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ATATL however its spelled
Kegan:
"Big stick chucker" sounds more fun than atlat anyway :)!
But then again, that could apply to some of the peoiple around here, couldn't it ????
phalcon005:
Well, I had some fun in my youth with an Atlatl. When I was around 15 I made a very crude atlatl and one spear, a roughly four foot hickory salping with nothing but a notch in the back and a whittled point on the front. I chucked it at just about anything (remember, I was a teenager) and had an affinity for scaring the daylights out of the squirrels on our land. There was an occasion where the stars were aligned or something and I actually managed to thump a squirrel with it and almost sent the squirrel out of the tree, but I can imagine I would never be able to hit a squirrel again in a million shots!
My main interest was the simplicity of constructing my crude setup, I probably spent two hours on the "thrower" and an hour on the "spear". In a survival situation that seemed to be a remarkably short amount of time to create a ranged weapon with a lot of power.
Hillbilly:
I think Alabama is the only state that allows them for hunting all species of big and small game. Atlatls are fun and pretty amazing, I've thrown darts over a hundred yards before, and those suckers have amazing penetration. Don't ask me how I know, for instance, that an atlatl dart will go completely through both walls of a metal storage building or stick about 6" through the hood of a Ford 4000 tractor ;D ;D
Coo-wah-chobee:
.............Ya know I was wonderin' what that hole in hood was ! ;D.......bob
huntertrapper:
on youtube theres a video of a kid younger than me probably 11 or 12 and he hits a doe with one. i was looking for primitive archery hunts and found it. just type in something of the sort and you should be able to find it.
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