Odd @ Ends
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Harlan, thats pretty weird. What was up with that? Jason, if the chain and pendent had been made of Gold, It would have been a heck of a Mister T starter kit!
a 1946 gold pi K. A. class ring from uga in the alapaha w/ name on it- actually located the individual living .5 miles away and he refused to talk about it and constantly hung up.
One of my fondest memories was watching a rather large woman begin her float down the Ichtucknee. ONe of her sons jumped in and held her inner tube while the two others held her hands, aimed at the hole and dropped her. Her the tube and one son went completely under, popped back up and started drifting. I couldn't help but laugh, neither could her sons. To top it off, one of them said, "If you thought that was funny, you should have been here last time, we missed and liked to never got her up on that tube."
This category just gets one to think of forgotten good memories.
Only gold I ever found was underwater, it was a mans large yellow gold wedding band w/5 large diamonds mounted on it.
Surface hunting, I ran across a 1776 spanish re-al coin (about the size of a dime). The guy on the coin has a nose like Jimmy Durrante. With it was one human tooth and the brass trigger guard from a musket pistol or rifle. Someone's last stand maybe.
With these past hurricanes at my hseboat I found this critter along with many, many items from docks....including over a hundred feet of broken sections of docks. The pic is the critter I speak of. He is mounted on my sons wall today
When I first moved to Fla it was unlimited floating, swimming and diving in the upper end of the Ichtucknee. They were having 3000 folks a weekend go down. Floating down it on a Monday after the weekend was like going to shopping mall. Keys, money, sun glasses, dive knives, watches (my best a Seiko Dive watch), whole womens bathing suits (would have like to have partied, or at least watched this group). Hard to imagine today but there use to not be any vegetation on the entire upper end compared to today.
Found a 357 S/W with 6 speed reloaders loaded w/hollow points, all wrapped in a T-shirt that had printed on it, "The best part of being a cop is the police brutality" !
Found a small Mickey Mouse rod and reel once and was carrying it w/me for some unknown reason, when I came upon a 6 foot "stuffed, unmounted" Tarpoon. My first reaction was to carry it all back to where my buddies were sitting on the bank and get out and reel this monster in w/ the Mickey Mouse guy. In trying to carry the Tarpoon it just began to fall apart so for a souvneir of the thought I carved the big glass eyeball out of it. 
Mark There is a 1976 Black Trans Am sitting in 20 ft. of water in the Flint. It is upright, still has air in the tires,anfd the windows are down. I swam right through and sat in the drivers seat with my scuba tanks on. Would have made an interesting picture I bet.
Dave, in regards to that necklace, I believe its from the early 80's. You may want to contact Mr. T and see if he lost it during the shooting of an "A-Team" episode.
I find lots of lures, most of which I have sold on Ebay, a marble or two, an old doll head, a couple of pocket knives, a 1901 Victorian penny, a few broken fishing poles lots of crabtrap balls a cool old glass from the 60's. There's lots of junk out there, amazing.
A 1944 ford pickup ,upside down in the middle of the suwannee no where near a boat ramp and no where near the sides it was in the very middle in a wide part of river all the chrome on the grill was in good shape at first I was scared to look in the cab thought I'd find a skeleton,no skeleton but the glove box was full of shootgun shells from a time gone by.
I found a "white only" sign in the goat island shoot once
I once found a shot gun, plano tackle box with a wallet in it, some loose change, a luger pistol,a bag of pot and a gold necklace worth $250.00 in the Goat Island Shute on the Flint River.
Sounds like the guys wife got P O'd and dumped all his stuff out---throwing out his false-teeth crosses the line though !
Stephen, you just made me remember a necklace I found down in south Florida when I was looking for points. I found this washing out of a bank on Lake Washinton in Melbourne in a spot that was an old fish camp way back in the 40's and 50's. I guess someone had lost it while swimming.
found a set of false teeth once, found a dive light once then turned it on and used it. We found 3 rod and reels a browning shotgun, shells, and 5 budweisers all in one small spot in the Kinchafoonee. I could only imagine the story behind this
LOL, I was snorleking in the river a year or so ago and found a nice silver ring. After I scooped it up, I noticed it looked awful familiar, lol. Yep, it was mine, turns out I had lost it a minute or so earlier and never knew it. Since then I always take them off.
the one I found was an Iron man also!! killer story!! Just wished mine came with a Stanfield!! LOL!!
Dave, The first year I started hunting the rivers for points, I only snorkeled. This particular day I was scanning in the Chipola. I had already found a couple of scrapers and a broken point, when I spotted another point lying on the bottom. I dove down to get it(it was a Stanfield), and noticed it was lying dirrectly on Top of a Timex ironman watch. Originaly I thought it was neat that the point was on top of the watch, and also thought it was cool because I was wearing an ironman watch at the time. But what was really cool, (and this is absolutely true, my Mother was a witness) is that when I looked at the watch from the river, and my watch. They were the same Day, Date, Hour, Minute, and Second!!!
I was in the river last summer and was working a hole... And a watch rolled out.. Hmm... It was covered in tannic so I rubbed it off the crystal and low and behold it was a Timex and was still ticking!! It also had the correct time!!
I guess everyone has found some "other stuff" while out point hunting. Anyone have some favorite stuff saved while out rock hunting?