MammotHunter
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Well, in typical MammotHunter fashion, while sitting at home bored waiting to go to the movies, I got the "bright" idea to make a cestrosphendone. So, I took a wooden dowel, of admittedly smaller than acceptable calibre, attached a couple of pieces of cardboard to one end with superglue and cut them into flight shapes, and cut a notch into the other end, into which I tied an obsidian arrowhead. I felt that the end needed to be heavier, so I used a piece of seine twine to attach a 1 oz fishing weight to the front to give it a little more mass. I made a cestrosphendone itself earlier, but I found out after trying to throw once that the loop was in the wrong place and the whole thing seemed useless. So, I took the whole thing, slipped two fingers into the fingerloops, held the release cord, and found the middle of the cord, and folded that into my hand to give me two loops of equal length. I put the end of the dart in one loop and slipped the other end of the dart in the front loop, looked around and lobbed the dart with what I thought was a very light toss. Apparently, it was enough to send the dart across my yard, the street and into the neighbour's yard, where it came within yards of striking their house. And this was all from a length of 1/2 cm diametre wooden dowel about a foot long with a fishing weight tied on the front and cardboard glued on the back! Today, I started working on a bigger and heavier design for the dart using a 1 cm diametre dowel length cut slightly longer than the first and I cut some aluminum drink cans and used the metal folded over to make fins instead of cardboard. I may attach a 2 oz sinker this time, just to see what the increase in weight can do for range and impact. This time, I think I'll test it in an open field, though.
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