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prehistoric arrow making tool kit.

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swamp monkey:

--- Quote from: Rojer007 on May 08, 2011, 12:43:56 pm ---hey  i want to get some info about
Clockwise from the TDC (top dead center) are arrow heads, fore-shafts ....

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The arrow head pictured is a rib bone from a bison ground down into arrow head form.   The other is a chert point made from local chert found in SE MO.  I traded for it so I do not know much beyond that.  The foreshafts are all local hardwoods from the Ozarks.  I use elm and ash due to the need to remove them from my landscape.  I have an over abundance of ash and elm and not nearly enough post oak, white oak, and southern red oak.  So I use the trees I cut to make foreshafts.  I cut longer sections.  Whittle them down to the rough diameter I want and then cut them to length when needed.  I imagine the natives did the same thing. 

Is that the info you were looking for or did I stop short?   Let me know.  I am glad to share what I know. 

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