How To Find and Identify FLINT and CHERT in the WILDERNESS!

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[Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Have you ever found flint? How did it work?

[rosaleee]

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!

[zapachehelicopter]

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!

[Carlos-cums]

I am happy just by looking how happy this guy finding rocks.

[charchuk]

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.

[philipatoz]

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!

[elicarter]

Those big rocks you pulled out of the ground look like old foot markers for graves, could explain why they were in the woods

[Catboy-hrqp]

Definitely very helpful, hopefully i can find a couple good chunks so i can get started practicing knapping gun flints

[radman]

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!

[BreakingBarriersDIY]

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. <3

[dalehammond]

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

[elijahrea]

Found a perfect piece of flint today at work. ur vids have inspired me to try to make an arrow head with it

[trentonpaasch]

Fantastic deep dive into the process of finding the right materials

[aladymcsomeonestein]

Awesome informative video, thank you!

[CJ-nfjd]

That was very cool. Informative, you know your stuff.

[wirtification]

Cool as usual!!! We're checking out the river by our house as well as the ocean beaches. Great video!

[thomas-ioh]

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

[lostpony]

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.

[wornsoul]

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

[AndrewPlace-zwjh]

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