The tale of the not so nice "land owner" (More Pictures Added of Blade)
Alright, I must first start off by saying, I respect land owners and their property, I call before going on land, and everyone I met that has land and arrowhead hunts has been nice and told me all that they find. So with that I start my little story and what happens afterwords. Sorry if it gets long.
It starts off with my wife and I walking one of our favorite creeks. One we call Little Ol' Faithful. When we get to the bridge to get down to the creek she takes off downstream and I head upstream. I walk upstream back and forth looking for any artifacts, but to no avail, I was only finding modern trash. It was getting close to time for me to turn around because it was starting to get dark. I said to myself only two more bends and then time to head back. Well, about this time I see a man standing on the banks of this creek. Mind you to get from the bottom of this creek to the farm land is about a 8-10 foot steep clay embankment most of the time. He asks me if I know were I am. I reply the name of the creek. He goes on to tell me that this water is not navigable so I should turn back. I inform him that yes right now it is not, but this creek is navigable. He goes on to tell me things like he don't like seeing footsteps in the creek, why am not picking up all the trash if I am walking it, and the best one is that the creek is a drainage ditch that was put in years ago and that it is on no map and I should turn around. I continue to explain to him that this is not a drainage ditch it is a creek, in fact it crosses at another road farther upstream. I could tell he was getting mad because he knew I was right in everything I was stating. Finally I asked him why do you hate seeing people here so much, because he told me earlier he has run other people out of the creek, and I got out of him this quote... "Because I like to walk this creek". So, I got to the bottom line, he likes to hunt this section of creek also. I tell him good day and head up stream a little more, then turn around because I am loosing daylight.
When I get back home I tell my wife of the little encounter I had. She wants to continue farther upstream since he is being so protective of his hunting area. So the next day we head there on the 18th of March (the next day). The owner never comes again, and about 50 yards from were I stopped the day before farther up stream my wife finds the nice adena blade pictured below. So to the over protective person, Had you not been so defensive about this area, we may have never traveled farther upstream looking, and I thank you for it, for had you not we would not have found this.
Alright, I must first start off by saying, I respect land owners and their property, I call before going on land, and everyone I met that has land and arrowhead hunts has been nice and told me all that they find. So with that I start my little story and what happens afterwords. Sorry if it gets long.
It starts off with my wife and I walking one of our favorite creeks. One we call Little Ol' Faithful. When we get to the bridge to get down to the creek she takes off downstream and I head upstream. I walk upstream back and forth looking for any artifacts, but to no avail, I was only finding modern trash. It was getting close to time for me to turn around because it was starting to get dark. I said to myself only two more bends and then time to head back. Well, about this time I see a man standing on the banks of this creek. Mind you to get from the bottom of this creek to the farm land is about a 8-10 foot steep clay embankment most of the time. He asks me if I know were I am. I reply the name of the creek. He goes on to tell me that this water is not navigable so I should turn back. I inform him that yes right now it is not, but this creek is navigable. He goes on to tell me things like he don't like seeing footsteps in the creek, why am not picking up all the trash if I am walking it, and the best one is that the creek is a drainage ditch that was put in years ago and that it is on no map and I should turn around. I continue to explain to him that this is not a drainage ditch it is a creek, in fact it crosses at another road farther upstream. I could tell he was getting mad because he knew I was right in everything I was stating. Finally I asked him why do you hate seeing people here so much, because he told me earlier he has run other people out of the creek, and I got out of him this quote... "Because I like to walk this creek". So, I got to the bottom line, he likes to hunt this section of creek also. I tell him good day and head up stream a little more, then turn around because I am loosing daylight.
When I get back home I tell my wife of the little encounter I had. She wants to continue farther upstream since he is being so protective of his hunting area. So the next day we head there on the 18th of March (the next day). The owner never comes again, and about 50 yards from were I stopped the day before farther up stream my wife finds the nice adena blade pictured below. So to the over protective person, Had you not been so defensive about this area, we may have never traveled farther upstream looking, and I thank you for it, for had you not we would not have found this.
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--some folks do not like to share or play nice. --- a real land owner most likely would threaten to call the cops at the very least if they thought you were "tresspassing"
