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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938206 10/19/18 12:58 AM
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EBay list authentic old Rrowheads for a price.

Amazon lists many sets of replicas for a lot less.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938253 10/19/18 01:27 AM
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I cut a trench for a water line and found a spear head? 2 1/2+" the next day on top of the dirt row.

It had rained over night.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938289 10/19/18 01:58 AM
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The key for me is picking up the flint and looking at it. A lot of times it's just a sliver covered with mud. Pick it up examine it and discover it's actually a point. Look for flint. It's rare to find a random point out by itself. Look on hillsides. Remember our Indians were plains Indians and slept mostly out on the ground. The hillsides blocked the wind.

Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938312 10/19/18 02:18 AM
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The only one I ever found was in a washed out gully after a heavy rain in Henderson county. It was a spearhead about as long as my hand and about half as wide as my hand at the bottom, preserved perfectly. Had a guy look at it and he said it was most likely Cherokee or Catwaba and offered me $100 on the spot, that was about 30 years ago. I kept it and left it with my parents when I went to college and kinda forgot about it. I recently found out my sister borrowed it from them to put in her shop as a show piece and someone "stole" it.

Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938338 10/19/18 02:38 AM
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Best times are in the morning or later in the afternoon. The low sun angle makes flint shine. Shinning rocks are worth walking to for inspection.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938363 10/19/18 03:19 AM
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I have some my Mother found around the Sheffield/Iraan area that are black obsidian
that are so small you can lay them on a penny and they won't reach over any side.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938374 10/19/18 03:35 AM
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Any pics!?


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938429 10/19/18 04:50 AM
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I have dug for them after finding a spot with a good concentration of them. I use saw horses with a screen i built then screed the dirt off with your hands


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: nethingthatbites] #12938450 10/19/18 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted By: nethingthatbites
location...shorelines are rarely a good place...they weren't shorelines in those days. They made their arrow heads close to the source. Find chert and flint hills. There you will find them...well usually more "almost" arrowheads. The ones that made good arrowheads were used and lost in random places.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: deerfeeder] #12938511 10/19/18 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted By: deerfeeder
Best times are in the morning or later in the afternoon. The low sun angle makes flint shine. Shinning rocks are worth walking to for inspection.

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That's how my brother in law does it around pecos. Went two afternoons with him a couple of years ago and four of us found two, looked at everything that shined like broken glass


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938625 10/19/18 01:41 PM
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To reallynfind quantity you have to find camps.
Usually on the high side of a creek and realitivly flat. Look for old fire pits. They will be red rocks and many will be white on one side from being used for cooking surface. Also look for piles of old mussel or snail shells. The old ones will be white. When you find those areas you will find tools and arrowheads.
Get you an old golf club and cut the head off it and bend the edge to make a hook. Use this to flip things so you dont have to be bending over all the time. Hunt them with sun behind your back, flint shines a little and easier to see this way. Go very slow.

Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938679 10/19/18 02:10 PM
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Back in the day my Dad would camp on the islands at Texoma and find lots of them. He left us some pretty nice ones. Don't think you can do that anymore.

Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938769 10/19/18 03:20 PM
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On of these days, the TVA is going to bust me. But after a good flood on the TN River, I'll bank my boat and walk certain shorelines looking for them.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: Todd] #12938810 10/19/18 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted By: Todd
Go to Brazos river below PK. Walk on the gravel bars and search. Might be really good after they release all this water because all the vegetation will be removed. My buddy finds arrowheads and tools down there.


We looked somewhat hard a few weeks ago when we went and didn't find any but did find a cool sedimentary rock with some kind of rice grain looking fossils in it. It was the end of summer so I imagine it'd been picked over pretty good.


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Re: Arrowhead hunting [Re: spacejunkie] #12938849 10/19/18 04:36 PM
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Old Indian camp sites after a rain or plowed fields near old Indian camps are premium spots.

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