maxxkatt
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Today went for my weekly park hunt. I do that with my Nox 800 and 15" coil just to see if I can recover some overlooked deep goodies. I am mainly looking for old silver coins so I discrim out everthing under 20.
What I found today was groups of nice older Japanese ladies taking their walks. Of course of all days I left my headphones at home. So got lots of questions. Usually in each group one lady who spoke the best English who fielded the questions and translated.
I was polite to the first two groups and answered most questions. Not sure if they understood. I showed them a bent up old zinc penny and they were amazed and ask me how much it was worth. I said not worth anything. and the translator of the group said one lady said she would take it to the bank and I gave it to her. That ought to be an interesting conversation.
On the next group, I just told them I was looking for bombs and it took a few seconds for the group translator got the point across at which time there were more than a few wide eyes, ohhhs and ahhhs and the group took a collective 2-3 steps away from me. I then told her I was joking and they did not seem to appreciate the joke as they quickly moved on talking among themselves.
Now, I don't really mean they were pests, they were very nice ladies and I felt a little guilty about joking about bombs.
The pest I am really talking about today are yellow jackets. Normally they just fly around the trash cans for the fruit and soda cans.
But for the last two days they seem to have an intense interest in what I was doing and kept buzzing around me. Put on some 25% deet and figured that would work. Well it had no affect on them they were still very interested in my scent.
So I resorted using the pump spray bottle to actually spray the curious yellow jackets. This caused them to very quickly change their flight plan and buzz off into the sky.
The next pests we are bless with in Georgia are Copperhead snakes. But you have to be pretty unaware to have problems with those buggers. We also have rattlesnakes, water moccasins and coral snakes.
I see more Coopperheads than all the rest put together. Never have seen an actual Coral snake in the wild.
Mama deer are not to be messed with when out metal detecting. It is best to give them their ground and hunt elsewhere.
Deet takes care of mosquitos and ticks if you use the 25%. That is about it for the pests in Georgia.
What I found today was groups of nice older Japanese ladies taking their walks. Of course of all days I left my headphones at home. So got lots of questions. Usually in each group one lady who spoke the best English who fielded the questions and translated.
I was polite to the first two groups and answered most questions. Not sure if they understood. I showed them a bent up old zinc penny and they were amazed and ask me how much it was worth. I said not worth anything. and the translator of the group said one lady said she would take it to the bank and I gave it to her. That ought to be an interesting conversation.
On the next group, I just told them I was looking for bombs and it took a few seconds for the group translator got the point across at which time there were more than a few wide eyes, ohhhs and ahhhs and the group took a collective 2-3 steps away from me. I then told her I was joking and they did not seem to appreciate the joke as they quickly moved on talking among themselves.
Now, I don't really mean they were pests, they were very nice ladies and I felt a little guilty about joking about bombs.
The pest I am really talking about today are yellow jackets. Normally they just fly around the trash cans for the fruit and soda cans.
But for the last two days they seem to have an intense interest in what I was doing and kept buzzing around me. Put on some 25% deet and figured that would work. Well it had no affect on them they were still very interested in my scent.
So I resorted using the pump spray bottle to actually spray the curious yellow jackets. This caused them to very quickly change their flight plan and buzz off into the sky.
The next pests we are bless with in Georgia are Copperhead snakes. But you have to be pretty unaware to have problems with those buggers. We also have rattlesnakes, water moccasins and coral snakes.
I see more Coopperheads than all the rest put together. Never have seen an actual Coral snake in the wild.
Mama deer are not to be messed with when out metal detecting. It is best to give them their ground and hunt elsewhere.
Deet takes care of mosquitos and ticks if you use the 25%. That is about it for the pests in Georgia.
