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Here's to the good ole days.
I know some of you guys are new to this game of collecting and I guess us old timers have to give way to the new generation. Don't be insulted we all get older and at some time need to step aside.
A lot of us old timers that have been collecting odds and ends fossils and the like have been there and done that. We have seen some of our favorite sites sold out from under us and now prohibited from exploring them. There have been circumstances that hunt site we were going to for many years inherited by family members and now their grandchildren are hunting them. "I don't want to see you around here again".
Just try to reason with them, failure was the only recourse.
Two of my favorite places were: First a Irving/Grand Prairie Tx site.
I not only found Arrowheads I found fossils coins bottles this place was a pickers paradise!
It was an old Sand/Gravel pit that had a turn of the century house there where three generations of children grew up lost coins and they allowed several old time resturants to dump there.
Arrowheads were everywhere.
I was allowed to look for over a period of 20 years.
Picking totaled over 2,000 points including several axe heads manos matates trinity stones and a cache of 11 pre archaic preforms the largest of which was 10.75".
That was an exclusive and I was lovin it!
It is now an industrial complex never to reveal anything again.
The second was an area on the coast near Rock Port Tx. Every year my parents would go to Aransas Pass and that gave me the opportunity to get to a place to find Pleistocene Mega fauna fossils.
Rhino camel mammoth stuff bones every where in every wash.
The last time I saw the old man he was not in very good health.
I went to see him again and I was told he had passed away. His grandchildren lived there and I was told in so many words I was not welcome there and if I was seen in the "area" even close to their property the law would be called. I did not ever go near there again.
So goes the here and now and yes as more people persue fossils and arrowheads the competition gets intense. If you are not there when the tide goes out or as the rain resides all you are going to
find are the footprints of the more adaptable.
My stories could fill a book. If you return I will try to post stories about just what I have went through over the past 50+ years.
Reply as you wish and I will attempt to respond in kind.
Thanks for checking this out and good day yall.
Bone2stone(Jessy)
A lot of us old timers that have been collecting odds and ends fossils and the like have been there and done that. We have seen some of our favorite sites sold out from under us and now prohibited from exploring them. There have been circumstances that hunt site we were going to for many years inherited by family members and now their grandchildren are hunting them. "I don't want to see you around here again".
Just try to reason with them, failure was the only recourse.
Two of my favorite places were: First a Irving/Grand Prairie Tx site.
I not only found Arrowheads I found fossils coins bottles this place was a pickers paradise!
It was an old Sand/Gravel pit that had a turn of the century house there where three generations of children grew up lost coins and they allowed several old time resturants to dump there.
Arrowheads were everywhere.
I was allowed to look for over a period of 20 years.
Picking totaled over 2,000 points including several axe heads manos matates trinity stones and a cache of 11 pre archaic preforms the largest of which was 10.75".
That was an exclusive and I was lovin it!
It is now an industrial complex never to reveal anything again.
The second was an area on the coast near Rock Port Tx. Every year my parents would go to Aransas Pass and that gave me the opportunity to get to a place to find Pleistocene Mega fauna fossils.
Rhino camel mammoth stuff bones every where in every wash.
The last time I saw the old man he was not in very good health.
I went to see him again and I was told he had passed away. His grandchildren lived there and I was told in so many words I was not welcome there and if I was seen in the "area" even close to their property the law would be called. I did not ever go near there again.
So goes the here and now and yes as more people persue fossils and arrowheads the competition gets intense. If you are not there when the tide goes out or as the rain resides all you are going to
find are the footprints of the more adaptable.
My stories could fill a book. If you return I will try to post stories about just what I have went through over the past 50+ years.
Reply as you wish and I will attempt to respond in kind.
Thanks for checking this out and good day yall.
Bone2stone(Jessy)
NO THANKS! :S 
We learn what we live. What was instilled in me, I tried to instill in my children. It's a whole new ball game out there. Live and learn.
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