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Feel my pain . ...

Feel my pain . . .

8/14/2006 2:18:47 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Feel my pain . . .

Okay, I'm about to leave a new site (new to me, but judging from the footprints, not new to anyone else), having found nothing but junk after 2-3 hours. As I'm walking to my car, I see lying on the ground a beautiful 2" angy. This bad boy is absolutely perfect--nice color, razor sharp serations, solid root and sharp tip. Like I said, perfect. It's probably the best tooth I've found since starting to hunt over a year ago. Anyway, I was estatic. I get to my car and wrap my tooth in a towel. I can't wait to get home and clean it. When I arrive home, I unwrap the tooth to marvel at it again. I set the tooth on top of my town garbage can and start unloading all the junk teeth from my pockets. As I'm doing so, I see a piece of trash in my yard, and yes, you guessed it. As I lifted the garbage can lid to throw out the trash, I completely forgot about the tooth, and my precious tooth slid off and hit the concrete floor of my garage. So much for the perfect root and sharp point.

This tooth survived what, 30 million years, in perfect condition only to be broken by an idiot.

I don't deserve to find any more teeth.

Does anyone have any similar stories to make me feel better?

8/14/2006 3:47:56 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

that sucks j.c..i was down at the spot that used to go all the time.even got a name there by the locals.i was having a bad toothing day about a year ago and i let these people from Ohio use my basket one time to try there luck on Charleston hunting.it was low tide and i thought they would find anything except maby a frag of so.they put it in the water after i showed them how to fill it up and low and behold the lady pulled out the most beautiful 3 inch Angy i saw in a while.flawless it was and i was bent and tried to hide it.since then (lesson learned now)the same thing happened to me at another spot.i was very nice then and still am but using my basket is out the question now.

8/14/2006 4:44:38 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

Hey Derik,

That sucks, but it's still not as bad as having a nice tooth in hand only to trash it. I'm going to dream about that tooth tonight.

JC

8/14/2006 2:00:35 PM

ditchweezil

342 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

You can almost hear the collective groans as people read these. I have a story almost like that. One time I went diving. I was having terrible luck until I hit this one bend where I finally found a fossil - a flawless squalodon molar with both of its double root lobes. It was about an inch and a half long, and a light brown color. The enamel cap was heavily serrated and beautifully detailed. Both of the root lobes were complete all the way to the tip. These whale teeth are so rare that I went back to the boat specifically so I could ensure that this fossil made it home in one piece. I wrapped it in a bag and set it on the seat. I went back into the river with that feeling I get after I know I found a killer specimen. That gravy type feeling. Everything else was just butter. I found nothing else on that dive, but I didn't care. As I got back onto the boat, I immediately noticed that the bag was missing. I scanned the river and saw it floating about 50 feet away. I raced across the river and picked up the empty bag. It completely unwrapped and the river's tooth was returned to its rightful owner. Sad day...

8/14/2006 5:41:02 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

double bummer for you both.hey by the way i for got to mention (more bad news)you remember that big vert that you picked up and handed to aubrey as you where leaving the pond .we got home and washed it off and it had a very small hastlis tip stck in the side.i was having second thoughts on telling you since these days youve been pretty bummed about your hunts.so i chose to tell you here since we where feeling the pains.

8/15/2006 6:20:29 AM

ditchweezil

342 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

thanks for telling me - its all good. i hope the natural tooth in vertebra brings her more pleasure than it did the whale :-)

8/17/2006 3:05:01 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

OK people stop your whining. :)

I only get to collect maybe twice a year. I have never found anything over 2".

Feel my pain should be described as seeing the pics posted on the other page. A "normal" day of collecting includes 10-20 megs.

8/18/2006 10:40:54 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

A few years ago I went diving with a friend of mine in the Potomac River in Westmoreland county, Virginia. I found a handfull of average non-meg teeth, a rare monster porpoise tooth, and some super crab nodules up to five inches across. My friend found a huge near perfect crock tooth and some average shark teeth. When we left the river I left my goodie bag in the front of the boat with my weight belt to hold it down. On the way back to his house we stopped in Laplata, Maryland at the KFC to grab a bite. As we walked out of the restaurant and started to get in his truck we noticed a large funnel cloud was less than a quarter of a mile away from us. We stood there for a few seconds making comments about how it looked just like what we had seen on TV. I quickly noticed that it was getting bigger by the second. We both yelled to each other that it was headed right for us. My friend yelled that we should go back inside KFC but I told him we needed to make a run for it. It was traveling in a straight line so all we had to do was jump in the truck and head due north. We almost made it out but not quite. It hit us just before we got to the main road. The truck started jumping and it sounded like a demo crew was hammering at the truck. A commercial AC unit went across the hood so we ducked down in the floorboard. We were laughing the whole time...until the windows exploded. After the tornado passed by we got out to see what was left. The place where the truck was originally parked was a pile of crushed cars and the KFC was nearly leveled. The truck was trashed and the boat was wrapped around it. The boat was nicely twisted too. It's a good thing we moved when we did or we would have been seriously hurt. My worst injury was taking a big hail stone to the back of my head. The sad thing about the whole incident was the loss of my goodie bag and everything in it. I don't leave anything in the boat any more.

8/22/2006 4:00:27 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

Natural disasters and wind mishaps aside, I still haven't heard any stories of pure stupidity on the part of the finder as I exhibited. I just got back from vacation, so that helped console me a bit. Anyway, I'm planning to visit The Ville this last weekend in August to try my luck prospecting some new sites and looking for scraps that the rest of you may have missed at some old sites. Wish me luck (a) finding another "perfect" tooth and (b) keeping it perfect.

8/22/2006 4:30:38 AM

ditchweezil

342 posts

RE: Feel my pain . . .

This guy I know found a 4 inch angustidens in the river. It was flawless - tip, serrations, cusps, even a complete root sans pitting with the whole bourlette. NICE tooth. Anyway, there was some black stain on the blade. It sortof looked like someone held a match under it. Anyway, he has a cloth wheel buffer and he was trying to buff it out when the wheel snagged a cusp and flung it into the table full speed, then against the wall behind, and finally it fell on the floor. The final damage - tip GONE! one cusp GONE! the attached cusp was attached to a root lobe that was GONE! when it fell on the floor all kinds of serrations were busted off. It was a sad, sad day. I only saw the final product, I didn't the death thereof. Methinks I would have been unable to sleep after such a traumatic event.

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