It's difficult to explain that feeling to someone who hasn't picked up an artifact and made that connection with the past.

I always try to imagine the last hands to have held it and used it.

QuoteOriginally posted by Wudstix:
Awesome thought this was headed the other way.

X2     I thought this was going to be a "Poacher" thread!

Put up a no Trespass sign, that should keep them off!  

I like it!    

Wow! the picture, but even more the poem. very very cool and relevant all over the world. For me as a hunter, even without an artifact like that, i can find meaning from that in my heritage alone.

QuoteOriginally posted by Elkchaser:
 

QuoteOriginally posted by Wudstix:
Awesome thought this was headed the other way.

X2     I thought this was going to be a "Poacher" thread! [/b]

I see how that could be the case...  I'll mention that it's a poem in the subject.  

Thank you all for the compliments!

VA Elite... if you'd like some artifacts like this to share with your students p.m. me your address.  I'll mail you a few pieces like this one that you can share with your class.

Just saw this! Well Done!

Very nice, thank you.

My girlfriend and I enjoy artifact hunting and we're lucky to have found a couple places near home that turn up a few nice arrowheads, and sometimes other things, every year. Each one is as exciting as the first. Like others have said, to hold something in your hand that someone made all those years ago, and probably used to feed and clothe themselves, is an awesome feeling. The cirumstances aren't the same, it's not life or death for me, but I feel a bond with these old hunters when I hunt with my traditional equipment. I carry the first tip I ever found with me when I hunt.

Bob

Well done. Whenever I find a point I can't help but imagine the ancient archer stealthily pursuing game in a fashion similar to us today. Was his shot true, or did his angry curses echo through the woods (kinda like mine sometimes do)? It is always amazing to think that they made a living this way. One of the reasons I don't do well with spot and stalk is that my eyes stay glued to the ground.

That's cool Chase!

Pretty cool!