My heartbreaker today might have been a find of a lifetime for me.....=(

[IAMZIM]

So, the water where I usually hunt has finally lowered enough to hunt for points in my best spot. I got out and right away I found the basalt Pelican Lake point, and two feet away was the broken drill, my first. Later, I saw the base of a point and when I saw it I was bummed it wasn't whole, looked to my left a foot, and saw the rest of it! I think it's an Eden! I can barely see and feel the "ears" on it, and the base is ground all the way around! Spook bummed it's broken, but when I saw the flaking and the material it STILL made my heart pound! Let me know if you guys think it's an Eden! Seeing this kind of stuff makes me anxious thinking what I could potentially find in this spot! I still have a lot of shoreline to check in the next few weeks!

 

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[Hawks88]

What a beautiful find. Congrats

 

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[Twitch]

Zim - even broken that’s a spectacular find. Better than 98% of the whole points we find.

 

[quito]

A thing of Beauty! Kinda reminds me of KRF.

I wonder where it spent all those years before being washed in.

It seems odd it would have so many hinge fractures showing on that base for as old as it is.

 

[IAMZIM]

A thing of Beauty! Kinda reminds me of KRF.

I wonder where it spent all those years before being washed in.

It seems odd it would have so many hinge fractures showing on that base for as old as it is.

Thanks Quito! Um, I don't see any hinge fractures though? I am supposed to get reading glasses soon......I'm fighting it though....lol! (Damnit I hope I'm not going blind!)

 

[quito]

Lol, I know what you mean.

I fought it a long time too.

 

[Reanm8er]

Greetings ZIM, Fabulous find!

You could use superglue or Epoxy 303 clear. Either one would hold fine and you could buff off the excess with a soft pad on a Dremel tool (on low speed) and some red rouge. Be sure and prep with denatured alcohol. The superglue would be instantaneous and the 303 would set in about an hour. It would give you a little more time to wiggle it together just right. It's used for setting semi precious stones in jewelry and it's on ebay.

 

[niffler]

Man, I would be back out there looking for more. Maybe you found the butcher site for an ancient bison kill?

 

[IAMZIM]

Man, I would be back out there looking for more. Maybe you found the butcher site for an ancient bison kill?

The reason that I find most my artifacts in this particular spot, is because it is, and has been for thousands of years, the main drag for the Elk migration route. Literally tens of thousands of Elk cross back and fourth through here every fall and spring, from their summer and winter grounds. There are large boulders out in the woods that were used as mortar's for crushing Elk meat with berries to make Pemmican, as well as many paintings on boulders of hunts and animals, hand prints, etc. Only the boulders with the paintings on them are off limits to collecting because they are known archeologic sites. There is absolutely no digging on public land, but if an artifact is exposed by weathering, it's ok to take it around this reservoir. I myself have hunted Elk and deer on this route since I was 12, and my father used to take me with him to hunt elk even when I was smaller, around 5 or 6. I know this area like the back of my hand! Every year, after the water goes down I find something, and that's why I keep comming back! I've been doing my own research on more places to look on this route, some spots where I have permission from ranchers and my landlord, who in fact owns a HUGE ranch on this route! So far I have only found one point on his ranch, but he told me about when he was younger, (he is in his 90's) he was grading a road on his ranch and plowing up points that he could see from his seat in the tractor! So I think I will eventually find more! No doubt, though, there could have been bison here as well! I usually end up walking about 5-6 miles when I am on this particular route, so finds can be a few feet apart at times, or SEVERAL miles apart!

 

[arrow86]

Sounds like an awesome place it’s pretty neat you are hunting the same trails that have been hunted for thousands of years hopefully it remains for thousands more

 

[Reanm8er]

Greetings zim, I walked past my bench today and realized I'd given you the wrong #. Here's the carton with the instructions. I've mixed it with turquoise dust and made some really nice inlays in silver. Invisible!