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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 12:58 AM
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grandpa75672
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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]
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10/19/18 01:27 AM
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MrRoachie
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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]
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10/19/18 01:58 AM
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leethefishking
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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.
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 02:18 AM
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John Peebles
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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.
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 02:38 AM
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deerfeeder
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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]
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10/19/18 03:19 AM
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machinist
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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.
I fish on the edge and stay out of the middle
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 03:35 AM
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Ledeez
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Teamgetsome$$$
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 04:50 AM
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Bugzout10
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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]
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10/19/18 09:31 AM
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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. ^^^^ +1
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
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10/19/18 11:49 AM
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kodys'papa
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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. 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
Hooking a fish is like playing string with a cat. The exact size, shape, color of string matters less than how you wiggle it- and little cats are easier to fool than big ones. John Gierach
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 01:41 PM
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9094
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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.
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
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10/19/18 02:10 PM
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Fishingking
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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.
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
[Re: spacejunkie]
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10/19/18 03:20 PM
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Fishin' Nut
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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.
He is truly a sick individual.
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Re: Arrowhead hunting
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10/19/18 03:53 PM
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Nocona Brian
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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]
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10/19/18 04:36 PM
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Arkansas10 bass
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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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