A little break off the base but glad I found it. Aweful lot of walking today, snow storm didn’t help to uncover as much as I expected.

Nice find!

If only it could talk

Nice find, occasionally someone will find one around here

Not enough soil getting disturbed to turn many up I guess

I would check your waterways. Has to be some in there I would think.

High spots in fields are where I look. Some look good but I find nothing others have good finds.

If you come across flakes and chips, look every inch of that area over.

Has anyone ever did any real life testing in the modern day with this type of arrow heads? I just wonder how well they penetrate, if they were used more than once, etcc.

That is almost a perfect one, great find......jk

Nice!!!

Wow!! Very nice.

You’d think with all the Indians we have here we would find arrow heads like that. All I can find are some empties.

Nice one. I havent found one in a few years now because i quit discing and put everything into hay at home. You definitely gave a tip on the high spots and where u find chips look hard. Very true here as well. Theres a high spot beside a spring here in a cow pasture im going to plow one day to look. Me and grandad cleared and disced that spot years ago for cows and i found some bird points there. I know theres more just waiting. Anyway keep posting its an interesting subject ty.

Awesome

The vast majority of “arrowheads” are used up knives. When chert was used to tip an arrow, most were simple small triangles with notches, although in some regions some of them did have some narrow notches. When we look at historical arrows, many are actually tipped with bone points. In fact knapped stone on arrows is not super common UNLESS the arrows were used for warfare. Spears and atlatl darts same - VERY few flint points on them, flint is just so delicate that of the available materials you are better off using bone/antler, and bone points kill just fine.

As for testing them, yes, definitely. I have taken over 30 deer with stone points and a selfbow I made. They penetrate great when made and attached properly. What you do not want to make the mistake of doing is using something shaped like one of the used up knives commonly found in fields. Those were not made to penetrate, and after a few resharpenings they penetrate even less. I had complete pass throughs on maybe 1/3 of my deer - but keep in mind I was using 34 inch long 800-plus grain arrows and keeping shots under 20 yards, most shots in the 10-15 yard zone, with a 55 pound osage selfbow. The very first deer I killed with a flint point hit between the ribs going in, broke a rib coming out (also broke the flint point) and just the fletchings were still in the deer as it ran off and the arrow was laying on the ground about 20 yards from where the deer was hit. I was surprised, I wasn’t expecting that much penetration. But many more deer proved it was not a fluke.

Small points top all found in a 1 acre area. 2nd pic quartz points found same farm but not same place.