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where should i look for flint??? in Dallas

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mullet:
 Shooter, when you are ready to cross over from the dark side and get rid of that old nasty 48"Magnum, just PM me.

xin:
Cowboy, Highway 377 is one of my favorite motorcycle routes.  Main problem  is you can't pack much chert on a bike. 

cowboy:
 ;D.

xin:
There are many varieties of chert  that yieild a higher percentage of aesthetically  pleasing examples  than Edwards Plateau, but for knappability, ruggedness, and holding an edge Edwards is hard to beat.

Shooter_G22:
i found some stone that might work...

   i was over in west dallas in a tuff nieberhood called ledbatter... and ther is a park and JC center with a walking trial....   my uncles grew up there in that neibhorhood and they told me that there was a bunch of horse apple trees in that area n they used to use them as greenades when they were kids and played wars....    soo  here i go to the old neighborhood... and driving around looking for horse apple trees to maybe see if i could find one with some limbs to be had for future bows....   no luck in finding the trees maybe they are all cut down by now since the area has been developed since my unles weere kids...  but i went to the park and low and behold there in the ally next to the parking lot was a curb that had a gutter with a run off into the parks lawn and there was stones... the stones were put there to i guess for some reason maybe for water run purpose or something but there wasnt a lot but there wa some and whil i was looking for bodark tree's the stone caught my eyse and i walked over to it and pick two up and clashed them togather and it flaked...   i was like WOW  i found something i could use!!   soooo i picked as much as i could carry and walked over to my truck and threw them in and high tailed it out of there...lol...

i figured id give it a go and if they worked out i would go back and get some more... its not like there is a bunch there maybe a couple of wheel barrles at most...

but i'll try and post up pics... later...  i tried to knap as soon as i got home but its alot harder than it looks on the videos on youtube...

and i dont have the proper tools and i dont know what im doing either...
might just make a big mess.. ;D

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