Blue's other hobby....

[Blue_Runner]

You boys know by know that I really like fishin. Well, you might not know that I like huntin too. Here's what I got on my last huntin trip ;D:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/stinkery/Front.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/stinkery/Back.jpg

[fishmaster63]

COOOOOL!!! a rock a 1997 penny and a ruler.

[reelapeelin]

NICE POINTS, BR!!...you must have quite a collection by now... :D...

Fishmaster, what's really impressive is that all 3 items in each pic were made in U.S.A. 8) 8) ...

[Blue_Runner]

Well, didn't mean to mislead - that is the front and back of the same point lol - sorry!

But, I do have a pretty good start of a collection of over 50 or so with only about 1/5 being perfect and the rest broken. Also a couple of Tomahawks that I'm real proud of.

Its fun to find things that were made thousands of years ago. My friend Mary, who also hunts, made the comment how everything today is made with "precision" and all this malarky and it won't last a year when these tools the native Americans made are still around after all these years.

Makes you think about the true meaning of quality ;)

P.S. Good one Fish! I got a chuckle out of that!

[willy]

Blue one of my good friends on the PD retired two years ago. He would spend whole days at a couple of sites in Scotch Plains, camp locations for the Leni Lenapi indians. He had all kinds of artifacts, tools hammers hawks and lots of points. Real history buff, do you do any site digging, thats what he did, found a communal fire pit where I guess they used to sit around and knap flint and use tools.

[reelapeelin]

Our property backs up to a 300 acre State "Heritage" Preserve...can't dig or remove anything...there's a huge boulder down on the river that has a "bowl" carved into the top of it...wish I had done some snoopin' around back there B4 it became protected... ::)...

BR...I kept thinkin' those points looked simular...duh, didn't think about 2 sides :P ...

[Blue_Runner]

Nope, no digging, all surface finds in plowed fields. Would love to have a good place to dig and learn how.
The old fire-pits are called "middens" or mounds.

Although when you say mounds, most people think of burial sites, but the firepits are referred to as mounds too.

Yeah RAP those grinding bowls are sweet! No way to take that home with ya! How the heck they did that beats me!?

[macojoe]

COOOOOL!!! a rock a 1997 penny and a ruler.

LMFAO!!

[Blue_Runner]

Bunch a wise-guys ::) ;D

[reelapeelin]

What would we do w/ out us ;D ...

[Blue_Runner]

I might would have to do a little bit of work to keep myself entertained!

[fishmaster63]

i'll make sure that doesnt happen.

[Blu_Lunch]

My late uncle had a large tobacco farm here in Enfield Ct his land was once used by the Scantic Indians and every spring when he harrowed the fields they used to find arrowheads laying on the surface also....

[Blue_Runner]

Wish I had a few more places to hunt down here. All my finds have come from a 5 acre corn field along a creek.

When I pull up in the truck on the other side of the woods from the field, I imagine what it must have been like thousands of years ago....smoke from the fire rising up above the treetops, big virgin timbers, abounding wildlife, spawning fish running up the creek. Man I can smell that buffalo cooking now!
;D