was dropped. Running the F70 very light 52 sens with the 11"dd gets good loot fast in the top 3" consistently.
Mud

 

[jim tn]

Once again a smashing haul Mr Mud. Nice going! Does the watch work? Looks good. Be careful on the dance floor. That can get dangerous. HH jim tn

 

[zeekeys]

Great hunt Mud. I think the beer gods like you, not only do they give you like new beer cans but even give you a full one to drink. WOW! Does it get any better? I suppose I can't invite you to the grape crushing festival this weekend? Happy Trails....Z

 

[tabman]

Mud that sure is a lot of digging. Maybe it's the warm beer. You the man

I didn't know that a beer can was worth 10 cents.

tabman

 

[rick in mi]

Nice digging mud.I may have left those cans but cant remember where I drank um at,might have been in the muskegun area!!..Oh jim said its never to hot to drink beer soooo!!............hh rick in mi

 

[mudpuppy]

Ha! Several States including MI have deposits on cans, ...it was an idea to keep trash down somewhat, and it generates a tremendous amount of money for the State...see, what they do is charge you a dime a can when you buy the drink, so a case of beer gets another 2.40 tacked right on the top, and you get the dime back when you bring in the empties and run them through a machine that reads the bar code...the statistics say that only 95% of the cans are ever returned, and I bet its less than that...so its sort of a hidden tax. anyway, theres people that seriously go out and hunt cans every am...year round...the thing about the beach is they are generally scattered around, buried, and otherwise hard to harvest for a can hunter who is typically riding a bike and just working the easy parks and ditches. I carry some of those plastic shopping bags with me and grab all I am able...truth be told, theres probably more money in cans off the beach than clad. Dang tough duty, and the car smells damnable with all that stuff in it.
Mud

 

[jim tn]

Well, sounds like you have a retirement plan in place. Good for you!!! HH jim tn

 

[Mike Hillis]

Remember the green coke bottles? I got a Daisy BB gun when I was around 6-7 years old and from then on out I lived for BB's. Redeeming those coke bottles paid for my BBs. I roamed far and wide hunting for those bottles. They redeemed for a nickle each. A tube of BB's cost 10cents. A tube of BB's might last me a week unless I got involved in BB gun wars with the neighborhood boys. They perfered not having me shoot them, though. Spent most of my time shooting sparrows and pigeons, cicadias, flies, ants, grasshoppers, lizards, army men and my sisters dolls. oh yeah, and those bulls eye targets my Dad would get me. When I hit a dry spell on bottles, I'd go pry those target BB's out of the fence and reuse them. Occasionally I'd have my ammo taken away for alittle while (dolls fault) and I'd use mimosa seeds and patrol the driveway and drive off the red ants. Sometimes all us neighbor boys that had BB guns would get together and go shoot sparrows out of the elm trees in a type of group hunt. I didn't think that was much fun as I was made to shoot last. Funny, when I got older and move to larger caliber I was still asked to shoot last.

Anyway, talking about redeeming cans brought back memories of redeeming those coke bottles. Those were fun days. If I would have had a metal detector back then....
Mike

 

[Mike Hillis]

n/t

 

[knarfj]

OooooH Yes!! Me and my trusty "Daisy Red Rider". Those were the days. I could hit a fly on the chicken house wall at 20 feet with that little beauty.
I can still recall how pumped I was when I first got my hands on it.

I'm sure I made nesting season stressful for more than a few barn swallows.

 

[rick in mi]

knarfj I know this is off topic but checked your pic out and have to ask,is that a small tobacco pipe? Looks very old.Where in the world did u find something like that??.......hh rick in mi

 

[mudpuppy]

Weve already talked about beer cans and BB guns, so lets talk about smoking a little! I've found enough lighters off the beach so far to never have to buy another one. I handed down my Daisy lever action to my Daughter when she was 5..her first big hunt was on a Yellow jacket nest down in the ground, I set her up right next to it along a tree, and told her to just keep shooting as they came out of the hole, don't move I said, they wont be able to tell you from the tree your hiding behind...she stood on point for hours killing every one that tried to make a break for it...man there was a pile of bb's there!
Mud

 

[Trailduster]

Mud. That's funny as heck.

Made me think of a time I was young.

I had a co2 357 mag looking pellet gun. Was in my parents back yard having fun shooting off the deck. A bee flew by. BLAST! bee body disapeared and nothing but 2 wings fluttered to the ground in front of me.

 

[knarfj]

Mud that sounds like excellent practice for a young shooter. I'll wager shes a real Annie Oakley today.

rick in mi: I sent you a PM.

 

[stilpony]

You guys are too much! LOL

Here was my set up as a kid!

 

[mudpuppy]

This one kid had a cork gun, you know the kind that popped out a cork? Well, they also make a might fine shooter of mud balls, chunks of apples, potatoes, carrots, heck anything that fits snug in the barrel once you lose the cork. Me and him were out under the street lamp shooting at insects, him with his lever action cork gun and me with a slingshot loaded with gravel...during a lull in the action, he says to me "stick your finger in there" pointing the open end of the cork gun to me...Me, being maybe 6 or 7 yrs old had never up to this point in my life remember feeling any sever pain or thinking too hard about how things work, did as instructed...He pulled the trigger....BAM! evidently how a cork gun works is that a spring loaded piston is propelled forward at great speed towards the end of the barrel, which at this moment was plugged with my finger...upon impact with my tender young digit, I felt such a sever pain that ran all the way up my arm, down my entire body and came out through the soles of my feet! I swear it shot my fingernail up through my skin and out my elbow!. So anyway, this thread brought up that memory of when I first felt memorable pain, and also started to gain a concept of how things work, and also not to fall for the old "stick your finger in there" trick.
Mud