Keep that glass you found, Collectors might pay you for it.

you two are nuts, love your art, and wow yur the second person that i know thats never heard of Birch beer

Now Opie...raping coyotes is just wrong,

Huh. That arrow intrigues me...

Nice photos!: D

poking things with sticks is fun!

I'm betting that arrow was a trajectory shot. Either for the hell of it, or aiming at a bird or something.

were that so, the arrow would have penetrated on either an upwards trajectory (firing up from the ground)
or a descending trajectory, (on it was down after reaching it's highest point)
Neither is correct. It was level, parallel to the ground, and was therefore fired from an equal altitude, from rather far off. And yes, I was there and spotted it.

I was just suggesting that it could have struck the tree while it was in that in-between zone of a trajectory shot..where the arrow had finished it's upward flight and was starting to level off before it's descent. Just sayin', y'know? Since arrows don't have quite as long a level-flight path as bullets. So unless there was something nearby that someone could have made the shot from at that height.

Could be happenstance, or it could be someone trying to fuck with the minds of anyone looking up at that tree, we'll never know for sure. It is a mystery :o

I was not trying to shout you down. Merely to illucidate.
The period of flight you describe would be the apogee.
It was merely odd that it was sticking straight out of the Saguaro, parallel to the ground.
I suspect it was fired from a fair distance away, by a fairly powerful compound bow. Their trajectories are very straight for quite a distance.

I guess the distance shot demo I saw at a Renn Faire a few years ago wasn't a good representation of what modern compound bows can do.. Still..seeing a guy bullseye a standard target from some three hundred yards away with a longbow was awesome.

Longbows were the snipers and artillery of the middle ages.
A modern compound bow would have delighted and scared the shit out of many folks back then.
They (compound bows) are as efficiant as a non-chemical projectile can be. Some of the newer bows would shatter a wooden arrow upon firing, due to the massive accelleration.

Outside of Catalina, Az.

Yeah! it does! Over on the other side of the mountains, it looks like Colorado!

Birch Beer = GOOD!

Boylan's Creamy Red Birch Beer is very good stuff indeed. One of my favorites.

Next time if I can't go bring me back the skunk skull.

Nice storytelling.

I hope you didn't bust that glass up out there in the wild and left it there so some animal can come by and cut themselves up on it....

Wait … Whuts wrong wit rapin toyotes?

I'm guessing that the arrow was shot into it when it was of average height and remained in it as it grew taller.

If you're smashing glass objects, I sincerely hope you pick up all the pieces.

The smashing can be fun, but the havoc the pieces can wreak, when left behind, is anything but.

He just had the hammer in his hand when he found the bottle, cause you need a hammer sometimes to help get to the fossils. Ideally, a rock hammer, but he took what he had.

Fully understood. Decent rock hammers ain't cheap. Probably the best place to find one cheap would be a flea market, very soon after they open. I don't know about Karno, but personally, I detest getting up that early. Though I will do it when it's necessary.

I used to live in Tucson, while I attended the UofA, far too long ago. I did my fair share of fossil hunting back then, too. My best friend was a palaeontology student.

HUzzah the BIRCH BEER! Now, you must experience sarsaparilla....

Argh. One thing that always upsets me when I meet a foreign immigrant living in Arizona is the knowledge that they will probably never sample America's Birch Beer technology. It's a much more popular drink on the east coast of the US.

Also, I theorize that the arrow is decades old and entered the cactus when it was just man-high. That;s right, it's an ancient lightweight fiberglass arrow with plastic fetching.

Quite correct, it is an ancient Indian arrow, made of aluminum. What you can't tell from the foto is, the shaft is camou and the zebra-striped fletching is plastic.
We all know the ancient Indians of the area loved zebra stripes and plastic!

The ancient petrochemical byproduct industry can be fascinating!

Indeed, the platicsmiths of yore could turn out a staggering number of cheap souvenirs for sale at stone age truckstops of the Gawds.

Birch beer!


I crave it! That bastard Bruce Rowe got me hooked on it -and it can't be had outside of the USA!

Ai-eeeee!

Great stuff.

that's it.... that's the last straw!

bad enough I'm jealous of your collection of firearms and ability to go shooting.... now you add fossil hunting to the list.... what's next? cave exploration and gem collecting?!

sheesh.... i swear.... this is partly why I hate living in San Francisco....

where do you live and how do i get there?!

I live in Tucson, and you get here by car or bus.

no i cant use either.... i dont drive and I'm broke.

We have done the cave thing, there are several nearby. Not too many gems, but there is gold and silver.
You gotta get out of Commiefornia, it's bad the health of the thinking, gun owning non-zombie.

you can say that again although i think it's better not to... and if I went i could help identify the gems or fossils... maybe even craft jewelry and such to wear or sell... a hobby of mine along side the guns.... my grandfather has an M1 and a M1 Carbine.... both of which I wish I could shoot....... i seriously wished I lived out toward the open country area...

Ya gots ta save up some moolah, and GTFO of Cali.
I was a year older than you when they banned all the stuff I enjoyed, so I beat feet to Arizona.
I was originally from L.A. I love the Bay Area, but there is no way in HELL I would ever live there.
Save yer scheckles and make some friends out here so you have a place to crash until you find a job, apartment, etc.

if only thingf were ever that easy.....

never mind the fossils look for GOLD but I has drank birch beer It's not bad It's more like a root beer with bite hehe Also look for cans too as they too are worth money

*shutters* I HATE birch beer. I wish I could have gone with out knowing it existed T^T And lmao at poking the dead skunk with a stick.

Oh god. Birch Beer is SPECTACULAR. :> Polar, a brand from new england, makes a great birch beer. :>

Bandemere Speedway is careved into the side of the mountain, and there are areas being preserved in the face where dino footprints, and I imagine other fossils, were found. Plus, for a while, they had little boxes of petrified dino poo you could buy.

they are known as Coprolite
--Rick

Sounds a lot like "corporate"... I wonder if there's a connection...

Aww, poor skunkie. :(

Next time, don't let Wolf get you so confused that you end up poking lips with an arrow & raping a dead skunk.

Gotta love traipsing around the wilderness!