SODAPOPBOB
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~ BOB'S BOTTLE HUNTING SEASON ~
( THANKSGIVING THRU EASTER )
I'm just setting this up in advance with anticipation of a successful hunting season. I typically wait until around Thanksgiving when the temperatures in the mountainous east county area of San Diego drop to the point where it forces the rattlesnakes into hibernation. I'm just waiting for reports of the first good freeze, and then I'm on my way. In fact, I already have my daypack and tools ready.
I used to go out in the summer months. But after coming face-to-face with two rattlesnakes on the same day a few years ago I decided the heck with that. And they usually stay in hibernation until about mid-April ... and/or around Easter ... depending on how fast it starts to warm up again.
As the season progresses I hope to get out at least two or three times a month, and will post anything and everything I find, including some outdoor photos of the areas I hunt. I hope to make this an interesting thread, and hopefully won't get skunked on my hunts. I typically hunt along the shoulders of old highways, and have no problem crawling for a hundred yards through the underbrush in search of those oh-so-elusive soda bottles. It still amazes me how many were tossed from cars over the years. Didn't the folks back then know there were pay-back deposits on them-there bottles? I think they did, but I also think they liked throwing them at trees and other targets better. I find some of my best bottles near old oak trees where passing cars used the trees as targets, but missed. And the foot deep leaf-mold under the trees seems to have protected them just fine over the years.
The photos that follow are of an old lithia water bottling plant that I know off, and almost always produces some interesting bottles. There used to be an old gas station and cafe there also. But all that remains of that now are the original concrete slabs. It's also a good place to metal detect for old coins out in front of where the bussiness used to be.
This thread will likely get buried for awhile, but I will bring it up from time to time whenever I get back from one of my hunts. Wish me luck. I have been waiting since last Easter for this opportunity.
SODAPOPBOB
Here's what the old Buckman lithia water place used to look like.
( THANKSGIVING THRU EASTER )
I'm just setting this up in advance with anticipation of a successful hunting season. I typically wait until around Thanksgiving when the temperatures in the mountainous east county area of San Diego drop to the point where it forces the rattlesnakes into hibernation. I'm just waiting for reports of the first good freeze, and then I'm on my way. In fact, I already have my daypack and tools ready.
I used to go out in the summer months. But after coming face-to-face with two rattlesnakes on the same day a few years ago I decided the heck with that. And they usually stay in hibernation until about mid-April ... and/or around Easter ... depending on how fast it starts to warm up again.
As the season progresses I hope to get out at least two or three times a month, and will post anything and everything I find, including some outdoor photos of the areas I hunt. I hope to make this an interesting thread, and hopefully won't get skunked on my hunts. I typically hunt along the shoulders of old highways, and have no problem crawling for a hundred yards through the underbrush in search of those oh-so-elusive soda bottles. It still amazes me how many were tossed from cars over the years. Didn't the folks back then know there were pay-back deposits on them-there bottles? I think they did, but I also think they liked throwing them at trees and other targets better. I find some of my best bottles near old oak trees where passing cars used the trees as targets, but missed. And the foot deep leaf-mold under the trees seems to have protected them just fine over the years.
The photos that follow are of an old lithia water bottling plant that I know off, and almost always produces some interesting bottles. There used to be an old gas station and cafe there also. But all that remains of that now are the original concrete slabs. It's also a good place to metal detect for old coins out in front of where the bussiness used to be.
This thread will likely get buried for awhile, but I will bring it up from time to time whenever I get back from one of my hunts. Wish me luck. I have been waiting since last Easter for this opportunity.
SODAPOPBOB
Here's what the old Buckman lithia water place used to look like.