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 4/22/2007 12:28:46 AM
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Re: Fresh Dirt

Oh yeah you can have all this hot weather.  I had tons of luck with the teeth today but not artifacts.  The ways you look for teeth vary from location.  Like in one spot where there still in the rocks you have to bust up a bunch of limestone to get to them, sometimes they are showing on the stone and you dont have much work.  In another place I hunt, I have to get down pretty low to the ground, I usally craw to look for them.  thats for the smaller teeth.  Now today i went to a few creeks and I did a lot of sifting.  It all depends on where the teeth are.  Theres a bunch of different types of fossils here in texas, like the famous Ammonite.  Those are fun to get, but they get heavy.  I found 3 - 20pounders and I had to haul them out of this old concrete quary.  Fossils are hard work but they are worth it.

jax

 4/22/2007 2:42:29 AM
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Sounds like you had a good time jax. Those shark teeth realy interest me, but I guess I'm out of luck in this area. It does sound like hard work and I'll bet It's worth every bit of it. (even those 20 pounders). You mentioned crawling around looking for teeth. A lot of the fields I hunt artifacts in get planted with corn. Once the corn gets up around knee high, it gets realy hard to see anything and the few other people that hunt around here quit. Thats when I get out the knee pads and start crawling between the rows. It's a pain, but I can hunt right through the fall that way. I told you I was obsessed.
 4/22/2007 4:31:04 AM
User is offlinejax
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It only takes one good piece to get ya hooked, no matter what your looking for.
 4/22/2007 3:47:53 PM
User is offlineBob S.
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I agree with you. I see you have a new pic there. It's nice, but I'm not exactly sure what it is. I hunted a field yesterday that we've been to a couple times before with limited success. We ended up going a few hundred yards further than we had been before and stumbled onto what must have been a small campsite. We found several nice pieces, including an awl. It's the first whole one I've ever found. Really nice! I usually just find pieces. I was going to work around the house today, but I think I'd better go take another look. You hunting today jax?
 4/23/2007 3:12:46 AM
User is offlinejax
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Re: Fresh Dirt

That tooth is a Ptychodus Anonymous.  Thats my Favorite teeth to find around here, and the east coasters on here dont have these teeth to find out there.  Its a Cretaceous shark.  I didnt hunt today, I went to a Renaissance festival today.  That was pretty odd cause i've never been, all the people dress up in all the costums.  Its different.  I did enough hunting on sat. to last me a few days.  I got pretty sun burnt. Sounds like you had a good haul, can't wait for the pics.

jax

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