[dennishoddy]

Well may get me shunned from the group but here goes, you asked and I keep no secrets as I am only judged by one. Besides hunting I like to hunt Indian and prehistoric artifacts, brew beer and grow and breed cannabis. Let the criticism begin!

I do participate in finding artifacts at least. LOL.
We live 1/2 mile from the Arkansas River and have a buddy with an air boat. It's pretty fun to boat down to a sandbar and walk around looking for points and bones. We find a lot of bison teeth and the occasional arrowhead. Grew up with dad making home brew.

 

[Smith676]

We have found thousands of points, many bison skulls, prehistoric horse and Mammoth teeth and an 8 foot Mammoth tusk that came out of the bank of Cooper creek along with some petrified tortoise shell some of which is nearly 2 inches thick.

 

[dennishoddy]

We have found thousands of points, many bison skulls, prehistoric horse and Mammoth teeth and an 8 foot Mammoth tusk that came out of the bank of Cooper creek along with some petrified tortoise shell some of which is nearly 2 inches thick.

Thats quite the haul!
I've got a total of two points and a lot of bison teeth. We did find some bison skulls years ago when Kaw Lake got really high. Buddy and I used my square stern canoe to motor upstream on Beaver Creek into Ks. It finally got so narrow we had to get out and turn the canoe around by lifting it up to turn but in the process we found two bison skulls and several of the horns imbedded in the sand on a corner.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

Well may get me shunned from the group but here goes, you asked and I keep no secrets as I am only judged by one. Besides hunting I like to hunt Indian and prehistoric artifacts, brew beer and grow and breed cannabis. Let the criticism begin!

Looking for artifacts is awesome I went down a rabbit hole on YouTube watching folks along the Arkansas river looking for arrowheads, been a lot of crazy things found and the history channel even did a show over Turkey mountain in Tulsa and Vikings sparked by two guys finding some old skull in the river if I recall correctly. Growing anything is enjoyable.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

We have found thousands of points, many bison skulls, prehistoric horse and Mammoth teeth and an 8 foot Mammoth tusk that came out of the bank of Cooper creek along with some petrified tortoise shell some of which is nearly 2 inches thick.

Your going to have to share photos of these things

 

[Smith676]

Sometime I'll get this stuff unpacked and dust it off for some photos.

 

[Wishbone]

Bear, my buddy found this along the N Canadian in Okfuskee County. He had it aged and I believe in the 5,000 year old range IIRC.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

Bear, my buddy found this along the N Canadian in Okfuskee County. He had it aged and I believe in the 5,000 year old range IIRC. View attachment 10255

Now this is awesome! That would be so cool to come across. Some guy was walking down the Arkansas river and found a skull with a point of some kind in its head still and it turned into a big deal if I’m remembering correctly changed the time when they thought humans here were adapting tools for hunting or something. I think the skull went to several universities and might be in Norman now. Could probably Google it and get the du story I’m sure that I’m not remembering exactly
To think that thing has been sitting there for 5k years and now all of a sudden you are finding it touching it moving it that is just, it blows my mind. So cool

 

[Wishbone]

My buddy that found it sent to a group in OKC who does preservations. I'll see what I can find about it and post. Very interesting what they told him about it.

 

[Wishbone]

Easier to find than I thought.

I have the radiocarbon date results for your bison skull. It is 5100 +/- 30 years old. This date supports our identification of the skull as belonging to Bison occidentalis. If there had been a culture associated with the skull, it would have most likely been the Calf Creek culture. They are the ones that made the Calf Creek spear point. I've attached an article about the Calf Creek skull with point embedded in it to give you some more information.

I am in the process of treating your bison skull with preservative. It is looking good.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

Freaking awesome! It’s been there 5k years I don’t know if it needs preservatives ha. Really though that is so cool what an awesome piece to have in your home. Not to sound like a nerd but someone needs to start a thread where we can post the things we find like this. Sounds like smith676 could show some stuff and now with Dennis doing some metal detecting it could be really cool. Somewhere to post just any crazy thing we find
Looks like I’ll do my evening reading on the calf creek period. Thanks for sharing this Wishbone.

 

[dennishoddy]

Awesome find on that skull Wishbone! An artifact thread may be an interesting one to put up. I'll look into it and put a sticky on it or something in the off-topic Tavern forum.
We find entire bison teeth pretty regularly. Back in the day there is a cliff called Colemans bluff on upper Kaw Lake where Native Americans chased the bison over the cliff where they would die or be injured enough to easily dispatch. So, over the centuries, the bones and teeth were washed downstream in the Arkansas river to finally be covered up by sand.
We have found several pieces of what we thought was petrified wood but it was thin like a shaving. I sent pics of it to a guy that's on another forum who is curator of a Native American museum in the Tulsa area. He said it was the enamal off the front of a bison tooth. He's also identified the two points I've found. One was dated 5000 B.C.. That suckers old!
There is a pretty big air boat community around Ponca that run up and down the Arkansas River. Someone is always out walking the sand bars. It's getting harder to find the artifacts.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

I’ve only ever found one point. It was on the Illinois river I looked down and there it was plain as day and no mistaking what it was I thought it was the coolest thing. Not long after I found it I checked my pocket and somewhere between swimming and acting silly it came out of my pocket.

 

[Wishbone]

Preserved image.

 

[Bear Sits In The Woods]

Dang that is so cool. Wouldn’t that be awesome to have in your home with a display light above it maybe some literature over the calf creek culture.

 

[Casey]

Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.

Between seasons my wife and I travel to Washington Ok to visit our daughter SIL and grandkids for a few weeks.

I'm also a Hunter Trapper Education Instructor here in Pa for the past 26 years.

I also work on Conservation Issues at the capital in Harrisburgh, Pa.

 

[dennishoddy]

Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.

Between seasons my wife and I travel to Washington Ok to visit our daughter SIL and grandkids for a few weeks.

I'm also a Hunter Trapper Education Instructor here in Pa for the past 26 years.

I also work on Conservation Issues at the capital in Harrisburgh, Pa.

Welcome to Oklahoma Hunter!

 

[Bullbuster]

Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.

Between seasons my wife and I travel to Washington Ok to visit our daughter SIL and grandkids for a few weeks.

I'm also a Hunter Trapper Education Instructor here in Pa for the past 26 years.

I also work on Conservation Issues at the capital in Harrisburgh, Pa.

Welcome OKH. Feel free to tell us a bit more about yourself.

 

[dennishoddy]

Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.

Several trappers on this forum too. What specie do you target?
Around here I mainly go for the Racoons and possums. After the first of the year, buddy and I will try for some bobcats when the hides get prime.
Fur prices around here suck, but we trap to help the ground nesting birds like quail, turkey and pheasant. The racoons decimate the ground nesting bird nests and are creating issues with the overall population since nobody traps for them since there is no money in it.

 

[Archer22]

Other than hunting and fishing: I like to go hiking and camping with my wife and pups whenever we can. I have a laundry list of hobbies I used to pursue and still have the equipment, but just haven't in a while: playing guitar, golfing, fly tying, mountain and road biking, trapping, knife making. I've tried building my own bows and I do still work on guns, upgrading parts, refinishing, etc. I started getting into cerakoting a few years ago.

Although I never played but one year as a kid, I actually starting playing co-ed soccer on a team at my work a couple years ago. Turns out I'm not too bad. We just finished indoor season and I'm trying to get in shape for outdoor.

At 36 with no kids, I'm still finding I don't seem to have as much time for hobbies as I used to. I don't have the same desire to be constantly busy. I recently thought about selling my bikes and my golf clubs (I know I'd regret it). I've already sold our kayaks last year.

I'm seriously contemplating getting my Nuisance Wildlife Permit and start doing that on the side, kind of a hobby and potential business venture wrapped up into one.