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I was going through some of my notes trying to figure out a buck that should be about right to take this year and I noticed that over the years ive found quite a few native artifacts on this ranch over the years. Mostly spear points and tools but it got me to thinking of all the goodies Ive come across over the years. Finds always add to the hunt dynamic and make for some cool memories. Anyone? Sh8T piles and tp dont count for the jokers in the bunch.

Different kind of hunting, but I enjoy metal detecting. Mainly looking for old coins at home sites. Few things are more fun than seeing that unmistakable glint of silver in the dirt when you find an old coin. Will get your heart pumping.

found a piece of petrified tree root/bark? in our little creek while berry picking Monday.

Found petrified wood, rocks with leaf impressions on them, several dinosaur bones, parts of petrified deer antler, crinoids (fossilized plant), fossilized whale teeth/bones, fossilized shark or dinosaur poop, megaladon shark teeth. And the occasional point!

Pics of the points?
Bunch of us hunt for em also.
Be interesting to see em.
Indian artifacts thread is pretty active at times with those of us who look for em.
Buncha guy from across the country can help you ID them also if you need help with that.
It's interesting to know what they are and time frame they was made.
Projectile points.com is a good website for a info resource also.

We have a artifact thread that’s like 30 pages long going here, Don posted some points yesterday so it should be close to the top. There’s some really cool stuff in there from all over the country. You should take some pics and put them in there, I for one would love to see them. Behind critters and fish, arrowheads are my favorite things to hunt.

Human skeleton on a remote moose hunt up in Canada. Contacted the RCMP and they eventually told us it was probably a hunter/hiker they've been looking for for 3 years!

Nice chunk of fire blackened sandstone on an Indian mound in the San Saba river valley over the past weekend.

My friend and I were hunting out west and found a hub for a wagon wheel out in the middle of nowhere... atleast for us eastern fellas, it was pretty neat.

Once came upon a fork in the trail, and I took it.

These kids find some cool stuff. This is one of their best videos. Worth the watch.

A few of my junk finds while metal detecting. The broken arrowhead was found underneath something else that I dug. Sadly, the class ring was a cheapo, no precious metal. The spoons are silver plate though. The big triangular hunk is a piece of plumber's lead, I think.

Nothing major, but found a very rusty mule shoe where an old town existed in the 1870s. Town was called a Nonchalanta , and located In west central Ks. Also found what appears to be a single grave about 1/2 mile from that town. Grave is in middle of a pasture and is a Slight depression In the ground and is encircled by an oval of limestone rocks.

A few interesting coin finds. Top left shows just how bad an old silver coin can deteriorate in the ground. Top right shows a silver dime with heavy circulation wear.

Bottom left shows that you get lucky every once in a while - I dug that sucker out from under 8 inches of heavily compacted driveway gravel, and it was pristine. I don't know how the gravel didn't grind it to a pulp.

Bottom right is a 1916 wheat penny with a couple of small caliber bullet strikes, found at the base of an old silver maple.

An H+R 999 6". Still in good shape with only a couple spots on it. I found it under a pine tree when I was pulling traps at the end of the season. I'm thinking that was 1977. It has the transfer bar in it so it was fairly new,

Any of the remarkable things I’ve found weren’t cool at all. Unfortunately. My luck.

There’s the keys to my Coronet 440. Goddam that car.

Wish you could find my recognition plaque for 31 yrs service at Johns-Manville.

Ok, Yogi.

Nope but I did find the bitchin' screaming eagle you had hanging on the rear view mirror of that Coronet.

If I run across the asbestos recognition plaque or your roach clip with the colored feathers from the county fair, I will let you know