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Author Topic: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?  (Read 581 times)

Offline Dannys

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Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« on: November 30, 2013, 11:02:00 PM »
Just wondering who has taken a deer or any other big game with stone points? If so, any pics or story?

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 12:13:00 PM »
In the highlights section for this year, Tommy Leach has a story about killing a black bear with selfbow, & stone point.

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 12:41:00 PM »
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.
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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 12:55:00 PM »
You also can learn a lot about camo in that video.

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2013, 01:16:00 PM »
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Originally 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!

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2013, 02:30:00 PM »
Lethal on one black bear...

 
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Offline Chuck Jones

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2013, 07:40:00 PM »
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.

 

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2013, 08:16:00 PM »
good job Chuck !!!
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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2013, 08:27:00 PM »
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!

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2013, 10:47:00 AM »
Shedrock killed a pronghorn with one this year.
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Offline Dannys

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2013, 02:47:00 PM »
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

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2013, 03:01:00 PM »
that is just way cool guys   :clapper:    :clapper:
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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2013, 03:05:00 PM »
Jeff, I know you have a stone point.  You should put it to good use!

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2013, 03:22:00 PM »
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.

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2013, 09:30:00 PM »
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.

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Re: Whose killed a deer with a Stone point?
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2013, 05:03:00 PM »
Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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