boxerboxer
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I've been looking at getting Ryan's book and both learning to knap and also to try to get MN to look at legalizing stone points.
I've been looking at getting Ryan's book and both learning to knap and also to try to get MN to look at legalizing stone points.
I've managed to beat about 30 pounds of rocks down into this menagerie of points so far. This is the learning (destroying rocks) phase of knapping for me. I plan to go over to a local hardware company nearby in the next week or so and see if I can get some good cobbles of Tuscaloosa gravel and heat treat them. Think landscape stones. That is what our local points are made of for the most part. That will cut down on the cost of learning too.How are the heads coming?
Manhood upgraded, sir. You are now 42% manlier than the average male bowhunter, who is at least 42% manlier on average than his non-hunting male counterparts. Congratulations, now I have to go chop a tree down with a steak knife to catch up.I baked some rocks the other day to heat treat them since I had some wood around the yard that needed burning anyway. I knocked a few good flakes off one and pressure flaked out this little "bird point", as they are often called. I used a deer antler to do the pressure flaking. I've been watching a lot about primitive hunting, mostly Hunt Primitive on Youtube (Ryan Gill's channel) and the idea of making a self-bow, some river cane arrows and using stone points really intrigues me. I bought a copy of his book The Secrets and Science of Primitive Archery and it is very interesting.
Anyway, here is the little point. I was going for the triangular "Mississippian" style point. It is a bit small, even for what it is. Don't be too critical, remember, it is my first attempt, lol.
Man, this may be an all new rabbit hole.
I would love to hunt with a spear!!I've never taken anything with a spear, but I was along on a hog hunt and witnessed a spear kill. It was one of those Cold Steel boar spears. It was maybe 12 inches long and 3 inches wide and you could shave with it. The effect was like a huge broadhead. One thrust and the boar was down and out in seconds. It was impressive.
The atlatl is an interesting weapon. I hobbled one together out of local cane and some wood and played around with it a little. Ryan Gill has quite a good bit of atlatl hunting on his hunt primitive channel. I gather that it is a lot more difficult to kill skittish animals with than a bow. One of his latest hunt videos is an atlatl hunt and he talks about that. I'm guessing their real forte was large animals like bison and the now extinct north American megafauna. Most of the "arrow heads" I have found have really been atlatl points or stone knives.
You could make that happen.I would love to hunt with a spear!!
It’s not allowed here in NY unfortunately.You could make that happen.
You could do an out of state hunt. Maybe for pigs in the season.It’s not allowed here in NY unfortunately.