Pacific Northwest Hunting

[BobGuy]

Hey everyone!

I have a brother in Tacoma who wants to get into arti hunting but I’m not really sure how to help him get started. It seems that the rivers and creeks out there are fast and full of boulders and would bust anything up that would fall in.

Anyone in the PNW who can provide a couple of ideas on how and where to get started?

Thanks!

BG

 

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[bowwinkles]

Hey everyone!

I have a brother in Tacoma who wants to get into arti hunting but I’m not really sure how to help him get started. It seems that the rivers and creeks out there are fast and full of boulders and would bust anything up that would fall in.

Anyone in the PNW who can provide a couple of ideas on how and where to get started?

Thanks!

BG

First may require a language course and then look here https://thegeekhost.com/arti-hunting/

 

[releventchair]

Gravel bars and cut banks would be worth a peek.
Current can be slower at bottom. Things can tumble about without getting beat to bits. But so what if an artifact is chipped or broken?
The alternative is to not hunt water.

 

[H.P.]

Can’t help on where to look, but I can tell ya he’s gonna find a lot of broke ones wherever he looks..Lol.

 

[Tdog]

Someone recently asked the same thing. Check out this link...

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...l-newbie-doesn-t-really-know-where-start.html

 

[Twitch]

There are 2 or 3 active Washington hunters on the forum. Maybe they can help you out.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Tell him to research where Indian tribes were located in his state.Then start his search from there.

 

[Tdog]

Tell him to research where Indian tribes were located in his state.Then start his search from there.

Many if not most artifacts found will predate any known named tribes. Their names are lost to the past.

 

[Tdog]

Hey everyone!

I have a brother in Tacoma who wants to get into arti hunting but I’m not really sure how to help him get started. It seems that the rivers and creeks out there are fast and full of boulders and would bust anything up that would fall in.

Anyone in the PNW who can provide a couple of ideas on how and where to get started?

Thanks!

BG

First may require a language course and then look here https://thegeekhost.com/arti-hunting/

I suppose there could be less helpful responses..., maybe.

 

[BobGuy]

I suppose there could be less helpful responses..., maybe.

Haha true!

 

[BobGuy]

Someone recently asked the same thing. Check out this link...

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...l-newbie-doesn-t-really-know-where-start.html

This is helpful and I actually shared it with him. I’m trying to see if anyone can give specifics on how to hunt that area. If someone asked me about hunting in southern Illinois I could tell them specific types of creeks to hunt, which to avoid and even fields to look for... Not that I’d give up my secret locations but I could at least give them some general guidelines. Unless they are in my county in which I might tell them the exact opposite!

 

[Target1972]

I am located in Central Indiana and have had zero luck in streams even close to known cites. Just what type of creek do I need to look for?

 

[Noah_D]

Someone recently asked the same thing. Check out this link...

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...l-newbie-doesn-t-really-know-where-start.html

Hey that's me!

 

[southfork]

The high desert areas are good bets you only need to find the shoreline of a dry lake and any high spot on or near the dry lakebed . Any spring area around the dry lakebed is always a good bet . Closer to the coast major rivers where they meet the ocean walk the beaches where affected by the tides just walk the gravel and sand at low tide along the river . Meadows with a spring or creek and southern exposure seem to always have a few points I like long fingers of land like a narrow peninsula running out into a dry lake bed are hot spots look for blows where the wind has cleaned the loose sand off . A walking stick with a nail or spoon will save your back flip every chip have fun and good luck

 

[Tdog]

Hey that's me!

YES IT IS! The thread you started has been helpful to MANY folks hopefully. You're a ROCK STAR!

 

[BobGuy]

I am located in Central Indiana and have had zero luck in streams even close to known cites. Just what type of creek do I need to look for?

I look for smaller streams that are a combo of silt, sand and gravel bars.. look for creeks that look like this one. I’ve never had luck in deeper creeks or creeks that are all silted in.


Also look for steep cut creek banks because that’s where the artifacts fall in from.


I also study the topo maps and look for areas where there is a flat plane on either side of the creek that would be large enough for campsites like illustrated below. You can hunt creeks that cut through steep hills on either side but there are fewer artifacts that fall in along those sections because the creek isn’t running right through the sites. I’ve had luck hunting all along this creek but have had the most success at the first x and you’ll notice how it’s flat on both sides.


I don’t know what your landscape looks like but the first thing I’d do is start looking for streams that have exposed rock bars that you can walk. From there, start looking at the maps and identify the spots where you think the camp sites will be.

The other thing is that it takes a lot of hours creek walking to find artifacts. I’ve also found it to be relatively inconsistent in that I can go out and find three points in one walk and then walk for 20 hours over the next few floods and find nothing at all and the whole time I’ll be thinking about how bad this creek sucks and that I need to find a new place. Then I’ll turn around and pull out 6 or 7 after another flood. You may already be walking the right spots but just not at the right time. You gotta keep checking back.

 

[unclemac]

i do the majority of my hunting in Washington state. Stay off public land ... since he is in Tacoma, he should hit the beaches. I have found over 100 points and artifacts on Washington beaches. The coast was heavily populated for thousands of years, however the coast line and sea level has also constantly changed. He should consider hunting the Olympic peninsula beaches, where he can and it is legal. Farm fields along good sized rivers with high banks are good too, get permission. Forget the woods, the trees and shrubs and undergrowth are impossible to hunt. Look for old salmon spawning streams and find the spots where the fish had to jump or struggle to continue to their gravel patches. When looking on beaches look for bricks or broken pottery, those sites will often indicate that native peoples continued to live there post contact. Also, on beaches find places where small year round fresh water streams connect to the bays or ocean. The streams will spill out artifacts over time and the fresh water attracted wild life that was hunted.