Homemade broadheads

[Tartar Horde]

Uncle Fester, you should be able to find flint in Limestone/chalky areas. Just over the Humber bridge into Lincolnshire the motorway cuts through the bedrock you should find flint there, so I would look around your area for road cuttings or old abandoned railway lines. On the North East Coast the only flint I find is known as "erratics" and is found in the boulder clay. It is in "nodule" form and is pretty nasty but it's all I've got. The best flint is found in Bands that run through Chalk seams, Cliffs etc and you find it in blocks surrounded mainly by a chalky concretia on the outside, this type of block flint is fantastic to use as you can knock large flakes from the edge of the platform and make long leaf blades.

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(13 December 2012, 21:02)Tibbs735 Wrote: Hammer an old teaspoon flat, shape with file and hacksaw. You could heat it up and drop it into water to harden in.
It is then sharpened into a lovely broad-head.

great idea never thought of that, the shaping is nearly done for you isn't it, bit of sharpening job done
have a thanks