Learn to make a razor-sharp stone arrowhead for hunting big game animals. You'll learn more tips and tricks to improve the quality of points you make, as well as making functional points from tricky pieces of flint.
Well if you sit there for hours hunched over, your back starts to ache so not as relaxing as you think. Plus sometimes flakes will shoot up at your face or dig into your skin and cause nasty cuts.
Once again, fantastic video. It's great to see a reminder to see that a point doesn't have to be perfectly flaked to serve its purpose. As a new flintknapper, I sometimes get hung up on trying to make the point perfect when that isn't how the guys who did it to survive knapped.
hey I just wanted to say thanks for everything you inspired me to make aroheads and I've been working really hard to be as good as you are and I've been cut scraped and lots more but I almost gave it all up but every time I watch your videos it's keeps me going thanks for everything
that's cool to b able to bring down game with ammo and bows made with your own hands. it makes the hunt a little more fair to the game than sitting in a shooting house and nailing a deer with a sniper rifle!
Dear Billy. could you please please please take consideration into making a Q&A video because I'm pretty sure many people have a very good questions for you.
this is a comment that I am putting out to every survivalist or primitive skills Channel or reenactment channels and it is a simple yet complex one at the same time. I know that cat tails are edible and I also know that you can Harvest Cattail roots dry them out and make it a flour substitute or extender so my question is can you take your cat tail flower and use it to make hardtack and if so does it have the same or at least similar shelf life of hardtack that's made with store-bought flour
Another real good video. Maybe some day i will finally get it. When are you going to finish your second hunting video? I know it's a lot of work and you do a good job. One last thing. In my latest novel my protagonist uses primitive skills and weapons. The book is free on Amazon Kindle Sept 6 and 7. Check it out at Amazon. It's called Portal to the Forgotten.
Bruh I’m bout high af watching naked and afaid then I’m like damn ima watch how to make an arrowhead ( was thinking about me hunting for them earlier today ) and then I go to RU-vid and look it up and it’s the same nigga I’m looking at on tv
I always learn so much from your explanations. Great video work and communication. Really like the punch method you showed on taking a step fracture off. Will keep this in mind.
I would love for your to make a step by step on how you make your primitive arrows. I check on your videos every day. I am strougling to make primitive arrows I need some inspiration😁😁😁😁😁
Billy, I have seen dozens of flint kidnapping videos, and this one is defiantly the best. Your explanations of exactly what you are doing are outstanding. I hope you take something big with this arrow head. Also, I would like to say I respect you for showing your misses in your hunting videos. As a bow hunter I know there are misses in the real world.
I love you technique. I watch some other guys work a large stone down to make just one point. Your like me. You see the many point that can be made from one stone. The point doesn't need to be beautiful but functional and that is the beauty of the point.
You're so right! I can't stand to see stone wasted. I'll pick up people's waste flakes and can make dozens of points from the stuff they throw away. It's a shame that people will break up a large piece of stone for one big blade and then throw the rest away. There is so much more that can be made from the waste flakes!
I don't do anything like what you do on your channel, but the subjects are so interesting and you do such an amazing job making the videos I can't help but watch them all.
Hi there, I was wondering if you could do a video on making a west coast style of bow like the Hupa and Klamath bows on your site. Maybe a how to or a little documentary. I watched your self bow tutorial and left me wanting more. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Thank you Billy! I started knapping a year ago after watching one of your glass arrowhead videos. I really enjoy making all kinds of points now out of various materials. I have learned allot from your videos, great information & demonstrations ^_^
Chaseingthetiger ......if your school is anything like mine youll still get in trouble i got suspended for bringing a butterfly knife with a practace blade (so it had no edge)
For small animals, you can just sharpen the tip of a wooden arrow and fire harden it. There's also the fact that humans can go a few weeks without food before they start digesting their internal organs. If you are particularly chubby, you can last a bit longer. Water is a more important resource, coming right after air, and it's also more likely that you will find usable rocks in a river. Here's an order of priority for survival: Oxygen Water Sleep Food
The latest winner on Alone took one with a commercial bow and arrow, in excess of 50/60# draw weight and razor broadhead. The serrated stone point will likely do even more damage. Shot placement is key. An atlatl and dart would work too, check out Hunt Primitive.
It took me several months of practice to make points that were functional. They were ugly, but they were sharp enough to kill. But it took years of practice to really learn to control the stone and make very fine, exquisite points. I also only had a few formal lessons, so if you can sit down with an experienced knapper your progress will increase greatly.
Hey Chase!! I've still got the video on a memory card and I haven't gotten it edited down yet. I also want to wait until it gets a little closer to the summer so that it will help bring in others to the next class. If I post it too soon, I'm afraid that it will be forgotten by the time the next class gets closer. But don't worry, I WILL upload it to my channel!!
I've never been able to flintknap as much as I have practiced. I can never get good materials. I live in Georgia and I never knew stone points were legal to hunt with
Let me ask you this, Isn't a bit waste of time spending hours per each arrowhead if you can just use pointy shards? Im asking that as it seems to me that stone arrowheads dont last mutch, specially obsidian or glass. And how good are those in comparison to fire treated wood when it comes to killing an animal?
yes, it is easier just to use pointy shards but you all so have to be in mind what materials are available in north America to find a nodule of chert 12 inchs long and 5 inchs wide on the ground was a god send after clovis times that's the reason why the clovis point was not used any more because it takes a lot of material to make one( basically a nodule I explained)is the normal to make a decent clovis and after came the Dalton which was easier to make than a clovis and after that came notched points to be spear points and arrowheads but in Europe they didn't use points like this till the bonze age the reason for that was because English flint is almost impossible to knap with a antler pressure flaker and you could not heat it that's all so the blessing given to north America because nearly ever stone is able to be water treated and heat treated and all so to say this it is not cheating to use a copper pressure flaker it is cheating if you use a copper bopper or punch because no evidence has ever been found of copper boppers being used 10,000/5,000 years ago. in north America copper never needed to be used for anything because even the most terrible stone could used to make tools but in Europe all they had was English flint so they needed to adapt to the conditions so did the clovis people and the first Europeans and if you think about it in north America the native Americans did the hardest thing to do to make tools in the begging and the Europeans used the easiest way to make tools
It is easier to just use something pointy but what your looking for is to make the wound greater that way if (let's say) a deer got tagged by the arrow how far will it run? Will the wound be even great enough to be fatal. But that's just my idea
