Modern Arrowhead

[Eastender]

I've been admiring the arrowhead finds fellow members have made. This one I scored last Sunday is not what I had in mind. Many years ago when I was a teen I did pick many Native American stone points from the farm fields in my homeland in upstate NY. With my metal detector I find many non-retrieved arrows lost by deer hunters and pass them on to a local hunter with a year-round deer nuisance permit. Sometimes I get surprised by these when responding to a target and have to be careful not to get cut.

I was not far from a forest trail when four women came along with their hands up saying don't shoot. I was wearing orange and metal detecting. I politely scolded them for not wearing orange.

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Yeah, let your tool do the dirt removal, not your fingers. Gloves are important! And wearing orange in the woods is a good idea. Where I live, something is open season any time of the year.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find! Always wear orange in the woods detecting, good lesson for the ladies.

 

[Noah_D]

Yeah, let your tool do the dirt removal, not your fingers. Gloves are important! And wearing orange in the woods is a good idea. Where I live, something is open season any time of the year.

I learned that the hard way... one day I pulled my hand out of the plug to see one of my fingers all bloody, I said oh well and kept digging until it got to dark to see haha.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Hunters that don't retrieve their arrows and leave these razor tips around are the nuisance!

I find many non-retrieved arrows lost by deer hunters and pass them on to a local hunter with a year-round deer nuisance permit.

 

[bologna321]

I've pulled a few of those next to a popular MTN bike trail here

 

[KeyaPaha]

ALWAYS wear orange while in the woods during any hunting season. Cousin, in upstate NY, took a high powered rifle round thru the groin, while in the woods and no orange. Hunter "mistook" him for a deer.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Yes... I've happened upon a few of those myself.

 

[ToddsPoint]

You shoot, you miss, the arrow goes into the grass at high speed and is gone. I always looked for my lost arrows but never found most of them. I even went back with a detector to try and find one with no luck. Arrows and points aren't cheap. No one would leave one in the woods on purpose. Gary