What's the purpose of an atlatl weight? Here's a video of Bob Berg discussing his theory on why atlatl weights (boat stones) are a counterbalance for heavy darts. Bob doesn't believe that weights are for adding more "power" or "speed" to your atlatl throw, as many...
Thunderbird Atlatl wood darts all come with steel field points that are easy to purchase in the archery market. All our darts are tapered to fit 23/64 diameter field points. We mostly use 125 or 160 grain points. The points are glued on. Our hunting darts arrive with...
I have hunted a lot of times with atlatls. Over the years, I have hunted mostly wild boar and deer. Many of our customers use our atlatls and hunting darts for hunting deer, elk, bear, boar and other game animals. A couple of days ago, "Atlatl Bob", William Robert...
Wendel Adams, my good friend who passed away several years ago was a fellow atlatlist who helped in the Great Atlatl Hunting Experiment where we relearned how to use atlatls for hunting big game. Wendel was from Kentucky. He was an amazing machinist and an avid...
I have been making and using hunting darts for use with atlatls for a couple of decades. When a few friends and I started doing this in the early 90s we were aware of the fact that atlatls and darts must have been used for hunting in ancient times but we were unable...
We received a note from Russ Guthrie of Pennsylvania that the video of his seven year old grandson killing a deer with an atlatl is being featured in a Deer & Deer Hunting newsletter blog Russ' grandson, seven at the time the video was recorded, is shown using one of...
Atlatlists from the Northeast have been slowly but surely working their way toward getting the atlatl accepted as a big game hunting weapon. Russ Guthrie of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania has been leading the way. Russ has the unique ability to bring the right people...
There is a rock shelter in southwestern Pennsylvania called Meadowcroft. There is evidence there of continuous habitation for at least 15,000 years. Let's conservatively estimate the average amount of hunter/gatherers living in Pennsylvania at say 1000 people. If...
Bob Berg with Spoonbill which he caught with an atlatl. Photo by Reid R. Frazier
I just got back from an atlatl fishing expedition out in western Kentucky. The first night out, we went with Joe Ewing on his Super Galactic Chronosynclastic Magnatronic Fan Boat. It was a great experience mixing the high tech fishing boat with the atlatl. We went...
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