Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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02/13/21 06:41 AM
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Never picked and arrow heads myself, but my hunting property and nearby properties along the Rifle River in Northern Mid Michigan have mounds along the river created several hundreds of years ago. The head waters were known as wintering area for native peoples and the outlet into Saginaw Bay is called Wigwam bay, said to be a summer area. Not sure the purpose exactly of the mounds. A couple are hundreds of feet across with a narrow shallow moat or trench around them, with a level entrance perhaps. Never disturbed them, often ponder and wonder, sometimes total silence while my imagination tries to hear.
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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02/13/21 10:06 AM
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keep your head down and walk it,,,,,,theres more than likely more stuff in that creek.......where therers one ,,,theres a 98% likliehood there will be more. absoloutley awesome finds the thrill of finding them never ceases,,,,,,,,,i found my first when I was 9 years old.......still at it today.
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/04/21 08:22 AM
06/04/21 08:22 AM
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I know of folks that go walk sandbars after a big rain when the water level goes back down. They find all kinds of points and stone tools as well as petrified antlers and such.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/04/21 08:53 AM
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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 More likely a settlement or village.
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/04/21 08:55 AM
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Never picked and arrow heads myself, but my hunting property and nearby properties along the Rifle River in Northern Mid Michigan have mounds along the river created several hundreds of years ago. The head waters were known as wintering area for native peoples and the outlet into Saginaw Bay is called Wigwam bay, said to be a summer area. Not sure the purpose exactly of the mounds. A couple are hundreds of feet across with a narrow shallow moat or trench around them, with a level entrance perhaps. Never disturbed them, often ponder and wonder, sometimes total silence while my imagination tries to hear. Likely Hopewell mounds
Last edited by drasselt; 06/04/21 08:56 AM.
you can vote your way into socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out.
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/04/21 09:01 AM
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... Imagine having to kill a east Tennessee buck with one of those points. No doubt but can you imagine defending yourself having to defend against an attacking bear or big cat?
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/04/21 09:18 AM
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I found a bull elk shed in a beaver dam then a bull buffalo skull in another different creeks separated by many miles of country. I'd drive across on the Bozeman Trail to check some beaver traps and found a steel outer wheel from a buggy but never any arrowheads .
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps
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06/05/21 10:51 AM
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing
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