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Offline leapingbare

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matching stone points.
« on: June 04, 2008, 03:24:04 pm »
The smaller points i am trying to make 6 to hunt with this fall, i am trying to make matched points i am shooting for 160grams and those points are 150grams , 175grams , 180grams, making th points match is a whole new thing to me. Well almost new James tryed to teach me how a few years ago, he told me to bi-face them all than rotate through them taking 1 or 2 flacks of one than a few flacks off another bi-face and so on, Thats not what i did with these i just had a grams scale in front of me and i layed the point on the scale a bunch of time as i was making it to try and meet my weight. Any other tips on matching points would be cool.

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Re: matching stone points.
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2008, 03:33:53 pm »
Do what I do,  break and ear off the heavier ones, usually unintentional, but effective none the less.  ::) Nice points by the way.

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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2008, 05:38:11 pm »
Matching stone points is very tedious. I try to make all my preforms first, then do as you do:  I keep checking them on a grain scale to get to my desired weight (not fun).  I switched from stone to bone or steel for this very reason. ;D
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Re: matching stone points.
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2008, 07:03:25 pm »
Dont worry about it too much myself. I think if I get my obsidian blades close to the same dimensions they tend to come out prety close. If I make enough of them like this some of them are prety close in weight. Just need to find some way of speeding up the process now.  ???
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« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 08:48:40 pm »
  Nice points Jesse. I've found that it really doesn't matter with a little difference in weight. Most of the time you are shooting at something closer and the arrow hasn't started to drop or start wierd things in that distance. You know how I make mine close to the same, ;) That diamond saw and diamond grinder, you can get 'em pretty close.
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« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 09:07:32 pm »
Eddie, thats cheaten!!!
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« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2008, 11:13:41 pm »
  David, If ya' got'em flauntem'.
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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2008, 07:44:03 am »
Nice points Jesse feel free to trade me the too heavy or too lite ones eh :)

I agree with mullet More Power!  ;D
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Re: matching stone points.
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2008, 03:29:51 pm »
Jesse, what type of rock is that? Looks like some of the novaculite stuff.
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« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2008, 06:42:05 am »
I tend to agree with Mullet. A small variance in weight, 50 to 100 grains is no big deal at the ranges we shoot at. I weighed 6 shafts for equal weigh.  I wrapped lead solder on the shafts opposite the nock to get them to 550 grains. I installed the obsidian heads of various weights. I did not fletch them. I used a compound bow release and shot them at 18 yards, almost the length of my cellar. The group was about 7 inch's and the lowest shot would have harvested the animal. I'm convinced that "we" have more variance in our shooting styles than the differential in weight causes. My 2 cents.

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Re: matching stone points.
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2008, 11:27:59 am »
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Jesse, what type of rock is that? Looks like some of the novaculite stuff.

 Tiller the arrowheads are that flinthills flint I got from K.S, The knife is Tallahassee Quartzite.
 
 Yea i think aslong as thy nd up around 145-180 grains they will work for me.
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