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Message:: [QUOTE="buyingtime777, post: 274452, member: 188"]Go to your friends field in the spring after it is plowed and has had a hard rain. The valley would be difficult, especially for a beginner. Anything there only washes out very slowly and there is too much vegetation and over growth. I have found them in creek beds but never in the valley walls or floor. After you have gotten the knack in a field your eye will see a worked piece from other rock quickly but it takes a while. By the 1700's I do not think they were using stone points anymore. The stuff in your collection hunted mammoths and other extinct animals around the ice age. The later Woodland Indians made very small stone points suitable for a bow but they are very hard to see. I used to pick up every flake I found. I have 5 gallon Culligan water jugs full of flakes. When I found my first Woodland point I went through my jugs and I had a quite a few. I just didn't realize it. I used to have a broom handle with a large nail driven in the end and snipped off to poke stuff with. It will save you a lot of bending over for leaves.....[/QUOTE]