Trad arrows with stone points.

[carpsniperg2]

Thought some of you would like to see what i have been learning and playing with. I have a friend that owns a trad shop, and ever since the first time i have walked in there. I have wanted to get into stone knapping. After my surgeries that i had. My friend sent me a ton of knapping videos to watch. They were great my fave was the art of knapping.Well i bought a kit a few months ago and have been trying my hand at it. I know i have a long ways to go, but here is what i have so far. The arrows i have done as well, i also chop my own feathers. they are nothing super fancy but i am proud of them. There is something about trad archery that really makes me feel grounded and its a feeling that i have found only when i have a stone point nocked on my recurve. Grated i love my compounds very much and have a ton of bows and hunt with a compound "for now " i really love traditional archery. enjoy the pics guys and gals

[NRA4LIFE]

That's cool.  How do they fly from arrow to arrow with the different sized/shaped points on them?

[carpsniperg2]

very diffrent these are just for fun and decoration right now. i am just learning, when i get to hunting with them "if i ever get good enough at making them" i will do matched sets. these are just mics arrows i used to practice mounting points on.

[quadrafire]

Carp, that is cool.

[let.it.fly]

thats weight forward technology right there 

[bigdave]

Nice job.....your skill is developing...keep it up.

[Pathfinder101]

Cool stuff man.  Looks like you're really getting the hang of it...

[NRA4LIFE]

That would be soooooo cool to kill something with them.  Then butcher it with some of the larger tools.

[carpsniperg2]

thanks guys! it helps i have had a pro give me a lot of 2 cents and demos. also the vids he gave me and the online videos i have watched, have helped a lot. it amazes me how perfect some of the points and blades turn out. the long blade he does on the art of knapping is just incredible! D. C. Waldorf is a master of the trade for sure.

[Pathfinder101]

It would be cool to harvest something with them, but I am leary.  
Did anyone else see the Tred Barta episode where he was elk hunting with stone points?  He shot a nice 6x6 bull in a wallow.  Should have been a good shot, quartering away, a little far back, but should have gone right through a lung.  Looked to me like the point hit a rib bone and stuck.  They looked for the bull for 2 days (I think), and never found it.  I know this stuff happens with all archery equipment, but I am pretty sure if that would have been a G5, that arrow would have gone through.  Just my  

[carpsniperg2]

That would be soooooo cool to kill something with them.  Then butcher it with some of the larger tools.

yes that is one of my goals! would be super cool! i want to make a knife with a obsidian blade and deer horn. then maybe a obsidian axe

yes pathfinder i watched that very show. he hit the bull back a long ways. i don't think it hit a rib on the way in. he took  a longer shot on that bull as well like 30 some yards if i remember right. i would be hunting just deer and would want to be under about 20 yards at the max. but their is no doubt that they will kill an animal with with a well placed shot. i feel there has still been more animals killed in early years with stone. then there has been with steel today. that is my thoughts. i understand your point.

[BlackRidge]

Sounds like you've been watching too much Tred Barta! 

Nasty looking arrows! Good luck with those

[carpsniperg2]

that was awhile ago when i watched it. have not heard much on how he is doing.

for anyone wanting to watch a cool vid/clip that i am talking about done by a master here it the link

Flintknapping the Type IV Danish Dagger by D.C. Waldorf

the flake scars on the blade are so clean and amazing!

[carpsniperg2]

one more cool vid

Percussion Biface 13

[whacker1]

Very cool - go get some blood on one for us.  We need to live vicariously through someone, so it might as well be you.  In all seriousness, very cool.  Wonderful decorations, but look forward to seeing one with blood on it.