Better than nothing-

Cannonman17

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Well... the snow isn't gone yet but I went out looking anyway. First spot I went to was a place where a creek used to run into the Wisconsin river but it is now part of a man made lake... it's only low like this early in the spring and if you get lucky you can sometimes find the site exposed for a couple of days before the water comes back up again- no such luck today, as you can see in the first pic the island is still covered in snow and ice.

So I went to plan B and stopped by an old site- the fields haven't been plowed yet but there is a dirt road that hugs the creek right through the middle of the site so I parked the truck and walked the dirt road, found one large broken Raddatz point but it's heavily damaged.. bad day of arrowhead hunting is still better than a good day at work and at least now I have one find on the books for the year! LOL

Sorry for screwing up the in situ shot.. it would have been classic because there were tire track marks right over the point but I kicked it with my foot thinking it was a big flake before realizing what it was- next time!
 

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Stryker_FO

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true any find is better than nothing..

I cant tell you how many times I have gone out in AZ to my little sweet spots that never fail... only to not find anything of significance. Tons of fun remember its all in the search.
 

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Hey at least you got out. It looks beautiful up there. I like the birch tree. I have never even been to Wisconsin. Do you have an unbroken example of that type?? Thanks for sharing.
Chuck
 

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Cannonman17

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I have a couple of display cases in my office here but no more of these.. while looking for an unbroken example though I did find another broken one that came from that same site a couple of years ago though... I'll post it because it's not as heavily damaged and you can better see what they looked like.. in general they are medium to large side notched points. Here's a link with a couple of pictures but I would argue that their example on the right is actually an older version and the example on the left is somewhat atypical in the fact that it's notches are so small... as common as the Raddatz is in Wisconsin I think they could have found better examples.. oh well..
ooops.. forgot the link.. http://www.uwlax.edu/MVAC/PointGuide/raddatzosceola.htm
 

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Airborne80

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Man. That place is beautiful! Great place to hunt and you DID find something. Sounds like a winner to me.
 

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