Diary of the Tipi 4 Primitive Archery Repair Kit.wmv

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afternoon guys Dave Canberra at the Pathfinder school back with another diary of the TP what we're going to talk about today is we're gonna have a little discussion about Aero repair as far as primitive arrows go we'll have a little bit of a discussion about what I carry to repair arrows we'll talk about some of the arrows that I have in my quiver that's in the TP now with my Hickory bow we're going to talk about the penetration value or the penetration that you can get from bone stone arrowheads we've done quite a few videos lately on subjects like making arrowheads from glass making arizim stone and things of that nature and I want to show you how effective those arrows can be but I also want you to understand that I understand that as soon as Native Americans or the native peoples of the Americas were introduced to metal stone went away bone went away metal was the king it's easier to make arrowheads out of them stone easier to make arrowheads out of the glass excuse my neighbors over here blasting away in their yards

god bless america we live in a free country so we can shoot in our backyards and nobody cares but we have to deal with it on the video so let's first talk real quick about primitive arrows now I've got videos in my playlist on archery as far as how to have a stone point to an arrow how to fledge that arrow how to create those fletchings from natural materials in the woods and how to put those Flushing's on the shaft and I also have videos on how to collect shafts and make shafts in the wilderness as well so we won't go into too much of that just journal series what we will talk about is I've got arrows in here that have metal points on them alright I have arrows in here that have stone points and bone points on them there's a bone point on that arrow that's another bone point then there's a stone point alright I carried with me a little bit of a repair kit that I'll go over with you real quick and I'll show you that I get you about a close-up view of that then we're going to go out and we're going to actually shoot a couple of these arrows into a deer hide then I'm going to lay over the top of a block target to simulate the appendage

raishin through the high and into you know the organ matter of a deer so just hang tight with me for a second let me readjust this camera okay guys I've got a small leather pouch here that's just greased up that holds two tins and a stone now the stone is pretty near and dear to me I actually found this it's an artifact and my belief is that this stone is a sanding implement that was used at one time to work on arrows if you had an area where you had a knotch knob on an arrow like on these bamboo shoots or if you had something where you had a knot in the arrow like a regular you know limb that you would cut her a sapling I believe that they used this to sand that down and that's why it's got that groove cut into it there and a groove cut into it there I believe that that was a narrow sanding device that was used by ancient peoples and I found this in a creek bed and like I said it's an artifact is very near and dear to me I keep it in my kit more for sentimental value than for anything else a lot of guys asked me the other day when I posted a few pictures on Facebook what in the world that Arrowhead there was for I actually made that arrowhead out of bone specifically for shooting fish and frogs with that's kind of a trying point that I made like a frog gigging type point and it's got turkey Flushing's on it alright so back to the repair kit I have a 10 here this got fixing wax in it that fixing wax can be used for anything from keeping bone and things like that protected I use them for points too greasing my bowstring to dressing the wood on my bow to make sure that's protected and waterproofed as well so I keep that in my repair kit then I have one more tin in here then just has a few things in it it has a ball of pine resin again that's an adhesive just like we talked about with the high glue video I can melt that down to make it easy I've got a wrapped up bundle of animal sinew here and we'll talk about that in another video in the future if I can get a hold of a deer carcass we can get some sinew off of right now deer season is over so I'm gonna have to find a roadkill somewhere and harvest a leg off of it to get us a video on how to make sinew but I'll work on that I've got a couple of stone points in here I have I'm sorry a couple of bone points in here I have one stone point in here and I have one metal Arrowhead in here so I have several points in here to do repair with as well as lasting materials with the sinew it just has to be wetted down and then I also have some glue in here with the pine pitch so that gives me enough stuff right there affect repair with and I have the other tin that I can use to help protect my gear with then quite get that down in there flat like I had it there we go then I have the tin that's got the wax in it and then I have my arrow dressing tool those things all go inside this pouch very easily with plenty of room to spare so that I can put any material in there I want to that I collect and use for that purpose as well but I've got plenty extra room in here for other things and then I just tie that up and either to lash it to my quiver or put it in my backpack depending on how I'm carrying my stuff well that's my repair kit now what I want to do is I want to take you guys out

I want to lay a deer skin that we're working on out here over the top of a block target and actually shoot the Hickory bow with these arrows from about 15 yards into a deer skin and show you what the penetration value is of both stone and bone on a handmade arrow okay I've got a block target right here guys and the center's pretty shot out of this thing so I'm gonna try to aim high in fact I think I'm gonna turn this side we'll try to shoot into here to give us a little bit more density for penetration purposes so we can see what's going on I'm gonna grab a deer hide here I've got several laying out here I'm working on right now this one's fairly small compared to the rest so we'll use it so I'm not tearing up a great big high and we'll use the backside of him will use the rump side that'll be thicker high and we'll try to shoot through that or into that with our arrows okay guys so here's our 60 pound Hickory bow okay this has got a Dacron string on it be fifty Don starting with first silencers not quite as primitive as total primitive but and here's our arrow so I think what we'll do first is to grab an arrow out of here it's got a stone a stone point on it okay that one's got some blood on it I don't think I want to shoot that one that was kind of that was kind of sentimental let's find one it here we go here's one that's got Turkey fletchings on it and a stone point you can see that on there half that on there with artificial sinew and pine pitch that's the one that will shoot first at this target stay with me fellas okay guys so here's what our booth looks like in a strong position let me step back from the camera a little bit

and there's our arrow get this thing turn it around on this target see if I get you guys kind of a close-up view see here all right let me walk back here and take a shot and see what happens okay see what we got guys there's the shot zoomed in zoom out let's walk up here see what we got going on here if I can adjust this camera down for you guys so we can all see what's happening here I'll zoom in a little bit we'll try to look at this arrow okay so here's here's what we're at all right pulling this out we've got that much penetration flip this camera thing around so I can see I'm looking out I've got this much penetration and there's the hole all right no problem cutting right through that high right there's the entry hole into the target I can see a hair around it so I shot into the thickest density of that phone that's hardly ever been shot right there to show you that and that's a good probably seven inches of penetration from probably fifteen or sixteen yards away now let's grab a bone point and do the same thing okay guys so again here's our buff this is a bamboo shaft with a bone point again send you down there this one's been held on with high glue and not pine pitch and it's got turkey tail feather fletchings that have been wrapped on it and it's knocked in the back ok so this one's bamboo the last one was a cedar shaft let's get this turn around here zoom in a little bit okay see what we can do here okay zoom in here and sit we got alright okay let's pull this out a little hard we've got that much penetration that went in right here and right there's the hole in the hide okay what I thought I'd do is I would walk this off 15 paces and let you see what this arrow looks like in flight this is our stone point again going into the block target that I've got right below the camera here okay so our targets fret below me here well guys I hope you've enjoyed this short discussion on arrow repair kits for primitive arrows and enjoyed looking at some of the shots that we made against that deer hide with bone and stone points on our arrows I just wanted to kind of go over some of that stuff with you guys I get a lot of questions about archery all the time and I've kind of laid off up for a while so I'm kind of coming back into it now especially with the teepee series coming in I wanted to get you guys a little bit more information on archery a little bit more information on primitive skills so I appreciate your support I appreciate everything you do for me for my family for my business I'll be back through the video as soon as I can in the diary of the teepee you