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Nice find while checking beaver traps #7179581
02/12/21 07:45 PM
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While checking my beaver sets this morning I was walking the edge of a cornfield and looked down and saw a piece of a arrowhead, and I started looking around a little bit and found two small ones both had been hit with a disc, but then I found one good sized one that was almost complete, I love finding these things and can't help but imagine the time they had in making them
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179587
02/12/21 07:50 PM
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Nice!

My best find was just after I killed a turkey, had him slung over my shoulder and had walked about 10 yards and it was laying in front of me, right up on top.

I laughed and figured this must be a good spot.

I proceeded to kill about 10 birds from there over the following years.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179590
02/12/21 07:52 PM
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That's really cool. On my bucket list!

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179595
02/12/21 07:57 PM
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The guy that owns the property showed me his collection, he's only owned the property for 3 years and he's already found over 100 really nice ones and tons of broke ones. Must have been a camp there, according to the history of the area it was one of the prime hunting areas for the cherokee. Being 1/8 cherokee it really interest me

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179605
02/12/21 08:03 PM
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That’s awesome! I have never found one but I generally don’t look lol. Need to pay more attention as I’m sure I’ve walked over some. Cool find!

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179610
02/12/21 08:04 PM
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Nice


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179618
02/12/21 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by RM trapper
While checking my beaver sets this morning I was walking the edge of a cornfield and looked down and saw a piece of a arrowhead, and I started looking around a little bit and found two small ones both had been hit with a disc, but then I found one good sized one that was almost complete, I love finding these things and can't help but imagine the time they had in making them
[Linked Image]
[Linked Image]

From what I've read, that's the older ones compared to the black flint ones. Maybe a couple 1000 years compared several hundred years old??? Used to be one of my past times as a teenager. Imagine having to kill a east Tennessee buck with one of those points.

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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179630
02/12/21 08:16 PM
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Cool find. Everytime i pick one up i wonder how long its been since it was last touched.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179637
02/12/21 08:21 PM
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Not trying to hijack your post, but my cousin found this in buncombe county, NC, not too far from you. [Linked Image]
Said it seems to be from soapstone?


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179644
02/12/21 08:25 PM
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Lefty and righty are scrapers made with what looks like Swan River Chert, the middle looks like a good size archaic point, with that patenation +3500 years

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179696
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Antique pig Castrater
Congratulations
A very rare find

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179698
02/12/21 09:07 PM
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I’m Not trying to hijack this either, but this was my coolest find while beaver trapping this year. Right below a beaver dam during the first week of January.

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Ave don't go where the beaver don't flow
Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: grisseldog] #7179703
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Originally Posted by grisseldog
Antique pig Castrater
Congratulations
A very rare find

Those pigs would have to have some small nutz.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179748
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Great find


Everything the left touches it destroys
Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179755
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Thats really Cool


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179777
02/12/21 10:20 PM
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Nice find, very cool.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179899
02/13/21 12:17 AM
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Scoht1 that's crazy. And Ave that's a great set of sheds, shed hunting is one of my favorite things to do. I'm fixing to head to Ohio shed hunting and then got a 3 day shed hunting trip to Illinois on the 28th

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179928
02/13/21 12:34 AM
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Very nice finds. My find from beaver trapping came this year when breaking the dam and returning to normal creek flow. As the water dropped a bunch of metal started to appear and low and behold it was parts of an old still.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179939
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Was hunting arrow heads one spring with my brother in law and father in law. Mississippi river bottoms. All sand. WE were spread out about 20"'apart when my father in law came running across the field and picked up an ax head in front of me . I'd have had to trip over it. I guess I should have looked further ahead.
Honestly the guy could be running a combine picking corn and find arrow heads.
just

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7179945
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Yea AKAjust I'm usually the one in the crowd that doesn't find any, Owen156 around here in East Tennessee it's not uncommon to find old steels but never found one under water

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