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Tozkoparan:
Hello guys! I am a newcomer to the forum. My name is Murat Özveri, I live in Istanbul, Turkey and am a dentist/periodontist. Being an archery enthusiast I have been working systematically on reviving Turkish traditional archery since 2004. My colleagues and I have founded a web site www.tirendaz.com to share our know-how and new findings about Turkish traditional archery with all traditional archery enthusiasts in the country and abroad. We have also a facebook group under the same name.

Other primitive weapons (if it would be correct to call a Turkish composite bow "primitive") attract me too and recently I begun to contemplate more about throwing sticks (TS). After surfing on the net, reading books and articles (both academic and popular) and a few attempts of making and tuning a wooden TS I made one from paperboard. Beforehand I had had a few decorative Kylie (Australian hunting boomerangs) replicas which flew well but were light to be reliable hunting weapons. Recently I bought the "hunting boomerang" of Cold Steel, a TS made of a reportedly "undestructable" synthetic material. Weighing 567 grams it is quite a big hunting tool and en excellent re-creational tool.

Back to my paperboard TS, it is made by glueing layers of paperboard to reach the intended planconvex or biconvex cross section.I have choosen the plan of a "lil-lil", an Australian TS that was supposedly used as a war club (because of its heavy weight) too. My TS is smaller and lighter and unlike many biconvex originals it is planconvex.

Below you can find two videos I made, in which you'd see the flight and performance of oth  the commercial TS and the one I made. Nowadays I am working on a similar paperboard TS of a similar plan. Hope you'll like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3D9gNsKxI&list=UUVIT0SXPgDo0LtimeIzuIbA&index=2&feature=plcp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeGdbvkrlrE&list=UUVIT0SXPgDo0LtimeIzuIbA&index=1&feature=plcp

Tozkoparan:
Gobbler716,

As an answer to your question there is an antropological publication by D.S. Davidson titled "Australian Throwing-Sticks, Throwing-Clubs, and Boomerangs", published in 1936.  It is available on the internet and you'd easily find it. The author gave all types of the mentioned weapons with clear illustrations and such throwing clubes (or sticks) resembling a speer with a knot can be seen there. The variations in shape and size seem to be unlimited!

Scowler:
Another primitive weapon I'll have to try in the future.  Thanks for the post and thanks for the videos, Tozkoparan.

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