An Introduction to the Rabbitstick
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- The Rabbitstick (non-returning boomerang) is a hunting tool used to kill small and large game in Native America for thousands of years. In this video we discuss the geometry of this weapon, tools we will use to make it and personal experiences with these weapons.
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Can't wait to see the rest of the video. Thx for uploading and all your work and effort you put into this.
Cheers mate
Fantastic video! I live in the Sonoran Desert area in AZ, and throwing sticks are found at local archaeological sites as a regular thing; I've always wanted to try my hand at one, so now I'll just have to. Seems to me that the mesquite that's everywhere here would make a good one-- the stuff's hard as freaking nails and grows perfectly for the purpose.
It is theorized that banner stones where not just used on atlatl throwers. Banner stones have been found randomly in Eastern Oregon where rabbit populations are prolific and where dense woods are somewhat scarce. The probability of the stones being used as weights for rabbit sticks would explain the abundance and randomness associated with their locations. Of course without actually finding complete weapons we just can't be sure. If anyone wanted to pursue such a study it would be beneficial to the archaeological community?
Nice when early peoples are given credit for knowing WTF they were doing...as supposed to chucking a bent stick off the ground...yes it started that way but then the refinements were epic
Top notch series.
This is cool Jeff Thanks For Sharing !! :)
love it man
all the best from Germanya
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been working on a few different ideas for about a year now my final idea so far is similer to an axe shape with a bow handle shape and instead of an axe head the wood is circuler at the head, unfortunatly the woods near me are all light weight but the spin and aero dynamics are right the right weight would be quite dynamic...
if you dont want to fire harden it or you dont have oak or ash like primitive lifeways said you can also use mexican iron wood
how about manzanita wood I live up near Mt Shasta and we got a lot of Manzanita trees and bushes the have 4" dia trunks?
New subscriber here.....was wondering if fire hardening would be beneficial for a rabbit stick???
+ketcamaro Awesome! Thank you for subscribing! There is no need to harden it with fire unless you are working with softer woods. I like working with Oak and Ash.
So when making the rabbit stick, hand dominance is important to be taken into account.
i made one of these out of the hip bone in a cow that died almost 30 years ago before i was born
So, before watching the video, Just from seeing the picture and reading the description, my take is that it's a stick you throw at things to kill them.
they are all boomerang's to us Aussies if you know your sticks
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Lmao 'rabbitstick' Australian Aborigines have use the 'Boomerang' for 40000 + years long before Indians came to North America.
bro...read the desc.
good for them
Literally every single culture in the world at one point used rabbit sticks because all it is is a hardwood branch that you throw at an animal. Aboriginals just took it further.