Things We Find In The Outdoors

I’m just getting into metal detecting, making two formal “hunts”.
First was in our backyard between the back door and where I park the truck. The scrap steel is from a mole trap I ran over but the other objects are self explanatory.


Went out to Ponca Lake today to hunt the area where lots of folks have been hanging out for 75 years probably.
Big mistake. There are zillions of aluminum pop tops and bottle caps in that ground. My machine can discriminate but the trash was just overwhelming.
Found a 1995 dime and a 2018 nickel among the two dozen digs.

Did a little metal detecting today. Probably one of the most interesting finds today. The machete was 6” deep and mostly rusted away.

Got to tell you about what I found today. I noticed a vehicle in one of my pastures this afternoon. It was parked by and old cement bridge on an old county road that hasn't been used in over 40 years. It's about 1 1/2 miles from the existing road. I drive down there to it and it's a 4 door car. The pasture road is in bad shape and it had to drag bottom majority of the time getting down there. I didn't see anyone when I pulled up and then I see a guy come walking out from under the bridge. I recognized him and have known him for maybe 7 or 8 years. He was very nervous and had a guilty look on his face. As I asked him what he was doing I noticed someone trying to hide behind one of the bridge pillars. I told them that they might as well come on up out of there cause I can see you. I was pretty shocked to see the wife of a guy who I know and is a standup citizen with an important job in town. She is just staring at the ground and won't make eye contact with while I'm giving them a butt chewing. Told them that their personal lives are none of my business but when they come out here on my place it will be my business. I told them to get their asses out and don't come back. Just one of those things that makes you say WTF!

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Many years ago in the 70's, in another county, in another state, during my Deputy Sheriff days it was not unusual to get calls about "suspicious vehicles" out in someone's back pasture or up some old logging road. Often stuck, sometimes not. Just people looking for solitude for a private moment.

For a while we kept finding this same car in various different isolated locations. It was a local preacher who started a small unaffiliated Baptist church who claimed to be conducting special meditation with troubled young woman from his congregation in the back seat of his car. All these woman appeared voluntarily present. The other deputy and I got together an opened a case file and sent it in to the District Attorney.

The DA Investigator paid the preacher a visit and that little church closed up and disappeared. DA said the case was prosecutable but weak since it was unlikely any of the women would testify.

During hunting season we would get bunches of calls about people tresspassing. The common explanation would be, "my grand father hunted there and took my dad hunting there, and my dad took me hunting there, so I am going hunt there."

My standard response to that was. "I am citing you into Justice court for trespassing. Your signature is not an admission of guilt rather is your promise to appear at the date and time note above" (that is cop speak for tell it to the judge)

I will say however most of these types of trespass- amor and hunting were resolved in the field and no other action taken.