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water/cape buffulo with stone points........ has it been done??
hawkbow:
I would love to make a kill on one of those big bulls with one of Wolf Watchers points.... at about ten yards or so... but would want Jim shockey backing me up with his double rifle for sure... Hawka A/ho
mullet:
I think points made from Ryolite, raw coral,or Texas Chert would hold up real well. Stone points were used all over Africa in Prehistoric times. There is plenty in museums in Egypt and Ethiopia that I have seen in books. When Claude VanOrder went to Central Africa a few years ago, around the Congo, he found numerous quarry sites and worked stone with flakes everywhere he said. He has made some really cool looking reproduction Egyptian heads.
D. Tiller:
Those Egyptian heads are amazing! I am going to be making some in the future when I get a chance. Just learned how to make expanding notches and the sky's the limit now!
agd68:
I think a sharp arrowhead would do the job on a Buff just fine. Remember it's a different set of physics that affect an arrow than a bullet.While the mass of a large animal like a Buff really hinders the shock of a bullet a sharp arrowhead will slice through it. Mind you,your obviously not going to attempt this with a light bow or your going to get the sharp end of the >:D.A fellow I know who hunts large bears regularly says an arrow will kill one much easier than a bullet, you just got to put it in the right place.
D. Tiller:
Also, small diameter points just bigger than the shaft will penetrate further than wide points. Wide points create large diameter holes but dont penetrate as far as the smaller ones. Ever see Lakota points for their buff hunting arrows? They were tiny! But, boy oh boy did they punch through a buff to bring them down!!!
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