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Good stuff. I enjoy these threads.
I haven't made a sling or used one in some time. I've always been partial to those since you can find material to make one and stuff to throw just about anywhere. |
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My father and I used to go to construction sites to find points. I love these threads.
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I haven't made a sling or used one in some time. I've always been partial to those since you can find material to make one and stuff to throw just about anywhere. View Quote |
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That'll come in handy if you're ever attacked by styrofoam while wearing a bear skin loin cloth.
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I used to make them when I was a kid with old shoe strings and a piece of material cut from an old pair of jeans. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I haven't made a sling or used one in some time. I've always been partial to those since you can find material to make one and stuff to throw just about anywhere. Then there's that whole bit about getting good with actually slinging rocks or whatever. If you *are* good at that, though...they are one of the best improvised weapons around because they can be made anywhere from damn near anything. |
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Get good with knots and weaving and you can make your own pouch from cord you find or make. Then there's that whole bit about getting good with actually slinging rocks or whatever. If you *are* good at that, though...they are one of the best improvised weapons around because they can be made anywhere from damn near anything. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I haven't made a sling or used one in some time. I've always been partial to those since you can find material to make one and stuff to throw just about anywhere. Then there's that whole bit about getting good with actually slinging rocks or whatever. If you *are* good at that, though...they are one of the best improvised weapons around because they can be made anywhere from damn near anything. |
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Quoted: Get good with knots and weaving and you can make your own pouch from cord you find or make. Then there's that whole bit about getting good with actually slinging rocks or whatever. If you *are* good at that, though...they are one of the best improvised weapons around because they can be made anywhere from damn near anything. View Quote |
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These threads always make me think of this song.
Creek Sessions: Tyler Childers - Banded Clovis |
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Quoted: Yeah, I was never great at the accuracy part. I just enjoyed chucking rocks all the way across a field. But the cords usually broke before I had enough time to get good with it. View Quote Those guys you see doing the twirl over the head? That's OK if you're facing a line of troops and everyone's throwing rocks. You can easily control elevation but your windage is a bit...less controlled. The vertical twirl to the side has the opposite problem. You can control windage easily but the elevation is a bit random. Solution? Using a proper throw. Hard to find a video of one, might have to make my own one of these days. Described in text it'll probably be confusing as all hell though unless you try it a few times. If you're right handed, start with the rock loaded in your left hand in front of you, at or above eye level (this depends on sling length, it should not be so long that it hits the floor if your arm is fully extended downward, it should have enough room to move. Other than that, longer the better). Your right hand will be low enough to keep the tension consistent. When you are ready to throw, the left hand releases, allowing the rock to fall. Right hand kinda moves with it a bit (this part won't make any sense until you try it a few times) so that when the rock reaches the bottom of its travel and starts to swing back up, it goes for a second loop behind your head. (your arm should be straight by this point, and bending at the elbow when the sling rotates around to travel up for the loop behind your head) It kinda draws a figure - 8 if viewed from above. down and to the right right, up and kinda left crossing over behind you, sending the sling up well above your head (arm is definitely fully extended by this point, then bends again as ) sling goes down past your left shoulder, maintaining that constant momentum thing, then it'll come up over your right shoulder kinda like throwing a baseball. It's tricky to describe in text but if you make one or hell just try it with a keychain or something you'll get the movement down pretty quick. Half a loop in front, most of a loop behind, release. The release point is pretty much what it'd be if you were trying to throw a baseball or football, and you can get similar levels of accuracy and repeatability. Just a hell of a lot more speed and range. |
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Where do you get the rawhide? I want some for tomahawk projects.
Cool thread. |
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How brittle are your points? How many wild hogs stabbings would it take to break your spear point, making it useless until you re-knapped it?
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Awesome OP. Always enjoy seeing people with talent and patience.
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Bone point for an atlatl dart. Took a while to get a decent edge on it but it's pretty sharp now. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48191702217_7a2aa9140f_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48191300296_17a0c777f5_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48191300336_65d8f6e154_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48191300236_af75715889_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48217465221_5bf5fcddb0_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48217465281_16ff1f7c89_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48223379841_af86519db9_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48227672237_a6b799d36c_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48227672307_c6de64fa8f_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48227672422_4a6d7fc1f0_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48227672462_116d9425b4_c.jpg View Quote |
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awesome thread, smashy!
I'll need to find my camera. I learned to knap about 10 year ago. Great hobby. My stuff doesn't look as good as yours though. I'm down to old TVs and toilets at this point. Already smashed all the fancy rocks. |
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Very cool!!!
I have a display of over 100 antique points from Comanche County, Texas. Each one is intricately serrated and a work of art. |
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Great pictures.
Do you have a particular source for your knapped stones? |
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Damn dude, I wanna see that penetrate some fuckin GUTS!!!! EEERRR!!!
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It’s Late Stone Age but atlatl Bob Perkins is down the street from me. Interesting guy and sells atlatls.
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It’s Late Stone Age but atlatl Bob Perkins is down the street from me. Interesting guy and sells atlatls. https://youtu.be/Ej3it7Ct76w View Quote |
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That's awesome. Beautiful.
I expected you to notch the shaft too. I have to admit: not notching the shaft looks better. |
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Who has a link to the Forgotten Weapons post by Gun Jesus. I can't remember the name he put on it.
Big ass rock with a handle. |
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