How To Find and Identify FLINT and CHERT in the WILDERNESS!
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Have you ever found flint? How did it work?
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.
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
Dudette that's fuckin awesome. I waited til I'm almost 24 (Wednesday ill be 24) to pick up bow making, after picking up carving kuksas, bowls and spoons, after picking up bushcraft, etc etc back to making a coping saw frame cause I was bored. I have a background in carpentry, but I never thought to do it for fun until just recently, a few months after I left the army. My point is, that's great that you're getting into it young, and there's a bunch of helpful folk on reddit under r/bowyer or r/knapping. Both are pretty far away from creepy weirdos on that site.
I am happy just by looking how happy this guy finding rocks.
I am so happy
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 😅
just say that your stupid
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.
look up Jack Crafty, he is a knapper and freeze cracked, a great knapper.
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
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.
Definitely very helpful, hopefully i can find a couple good chunks so i can get started practicing knapping gun flints
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!
I love how calm, casual, and conversational your presentation style is. Thanks for showing us. I collected some beautiful Kingston chert this afternoon. Learning to knap is my next goal because I have collected far too many rocks already.
Kingston, New York?
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
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??
9 out of 10 Clovis People disagree with that textbook.
In a more serious vein though, do you think the authors were making a distinction that would characterize European “flint” as a distinct, specific classification of a type of chertz which rocks in the U.S. don’t fit into?
Fantastic deep dive into the process of finding the right materials
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.
Awesome informative video, thank you!
Cool as usual!!! We're checking out the river by our house as well as the ocean beaches. Great video!
Check out the newest video!
That was very cool. Informative, you know your stuff.
My bro and I went camping in Cali off the 241 toll road I think and the river was dry so we walked in it and I found a heavy rock and when I threw it back down it sparked! I was like what is this rock? Wish I kept it.
Those big rocks you pulled out of the ground look like old foot markers for graves, could explain why they were in the woods
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
I just found ur Channel and I wanted to say great video for sure deff helped me because I was doubting myself and u clarify alot...thank u again man
thank you for sharing your hunt and commentary!
Thanks for watching!
What can flint be used for other than weapons ? Lighters?
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!
Nice video and explanation👌 there is novaculite all around my area but i only have Arkansas wet stone.
Nova is some of my favorite stone to work with
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.
Thank you 😊
Loved this one!
Me too
The link in your email message worked! I wish I could do that...
Cool video
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!!!
❤❤ proud of you also ❤❤
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.
I'm in piedmont of western NC. Quartz land. Born in western NY, near flint creek. Imo
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 ⚡️
We don't have much flint in the parts I'm in that's why you find white quarts arrow heads everywhere
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
I'm asking this 3 years after this video was posted!!! That high quality limestone, does heat treating improve it, is it even heat treatable? Does it knap just fine as is?
Never tried it! I think it would just get more brittle
I’m new to this flint knapping. How do I look for when in out in the wilderness.
Where are you in MN?
I live in Olmsted county where there is a lot of limestone. Does that mean that could find flint here?
Thanks for the video.
Considering the taming of my area im going to have to hunt at the landscape rock store
That was pretty cool man. Where were you when you found the flint?
Can you help me?
I have a stone question.
I have some Slate and I want to flake it very thin (about 1/8")
There's a beehive which I want to tile a roof with small slate tiles (I'll glue them in place).
Do you have any suggestions? Nothing I've done seems to work.
Thanks!
I love your videos!
Go to Instagram and check out NWPRIMATE , he grinds slate into shape
I think we need lessons in where to look for flint. I don’t believe there is any in east central Minnesota
Great video, VERY informative!
Glad you liked it! Make sure to subscribe :)
So I thought I found a few pieces, it's shiny almost black i'm very sharp. But when I tried knapping i couldn't seem to get any flakes, or make a platform. It just kept breaking off, i'm not sure if it wasn't actually flint, or i'm doing it wrong.
loved it well done sir.
Thank you for sharing. 👍
Glad you enjoyed! Share it around into some Facebook groups and such :)
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'm literally got tons of Flint boulders are they worth something
Probably
I'm in Texas.Is it gonna be the same whatever you're at in the country to find flint
The lay of the ground is similar to manhattan kansas.
Well I guess limestone could be a nice practice stone for beginners in Flint knapping
Ever go to Appalation Hills here in Ohio and look for flint??/should be plenty in that area too….🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔Or Shawnee State Park area near Portsmouth Ohio??
Great video! Awesome content
What part of the country are you in I am in Kentucky and I can’t find jack squat.
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.
my first visit here, where are we? im in SC, where are you?
ill give you a buck fitty for the salamanders house.
I would love to look for Flint with you
In the beginning when u we’re driving on the highway was u comming down I90? Comming from PA towards WV into Dallas pike ?
God bless.
Where would you find flint
Looks like You found the Mother load of flint ! Is it the kind of flint that makes guns go bang ?
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
It would be helpful if you described how to identify and what it’s uses are
I’ll do that going forward
Great video! Thank you
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
VERY NICE MUSIC.
Any idea for Hodges Alabama where I could look for Knappable stones Sir?
This should help
www.projectilepoints.net/Materials/Search/Alabama.html
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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.
i found this video because of outer wilds, now im interested in rocks for some reason.
Are you in Central PA? That highway looks familiar
New york
Damn. Found some good stuff.
very informative thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Can you heat treat the shale to make it better for snapping?
Possinly
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
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
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.😂
where did you find the rock? which state / area.. I am trying to find chert myself in NC currently
@@shadygremlin9702 uwharrie forest, check if you need permits and look at laws
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Thank you, is there camping & fishing nearby? Pray for Our Republic. Be at Peace
@@shadygremlin9702 yes there is camping all throughout the woods, lots of free sites some good fishing sites too. Always praying for peace. ✌️
Please tell me that you are not in the woods just outside of Flint Michigan. In other words, can flint be found anywhere?
chert or workable material can be found in almost every area.
What State was that?
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
Heads up. This video is mostly a guy wandering around the woods looking for Flint. No how to find Flint.
Nice 👍🏻👍🏻 Hunt
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 :)
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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
Our property has so much flint its hard to distinguish points from rocks.
Cool what state!?
@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Texas Hill country near Fredericksburg.
What state are you in? Is there flint in Pennsylvania?
Search my channel for Pennsylvania yes there is flint there I have multiple videos on PA
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.
Awesome video, what state is the wild sediments residing on?
Most my vids are in New York
What area (state) are you hunting
Badass my man
Thanks for watching!
Meet the Flintstones.
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
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.
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 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
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 was just in Denmark and flint is all over the ground.... everywhere.
Not to be over bearing but I didn't think we had flint in America only Chert?