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Sold my collection of arrowheads this morning to an older gentleman who is no longer able to hunt for em.
Sent him a bunch of pics.
Basically told him the one pine tree point in my shadow box of 48 points was worth at least 250 dollars to the right
End of the rainbow buyer.
He totally agreed
Had other ones also sent him pictures of.
Met him at a local resturant.
Elderly couple with their daughter and SIL
Showed him the shadow box of 48 points covering every time frame from mississippian to paleo
His eyes lit up basically.
I told him flat 250 firm for the shadow box per ad in the peddler paper and we could discuss the other stuff.

Told him I priced the box value to end of rainbow buyers per major websites at around 1800 -2000
He totally agreed
Looked at other stuff , lots of mid to early archaic and paleo stuff
Said it was the start of about half of another shadow box and the end of rainbow value on those were around 800 900ish

We discussed things

400 for it all.

Then I was hold on sir
I got more and you will enjoy it.
Brought in 5 1 gallon freezer bags of broke stuff.
Told him it is all yours and I know you will enjoy going thru it all
And probably 1/ 3rd of it ain't washed and I know you will enjoy cleaning stuff up.

He was literally the most happy guy on the planet right then and their.


So anyways I hauled my butt up to a pawn where I seen this pistol and went thru it hard in early December
229 OTD
Been carried but not shot very much
Feed ramp smooth, got very little copper out of the barrel
Lands still have bluing on em
Internals and moving surfaces very little wear
Barely perceptable cartridge and primer ring Mark's on face of bolt
Cleaned right off actually with a little solvent
Came with extra 15 rd mag and left hand belt holster that is useless to me

I just got done breaking it completely down to pins and springs and components
Cleaned ,reassembled, functions check and live round cycle check 15 + 1 rounds down back behind the house.

Ran like a top....

Perfect back pocket pistol

Couple ex nazi engineers left walther in the late 40,s or early 50,s
Started up bersa in nazi friendly Argentina and probably told Walther to suck an egg about PPK patent schit.

Khan (wife) seen me cleaning it
You bought another gun!!!!
Told her yep I sold rocks and bought this and have plenty left to buy slugs , a nice case, 20 gauge bore snake for my new slug gun also.

She wasnt a happy camper cause she couldn't get upset.
Hahahahah!!





15+1 .380 3.5 inch barrel
Back pocket pistol


Perfect to carry around arrowhead hunting this spring.
Fugging snakes, fugg with me now bytches.

Tell she can buy herself some happiness too if she wants to go pick up rocks

😄😄

If i sell any of mine, I'm gonna buy some really good pot

WTF?

Where you live why dont you just grow some,

I bought steel with rocks
Made an old arrowhead hunter happy as hell


I'm heading up to new providence Blvd
See if I can find a couple of doobies to celebrate it all.


Hahahaha!!!

Ya right....
I got 3 inch Remington 20 gauge accutips to buy.
The only smoke I buy are pall mall lights.

July 12th 1983 last time with happy smoke

Hahahaaa!!!!

Im talkin indo

Fugg that ditchweed

Also while I was in the pawn shop while the younger girl was doing bc and 4473 stuff
I asked if some body could show me a windham and Bush master m4 clones.
Woman in mid to late 60,s got the 1st one outta the rack.
Banging clanging bumping falling sideways onto adjacent wpns.
Gives it to me. Got trembling hands ,arm tremors
Look at it , give it back repeat with next . Same stuff
Both brand new hang tag guns getting all marred up cosmetically.

I actually said to manager
This is why wpns get all scared up due to employee haphazard handling of them
Manager says she has early alzheimers.
I say to her so if I bought one of them new m4,s that are all scuffed up and got blems on the plastic and parkerizing you gonna knock off 40 or 50 bucks cause you dont wanna hurt her feelings and tell her she is damaging the appearance of em and you are not going to show guns anymore

I got a dirty look , that was about it.

Now while I was looking at the 2 and she was clanking and clunking against the rack and other wpns in the rack
About 3 or 4 employees were watching this like it was a regular occurance with her.
They was seeing me grimacing on each clang and clunk and gave me the look of" nothing we can do about it"
Then I heard the manager call her over by the jewelry cabinets after the gorilla from american tourister got down with her gun rack bull in a China shop routine.

"Mom can you come over here and show this ring to these people"





Got my pistol and left.

Partial example of why new guns are blemmed up bad at times.

My vanguard was chinked up by Wally Methfingers at the walmart gun counter. Shaky the scarecrow from wizard of oz.

I remember watching all that.

Employees are just so fugging aloof of what they do to firearms with the way the handle em at times

Not all
But I would dare to say at least half fugg up the finish on guns all the time.

Wait il you see what the cops do to um when they take em outa your house.

Yeah I have an idea. They were too stupid and/or too lazy to put up the power windows on a mercedes I was looking at recently at a judicial task force seizure sale. See chit like that often.

Dad was a cop...He died 20 years ago but at the end there, He carried a .40 S&W for his duty weapon and had the Bersa .380 in an ankle holster for backup. I fired it...Liked it. It is a damn good gun that will do its job with aplomb.

All my time in the woods over the years and I've never found an arrowhead. Once I was leading a group bird watching and this elderly lady looks down and there's this perfect triangular chipped arrowhead. Me, never found a one. Prob'ly I've been looking the wrong direction.

Did you at least ask her if she was looking for a place to rent?

That Bersa 380 is a fine pistol with a great trigger and will serve you well congrats. Widow

I've never sold an arrowhead. I've given a few away and have been gifted a few.

Bad karma to sell things that the spirits in the sky have entrusted to your keep. Esp those you find. Who me! superstitious ? No way. GW

Knock on wood...

Never sold any of mine, I guess because most of them were found here on my farm, and there is a sentimental value to them. Due to all the no-till farming going on these days, I probably won't find many more. So, it's not like I can go out an replace them.

Well the way I look at it .
Stone versus steel.
You can find stone but it's like a box of chocolate,s you never know what your gonna get.
And when you know what particular steel you are looking for and find it. You better jump on it then and their.
Spirit from stone to steel is transferred in my mind....
If I had a time machine and showed up the day prior to a buffalo hunt about 7 or 8000 yrs ago in the middle archaic era with say ... my model 70 ot6 and about 100 rounds then schooled up the head honcho of a group for about 3 hrs in basic rifle marksmanship. Dude would cast his spear or atalyl aside and whack buffs from 300 yards away.
Native Americans ( their descendants) were very quick to adapt to firearms and many times vastly outgunned whites.
One day I found a perfectly intact Clovis. My bud slumlord was staring down the barrel of a kidney transplant in 2 days.
I sent him a pic of it cause I really wasnt positive about it.
He was chyting bricks looking at the pic, broke away from work to come over and look at it.
Confirmed clovis.
After a few minutes of him checking it out, he went to hand it back.
Said it's yours brother you got me into this hobby 3yrs ago(at the time 4yrs ago) and you been at it for 30 plus yrs and ain't never found one yet.
Dude was speechless for about 20 seconds.
That is what friends do for one another.
Far as the sale to the older gentleman who cant get out and hunt em anymore.
Well I look at it this way.
He got almost 3000 dollars worth of intact arrowheads for 400 dollars
48 prime ones in a shadow box and about 25 others that was gonna be the start of another for me
Covering every era from mississippian to early paleo
And 5 1 gallon freezer bags full of brokes to go thru and examine and 1/3 of em need to be cleaned.
I'm sure he is enjoying em and the spirit of em has been transferred to another who knows the thrill and intrinsic value of the hobby.

I bet when he hears the clinking and tinking noise of worked stone hitting each other in a bag or on the table
The music of that sound for those that know it. Is something good for him to hear again.


I can only hope when I'm in my late 70,s or 80,s and can no longer get out to hunt em.
That I can run across someone trying to sell stone for steel also.
Might be a karma set up for me pass it along type of thing.