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Pat B:
Very cool Ralph. You guys are getting my wheels turning.
Anymore ideas out there?
Diligence:
just from a google search...for Inuit Harpoon head
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic42-1-80.pdf
http://www.nativeaccess.com/ancestral/inuitharp1.html
http://books.google.ca/books?id=BTD9liti-oQC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=harpoon+toggling&source=bl&ots=Sly3iM_rxn&sig=0qHeGsy0ugcDEMxFuxE9IcDdlD0&hl=en&ei=hdWqSZekHciVngfRldD0Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA95,M1
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/ekven10.html
just a sampling.
D
Pat B:
Thanks a bunch, D. I hadn't gotten top Google yet. I will now!
stickbender:
Pat, if it is a " Big " One, your arrow head, better very hard, and sharp! ;) The alligator gar, has a bony scale, and the larger ones, were used as arrow heads, When you look at one it looks just like an arrow head, and very hard. When I was in my early teens, I used to pass the time gigging them, no problems with the two footers, but I hit one once, that was about 3 1/2 to 4 ft. long, and the gig bounced right of of it, and only removed a scale. Those toothy critters get to 6-7 ft. in length. Years ago, in the mid to late fifties, and early sixties, they used to dive for them down here in the Kissimmee river, and shoot them with spear guns. If you are ever near a craft store, ask them if they have gar scales. You will see what I mean that they look just like arrow heads. Also I know some people down here who eat them. The swear that they are delicious. I know that they have nice white meat. I used to use them for bait, when I was a kid. I would cut off the head, and then make a slice back down the back, to the spiral pattern in the skin, and then just unwind the skin, like a biscuit can, and there it is, nice white meat. Haven't tried eating one myself, but I have had a few other people tell me it is good. 8)
Wayne
El Destructo:
I Scuba Dive...and was diving in the Stilling Basin here at Lake Meridith on the lea side of the Dam in the deep water at the Spill Gates....Me and a Buddy were Spear Fishing....He had a Bungee Spear Pole...and I had my Speargun that had a 30 inch Bolt with a 20 foot Nylon Lanyard hooked to it and My wrist....well I seen movement down below Me against a big piece of Rock....covered in Algae....I seen Gills pumping....so I aimed about 5-6 inches behind the Gills and Let Her Rip.....well the Bottom come to life....and all of the Silt and Muck stirred up....I couldn't see crap....and all of a sudden I was wrenched forward hard enough to pop my Shoulder and send shooting pains down my Side ....I looked in front of Me....The Fish I shot was about 4.5-5 foot long and as big around as My 100 cubic foot Scuba Tank........and He was pulling me through the Water like I was nothing...I couldn't get the Lanyard off My Wrist ...I was freaking out and going for My Knife...when the Spear just fell out of this Monster Flathead....and He just kept swimming away....and good riddance too!!! I can only guess that when I hit Him....He was laying on the Bottom,...and the Spear went through but hit the rock behind Him and the Toggle didn't open up and secure the Bolt....man I was never so glad to lose a Fish in my Life!!!! ;D
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