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Title: Someone's been hunting on our place... (a poem)
Post by: chase perry on February 13, 2015, 06:49:00 PM
Someone's been hunting on our place,
but the ash of their fire's gone cold.

Blood red in the East,
pierced heart of the Beast;

Someone's still hunting on our place,
not forgotten the ways of the old.

   (http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u532/chase_el_p/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender-29.jpg) (http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/chase_el_p/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender-29.jpg.html)
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Post by: Wannabe1 on February 13, 2015, 06:52:00 PM
Very nice!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: fmscan on February 13, 2015, 07:01:00 PM
Chase, That picture says a lot!
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Post by: ron w on February 13, 2015, 08:29:00 PM
Cool......
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Post by: MnFn on February 13, 2015, 08:40:00 PM
Very cool Chase!  I keep looking but have never found anything like that.
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Post by: M60gunner on February 13, 2015, 09:40:00 PM
Really cool, just knowing you are walking/hunting where men once hunted gives a person a sense of being part of history. Finding an artifact just reinforces that feeling.
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Post by: on February 13, 2015, 09:42:00 PM
Cool!

Bisch
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Post by: Jon Kaw on February 14, 2015, 07:55:00 AM
What a wonderful way to start my morning.   :clapper:
Thanks.

Jon
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Post by: Stump73 on February 14, 2015, 08:37:00 AM
Thank you Chase!
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Post by: Izzy on February 14, 2015, 09:45:00 AM
Cool!
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Post by: archer66 on February 14, 2015, 09:53:00 AM
Very cool.  Call me crazy but the thrill of finding an artifact like that, holding in my hand and realizing it's possible age and it's likely purpose is every bit as great as the thrill of killing a deer myself.
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Post by: OregonTom on February 14, 2015, 11:33:00 AM
Great find! Cool poem!  I once found a complete obsidian arrowhead above the Crooked River.  It was one of the most spiritual moments of my life.
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Post by: VA Elite on February 14, 2015, 11:37:00 AM
I like that, as a history teacher, it would be cool to show my kids in class!
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Post by: Fletcher on February 14, 2015, 11:40:00 AM
Way cool!  We share hunting spots with many hunters from the past, but finding evidence in the process is truly "spiritual".
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Post by: chase perry on February 14, 2015, 02:14:00 PM
Thanks everyone!  I've found several pieces of varying size and utility in a little field that is our fall food plot; evidently we plow along the edge of an old campsite.  Thursday afternoon was an especially beautiful day, so I took my bow and a judo point to shoot a bit after I fed the cattle.

  (http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u532/chase_el_p/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender-25.jpg) (http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/chase_el_p/media/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender-25.jpg.html)
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Post by: nineworlds9 on February 14, 2015, 02:58:00 PM
Awesome
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Post by: Duker on February 14, 2015, 03:05:00 PM
GREAT story and pictures Chase       :thumbsup:   Thanks for sharing   :campfire:
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Post by: Wudstix on February 14, 2015, 03:05:00 PM
Awesome thought this was headed the other way.
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Post by: GREASEMAN on February 14, 2015, 03:13:00 PM
Cool!
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Post by: Steve Jr on February 14, 2015, 03:58:00 PM
Nice find
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Post by: Mudd on February 15, 2015, 07:30:00 AM
It's difficult to explain that feeling to someone who hasn't picked up an artifact and made that connection with the past.

I always try to imagine the last hands to have held it and used it.

 :archer:
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Post by: Elkchaser on February 15, 2015, 09:40:00 AM
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Originally posted by Wudstix:
Awesome thought this was headed the other way.
X2     I thought this was going to be a "Poacher" thread!
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Post by: JD Page 1965 on February 15, 2015, 10:08:00 AM
Put up a no Trespass sign, that should keep them off!  ;)
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Post by: Mark Baker on February 15, 2015, 12:16:00 PM
I like it!     :thumbsup:
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Post by: shankspony on February 15, 2015, 06:10:00 PM
Wow! the picture, but even more the poem. very very cool and relevant all over the world. For me as a hunter, even without an artifact like that, i can find meaning from that in my heritage alone.
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Post by: chase perry on February 16, 2015, 10:00:00 AM
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Originally posted by Elkchaser:
 
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Originally posted by Wudstix:
Awesome thought this was headed the other way.
X2     I thought this was going to be a "Poacher" thread! [/b]
I see how that could be the case...  I'll mention that it's a poem in the subject.  

Thank you all for the compliments!

VA Elite... if you'd like some artifacts like this to share with your students p.m. me your address.  I'll mail you a few pieces like this one that you can share with your class.
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Post by: bentpole on February 22, 2015, 06:39:00 PM
Just saw this! Well Done!
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Post by: Whitetail Addict on February 23, 2015, 07:41:00 AM
Very nice, thank you.

My girlfriend and I enjoy artifact hunting and we're lucky to have found a couple places near home that turn up a few nice arrowheads, and sometimes other things, every year. Each one is as exciting as the first. Like others have said, to hold something in your hand that someone made all those years ago, and probably used to feed and clothe themselves, is an awesome feeling. The cirumstances aren't the same, it's not life or death for me, but I feel a bond with these old hunters when I hunt with my traditional equipment. I carry the first tip I ever found with me when I hunt.

Bob
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Post by: Sam McMichael on February 23, 2015, 02:06:00 PM
Well done. Whenever I find a point I can't help but imagine the ancient archer stealthily pursuing game in a fashion similar to us today. Was his shot true, or did his angry curses echo through the woods (kinda like mine sometimes do)? It is always amazing to think that they made a living this way. One of the reasons I don't do well with spot and stalk is that my eyes stay glued to the ground.
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Post by: Tsalt on February 23, 2015, 03:07:00 PM
That's cool Chase!
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Post by: KyStickbow on February 23, 2015, 03:18:00 PM
Pretty cool!