Couldnt get daddy to actually pay attention to the turkey gobblin cause they turned up a dang field an we had to walk through it...that was in jackson co ..come on daddy.....hush boy i done found one an a piece uvanuthern..you go kill the turkey..ill be here when you get back...lot ovem to be found up there.

I don't know how much luck I'll have, but I did lose a sifter box and some shovels a while back.

I plan to look after deer season

It sure is. Had an uncle spent most of his life hunting them. He injured his foot on the job in the 60's , Doc told him to walk a lot . He took up arrow head hunting and continued it for 30 years or so. When farmers went to no till farming he quit for the most part. He gave the Jackson County Heritage Center a large display of most of his best finds.


Here's a link to a story on the champion head hunters. Husband wife team.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/feature...ancient-arrowheads-coveted-by-john-wayne

You just have to look where they are. I took my kids on a dig Skinny was doing 10-12 years ago in south Alabama. The kids were getting bored and he and I were talking. He pointed at a plowed spot 50 yards away and said "Hey kids go pick up pottery!" They were 4 and 6 at the time and they ran over there and combed that little plot and came back with a bowl full of pottery fragments. Jason said it so matter of fact I thought he was kidding. It blew me away. It's like big deer in this state you can't kill one where he ain't.

Another thing is true what an old man who combed the plowed fields and found them by the bucketful once told me was the the number of points you'll find is directly proportional to how close your nose is to the ground. In other words, take your time, go slow and have a stick to turn every rock that may be part of one. I can't tell you how many I have found from just seeing the edge, bottom or top of it.

He don't need to ever preach again,no telling what "God" will tell him next.

I don't know how you guys who spend any time outdoors, haven't found an arrowhead. I've found quite a few of them and I've never walked a plowed field looking for them. I found one at a skeet and trap range, laying right on the edge of a trail from one stand to another. I also found one right on the edge of a wash in the middle of a pig trail road at Skyline management area about 15 years ago. There's no telling how many times both of those had been stepped on or over since winding back up on the surface of the ground.

All you gotta do is keep an eye out for a non natural shaped rock while walking. I don't mill around, they just pop out to my eye. I wasn't looking for arrowheads either time mentioned above. I was just walking. The one at the skeet range I was walking with a group of 3 other guys..

Fur if you can find one in the hills of North Perry County I'll pay you. Tennessee Valley is rich. Like I said you have to look where they are not where you think they might be because it's woods.

Mangler, the skeet range I found that point on was somewhere close to Tuskegee. I ain't a pro at finding them, but I assure you there's places in north Perry county that have them.

The questions I've always asked myself is why is this here? Did he lose it? Was it a reject? I mean it seems that as much time as it took to make another one that they would have kept up with them better? Why is this arrow head laying here????

Missed shot, or maybe a hit animal escaped. Many reasons for one to be in a location. They may have upgraded to a bigger, newer one and discarded the one you found.

I use to hunt them all of the time but most of the places now are in pines or not farmed any more and the ones now for the most part are no-till. True story... when I was 18 or 19 we were staying in Hamilton Alabama at the Holiday Inn because of racing go karts at a state meet in Guin. The hotel sat next to the river and there was a dirt parking lot next to the hotel. Half of the parking lot was plowed for a garden. I went out in that plowed part looking around and when I came back one of the guys that was a family friend said “ well did you find anything?” He knew me and he knew what I was looking for. I said “I sure did “ and pulled out 6 whole one and 4 broken ones. He just laughed, shook his head and said “I think you could find those things in a parking lot. I said “ well I guess you could because I just did”.

99% of the time you won't see the whole arrowhead in a plowed field or dirt/soil setting. That's why it's important to have a long stick/staff/cane to turn every little speck of exposed rock that you see protruding from the dirt. In shallow creeks it's quite normal to find them fully exposed.

Indians lived and hunted near a water source, you want find many in every plowed field, you got to look in plowed fields along creeks and rivers , and most of the ones I found were in fields along the coosa river in st. clair co., now most of the areas where I found arrowheads are under water.ive got shoe boxes full that I got near the river , in the spring of the year, when the fields were turned, and after a rain, is the time to go.

I was walking down a steep Creek looking for a good crossing on the Nat frst and found one. They are everywhere you just have to look.

Probly find em in big piles where Andrew Jackson rounded em all up at too.

Fascinating story. Thanks for posting.

Hey guys,

Great stories and good advice in this thread. Thanks for posting. I learn stuff everyday on here.

Probably from the wife "putting them up" .
Cant you imagine the convo.

Injun man: wheres my spear points at?
Injun wife: I put them up.
Injun man: (proceeds to cursing about wife touching his stuff)while pulling out the knapping equipment for the third time that week.

Prolly the finest cache of artifacts in the Southeast is under Lake Guntersville along the original river channel .