Bob and I shark tooth hunting ***CONTEST***

[coppercoins]

Bob and I went shark tooth hunting at Manasota Beach this morning - started around 7am and finished around 10:30am - about 3-ish hours. We found all of the teeth in the photo.

CONTEST - Guess which one of us found the most teeth, and how many teeth we found total (both of us in one pile). The photo shows all of them.

PRIZE - closest to the actual number of teeth we found together wins a baggie containing a few dozen of the teeth we found today. A piece of the **bounty**. Good luck!

RULES - one guess per person, contest ends tomorrow morning (Monday) at 8am Eastern.

http://coppercoins.com/temp/teeth.jpg

[willbrooks]

I'll say Chuck found the most and 253 total.

[kloccwork419]

Bob won and the TOTAL is 217

[jcuve]

Chuck wins, and 272 total. Looks you all had fun!

[thecentcollector]

Bob had the most, and 223 total

[jallengomez]

Chuck had the most. 350 total.

[onecent1909]

Chuck has home field...but...BOB WINS... 330 total...

[mrmike916]

Im going with Chuch, an a total of 525. To bad they aren't gold nuggets, but cool anyway! I don't think I would be able to find many myself on the west coast!

[wapa]

Hmmm, Chuck wins and 401. Very cool teeth, love those fossils.

[EE1969]

Chuck has the most, total of 293. Great finds.

[Historyhound]

Bob. My guess is, that being from out of town, he was probably more enthusiastic about it. 277

[rlm's cents]

I will try 294 and Chuck winning.

[Steven]

Bob 390...................

[georoxx]

Bob - 317 total

[Maineman750]

327 total...Bob with the most

[Erdnussbier]

Total 226 and Bob find 3 pieces more, also Bob with the most :D

Nice finds!

Regards Erdnussbier

[Rollem]

Bob and total 215

[flyhi3]

Chuck wins, with 239!

[DCW]

Big Bob holds the trophy with 160 teeth pulled

[lucybug]

chuck wins 197 total

[Brad]

254 Chuck .

[willbrooks]

I'll say Chuck found the most and 253 total.


254 Chuck .

Remind me not to send you a Christmas card.

[enamel7]

Chuck won and 176 total.

[rianal]

amazing! where exactly do you begin your search?

[Jacob]

That's an unreal haul now you guys got to find a Meg.

[jhcons]

Bob cant see:) chuck 282

[trails]

The sharks had them all and lost them biting humans.

[coppercoins]

***WINNER ANNOUNCED***

Well, I hate to blow it for those who think Bob was on his game, but it takes a few minutes of looking to learn your way out there. Since I've done it a number of times, I knew what I was looking for, and Bob had to bring himself into it.

I found a total of 256 teeth to Bob's 153. Total number of teeth found, 409.


wapa is our winner by guessing that I would win with a total of 401 teeth. Pretty accurate!

Congratulations.

PM your address and I will send your prize!

[flyhi3]

Congrats wapa!

How on earth do you find so many Chuck? When we go to the beach, my uncle and cousin and I spend a few hours, and we never find any!

[Erdnussbier]

So many? :O

Congratulations to the winner!

[coppercoins]

It's only this one beach. The ground is littered with the teeth. Ten miles north and ten miles south the numbers go down a lot. Offshore from the beach where we found these divers go down and pull buckets worth of teeth. It's the one hottest hot spot in the US for sharks teeth, and I happen to live a 40 minute drive from that spot.

We have a river that empties into the gulf not far from this beach, and the river is littered with teeth. Nearly half of the river bed is bones, fossils, teeth, stuff from prehistory. We are likely to go on that river this coming weekend with a canoe, shovels, and shaker screens to see what we can find.

[Gunnovice09]

Keep us updated please coppercoins! Have you ever found a megoladon (spelling?) tooth?

[cimperialis]

So what's the biggest tooth you've found? In North Carolina, I once found a megalodon/Great White tooth 2.5in long.

[kloccwork419]

megalodon/great white...lolol.

[coppercoins]

We never find teeth all that large out there on the beach, just a lot of them.

The Peace River is the place for the larger teeth around here, but unfortunately right now it is at flood stage, so there's no chance of finding anything there at the moment. We will probably have a canoe expedition there in February. That's where the 5-7" teeth come from.

[wapa]

whoohoo. Thanks. I'll pm my addy Chuck.

Paul

[mustbebob]

We did another shark tooth hunt in a small creek this past weekend, Came home with another few hundred teeth in better condition than those found at the beaches. We did get a couple pieces of larger megalodon teeth. I just gave the whole bunch of them to my grand kids. Better than chocolate to them. They were very excited.

[kloccwork419]

How big were these megalodon teeth?. They can go for thousands of dollars if they are big in nice shape