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It only took a little over a year

8/15/2006 12:04:03 AM

legacyForum

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It only took a little over a year

After 13 months in the hobby I finally found my first
parotodus benedeni. All that playing in the shards of
glass of broken bottles and other nasties of Greens Mill
Run payed off big for me saturday. The tooth is 2 1/2
inches in very good condition for a creek specimen. Man
I love that creek! You never know what will be in your
screen box - a mosasaur tooth, a meg, a great white, a
toothbrush, a toilet valve float......

8/21/2006 2:28:40 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: It only took a little over a year

good for you man.it took me 2 and half years in the # 1 spots for a benni.i could go on as to what shows up in my sifter from time to time.my daughter found the metal brace from some ones dentures.now its common to find the lobe of a shark tooth or such,but a human artifficial gum!!pricless!ive got it in my collection as the orgin of human survival.looks good near the small arrowhead i found.

8/21/2006 4:00:33 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: It only took a little over a year

Yeah, dentures is definately not on the list of things I'd
be expecting in my screen. I wasn't hoping to find that
parotodus either - it caught me by suprise. I usually go
dreaming of hitting a perfect 3 inch great white. As of
yet, I haven't, but usually I come away pleasantly rewarded
with a nice tooth of some kind for my efforts. I've posted
a picture of the tooth at the East Coast Fossil club site
(www.megalodon.net) under reeltooth.
I had pulled into the Green Springs Park parking area on a
trip a few weeks ago to have a police officer pull up behind
me while I was in the process of unloading my screens, hip
waders and shovels. He was interested in our plans and what
we were doing. I was afraid he might have pulled up to run
us off, but he just told me a story about him finding teeth
there as a kid and how he wish he had kept them. So even
though this creek has been hunted for years (and very heavily lately), it still produces.

8/21/2006 5:25:58 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: It only took a little over a year

ah yes the Poe Poe always give hunters the hebee jebees unless you know there hunters aswell.most of the places some hunters hunt can rise question to some police but, many of us mean no harm and all they really do is see if your being a good guy.i can remember not to long ago i found a really nice fat perfect Bennie and a week later recovered another within feet from first one.i dont think they where associated though because of several reason's.i
almost sold one of them for a giant meg but i had another hunter change my mind in the sake of it was my first.what ever you do hang on to it and it will be nice for your kids when you cant hunt anymore or a forever conversation piece.
the odds of any finding one is slim and we dont know a whole lot about them iether.coarce a guy who would post his pic of a tooth and post about it here would already know this,since this site has some of the biggest legends on it .thanks for the site address ill check it out.you should see some of d.w. bennies and marks teeth from the lowcountry geological site.there is some nice examples there too

to bad the denture didnt have any teeth on it.

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