It's good to diversify

[CTex]

Last weekend I had the opportunity to take a three day weekend. Saturday was opening weekend for Spring Turkey hunting and the weather was supposed to be decent. Friday I surface hunted for most of the day and only found one broken point. It was a bit of a heartbreaker because it was a notched point and the material was mottled.

Saturday morning I was up bright and early ready for some wild Turkey. I could hear Toms all over the place, but never saw one. Eventually I gave up and walked an area where I think a turn of the century farm house was located, but I have never paid much attention too. After a few minutes I found an old horseshoe and as luck would have it, I almost immediately found a little bird point. A few minutes later I found a license plate that is from between 1917 and 1921. A few more minutes and I found a J.R. Watkins bottle from the same time frame (along with several other old bottles that didn't have any distinguishing marks on them). After I was convinced there was nothing else in that area to find, I went to another wooded area to shed hunt and found two decent sheds. I spent the rest of the evening fishing.

Sunday after another unsuccessful turkey hunt, I decided the to spend a little time specifically looking for quarry blanks/bifaces and picked up all that I could carry.


I think this material is called Hamilton Mottled. This is the first heavily worked piece I have found from this material.


I haven't tried to type this one yet. It is the first complete point I have found on this property


J.R. Watkins Liniment bottle from around 1920


Texas Plate from 1917 to 1920


Quarry blanks and sheds

[willjo]

Some nice finds, I pick up all those things when I find them.

[SurfaceHunter]

I haven’t found a shed yet I think the animals eat them fast around here. I like them blanks, nice finds

[Kentucky point]

That is the exact same thing I do when gobblers don't come. I just get up, and walk around until I find one, and find some cool things in the process. That is a nice bird point!

Don't think that there is nothing left to find at that house! Get a metal detector (or rent one), and search that place good. Silver coins were made until 1965, so you may find a few there.

[CTex]

I was actually detecting when I found the bird point, but I have an inexpensive detector and there is a ton of trash metal in the ground. Even with the filter set I was beeping on almost every sweep over old wire, cans, etc. There is a known turn of the century homesite on a different property that I hunt that I am dying to detect, just need a good detector. I have a birthday coming up, there may be a new one in my future!!

[redrocks]

Nice finds good day

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Kevin, You sure had a great long weekend. I'm still waiting for above freezing temps so I can saw some of the material you sent me. My trim saw uses water.

[CTex]

Not to rub it in, but high of 71 and sunny here today!! I guess I'll pay for it in July/August

[JoshinMO]

Nice Stuff You found!

[gregszybala]

Way to kill a 3 day weekend!

[Sugaree]

Great array of finds CTex cool bottle and sheds! Where is the fish pic?

[Jethro355]

I figured there would be
“and then I went fishing and caught a cooler full of crappie.”

nice day man, congrats.

[Tam]

How do you guys cook your crappie ? Fry ?
I’ll catch some in May when I go to Georgia .

[Jethro355]

Fillet them, drag them through some corn meal, then fry them in peanut oil.

About as good as it gets...second only to walleye, as far as freshwater fish goes.😮

[CTex]

I caught about 10 ranging from 2.5 to 5 lbs. this little 1acre pond is full of large mouth and Kentucky black bass and are some of the best fighting fish for their size that I have ever seen.



Thanks for asking!!!!

[Jethro355]

That’s a big ole fatty there!!!👍👍👍

[Tam]

Now that’s a dream day to me ! Everything I like to do packed into a few days . I can be such a Tom boy . The points are always of interest of course but I think that license plate is the Star here .