9 years ago when I turned 60 I gained an interest in Spartan obstacle races. One of the obstacles was spear throwing, which I got quite proficient at. Of course one thing lead to another and I began knife and axe throwing. Then the atlatl gained my interest and I made a few variations of them and again, with much practice got quite good with them. Again, the last three years has taken me away from all the true enjoyments I was having with natural life skills. I am doing better now and if our society doesn’t completely fail, I have hopes of returning to practicing primitive skills. God bless
People made atlatls and they're darts from many different plant and animal parts ,and in much of the world at different times to the present,surely you must have some woods that will work and probably were utilized for that in the past if not you can make a good set from materials found at the better home improvement stores eg.
A couple of my friends are hunters and I have asked them what they do with the bones, hide, and sinew when they get a kill and the tell me that they just throw them in the woods and it makes me cringe to hear that they throw such a valuable resource away. Anyway, I really glad that someone else uses bone to make tools too.
I don’t think it’s native but we’ve found it growing along the Clackamas river. We don’t really see it naturally growing out in the wild so it may have been washed down stream from someone’s back yard. Very useful plant.
