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What wierd, rare, unusual or interesting things have you come across while hunting? I'll go first.
Once while hunting along Home Creek south of Sanna Anna in Coleman county I shot a turkey. He ran off in to some very thick underbrush and I went in after him. Deep in there I discovered a washed out stone age indian grave. There were two double bevel knives, never resharpened(meaning new) a couple of Perdiz points a Scallorn and a Wa****a. Most interesting were some shell beads and pottery shards. I showed them to an archaeologist at SMU and he said that was very unusual for that far west and inland.
Another time I was pheasant hunting in the panhandle around an old playa lake. I noticed some flint and started looking around. I didn't find any arrowheads but I did find an almost perfectly round, something, that was white, about the size of a big marble, but too light to be clay or glass. I could not figure it out. I took it over to the museum in Plainview and the resident archaeologist there told me that it came from a buffalos stomach. He said they would lick themselves and ingest lots of hair. In their stomach this hair would form balls which were hard to digest. Sometimes it would get very hard. He said that apparently indians or wolves had killed a buffalo there and after everything else had decomposed this was left and that although they are kind of rare he had seen them before. I still have it. Wierd huh?
What about you guys, and girls.
Once while hunting along Home Creek south of Sanna Anna in Coleman county I shot a turkey. He ran off in to some very thick underbrush and I went in after him. Deep in there I discovered a washed out stone age indian grave. There were two double bevel knives, never resharpened(meaning new) a couple of Perdiz points a Scallorn and a Wa****a. Most interesting were some shell beads and pottery shards. I showed them to an archaeologist at SMU and he said that was very unusual for that far west and inland.
Another time I was pheasant hunting in the panhandle around an old playa lake. I noticed some flint and started looking around. I didn't find any arrowheads but I did find an almost perfectly round, something, that was white, about the size of a big marble, but too light to be clay or glass. I could not figure it out. I took it over to the museum in Plainview and the resident archaeologist there told me that it came from a buffalos stomach. He said they would lick themselves and ingest lots of hair. In their stomach this hair would form balls which were hard to digest. Sometimes it would get very hard. He said that apparently indians or wolves had killed a buffalo there and after everything else had decomposed this was left and that although they are kind of rare he had seen them before. I still have it. Wierd huh?
What about you guys, and girls.