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Offline geno

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knappy head
« on: May 16, 2007, 08:44:00 PM »
I was wondering if anyone uses knaped heads to kill deer size game. I have not made any yet but I can not look at a pretty piece of flint or stone without thinking that would make a nice head>I think this might turn into another hobby.
I will have to do some reading..
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Offline vermonster13

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2007, 08:53:00 PM »
Paging Ferret and a host of others!
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Offline KILLER B

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2007, 08:58:00 PM »
Yes people do.  If you have ever seen the best and wosrt of Tred Barta I believe he uses them almost all the time. I think i even remember seeing him take a moose with one.   If they were good enough for indians there good enough for me.
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Offline bayoulongbowman

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2007, 09:14:00 PM »
Its not legal in all states , check ur game laws!
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Offline adeeden

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2007, 09:15:00 PM »
My avatar picture on the left has a doe killed with an obsidian point I knapped. Actually that same arrow and head has taken 2 does and a buttonbuck, and is still in perfect shape!
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Offline knife river

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2007, 09:44:00 PM »
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Offline Doug Campbell

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2007, 09:43:00 AM »
Don't do it geno!! Slowly back away from the rocks  :D  

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Offline Paul/KS

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2007, 10:39:00 AM »
And if'n ya break it send it to me fer my flintlock...  :)  
sort of recycling...

Offline pappy

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2007, 11:45:00 AM »
Didn't know what this was about,but I just had to read it.
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Offline knife river

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2007, 12:48:00 PM »
Did you think the thread might have been started by Don Imus?    :smileystooges:
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Offline Ray Hammond

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2007, 01:01:00 PM »
hey, Woody.

Some of the pics on that favorites thread you linked to were missing.

Do you want me to see if I can find them on my puter at home, and email them to you so you can fill the slots back?

I think you are missing the pigs in the walk in cooler for one! I am pretty sure I have that one, and the one of you skinning with the amoeba knife
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Offline the Ferret

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Re: knappy head
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2007, 01:08:00 PM »
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Originally posted by knife river:
Did you think the thread might have been started by Don Imus?      :smileystooges:  
Well that's immediately what came to my mind   :biglaugh:  

My first hunt with flint I missed a whitetail up in Michigan when my arrow was deflected by a pine branch. It buried the head in a black oak, destroying the shaft and chipping the tip off the head. The next spring I went after hogs in Florida.I had one flint head with me and 3 trade point arrows. I shot a big boar in the neck with the flint head (it turned on me just as I shot) and although I got good penetration and it bled well, it didn't immediately kill it and I finished it off with a trade point tipped arrow. So I don't count that a kill with flint. The next fall/winter I used a flint head to kill a whitetail here in Ohio (things die easier if you hit them in the right spot with the first shot LOL). I'm currently turkey hunting with flint heads but haven't gotten a shot yet.

I know Dean Torges, Doug Campbell, Tim Ott, Ralph Conrad, and Matt Graesch, just to name a few have all killed deer with flint heads.
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