New field finds

[FlintWalker]

I checked out a new field today.  This one is about a mile up the road from my house.  It's 60 acres of tobacco and only about 1 acre of it has any points.   I'm not complaining though. At least it has some.
 Here's a few pictures I snapped for those who like this kinda thing.

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[madcrow]

Those are some n ice finds Shannon.  If you go back after another rain storm, you may find some of the broken tips to match what you got this time.

[venisonburger]

Wow, to find all those items, very lucky.
VB

[Blacktail]

i wish i could find some...get on your hunting...so,are you saving and framing them...that would look cool on the wall.john

[Hillbilly]

Cool stuff. Half the land around here used to be burley tobacco patches, it's a thing of the past now. What few good arrowhead fields are left are planted in silage corn, and they don't plow them any more, just rip 'em up a little with a cultivator or plant no-till right through the winter rye stubble.

[xin]

That looks like some good smoking.  Nice points too.

[PeteDavis]

Good day in the fields.
Thanks for sharing.
PD

[FlintWalker]

Madcrow, believe it or not, most all the breaks on the points I find are ancient fractures. The plows don't break as many as one would think.   In 25 years of finding points, I've never found two halves from the same point.
 
Blacktail, most of these will end up in a bucket.  I only put really nice ones in cases. That amounts to maybe 3 or 4 a year.

 Steve, it's the same way around here.  When I was a boy, every farmer raised a few acres of "backer", and you had lots more chances of one of those patches being over a camp site.  Now just a few big growers raise it, and then it's usually in a couple BIG patches. The guy who owns this patch raises 175 acres. This patch alone, is 60 acres.
 
  I know of a few fields that are now in hay, that are unbelievable.  I'll probably never see them broken again.

[hedgeapple]

Hey Shannon, I found a nice point on Biggerstaff Barge last summer.  I put it with the rest of my small collection and can't remember which one it was, or I'd post a picture.  I think I know which one it is, but not sure.  I'l ask my friend Brian this weekend.  I was at his place, so he'll remember.

[GregB]

Looks like fun Shannon, if they could only speak to us...what stories they might tell.

[ricktrojanowski]

It amazes me how you find so many points.  That must have been a really populated area.  Thanks for sharing.

[cowboy]

good stuff Shannon! Don't look like anything you found while I was talkin to ya (for luck ). Wish I was there with ya...

[Hardawaypoints]

Thanks for posting.  It is refreshing to see some field finds...I about forget what they look like.  Like Steve said, most planting is scratch plow or grain drilled in.  To find a deep plowed field that nobody else beat you to is truly a rare thing. Most of the fields that are still open have been picked over hard too.

Jim

[TRACY]

Awesome finds ! I don't spend much time specifically hunting points anymore, the good places get lots of pressure and the otherspots don't get plowed much anymore. Right now everything is covered up with row crops. Lately I've been finding them in the small creeks and sandbars whe the rivers' are down. Thanks for the pics.

Tracy