What is your hobby? Mine is metal detecting. (pics of a few of my finds inside) - Page 3

Originally Posted by mseashell

Some real interesting hobbies. I would love to go metal detecting. Always wanted to. Know of some old home places around here that. Burnt many years ago and there is nothing there except a pile of rocks where the chimney was at. And best of all they are way out in the middle of the woods. I like to dig roots. I dig blood root, yellow root, cohash (rattle weed) and of corse ginsing. It is a hobby of mine, as well as a little extra income. I also do a lot of mushroom hunting for about a month in the spring. That is not income though, cause I can eat everyone I find. This past spring I found over 10 lbs..frooze some of them and ate on them all summer. Ran out about august or so. Can't wait till april again!!!

Do you get fiddle heads too??

Fiddle heads as they are called around here are ferns. The trick is you have to pick them when they first start coming out of the ground in the spring ( they are all curled up and look like the top of a fiddle) you only have a week tops to get them also need to know what type of ferns you want. I pick a few roots Indian cucumbers, sassafras and my root crops ginseng ginger ext..
I only know of a few mushrooms I can pick and eat and would love to learn more on the subject. Nothing like goin into the woods on a treasure hunt

I'm a model railroader. 3 rail O Gauge. Haven't had a place to build a layout in a while but here's a pic of a bridge I built.

Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

I'm a model railroader. 3 rail O Gauge. Haven't had a place to build a layout in a while but here's a pic of a bridge I built.

Hah same. Huge train guy here. Loves em since i was a kid. Mostly just do train photography but iv got a model. My models in HO scale. Havent worked on it in years but hopefully one day ill get back et er.

That and snowmobiles, atv's, cars, trucks, tractors. Love driving things. And iv tried metal detecting just last year. I really like it, have a fisher F2 but didnt have much time to get out last year.

Originally Posted by dirtymoney

these are some pics I posted for another forum so some pics show the junk along with the good finds...


(seated liberty quarter)


(barber dime)










Other photos... http://i.imgur.com/ZAwTc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7R2b5.jpg

Most of those ^ are from the past couple of years. I dont get out much any more.

These...
....I just collect/keep for the heck of it. Found in the past ten years.

So what are your hobbies? I am curious as to what others do.

Some cool stuff you have. I really would like to get into it myself. I love watching the shows on it and seeing what they find.