Good news and mostly Bad news

[rock]

Well they harvested the cotton (good news)
Bad news it looked like this

 

[rock]

I looked anyway best I could. Everything was broken nothing worth bringing back home.

 

[NCPeaches]

Dang! That's awful! Reminds me of a field nearby that I've tried to look in but it's a grain/corn field where folks dove hunt when it's dove season. Very frustrating to say the least!

 

[tamrock]

I feel like that also over the plow but what can you do but hope that some didn't come in direct contact with the blade or crushed by the tires

 

[kingskid1611]

I would still pick up the broken ones too. It is just cool to me that others thousands of years ago touch that same one.

 

[monsterrack]

To me trying to hunt a cotton field after the harvest will make you snow blind, Lol!!! Wait till they turn it and 3in of rain , then it will be good.

 

[SCrocks]

Rock- Looks just like the field I hunt. Did look it a little yesterday and found a couple but needs some heavy rain to wash away some of the debris. Luckily the farmer said they were not going to plant any winter crops in the good areas.

 

[Trooper733]

Yeah it looks like all the bolls and debris on the ground could obscure any points. We get a lot of debris on peanut fields that way, rain does help a little. Hope the conditions improve for ya.

 

[Trooper733]

Side topic, what do you use on the point of your flipping stick? Cant tell from the photo.

 

[rock]

Rock- Looks just like the field I hunt. Did look it a little yesterday and found a couple but needs some heavy rain to wash away some of the debris. Luckily the farmer said they were not going to plant any winter crops in the good areas.

Well the quartz frag was actually a small graver but I gave it to a coworker that likes artifacts I have plenty of those. We just got rain for the last 3 days maybe the grass wont grow to fast before I can get back.
I got permission to hunt a new creek and am going there the next time I get out. The fields arent getting turned this year I dont think till spring planting. Virgin creek hunt sounds more appealing to me. I love a good exploring trip.

 

[rock]

Side topic, what do you use on the point of your flipping stick? Cant tell from the photo.

The stick is one of my latest makes for myself. It has a natural rind and some is cleaned off from a beaver. The tip is actually at a angle from where the beaver bit it so it is wood no metal added to it. The field is very hard red clay for the most part if needed I use a flat head to pry a couple of inches around a artifact if the stick cant flip it out. Here is some of the sticks I have made. This is one of them. I use red stain then coat them with polyurethane. With them being red if you drop one in the weeds you can find it easy.

 

[Trooper733]

That's cool, I also use beaver stripped branches for my flipping sticks to hunt artifacts. Never have thought of staining and applying polyurethane to them. That sounds like a good idea.

 

[ptsofnc]

Well the quartz frag was actually a small graver but I gave it to a coworker that likes artifacts I have plenty of those. We just got rain for the last 3 days maybe the grass wont grow to fast before I can get back.
I got permission to hunt a new creek and am going there the next time I get out. The fields arent getting turned this year I dont think till spring planting. Virgin creek hunt sounds more appealing to me. I love a good exploring trip.

Good luck in that new creek! Always fun to search new places!

 

[NC field hunter]

I've had a freaking quagmire about all summer.

 

[GatorBoy]

They're still going to turn that aren't they?

 

[Tejaas]

I would still pick up the broken ones too. It is just cool to me that others thousands of years ago touch that same one.

Absolutely, 100% could not agree more.

I would challenge anyone to justify how a broken point could not potentially have more history behind it than a perfect point.

Finding a "G-10" that so many folks seem obsessed with - ya cannot rule out that perhaps it was simply knapped and then dropped.

Finding a broken-off base you cannot rule out that it wasn't utilized to kill an enemy or meal.

My opinion has always been that if your in the business of buying/selling history, then you are probably concerned with immaculate condition, grading, and assigning dollar amounts.

I personally like to fill plain glass vases (each containing the finds from a specific dig site) with the brokes and use them as bookends in my library. Once or twice a year i'll spread 'em back out and reunite any found matching halves with museum gel... Then move them over to the curio cabinets or display cases.

G-10 (to me) is a composite material used for knife scales.






~Tejaas~

 

[Tejaas]

The stick is one of my latest makes for myself. It has a natural rind and some is cleaned off from a beaver. The tip is actually at a angle from where the beaver bit it so it is wood no metal added to it. The field is very hard red clay for the most part if needed I use a flat head to pry a couple of inches around a artifact if the stick cant flip it out. Here is some of the sticks I have made. This is one of them. I use red stain then coat them with polyurethane. With them being red if you drop one in the weeds you can find it easy.

Nice flipping sticks!


~Tejaas~

 

[rock]

Good luck in that new creek! Always fun to search new places!

It was fun to look at the new creek but nothing popped. Shale, schist and quartz for the rocks. I rarely find anything artifact related in those rock mixtures and Thursday was no different. Quartz would of been the stone of choice for the NA if they were there but I didnt find much evidence there. Scratch another creek off the list.

 

[rock]

They're still going to turn that aren't they?

They didnt last year. If they do before winter they will put something like clover down which will grow 8 inches high. I like radishes better but I have no say so in it.

 

[rock]

Nice flipping sticks!


~Tejaas~

Thanks its something fun to do in between hunts. I actually gave one away today he just has to put a rubber tip on the end. That one was a walking stick.