marstraveler, welcome to the board. I'm a newbie at metal detecting. I also surface collect. Mainly arrowheads but I pick up musket balls, pot shards, old iron, barb wire And lost items when I see them. I don't dig, not for points, its not necessary and too much work. If you have trained your eyes for it and you know where to look you will find them. MD has increased the fun of collecting. If you are out looking for points and not finding any, go to the MD. It lets you look under the ground. You have to dig a little but you know something is down there.
There is a lot of skill to surface collecting points. Someone calculated that if all the native Americans were alive today that ever existed in the USA they would be "...standing shoulder to shoulder ,one every square yard ,coast to coast". If that is true you can imagine how many points there are mixed with the soil. Why don't we see more? We don't look.
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