Who hunts native american points?

[Jon Stewart]

Got a couple last month that are going to be sent to an authenticator.  I am looking at clovis or folsum, I hope anyway.


It was after finding  my first point years ago that drove me to learn how to flintknap. I have taken one deer with one of my stone points

[MCNSC]

Have found a few also, was in a club for quite a few years, when they would plow fire breaks I would find arrow heads. Got kidded some that I couldn't see a deer because I was too busy looking down.  That, and that I should get a real bow    
Haven't found any in a few years now.

[BWallace10327]

A Navajo friend of mine gave me some points pertaining to my shooting forum, I can't say that I was hunting for them but I shoot better because of it.  

[Killdeer]

I found a broken head in Death Valley when I was ten or eleven, and that just augmented what
I knew about the world.  

As long as we can touch an ancient kindred spirit this way, we are bonded.

Killdeer

[Rufus]

Mostly from the Texas Panhandle.
I'm fortunate to be able to hunt and look for artifacts on a large ranch that borders the Canadian River.
I've found some pretty neat stuff.
Even an old 10-2-4 Dr. Pepper bottle in a place where like ????"How'd that thing get there"?  

[Rufus]

Like this..........

[Rufus]

And this....I know there were camps near these spots but I cannot find them on "my side of the fence"..

[RJonesRCRV]

Found these between the age of 5-ish to 17 years, when I left for boot camp.  Some are questionable, but most are obviously worked.  Our farm and house must've been on an old camp area, as I found a few pottery shards.  My parents have plenty more.  A few are from about a mile down the road behind the church I attended.  

Mostly from Central Virginia, Amherst County.

Then theres one I found last year at Wheatly Lake, Southern Maryland, as I was tying a spinner to my line and focused my eyes to the ground.  12 years at least since I last looked for arrowheads, and I can still spot them.

Plus a few Civil War era bullets, and a piece of what really looks like a piece of a cannon ball shard, though its likely too thin for that.  

[Roadkill]

We find things such as stone points and tools.  I look them over , show my son or hunting buddy, and leave them in honor of the folks who made them.  If I ever saw a folsum point, I might keep it.

[YosemiteSam]

Originally posted by Etter:
Aside from a few true arrowheads, my whole collection is pre-tribal. Mostly involving small family groups of hunter-gatherers. It took a long time for religions to coalesce peoples into one group. .

Maybe this is semantics.  I had to look up "pre-tribal" since, to my understanding, humans have never NOT been tribal (even today).  Are you saying that "pre-tribal" just means smaller bands (say 30-100 people like the CA tribes), rather than large tribal groups with smaller subsets of familial clans (like the Cherokee, for example, and all their different clans, social ranks, etc.)?  Or are you saying that "pre-tribal" were very small (10 or less) of mostly nuclear family groups?

When I was a teen I found an ax head, the strap marks were still easily seen.  A friend, a former friend, stole it and refused to give it back.  Anyway, on a Canadian canoe trip we crossed paths with a trad hunter that used, I think, a sinew backed mulberry bow for moose.  He had pictures on his Iphone.  He was using obsidian heads.  The first shot at a moose, his arrow failed somehow and he got no penetration.  His second shot went straight through it.  From the photos of the short blood trail, proved that the head was massively effective.   He shaped his heads after one that he found, about 2.5 inches long and one inch wide and slightly spoon shaped.  Later they challenged us for a canoe race to an island that was about two miles away.  My wife and myself, we beat them by over 200 yards.