Does anyone collect flint blades?

Yeah before no till it was great! We call them heart breakers also:) I have found both half of a couple points.
 
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More spear points.
 
Collecting? When I was a kid we were still using them.:D Fred and Barney and me.....:cool:

OK, I am not quite that old. We used to find them on the farm while plowing or breaking sod. Also stone axes and war clubs.
 
wow Jose... that is a very impressive collection man...:eek: there are some beauties in there.. i am quite jealous...:)
 
Amazing collection of cool blades and bits!

Found nothing so far by myself, have seen only in museums.

Thank you for sharing, Jose.
 
When I was 5, my parents owned a small farm. After it would rain horrendously, my Dad and I would walk the fields looking for arrowheads. I don't have any now, but we used to find a few every now and then. I would like to start the search again.

How do you find flint tools, besides searching farms?
 
My friend near Grand Junction, CO searches for areas where native people lived. Places with good water, game, and other conditions/resources. He showed me one site with remnants of primitive shelters that were a couple hundred years old. If you can locate where indigenous people lived, you have a starting point for where they made their tools and where they hunted.

That's one approach, anyway.

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Nice finds, fellas! Thanks for sharing. I don't have any pictures of the ones we've found though.
 
The old man that taught me how to fish and shoot left me his camp, property, guns, boats and these. They were all collected near the camp, years and years ago. He made the designs and frames. I'm in the process of remodeling a room to display these and other artifacts that my dad collected from his travels all over the world.

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These have hand axes:

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This one has boar tusks and shell earrings along with the points.
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The big one has some interesting designed pottery fragments on it, but I can't get a decent pic inside.

My Dad and I used to go artifact hunting a lot until the state decided you can't take it off public land anymore. However, last time we really went was on some private land a friend was selling to the state to turn into a preserve. It has a lot of mounds on it. We got buckets of tools and pottery but not any real good points. Dad carved some of the pottery into this:
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Most the stuff found around here is found on or around the river when the water drops. The old man that had these once found two intact jars about two feet tall, sitting on the side of a river swamp slough when the water went real low once. They were sitting upright in the mud, been there for hundreds of years like that. He donated them to a museum, they were beautiful. I have tons of stuff boxed up to mount and display when I get around to it. I found a couple of fragments and one point on some hunting property last year, but nothing like when I was a kid.
 
I will try and get some pics together this weekend of some of my collection. Thanks to all for posting pics I have been enjoying looking at them and wishing there were some fields to look in:)
 
Foilist said:
I'd love to hunt for arrow heads and the like, but I haven't the faintest idea how to begin.
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School me, please. I'd love to start looking, but where should I go? I live in rural CT where there was plenty of American Indian activity, so there ought to be plenty to find around here.
 
Foilist said:
School me, please. I'd love to start looking, but where should I go? I live in rural CT where there was plenty of American Indian activity, so there ought to be plenty to find around here.
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In the spring when the fields are plowed is the best time to look for them, walk the river banks, dry stream beds, wash outs in the fields are a good place to start.

I would start by walking the corn fields and look for the small flint flakes/chips in the drainage ditches or gullies.

Have fun and wear a good pair of hiking shoes.
 
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