How many sites do you guys frequent

[fasttracker]

hey everyone,
I was wondering how many good sites you guys have that you go to often. For me there's only two fields so far and one creek that I've ever found anything at. Idk, maybe the part of Kansas I'm in doesn't have much for villages but the few spots I have found involved a lot of trial and error and it seems like people on here are always trying out new fields and finding loads of great stuff.

 

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[Th3rty7]

A baker's dozen.

 

[Americus]

I have about 35 sites that I look at least once a year. Some of these are as far as 70 miles from home. I probably have 10 sites that I look lots and lots because of the large number of artifacts that I find on them.

 

[Tnmountains]

I have about 7 or 8 good field sites close but may only get to a couple of them a year before the crops roll in and when on the water will probably stop at 30 to 40 spots in a day to do a once over as the area may produce anywhere. I hunt 50 miles upstream and the same down stream. Just diffrent stretches each time. In a day I may hunt say ten miles of shore. I am always looking and studying new spots like rock shelters and such or possible new creeks that I can gain permission to get to. If a new site is 100 miles away or more it better be very good for that kinda trip.lol Though I have a couple that are worth the drive.
I quit hunting for about ten years and when I started back I started with what I knew from long ago. They still produced even with all the new hunters starting out and old ones leaving the game. Its all in the timing on field and water hunting and lotsa luck.
Take Larson he hunts one area every year and it fill his pockets
TnMtns

 

[Twitch]

Fasttracker - I have found points on 74 different sites in 9 different states. Oddly enough, even though I live just outside of St Louis - Missouri isn't one of them!!! I plan to fix that in the next weekend or two. I've only been hunting 11 years but in that time I've moved 1,000 miles or more twice so I end up in new areas requiring new spots. On the other hand I'll hunt a waterway with two dozen or more individual sites on it and generally refer to them all by just the name of the waterway. For nice ones it's easier to track exactly where they're from but when you find 100 partials across 15 different sites in a single day on a river it's hard to get them all separated.

 

[John G. Scoggins]

I have three main creeks I hunt.I travel up or down the creeks anywhere from 2 to 10 miles a trip.

 

[joshuaream]

In South Florida I have one site I look at, it's not even a good one but it's close to the house and easy to walk. It's a construction site that has a couple of plowed shell middens. Lots of broken shells, the occasional shell hammer, bead preforms, etc. No stone to speak of, but the main point is that I can stretch my legs and get my hands dirty when I need to relax.

Back in Kentucky/Indiana I know of around 130 sites I have collected pieces on, but I probably only concentrated on 15 or so depending on my travel schedule for work. A couple are on family property so I didn't have to worry about competition, others I knew if I didn't get there right after a rain they would be picked over pretty quickly.

On my three week vacation each year to the tropical country, where I have most of my Archaeological fun, I have 92 sites mapped out on my GPS that I visit. Most of them are just two minute drive throughs checking to see if erosion uncovered anything. I have routes mapped out, up one side of a river for several miles hitting several sites, and back down on the otherside checking different terraces. A couple of other sites receive a day or two of digging. I don't have as much competition, so I can visit them once a year and be pretty confident that I am seeing most of the fresh material. I scout out several new sites each year I visit, most of them end up being single component kill sites on completely deflated (eroded) terraces, where all of the relics can be seen exposed. I leave most of them as is unless there is a really nice point/tool mixed in.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I too have around 70 or so sites I have hunted over the years, but now I concentrate on just a few. Some of them were long distances away and some were really long walks to get into, and gas prices and the fact that I can't walk near as far or as long as I used to, so I now go to sites that are a little closer and easier access, but still produce very nice artifacts.

I have 4 Ft Ancient village sites within 15 minutes of my house and 3 that I stiil hunt with regularity and one we can't get into anymore. I also have a really nice Woodland site I've been hunting for quite a few years as well as about 8 or 10 nice Archaic sites.

 

[shopdog]

I HAVE FOUR PLACES I HUNT .ONE OF THEM IS ON A RIVER I WATCH IT LIKE A HAWK ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION OR ROAD WORK IM THEIR. ITS PAYED OFF VERY WELL FOR ME OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS.