Ralph Bryant
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Something like "Boredom is the mother of all invention" ...... 
When all else fails, do a little research and you'll be amazed at the number of good hunting sites still available out there.
Case in point: I had an old hunting partner who found some obscure information about a civil war site he had been hunting in northwest Arkansas around the Prairie Grove battle site. He found a line in a letter from another hunter several years back who mentioned finding a strange bullet type at a certain location, with a good written description of the bullet and the site where it was found. So he sat out to try and find one of these bullets, one not listed in Mason and McKee or other guides, described and photographed in a later article in North South Trader as a "Cosmopolitan Type II", a rare Trans-Mississippian bullet. Well, not only did he find one of those bullets, he ended up finding 12 drops and several more fired examples in one small restricted area that he had found as a result of his research (unfortunately now on State controlled park property). He later sold 4 of those drop bullets for $500 apiece, and in the process of his hunting, discovered another new and previously unknown type that he ended up naming the "Hindman".
And metal detecting is becomming an extinct hobby ? I don't think Bill would agree with you.
Ralph
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When all else fails, do a little research and you'll be amazed at the number of good hunting sites still available out there.
Case in point: I had an old hunting partner who found some obscure information about a civil war site he had been hunting in northwest Arkansas around the Prairie Grove battle site. He found a line in a letter from another hunter several years back who mentioned finding a strange bullet type at a certain location, with a good written description of the bullet and the site where it was found. So he sat out to try and find one of these bullets, one not listed in Mason and McKee or other guides, described and photographed in a later article in North South Trader as a "Cosmopolitan Type II", a rare Trans-Mississippian bullet. Well, not only did he find one of those bullets, he ended up finding 12 drops and several more fired examples in one small restricted area that he had found as a result of his research (unfortunately now on State controlled park property). He later sold 4 of those drop bullets for $500 apiece, and in the process of his hunting, discovered another new and previously unknown type that he ended up naming the "Hindman".
And metal detecting is becomming an extinct hobby ? I don't think Bill would agree with you.
Ralph
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