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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: clewis on May 12, 2017, 09:15:04 pm

Title: Dart
Post by: clewis on May 12, 2017, 09:15:04 pm

All the talk of atlatls and darts has inspired me to work on some new darts, here's the first of a set I'm making. Red osier shaft 67" to base of point (heat treated chert) three feather fletch painted with red and yellow/brownish ochre. It fly's pretty good after testing with a glass point launched into a soft sand pit with hale bales for a target at about 10- 20 yards. I sanded the dirt off the shaft before hafting the point and I will probably keep this one as a wall hanger just because its so deadly looking lol

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Post by: clewis on May 12, 2017, 09:18:45 pm

More pics

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Post by: High-Desert on May 12, 2017, 09:31:48 pm

What a great looking dart! I'm hoping I can get mine to come looking like that, let alone at them that straight.

Eric

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Post by: willie on May 12, 2017, 10:14:50 pm

nice dart, glad you posted. looking forward  to more darts truly primitive stuff

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Post by: Pat B on May 12, 2017, 10:52:45 pm

Now, that's a mastodon killer.   (AT)

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Post by: bjrogg on May 12, 2017, 10:53:52 pm

Very nick few dart Clewis. I really like the stone point to. It's kinda hard to get good pictures of these darts. I bet it looks even better in person.
Bjrogg

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Post by: clewis on May 12, 2017, 11:12:41 pm

Thanks fellas, I have a few 6ft plus red osier shafts Im going to work on this weekend. Some are just gnarly but Ill see how straight I can get them.  (AT)

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Post by: Hawkdancer on May 12, 2017, 11:54:20 pm

Real nice!  Great looking point and dart shaft.  Hope the rest turn out that well (AT)!
Hawkdancer

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Post by: GlisGlis on May 15, 2017, 10:22:32 am

great dart !
with arrows i always struggle to align the foreshaft and end up having a very specific one for any arrow (not really interchangeable)
How deep is the socket for this one? How do you make it?

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Post by: selfbow joe on May 15, 2017, 01:42:56 pm

Nice work. I really like the point.

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Post by: clewis on May 15, 2017, 10:41:10 pm

Thanks guys, glisglis theres no forshaft on this dart its all one piece. This one is a wall hanger but it is nice to switch em out to toss around  (AT) I like  this emoji