I was wondering if anyone uses knaped heads to kill deer size game. I have not made any yet but I can not look at a pretty piece of flint or stone without thinking that would make a nice head>I think this might turn into another hobby.
I will have to do some reading..
Paging Ferret and a host of others!
Yes people do. If you have ever seen the best and wosrt of Tred Barta I believe he uses them almost all the time. I think i even remember seeing him take a moose with one. If they were good enough for indians there good enough for me.
Its not legal in all states , check ur game laws!
My avatar picture on the left has a doe killed with an obsidian point I knapped. Actually that same arrow and head has taken 2 does and a buttonbuck, and is still in perfect shape!
Do hogs count? http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=74;t=000072
Don't do it geno!! Slowly back away from the rocks :D
Hey Woody :wavey:
And if'n ya break it send it to me fer my flintlock... :)
sort of recycling...
Didn't know what this was about,but I just had to read it.
Pappy
Did you think the thread might have been started by Don Imus? :smileystooges:
hey, Woody.
Some of the pics on that favorites thread you linked to were missing.
Do you want me to see if I can find them on my puter at home, and email them to you so you can fill the slots back?
I think you are missing the pigs in the walk in cooler for one! I am pretty sure I have that one, and the one of you skinning with the amoeba knife
QuoteOriginally posted by knife river:
Did you think the thread might have been started by Don Imus? :smileystooges:
Well that's immediately what came to my mind :biglaugh:
My first hunt with flint I missed a whitetail up in Michigan when my arrow was deflected by a pine branch. It buried the head in a black oak, destroying the shaft and chipping the tip off the head. The next spring I went after hogs in Florida.I had one flint head with me and 3 trade point arrows. I shot a big boar in the neck with the flint head (it turned on me just as I shot) and although I got good penetration and it bled well, it didn't immediately kill it and I finished it off with a trade point tipped arrow. So I don't count that a kill with flint. The next fall/winter I used a flint head to kill a whitetail here in Ohio (things die easier if you hit them in the right spot with the first shot LOL). I'm currently turkey hunting with flint heads but haven't gotten a shot yet.
I know Dean Torges, Doug Campbell, Tim Ott, Ralph Conrad, and Matt Graesch, just to name a few have all killed deer with flint heads.