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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3974 Gender:	Bones ? Sep 12^th, 2010 at 2:48pm Well I am looking forward to harvesting my first white tail deer this year and I was planing on saving the shoulder blade for a saw and I also wanted to make some arrowheads . So I was wondering what is the best bones for making arrowheads and also what other bone tools could you make?
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Reply #1 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:18pm

Shoulder blades can be used for lots of things, saws and hoes come to mind, leg bones are usually what is used for points. The hooves can be used as rattles or tip overlays for a bow if the deer is large enough. The toes can also be used as points or split and made into fishhooks. Parts of the vertabra make excellant pressure flakers or notchers. You can make needles from the leg bones. Bill

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Reply #2 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 11:38pm

Also, paleoarts maked knife blades out of bone, I don't remember if he uses deer or cow, but I don't think it maters so long as you have a bit of flat bone, longbones are usually best for that.
You can make the nose bones into fish hooks with minimal shaping. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks very nifty, almost (dare I say it) easy

http://www.primitiveways.com/nasal%20bone%20hook.html

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13680 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Bones ? Reply #3 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 1:12pm Some people (not me) make turkey call strikers from deer antlers.
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: Bones ? Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 1:54pm flutes, combs, sewing needles, fish hooks, points, rattles, blades, pressure flakers, wedges, clothes pins, beads, buttons, knife handles, sickles, etc.........! the list is endless.
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Reply #5 - Sep 13^th, 2010 at 11:42pm

I'm kind of on the fence with bone items... they are very nice looking and effective in their purposes but there is a certain creepy factor about it... when I think of making things like flutes I get flashbacks of the time I watched " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the interior decorating of "The Cannibal Family" haha. But when you look past that it is really cool and not unnatural or weird at all.

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Eoraptor Funditor Offline Aim small, miss small. Posts: 936 Great Lakes Region (USA) Gender:	Re: Bones ? Reply #6 - Sep 19^th, 2010 at 7:36pm You can make a really nice turkey call out of a large bird wing bone. Ironically, turkey wing bones work well, I also made one out of a turkey vulture wing bone that I found once.
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