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Hey all, back by popular demand. Like years past:
  Let's see those wonderful pictures and stories for this season as you have in the past.
  Please keep on topic and of course civil and please no personal attacks or comments.
  Wishing each of you a very successful and above all a safe season.
  Stay well my friends
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Shooting a sunflower field tomorrow afternoon, and hoping for lots of doves. If so, pics will follow.
   Thanks, Greg, for all the years of enjoying these threads. 
 
  
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Greg, I've been looking forward to it! Planning a few trips to provide photos. Wishing everyone here a great season with many to come. Not knowing my expiration date, I live mine as though it's my last! Karl 
 
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Well, the doves this afternoon stayed away in droves. Got a few shots however and ended the hot afternoon with five down.  Dickinson .410  ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75166_800x600.jpg)  But, there was a real bonus to the afternoon. While wading through standing corn looking for a dove I had shot down I found this! 2  3/16" X 3/4"  ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75167_600x400.jpg)  
 
  
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Stan
  That is a real nice field find. I would probably shoot more birds if I actually looked up more but I cant help it. I love finding artifacts 
 
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Me too, Travis. I've collected them since I was a Boy Scout. i've accumulated a pretty large collection for them all to be surface finds. I've got a friend and I know another guy here who have automated sifters and dig on their creek bank properties and have amassed absolutely huge collections. One of them recently made a sale of his to a restaurant in NC and the sale price was in the six digit figures.
   I'm waiting for another artifact collecting friend to confirm what type this point is. It's one of the nicest I've found in the last twenty years. One other cool find I made was while crouching in the weeds by a newly built pond, hunting ducks. I looked down and saw a petrified sand dollar, about 2 1/2" diameter. Solid rock, but with the little five point "star" clearly visible.
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Stan,
  Is the point shaped from bone or flint?
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![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75170_600x400.jpg) ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](https://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/75171_600x400.jpg) 2025 Spring Turkey hunt  
 
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Stan, beautiful chert point.  I missed a great shoot at sunrise due to a funeral of a friend.  Gil 
 
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Stan,
  Is the point shaped from bone or flint?
  Parabola  It is actually a rock type common to my area called chert. Most call it flint but it's not really flint. The point is probably from the Woodland Period of native American habitation here.  
 
  
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