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Offline Mark Anderson

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How to succesfully reduce point weight!
« on: June 08, 2011, 04:29:23 pm »
Drove home from Houston TX to MO yesterday and stopped at a rest area where I found this rock. It works really nicely and I got a bit careless as it is so much easier to work than this chert I have up here, and I broke one of the ears off. I think it will still work to hunt with though.
Mark

p.s. what kind of rock is this? Don't have anything like it here.
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Offline cowboy

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Re: How to succesfully reduce point weight!
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011, 04:54:54 pm »
Not exactly sure what that is but it could be like so much of the rock down here, some kind of pedernales. There are sand plants along a lot of the rivers and creeks that sift the sand out of the river gravel and a lot of it is chert. Could be some of the fill out of one of them quarry's. Yeah, i think that'll still stick a critter :).
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Offline Tower

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Re: How to succesfully reduce point weight!
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2011, 05:35:10 pm »
I agree with Cowboy. Not sure where ya found it but I've seen similar material here in TX. & I works pretty good raw.
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Offline mullet

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Re: How to succesfully reduce point weight!
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2011, 10:39:01 pm »
Look's like "good" rock to me. Nice point.
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