That Big Sandy & Madison are really nice points! & Now you have the COA’s to back them up👍

Very interesting, I had no idea that all this was involved in hunting arrowheads! Have a great day!

Mark I can’t believe you found two like that…. Bad odds..

Those certified points are awesome! Too bad on the other two but you had your suspicions. They’re getting good nowadays reproducing arrowheads. Artificially adding patina and such. Keep your eyes out!😎

Well,that's crazy 😃👍 !! Good eye, man ✌🍀

I'm glad you got those points checked. They would really look nice in a case, the Point with the Certificate of Authenticity paper beside it. Who ever was pulling a trick like that wasn't very nice. Hoping your weather is nice & the waters be calm. :~)

Man i can't believe the odds of finding a point and having it be inauthentic... wild. At first, it made me question the service, but if you're searching something relatively public like that i guess it could happen.

.I see that the experts can decide if a piece is fake. Here there is no way that a piece found is false because there is no one who walks through the places where we look for the tips, we arrive at places that only we have trodden apart from the natives. Congratulations on the certification achieved in some points. Blessings.

Man, it is hard to believe that somebody would do something like that. Not very funny in my book. At least the Big Sandy & Madison check out and you have them authenticated. They are both beautiful points that you should be very proud of!

It’s terrible that someone would do that. A friend of mine has a couple he found that look modern to me.

.I didn't imagine that there were people who would play such kind of pranks. It would be very expensive to authenticate all the pieces I own. Here all my findings have been on the surface but in completely inhospitable places.

Crazy world, people just want to mess with others. To take the time and effort to do something like that. What does the person get from doing such a deed? FJB!!

I never would have suspected😮

Seems to me it would be easy enough to fool the authenticator. Put your newly knapped point in a rock tumbler with some dirt, sand, and water mixture and let it turn for 2- 3 weeks.

That's just down right dirty, I would think other point hunters put that there, Maybe trying to draw you into a spot?, Just come back from the Ohio river, I went closer to Indiana today About 5 miles North of where the great Miami river comes into it, I didn't even find a flake lol, But still a good day on the river, Thanks for the advice in the video, That really makes me mad that you had to spend money on those to get them authenticated

I'll take those 2 modern points off your hands, I'll pay for shipping!

Your suspicions where right them other 2 are killer’s. God bless my brother

That is crazy..hey man could you maybe put a link or some more info on how to send Jim Bennett an artifact or how to find one in my area..I live in Whitwell, TN so I'm close to the chattanooga area..any input or info will be greatly appreciated

It's authentic to the max...!

I found a fake last year, but it was an obvious fake. One of those gift shop Arrowheads, and it was right below a house of kids known for throwing stuff over the bank. I don’t know guy, looks totally authentic to me in the image. I’ve found several points with many hinges. I think Jim may have just been cautious on that, with the base missing and identifying the type. There was a big stink that went on between Jim and a certain KZfaqr a few years ago. Just looks authentic to me. I Enjoy the show, watch em all

Not the result I was expecting. I have seen fakes planted on people many times, even had buddies do it to me, but usually the fake is really obvious, and maybe these are in real life, but they look good on the computer. When somebody does that it is really not funny that they are messing with you, cost you money in this case, and it also really screws things up for people who are actually trying to learn about the past and the artifacts and the traits of different sites. I don't mind having a joke played on me so much as not knowing whether or not what you think you know to be true is really true, and messing up the link to the past that comes with finding an ancient point. To play devil's advocate, Bennett has to err on the side of caution, like in criminal justice where they say it is better to let a hundred guilty men go free than to convict one innocent man. In his case, it is better to refuse to paper 100 authentic points than to paper one bad one. If he has any reservations, he cannot authenticate it, which is what makes him a good authenticator unlike some other ones who will paper anything if the price is right. I will say this, hornstone is prone to retaining those hinges, particularly on beach finds along the river. I don't know if they are more protected than field finds or what is going on. In fact, I pulled about 1,000 hornstone beach finds (mostly broken pieces) just a few minutes ago to confirm, and many of them had fresh looking hinges, so the hinges don't bother me a great deal given the chert type and location where you found it, but I'll admit, after you pointed it out the serrations do look strange on that Kirk. So, unfortunately, I think these pieces could still be authentic, but even if they are, you now will always be skeptical. Since you are seeing the points in real life and they concerned you, and Bennett agreed, I'd say something is off with them, but they are not your typical planted fakes, which tend to be either really crappy museum gift shop flake points or amazing, ten inch grey ghost museum quality pieces. Sorry for the long comment, just a lot of things to think about on this one, and hate to see it happen to a nice guy like you if they really are planted fakes.

I see a problem here. you sent a point to get checked that was NOT worth 25 dollars. And it cost 25 to get checked????? In what book does that make Good sence?

Don’t believe you found two that weren’t authentic