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Bone point lethality.
Hawkdancer:
Ed,
I can send you some bones, well chewed beef, and when I get the sinew, hide, and hooves off, some deer and elk!
Hawkdancer
EdwardS:
That would be great. What would you want for them?
Hawkdancer:
Ed,
Let's see how many I can send first. Probably just pay it forward! Some one else is sending me some saw blades and doesn't want anything back. I'll try to get some of the beef bone out this week - next week is MoJam!
Hawkdancer
NorthHeart:
--- Quote from: EdwardS on July 07, 2019, 01:40:44 pm ---Wow, this blew up.
Ok, here's how we did it. We used deer leg bones, not sure if our points were legal, but 1 inch wide by 3 long is what we settled on (Pop read about the findings of the Ashby report.) When we had a few we'd throw them in the coffee can and put it in the campfire. When they browned we would haft them (sinew and hide glue, since bone is porous) and then we could sharpen them like steel. A file at first and then a stone. Pop even used a diamond hone or a coffee cup bottom to touch them up (coffee cups are the equivalent of a barbers ceramic hone if you get the glaze off) if they weren't sharp enough.
A 3:1 arrowhead with a cut on contact design that's sharp as you can make it requires roughly 4 pounds of force to enter a deer. I think Ashby actually got that number on a bigger animal but I'll say deer to cover my tail. Only thing is they're not unlimited use. They kinda give up after a few shots, or at least they did for us.
Some of this is stuff I'm remembering from being 13 and remembering through 5 strokes. If I had bones here I'd do a build along for you guys, but I haven't taken a deer in years. I think beef bones would work great. Thicker and flatter than deer.
Gar scales were like ready made arrowheads for fish. Little sharpening and stick them on with pine pitch glue. They're basically teeth. Really wish I had some right here. Makes me miss Pop and Gramps terribly.
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This is one of my favorite posts i've read in a while. I wish my grandpa taught me that. As for beef bones, we talking femurs, legs? Outter or inner most part of the bone?
Hope to see more coming from you. Build along with coffee cup honing. I get excited just thinking about this (lol)
GlisGlis:
this thread should be joined with this one
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,36300.0.html
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