[Archers] Tips was: Re: Safety advice on atal-atals andcrossbows

[barysears]

There's a guy who shows up at the Traditional with darts using separate 
wood points.  He also uses fire-hardened points and probably field 
points as well.

One item of inspection - darts don't need to be totally straight, like 
arrows.  My larger darts are anything but straight.  I'd probably fail 
any arrow that looked like them!  I suspect the energy in a dart is much 
less than in an arrow.

barre

On 6/30/2010 4:32 PM, John Atkins wrote:
> That would be my guess.  Either that or perhaps just heat hardened wood
> although the atlatl really is a weapon of the flint knapping cultures.
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> cog
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siegfried [mailto:siegfried at crossbows.biz]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:09 PM
> To: John Atkins
> Cc: jaynardone at comcast.net; archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [Archers] Tips was: Re: Safety advice on atal-atals
> andcrossbows
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>> Still, the question remains an interesting one worth some
>> experimentation and research.  Oh yeah, this is a primitive weapon
>> used, mostly, before writing was invented.
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> Weren't traditional atl-atl's most likely tipped with Flint, Obsidian,
> or other rock-based tips?
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> Which by their nature would have been 'heavy'?
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> Honestly curious :)
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> Siegfried
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