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[Simon1]

Unless those other 9 were sacrificed to a lurking snake as a sacrificial gesture

 

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[Rookster]

I've got chipmunk everywhere. I caught one in my small game trap a couple years ago. I took him to town and released it. I still don't know how it made it back. or the rest got mad and starting having sex.

 

[Simon1]

I don't think they could even spell that word Rook By the looks on their faces, they haven't heard of it either

 

[Rookster]

Think I'll start a chipmunk circus.

 

[Simon1]

That one on the four wheeler looks like he is in some serious concentration.

 

[Rookster]

Forgot ta tell you Simon, I put my trap out another time, baited with peanut butter hoping to catch a chipmunk and caught a cat. Not mine but I still don't know how it fit in there. It couldn't turn around it was so tight in there. And it was pissed. So I grabbed the trap handle,cat hissing and still mad. Took the trap to the yard, pointed it to the field, eased the door open and it finally backed out and took off. Stopped about 25 yards out, looked back one time and I never saw that critter again.

 

[Simon1]

Yeh, he probably immediately scratched you off his Christmas card list

 

[Simon1]

Good morning Bart

 

[Rookster]

When I was in the N.Guard we use to train at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg Ms. In August of the year. No kidding, we would run over rattlers as wide as the jeeps. We had one cook that knew how to prepare them. One evening for chow he cooked or fried one. It really wasnt bad.

 

[Rookster]

Hey bart. Morning

 

[Simon1]

This guy is probably lucky to still have his fingers

 

[Blak bart]

Morning everyone.

 

[Simon1]

Even dead those snakes can kill.
My younger brother use to live in the area of a rock quarry and it was known statewide for rattlers. The whole time he lived there I never visited him once. He would talk about them in his basement as if it was no big deal.

I saw an article once on a Chinese cook whose speciality was preparing meals from "dead" cobras. It seems he had cut the head off one and it was still on the table as he was preparing the delicacy and was somehow still injected with the venom from the severed head and the chef died.

 

[Simon1]

 

[RustyRelics]

Makes one wonder, ( at least I do ), how many civil war deaths were attributed to snake bites ?

I've never heard of anything like that, but I know where to ask.

 

[Blak bart]

went to a benefit for a sick captain friend in islamorada. It was held at whale harbor resort. Across the street is where the main salvage camp for the 1733 fleet was. There was an earthen berm with 4 mounted cannon and much of the kings treasure made it to this camp. There are many cannon here on the property along with several galleon anchors. Also the camp was built around a spot called indian springs....its still there also. A school ball feild covers much of the site, but I've never hunted it thoroughly. 12 million pesos came through here and there must be evidence....I'm going to start hitting it with the nox until I find spanish evidence. Had to be quite a few people here at one point since it was the main salvage camp for the entire 1733 fleet salvage operation.

 

[Blak bart]

heres a beautiful piece of majorca pottery from the camp....found it on the beach at this spot. Probably the bottom of an olive jar.

 

[RustyRelics]

Man, that's cool! So this is all from the great lakes?

 

[Rookster]

View attachment 1746178 went to a benefit for a sick captain friend in islamorada. It was held at whale harbor resort. Across the street is where the main salvage camp for the 1733 fleet was. There was an earthen berm with 4 mounted cannon and much of the kings treasure made it to this camp. There are many cannon here on the property along with several galleon anchors. Also the camp was built around a spot called indian springs....its still there also. A school ball feild covers much of the site, but I've never hunted it thoroughly. 12 million pesos came through here and there must be evidence....I'm going to start hitting it with the nox until I find spanish evidence. Had to be quite a few people here at one point since it was the main salvage camp for the entire 1733 fleet salvage operation.

You think it may have been hit before? Or is it a permission property only? But i and many others have said, you can't hunt a place out.

 

[Simon1]

That looks like a very interesting site Bart. Like you, I can't help but imagine spills here and there.