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Went on a hunting trip today down in eastern texas and i must say is right up there with some of the best and most memorable days that i will never forget! 3 AMAZING finds! And one that was nearly missed all together since both my partner and i walked right over it when we set off down stream. Luckily on the way back, and we all know sometimes just a different angle is what reveals them, a small white piece of obviously knapped flint was poking out from under a small cluster of rocks and i flipped out the largest one ive found all year! And was at the very end of our hunt as we were nearly back to my boat. What a way to end such a great day. But my favorite one is the very first thing we found, and after that i didnt care if i even found another all day, i just wanted my friend to find him a good one! Hes not nearly into the hobby or does he have many artifacts but he will go with me from time to time. I kind of hung back after that and let he go on ahead a ways so he could maybe find something nice as well. We did find some field grade ones over the next couple hours and then we came up on a small tree laid over with the tip just barely out in the water and he eased out in front of it into the shallow water so i went around the other way and ill be danged!!! I looked down and knew immediately what i was seeing and kinda yelled at my buddy, why didnt you go this way!!! He knew i had found something exciting. He came over and looked down at it and i think it made him sick knowing he was that close to finding it. So im really feeling kinda bad now and just hoping he will come across a quality find. And after more walking and more field grades we found here and there we had decided to go since his son had a ball game he had to go to, so we headed back to the boat quit a ways downstream from where we started. And we were almost back to the boat when the first part of this story i mentioned came about. Another amazing find! I felt so bad for my friend, i wanted so badly to see him find a nice quality showpiece he could be proud of and talk about forever, and here i was, hunting nearly all my life with countless numbers of all kinds of different artifacts made from all parts of the tri state area, with 3 of the most amazing artifacts any hunter would be happy to find! Theres always another day i told him and some days are just your day and sometimes theyre not. He wasnt nearly as disappointed about it like i was though, he was happy with the 6 or so he found and just glad to go. We had a good time and wont ever forget today either. But the first one i found and my favorite of the 3 is what i think is an Ellis. The second one, that i really wished he found and the oldest of them, was a super thin almost white lightly colored San Patrice! And the last one that was nearly left and never uncovered i would call a Gary Spear. Im by no means a professional at classification but those are just my initial thoughts on these so feel free to correct me on them if im incorrect or are of a certain variant or whatever! Thanks
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