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Don't have a digital Glenn and the film is still in the camera. Plus I don't know how to post piccies here. I still can't find anybody elses pictures here either- wanted to see your cape photos- where are they? Is there a hidden room or secret handshake or somethin? (ggg). Made three more points las...

Cher you could talk with a mouthful of food while hung upside down with your head under water- and laryngitis. Hehehe! I foot my shafts the way Glenn told me to do it. Did some a couple of weeks ago- douglas fir footed with red gum. Self nocks and stone points. Got two goats and a piggy wig last wee...

Good luck with the osage- friend dropped me off a twisted, knotty green limb about six inches thick and eight feet long- said he thought I might be able to make something out of it- footing material or knife handles maybe- but I didn't tell him that. (ggg). I usually aim to build bows at around seve...

G'day Danny. How long did you have to wait for that bow? You take a decent sambar yet? I got one with a flint point, but he'd been injured in the back leg, and dropped his antlers early- bugger. You with the military in Guam? Hope you get to hunt here sometime- sounds like you'll know your way aroun...

Dunno what happened there- just about finished a lengthy G'day to Dan and poof! No- the other poof!!! Welcome anyway Dan. Send some pictures from over there please? Speaking of which- Erron I'll try to post a couple- got a snowflakes' chance in hell of figuring it out on my own though- you know what...

Erron I'll get someone to take some piccies with the next roll of film- the one in the camera now was supposed to be in Brisbane a week ago- oh well. (ggg). Making a point from a lump of rock requires reduction, thinning and shaping using percussion- hammer stone, bopper or antler billet, and pressu...

Jeff mulgas are closely related to red bellied black snakes- a lot of venom but not all that toxic- interestingly, their favourite food is other snakes, and they're immune to all other Australian snake venom, but not the bite from one of their own- weird eh? Erron I like the map of Australia- maybe ...

I agree Jeff- I don't have any mates though- bushwhacked 'em and pinched their girlfriends. Hehehe! I'd like to spend some time in the cane country- catch lots of snakes here, especially browns, but I really want to catch some taipans- saw a whopper when I hunted red deer with Glenn a couple of year...

Glenn showing someone how to thin the tip is easy- explaining it here might not be. Try placing the arrowhead on it's side on a pad or table, after lightly abrading the edge of the bit you want to thin, using sandstone or carborundum. Tilt the point over past forty five degrees, put the tip of the f...

Erron you spelled enable wrong- lucky you can edit your own posts eh? Hehehe! Sorry mate- couldn't resist. LOL. Jay.

Don't knock yourself out setting up a chatroom just because I asked Erron. LOL. The Stickbow chatroom probably gets twenty or thirty people in there on a good day- whereas the site itself gets seventeen thousand visits a day on average- you do the maths. LOL. Erron are you far from Orbost? I used to...

Good to see you here Glenn. Be glad to give you some pointers mate- making pointy projectiles is easy- getting them technically correct - profile, taper, notches, thinned bases, etc- is a whole nutha story. Fun but frustrating. Anyway you don't have time to learn knapping yet- with your family livin...

I thought there would have been a lot of stuff 'round your neck of the woods Jeff (would that be Challacombe by the way?) Erron can we post pictures on this here site? Got a fallow with a flint head that I was pretty pleased with- 234.5 Douglas points, which I think is five bigger than the official ...

Erron I doubt there'd ever be enough interest in Australia to warrant another forum. I've hafted my best points on my best arrows- have a lot made up and ready to go- and I've been putting my not so good points on not so good shafts for shooting carp, rocks etc. Be happy to send you a couple to try ...

Hey Erron, how far do you have to travel from Melbourne to find decent hunting? You have fallow deer near you? Lots of 'em here- really hard to get onto though. Quite a few young pigs around now, and goats. Was hoping to nail some nice foxes with flint heads and the longbow, but didn't get a chance-...

Took me a while to find out how to do stuff here- I hain't real brite. (ggg). I posted something in the traditional tackle section- it still says there are no posts there- just takes a while to come up? Jay

Just wondering if anybody besides me makes or hunts with stone points? If anyone is interested I'd be happy to teach 'em the basics or make a couple of points for 'em to try. I use stone for most of my hunting now- really like 'em, and it's a link to the past- oldest continuously practiced craft on ...