Just wondering who has taken a deer or any other big game with stone points? If so, any pics or story?
In the highlights section for this year, Tommy Leach has a story about killing a black bear with selfbow, & stone point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCYlg9w7dE&list=UUYbru-MPO1xjes4FVn61JUQ
This is a youtube video Shaun Woods made here in Oregon. He documented the making of knapped arrowheads. He then takes them out on a Blacktail deer hunt and shows the results and penetration. The bow he is using is a yew wood selfbow he made also.
You also can learn a lot about camo in that video.
QuoteOriginally posted by snag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCYlg9w7dE&list=UUYbru-MPO1xjes4FVn61JUQ
This is a youtube video Shaun Woods made here in Oregon. He documented the making of knapped arrowheads. He then takes them out on a Blacktail deer hunt and shows the results and penetration. The bow he is using is a yew wood selfbow he made also.
I enjoyed that! Thanks for sharing the video!
Lethal on one black bear...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/tippit/Bear%20Hunt/1876_zpsa4e1939a.jpg)
Back in 1998 and 1999, when Illinois first legalized stone points; I hunted from the ground with my osage selfbow, rivercane arrows, and stone heads. I was one of the first in Illinois in modern times to take a deer with a flint head. At the time; I was on the Illinois DNR equipment committee. After killing the doe; I made a report to the DNR on the effectiveness of the stone head. The next year, I took my biggest bodied buck ever, using an obsidian head. He weighed over 300lbs, and had a 24" spread. I shot him at about 15 yards from the ground, and he went 75 yards before crashing. The obsidian head did amazing damage, and held up great.
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5528/11162383564_bd5f9d516a_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20524843@N03/11162383564/)
1998 flinthead deer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20524843@N03/11162383564/) by okawbow (http://www.flickr.com/people/20524843@N03/) , on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/11162346886_d9dd54a182_o.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20524843@N03/11162346886/)
1999 obsidian point buck (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20524843@N03/11162346886/) by okawbow (http://www.flickr.com/people/20524843@N03/) , on Flickr
good job Chuck !!!
I have not killed anything with a stone point (i really want to one of these days) but I know several guys who have gotten ity done with rocks!
Bisch
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=121551;p=1
That's me
Shedrock killed a pronghorn with one this year.
Here's mine
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=74;t=000069;p=1#000000
These story's are awesome and inspiring I'm going to try to harvest a stave next august and build a bow, but I think napping stone points will be more challenging
that is just way cool guys :clapper: :clapper:
Jeff, I know you have a stone point. You should put it to good use!
BAB
Dannys, you may want to harvest your stave now so it has time to dry. The experts will chime on drying time. The osage stave I am working on now has been drying for 10 years but of course that is not the norm for drying staves.
I have killed one deer with one of my stone points. I used a 40# Steve Turay Northern Mist Baraga longbow, an arrow that I made out of yellow birch and a flint head I knapped out of Flint Ridge material.
I watched the entire Otzi the iceman set of videos. Thank you for posting this... I think it was the best thing I have ever watched on youtube..... maybe anywheres.
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=51;t=000061
Here is mine. I named her Ashley.
Killdeer