How To Find and Identify FLINT and CHERT in the WILDERNESS!
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What state were you in when you found these rocks?
@@user-xs3oi8rq8f New York
@@user-xs3oi8rq8f State of delusion I suspect!
I'm a 17 year old girl, today I just made my first bow with some greenwood I found and twine I made from vines that were all over the ground in a pile at a park. Very proud! Can't wait to find some flint and practice knapping!
Hell yeah, happy birthday and congrats on your first bow. That's awesome
Congratulations, your chances of survival in any situation just jumped exponentially. An example to be follow.
@@LunaceAdams i guess that means im not the only one who graduated and instantly decided to make random stuff in nature.
Bruh I wish I got a childhood like that the fuck
And i am 16 year old male making bow out inferior wood(dry) and arrowhead make from various material like wood ,stone ,bone that's it
This reminds me of a class I had in Physical Anthropology years ago. According to the textbook we had at the time, the authors made the claim that Flint is NOT naturally occurring anywhere i North America amidst other claims.......
I thought it was naturally occurring in north America??
I am happy just by looking how happy this guy finding rocks.
I am so happy
This video actually helped a lot. I live deep in the woods, and now I collect flint 😂
Yw
There's a lot of knowledge offered in this video. I'm 76 and have never been a serious Native American artifact hunter but no matter where I've lived these ancient items may be found. The secret as you know is to locate the places where they concentrated their efforts for the making of the tools of survival. Find the natural resources and you'll find the artifacts more easily. But they're actually everywhere because at one time these people were everywhere. Good video, thanks
I cannot thank you enough for this. I heard when I was a young kid about the sound flint makes if you hit it with another rock but I could NOT find if that was true anywhere. Everyone else would show based off of strictly looks. Thank you SO much!
No prob!
I need this too because it wasn't granite I found I think it was Flint which I just needed to hear the sound to be sure 😅
Found a perfect piece of flint today at work. ur vids have inspired me to try to make an arrow head with it
Awesome, let me know how it goes!
Also those pieces you chip off can be used as free razor blades
@@moggtheboss3087I prefer obsidian for razor blades
I learned a ton in just 20 minutes watching this. After 20 years of being an artifact hound, I'd never really considered knapping - until now. I don't have the best rock close by (have granite, quartz and slate). But I'll be in New England soon, and you bet I'll be on the lookout!
Follow up: Well, on my trip to New England, I was out in a field, in northern CT, looking for knappable rock. There is stone piled everywhere from when farmers cleared the fields in the 18th and 19th centuries. Looking at piles of interesting rocks in my MIL’s back acreage, I immediately found a very nice stone axe head.
If we are patient...the goods on how to recognize good napping material are in this video. Love the information and assist for finding. Especially the number of different types and how to recognize better materials. This was exactly what I needed.
Fantastic deep dive into the process of finding the right materials
Heck yeah guys thank you so much, a lot of awesome information I’m definitely gonna recommend this video and send it to anyone that takes interest in knapping
Definitely very helpful, hopefully i can find a couple good chunks so i can get started practicing knapping gun flints
THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!!!
Awesome informative video, thank you!
Loved this one!
Me too
Thank you 😊
thank you for sharing your hunt and commentary!
Thanks for watching!
What can flint be used for other than weapons ? Lighters?
Great video! Awesome content
What I’ve learned for not only this video but all the ones that I have watched. Number 1 - flint or chart make a different sound than rocks. Number 2 - flint or chart smell like gun powder when a chip is knocked off and number 3 - I don’t have the patients or knowledge to pick up a ringing rock and make it to anything but dust! Luv ur channel. Hopefully u r feeling better!
Great video, VERY informative!
Glad you liked it! Make sure to subscribe :)
loved it well done sir.
Thank you for sharing. 👍
Glad you enjoyed! Share it around into some Facebook groups and such :)
Great video! Thank you
very informative thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this video! I'm very sound orientated so I used that to identify a lot of my rocks and crystals. Especially weight for a few. I have singing quartz it sounds amazing but if I'm correct calcedony is a softer variety of quartz which does have a higher pitch than majority of the courts, especially the ones you get either Arizona or Arkansas. I can't remember. I'm so sorry.
Niice scores there. I brought home some promising first choices to try but so far i cant get into the dark shiny one and it hurt my hand bones. Thanks for reminding me to try again and see if i have a practice stone yet or not.
Score! . Been watching you from the beginning. Very happy for you. in Charleston South Carolina I have no hope finding flint.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allendale_Chert_Quarries_Archeological_District
Look in creeks near there. Just make sure you aren’t taking from an ar archaeological site and make sure it’s legal to collect stone
From what I understand, the Carolinas have only slightly better chance than the northeast when it comes to flint deposits. Better than my next of the woods here in Maryland, too. Good luck!
God bless.
We don't have much flint in the parts I'm in that's why you find white quarts arrow heads everywhere
Damn. Found some good stuff.
Badass my man
Thanks for watching!
I really appreciate the emphasis on sound, when I’m searching for stuff sound and touch are 2 of my most important senses, it seems like no one talks about what stuff sounds like, how does the flint feel? I imagine it feels heavier or more dense as well
Heavy, dense, smooth and very sharp
Nice 👍🏻👍🏻 Hunt
Very interesting video. I only suggest than one has to use protective glasses when breaking down the stones, just to prevent small pieces from getting into one's eyes
rock hammer helps too
And cleats, knee pads, gloves, hearing protection and helmet.
The link in your email message worked! I wish I could do that...
Cool video
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t!
i found this video because of outer wilds, now im interested in rocks for some reason.
I’m new to this flint knapping. How do I look for when in out in the wilderness.
Considering the taming of my area im going to have to hunt at the landscape rock store
I was trying to find some today 😂 didn’t go awesome still learning. But I did cut myself lol. I’ll load the video soon 😆
I often cut myself in some of my vids. Flint is sharp
I think we need lessons in where to look for flint. I don’t believe there is any in east central Minnesota
I'm in North Texas, we have 2 creeks running through our property. We've found knappings and sign above the high water mark, but haven't looked for flint or high quality limestone cause I didn't know what to look for.
I have a few flintlock rifles, I'd like to make some decent flints for them.
Thanks for the info.
Texas flint usually sparks awesome ⚡️
That was pretty cool man. Where were you when you found the flint?
The lay of the ground is similar to manhattan kansas.
Skillz
Hello hello so 1st off I wanna say I ABSOLUTELY LOVE UR VIDEOS VERY EDUCATIONAL AND COOL TO SEE .... 2ND COULD PLEASE TELL ME UR LOCATION OR WHERE THIS PLACE IS IN VIDEO???? I AM LOCATED IN WORCESTER MA... AND MY FATHER DOES/DID FLINT NAPPING BUT Hasn't DONE IT IN YEARS WE JUST RECENTLY FOUND OUT THAT HE IS IN THE BEGINNING STAGES OF DEMENTIA, I KNOW THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING HE ABSOLUTELY LOVED DOING AND I WOULD LOVE TO BRING HIM HERE OR ANYWHERE I CAN TO GET HIS MIND GOING AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL STIMULATE HIS MIND TO BRING IT BACK TO SOMETHING HE LOVED DOING. ANY INFO GIV|N WE WOULD BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL. Letting him watch ur videos made him smile and got him talking about flint NAPPING and brought back many memories!!! Thanks for ur videos please keep sharing and posting!!! Ur helping more people than u know ❤❤❤💯🙏🏽👌🏽😁🌞🌛
Email me, visionquestarts@gmail.com and I’ll give you some tips on where you can go to explore
Awsome
:D
I was just in Denmark and flint is all over the ground.... everywhere.
Thanks for the financial advice. I heard if you put that in the comments it helps the channel. And it is in a way ut helps with survival that is primitive FINANCIAL advice.
It would be helpful if you described how to identify and what it’s uses are
I’ll do that going forward
I think I just heard the Flint police, you better hightail it
Randomly found salamander house stole his knapping rock
In the beginning when u we’re driving on the highway was u comming down I90? Comming from PA towards WV into Dallas pike ?
I hate to be Debbie downer but always wear safety glasses if you are chipping at Flint!!! You get a piece of that in your eye and you’re screwed
It is the best advice, everyone should listen to it. I’ve gotten flint stuck in my eyeball a few times and it is not fun at all.
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors advice heeded!
Thanks Debbie
😂😂😂😂 only the weak
I still.think they should reshoot Rambo and he starts in the forest without his knife so first he has to spall some crude stones and the fire scene would include flaking his arrowheads etc.
Watching this gives me an undescribable hunger to go outside and start digging through the snow and frozen mud for knappable rocks.
It’s doable, check out my winter videos
What part of the country are you in I am in Kentucky and I can’t find jack squat.
Where would you find flint
Hey boss. Did you ever do that giveaway for the arrows and knife edge? I've sorta been slacking but haven't heard anything about the winner. These videos have given me yet another thing to be aware of when I'm in the woods....as if we needed anything else to catalog.😂
Am planning to be residing in Missouri by next summer. Are you willing to divulge where you found the flint and the location of that pretty waterfall
This footage is from New York State
where is this at ?
I live in N. MS. What stones should I look for to begin knapping.
Fort payne chert or Horse creek chert. Much material in that area. Carry a heavy hammerstone and bust nodule open.
Awesome video, what state is the wild sediments residing on?
Most my vids are in New York
what state has a large amount of flint?
Flint or chert where i live in West Virginia we have chert
Can you heat treat the shale to make it better for snapping?
Possinly
Is there some flint that work for fire steal and other flint that doesn't?
Yes the shale based flints don’t seem to work.
What state are you in? The landscape looks a lot like the Arkansas Ozarks where we live. Great video, I’m going to have to try finding some flint!
New York here
Looks like You found the Mother load of flint ! Is it the kind of flint that makes guns go bang ?
Sadly,,, I live in the mid east sany coast of North Carolina. We have yard stone sakes sites but they only have sand and limestone.
I been looking through an old run down creek bed behind my house and i can't tell what flint looks like cause of its different colors
Check for smooth and glassy interior
Can you talk about heat treated flint and sites where this was used?
Sure can.
Do have a question what area of the country are you hunting in just found your Chanel and this video I have a fair amount of George town my budy in Texas got me but would love to use local flint. I'm in south western PA or north west West Virginia
I have some videos in Pennsylvania :)
What area (state) are you hunting
Any idea for Hodges Alabama where I could look for Knappable stones Sir?
This should help
www.projectilepoints.net/Materials/Search/Alabama.html
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Thank you sincerely Sir 👍🏽👍🏽I really appreciate this & you alot! I'm subscribing!!! Consider me a friend!!!
Where are you located buddy?
I definitely wanna take my daughter hiking and looking for some flint rocks, where are you located if you don't mind me asking
New York! Surpassingly
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors I'm in jersey over here I've tried couple spots around the Delaware River no luck
Not to be over bearing but I didn't think we had flint in America only Chert?
What part of the country are you in to be finding flint like that, I'm in new Mexico which has a lot of good knappable material and it isn't the easiest to find
New York State, Vermont and New Hampshire.
What is the location?
Our property has so much flint its hard to distinguish points from rocks.
Cool what state!?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Texas Hill country near Fredericksburg.
Nice vedio bro 🤜
I am from Hamburg, Germany and would really love to find some flint nearby… do you habe any recommendations where to look around?
do you guys have public geology maps ?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors usually in limestone areas
Where do you usually find flint ? Rivers creek fields ? I live in Georgia.
Yep! Georgia, try the Macon area creeks
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Your right, I live along the Flint River which runs from Atlanta down to the Florida line where it joins the Chattahoochee River, both rivers are loaded with real flint boulders in the water and along the banks.
where is this
Ny
its my first time watching. i have a q&a where du i find flint?
What area are you in?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors im in swiss nir a lake. sorry obbout my english
Start cracking open rocks it it has a smooth inside it’s probably flint
I live in Southern Illinois Williamson county I don't know how to find flint or chert
Where is this?
What state is this filmed in?
New york
Your by a mound or on a mound. The rocks are all animal effigy rocks and if you take a pic of them and zoom in theres alot of artwork on them that cannot be seen easily with the naked eye. I hope you dont get a curse from breaking them. lol
I like watching this stuff but how do I find this in my part of the country. The other thing I would like to know is can and how to make gun flints from what I have in the ohio country. I don't need to make them but would be great to be able to should the need arise. Any help?
Ohio flint throws good sparks
Can you find Flint anywhere? Or just near a creek
Have to find out where flint is naturally first before you can determine that
Flint is a round ,brown in color creek stone, as you break them open they have every color you can imagine 🤔
:)
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors ✌️😎
Flint is the petrified remains of marine sponges, it is not multi coloured and can only be found in ancient seabeds. Anything else is not flint, rocks and stones certainly are not!
@@nigelleyland166 Your correct and you do find sea fossil imprinted on some of them and on the inside. As America as we now know it was in our past under the ocean and a sea floor 🤔
Do you sell flint/chert? Looking for a source for flintknapping.
yes check my etsy shop, wilderness quest outdoors
Cool video! Are you from Maryland or Georgia? And which of the 2 state are you finding the Flint in?
She’s from Maryland and I’m from Long Island New York.
I found flint and jasper in both Maryland and Georgia!
Thanks so out of curiosity, may I ask are the flints you found in Maryland and Georgia, in the counties like Allegeny MD and Walker county GA?
near macon in GA, and right after that huge bridge in MD
Where is a good place to find flint in northern Wisconsin. Close to Lake Superior
www.mindat.org/locentries.php?m=994&p=17464
100k. Wahhoo
You have some nice deep blacks that are rare in my area. I am still learning but have chert everywhere around me living on the Edward's plateu
Quartzite can be knapped?
Yup!
Flint Knapping (crafting) a quartzite arrowhead (Cheshire from Vermont) and testing with Atlatl!
ua-cam.com/video/tnErx6Q53uA/v-deo.html
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Cool. I was interested in knapping but around here flint and chert are a bit rare. I'll look into this quartzite thingy. Thanks for the clue.
flint is sharp??
Yep
Can you ship those flint stones if I pay you . I reside in New York near Syracuse.
you can find some near you!