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Wildcat wrangler

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Do y'all actually dig in/around creeks and creek beds, or is it more just looking on the surface?
Little of both, depending on the terrain, area and history?

Bear with me, I'm slowly learning..

Bottles are where you find them! Look for old homesteads- standing, or better yet, not! (Older trash) look around for signs of residual trash, most times in a ravine near by, or tossed down the hill, usually behind the house- the newer trash is usually covering the trash you really wanted to find, so be prepared to carefully dig. And look for that privy, too…. Just be very observant and you will be hooked, soon. Creeks are good…. The beach, off piers, along old railroad tracks and bridges- but homesteads like that have been the best, for me. Old dumps are good…. Good luck and share what you find, k? Kat >^..^<


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Do y'all actually dig in/around creeks and creek beds, or is it more just looking on the surface?
Little of both, depending on the terrain, area and history?

Bear with me, I'm slowly learning..
In my area. It is too populated. If I try to dig in a stream they would freak. I just look for things sticking out of the banks or any that have been freed up in the stream bed. If I travel I can find places that I can probe and dig.
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Where I'm at has lots of woods. Almost makes up for the area being so young and lacking the cool really old stuff.
In my area. It is too populated. If I try to dig in a stream they would freak. I just look for things sticking out of the banks or any that have been freed up in the stream bed. If I travel I can find places that I can probe and dig.
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Only good thing is all the trash left behind, if you can only get to it!
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Do y'all actually dig in/around creeks and creek beds, or is it more just looking on the surface?
Little of both, depending on the terrain, area and history?

Bear with me, I'm slowly learning..
I was introduced to retired digger and lucky he's willing to let me pick his brain.
Just started talking today, he told me anywhere the the oldest streets pass over a river good chance there is a dump, or good bottles in the in the water. Showed me what he sold and still has.
200 hutches in 1season. I know where I will be in the spring.
 

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