Blind.In.Texas
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Went on my annual to Arkansas this year. Finally got to hunt the spring where we go to get water to take home. This place is many miles into the mountains via dirt road and then several more down another road.
I'll refrain from using the name of the spring in light of there being people from Arkansas visiting this forum. I only searched it for an hour and got a few goodies. Next trip I will spend the whole day there.
The first picture is of plow points and a steering wheel from sort sort of machinery. We have our guesses as to why there was a tractor wheel up there, but, no tractor yet. An old clock and I also dug up a mason jar lid with the liner in it. I told my buddy that it was a mason jar lid when it pinpointed like a dollar and rang like a dirty pull tab. It was my first guess and I was dead on!! Alas there was no jar with it.....Better luck next year I guess.
I also found these saws. Just under the leaf litter. There are too many large rocks in the soil for anything of real size to sink. It is such a bonus. The top one is a 6' two man and the bottom is a single man 3'.
Here is a view of one of the mountains from a distance.
Jogged over to another friend's house over in Oklahoma. We grabbed some beer and guns and headed out the the lease to shoot AT things
I found some stuff to shoot at, but, I had to use my camera lens this time. We saw some baby quail and tried to chase them. They can't be caught. They look like mice running around. We looked like a couple of buffoons!! My buddy is 6'4" and around 260 lbs. What a knucklehead.
My buddy found this bird point. It's beautiful and a half inch long. Made from some sort of white quartz-like material. He kicked my butt that day. He found several. The best was a fully intact Dalton point.
My overnight stay in Oklahoma ended and I said good-bye to my boy and headed back to the other Oklahoma. I had to take the long cut back to camp cause the short cut was covered in water. Didn't fish any because the water was too high and swift. It was a foot higher, when we got there, than when I actually took this picture.
OH YEAH!! I almost forgot the best find of the weekend!! Over at the spring I got a copper hit!! Most exciting for me. We thought the old guy ran a still out there in the woods. I figured it to be a piece of copper pipe as evidence, but nope, it was a part of a lighter. The good part!!! Has the initials of the presenter and the recipient!!!! I was completely stoked. We have talked for years about who this old place was inhabited by. No one knew. My father-in-law heard of this place all his life, but, was never able to find it until about seven or eight years ago. Lots of scuttlebut about the place. Now I have some sort of a lead!!!!! For obvious reasons, as stated before, the name of the spring is not given and I have smudged the middle initial in both sets. I don't know if there is anything to find up there, but, I won't leave much to chance.
Thanks for looking!!
I'll refrain from using the name of the spring in light of there being people from Arkansas visiting this forum. I only searched it for an hour and got a few goodies. Next trip I will spend the whole day there.
The first picture is of plow points and a steering wheel from sort sort of machinery. We have our guesses as to why there was a tractor wheel up there, but, no tractor yet. An old clock and I also dug up a mason jar lid with the liner in it. I told my buddy that it was a mason jar lid when it pinpointed like a dollar and rang like a dirty pull tab. It was my first guess and I was dead on!! Alas there was no jar with it.....Better luck next year I guess.
I also found these saws. Just under the leaf litter. There are too many large rocks in the soil for anything of real size to sink. It is such a bonus. The top one is a 6' two man and the bottom is a single man 3'.
Here is a view of one of the mountains from a distance.
Jogged over to another friend's house over in Oklahoma. We grabbed some beer and guns and headed out the the lease to shoot AT things
I found some stuff to shoot at, but, I had to use my camera lens this time. We saw some baby quail and tried to chase them. They can't be caught. They look like mice running around. We looked like a couple of buffoons!! My buddy is 6'4" and around 260 lbs. What a knucklehead.
My buddy found this bird point. It's beautiful and a half inch long. Made from some sort of white quartz-like material. He kicked my butt that day. He found several. The best was a fully intact Dalton point.
My overnight stay in Oklahoma ended and I said good-bye to my boy and headed back to the other Oklahoma. I had to take the long cut back to camp cause the short cut was covered in water. Didn't fish any because the water was too high and swift. It was a foot higher, when we got there, than when I actually took this picture.
OH YEAH!! I almost forgot the best find of the weekend!! Over at the spring I got a copper hit!! Most exciting for me. We thought the old guy ran a still out there in the woods. I figured it to be a piece of copper pipe as evidence, but nope, it was a part of a lighter. The good part!!! Has the initials of the presenter and the recipient!!!! I was completely stoked. We have talked for years about who this old place was inhabited by. No one knew. My father-in-law heard of this place all his life, but, was never able to find it until about seven or eight years ago. Lots of scuttlebut about the place. Now I have some sort of a lead!!!!! For obvious reasons, as stated before, the name of the spring is not given and I have smudged the middle initial in both sets. I don't know if there is anything to find up there, but, I won't leave much to chance.
Thanks for looking!!
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