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Offline FlintWalker

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Is this a gun flint?
« on: January 14, 2010, 08:58:48 pm »
A friend of mine brought over a bucket full of old broken points last night for me to dig around in and maybe find some study pieces.  I found this little piece in there.  He said he picked it up because it looked "worked".  I think it's a gun flint ???  It doesn't look like any kind of artifact I've ever seen, but it has been pressure flaked around all sides.
 Looks like Carter cave, Flint river or some kind of chalcedony.

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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2010, 09:16:53 pm »
 Yes, it is, nice find.
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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2010, 09:32:16 pm »
 Here's some more,  the two on the right are Trade Flints found in Maryland the white one on the left is what I shoot. The big ones are Musket Flints. Shannon, feel free to copy the small one with that Sonora, and I'll try them out. ;D

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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2010, 09:36:35 pm »
Well I'll be danged!  Dead ringer ain't it.   'Ol Dan'l Boone might have dropped that one ahuntin fer them thar bars ;D
 Is the edge around the bottom or raised a little?
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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2010, 09:38:46 pm »
 The striking edge meets in the bottom quarter. I have a modern flint somewhere made from that same yellow rock.
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Offline Bill Skinner

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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2010, 11:25:24 pm »
The French used a blond flint very similar to that.  You can find some in Mobile Bay where they dumped ballast.  Bill

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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2010, 09:55:38 am »
Very cool fine. :)
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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2010, 04:46:01 pm »
Makes one wonder what the history of it is...who last used it?
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Re: Is this a gun flint?
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2010, 08:13:58 pm »
 Maybe Robert Butler, last year during hunting season. ;) It is hard to tell with all of us flinging rock in the woods, now. I know I have left some pretty points stuck in some critters I didn't find. And lost a few arrows ,too.  8)
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