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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: mullet on March 26, 2020, 02:31:31 pm ---I've started making my flints.

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I'd like to see 'em!

Got any fossilized coral gunflints?

Eric Krewson:
I have a large cookie tin with about 15 lbs of broken arrow heads in it, almost all would make good gun flints. A while back I picked one out, narrowed it to fit my cock jaws and gave it a try, it sparked really well.

I posted this info on a M/L site and some people went ballistic about me destroying history. All my culls were picked up 45 years ago or more from dozens of bean fields and river banks whose locations are lost in time.  I have all the good ones saved and passed them down to my granddaughter a few years ago.

I even donated a bowl to the local museum. I know it was from a Mississippian burial because the other 5 pots with it were shell tempered. This was all before there were laws about such activity, the area had been heavily "mined" for 50 years. We just happened upon a burial that someone had dug but quit on while we were field finding arrowheads. It had rained and washed the edge of the hole in the mound, a rib cage and pot were exposed, turns out there were 3 more pots and one bowl next to the one exposed as well as 3 trophy skulls. Like I said, no laws at the time and we were young.

The museum declared the bowl woodland and were overjoyed to have it.

Here it is;

mullet:
JW, let me get my camera out and I'll take some pictures. I've been chipping them out of English Flint, Georgetown and Hornestone mostly. Agatized Coral does spark pretty good.

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