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Offline Jodocus

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Atlatl dart dimensions?
« on: November 16, 2014, 03:04:49 am »
I wanna mke me an atlatl and some darts (like once I said I wanna make me a bow  :P )

How long, what diameter for the darts? approx weight and spine? I wanna cut some today.
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Atlatl dart dimensions?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 05:55:58 am »
6' overall works well for Me. 5' of Rivercain 1/2" - 3/4", with a foot long hardwood foreshaft w/fire hardened point. Hardwood dowels matching the caine worked well. Bob
"May the Gods give Us the strength to draw the string to the cheek, the arrow to the barb and loose the flying shaft, so long as life may last." Saxon Pope - 1923.