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I make mine out of 7/16" four-foot poplar dowels. They hold up better than pine. I use one drilled three-inch piece of bamboo for a joint sleeve and add a six-inch extension to the four-foot section. I use a drilled four-inch bamboo sleeve as a foreshaft socket. A carbon fiber 20-inch crossbow bolt serves as a foreshaft. I use plain old blue masking tape to size the bolt up to 7/16ths in the part where it inserts into the bamboo sleeve. I reinforce the sleeves with artificial sinew. My fletches are made of aisle marking tape. When the smoke all clears, the dart, foreshaft and all, is 74 inches long. Not as authentic as my seven-foot cane 'show' dart, with turkey feathers and antler point, but will hold up to the rigors of the hundreds of throws I needed to get to where I could hit the broad side of a barn. (I darn near gave up on the whole idea but began to see some improvement in accuracy at around throw number six hundred.) Eight or nine hundred throws later, the barn wall target hits have now become coke can hits about three times out of five from ten yards. That is good enough for cottontail rabbit hunting around here. Finally! My beautiful mammoth-killer dart hangs on the wall. It is there in case I ever run into a mammoth.

Great analogy cutting the shaft of the feather is just like trying to cut fingernails with a knife

I"m not sure but didn"t they use tail feathers for this tecnicque?

That looks like hours of fun. And trash talking 😉

Are those secondary feathers? or tail feathers, if you mentioned this in the video I'm sorry. Also I shoot a short recurve (supermag mag 48), and I am interested in shooting assisted pinch grip. Is it hard to find an anchor spot on your face? Any problems with the string hitting your nose? Thanks Eric

I make my darts with a golf tee as my nock that I drill out and as my point end I glue in a carbon arrow shaft cut to length so I can screw bin field points broad heads or judo points depending on what I am hunting or practicing on

Great video, thanks 👍

Me and the chaps on a Friday evening

Thanks for the video! I will use this style on my next set of arrows. Good that you mentioned using a scissors. I've seen a lot of videos where they use a knife and been wondering why they didn't use a scissors.

have you ever taken game with that setup?

One of my favorite Atlatl shorts!!

Brilliant, thanks for the content

It should be in the Olympics. 😎 Its one of mans oldest tools

RUclips Moche Toss 😁 I like the music

This is so cool, thanks for the video! ❤

good vid, thank you

Я всë видел.

Замедленная съëмка позволяет работать над ошибками. 👍

Super cool! I've done a number of stone point penetration tests and I have found that stone points tend to slip between the ribs on entry on every shot I've ever taken...including actual hunting scenarios where I've shot deer and wild pigs. If the point has ever hit bone, it's been offside ribs or the shoulder blade on the other side. But by then, the point has done its job...

Wait a minute... What's your channel's relationship with Donny Dust?

wow the speed this things get is insane thank you!

Seen most fletched like this with shoots n shooting board shafts. CANE is easier to split n use 1 feather three arrows.... Sorry I’m sure u all know this but got to say something Other than nice feathers

How do you make your unfletched darts fly so straight? The back end of my unfletched dart always hits the ground when landing and never fly straight. I have been searching for an answer to this problem for a while now. Can't figure it out :(

I really enjoy your videos. I would like to see a "judging accurracy with primitive bow" similar to your atlatl one which i constantly send to people as a baseline for the subject. Extremely good work.

It reminds me of Mayan Chitchen Itzel ruin in Mexico with impossibly high “basket ball hoops”.

I spoke to Devin the morning I am posting this comment. You can drill out the bamboo to enlarge thr socket to accept a thicker foreshaft tang.

Amazing!! Excellent footage

Hunting experts

de mexico para el mundo el arma de los mexicas

Saludos desde Perú, tierra de los Moche. Felicitaciones a los Drs. Christopher Donnan y Donna McLelland, grandes conocedores de la Cultura Moche. Felicitaciones también, a todos los que participaron en la recreación del lanzamiento de estólica.

Sasan kvalli nantekitih 👍🏽

I look forward to your experiments!

Very nice looking work Sir.

Ive watched this at least 10 times, love the vid and the music

This looks like he is throwing a live eel.

Australian Aboriginals used spear thriwers and fletchless 6 foot long spears. Very similar to this. Thanks mate

Using a VERY flexible atlat you can use a stiffer dart, resulting is less wobble and less energy wasted, so its more accurate and throws further. I use a very narrow thin strip of bambo to with good results.

I was watching Aussie throwers and their spears seem much more rigid. I played the videos in slow motion and the American darts are much more flexible. It makes me wonder if flexibility is really all that important.

Hey man, I've made a basketmaker Atlatl and dowel darts with success in penetrating the target a few times maybe 4/10 shots penetrated the target while the rest just bounces off with no energy in the dart. Would you have any troubleshooting info for what I might be doing wrong? I know the gear isn't the problem as I've impaled the target all the way through but only once, I've never been able to replicate the shot.

Hope you find a deer that will stand still, while you pretend to hunt it. Thanks from St. Paul Minnesota.

I’ve seen this style of fletching done two different ways. One way is like your method where the fletching is cupped in like this () when looking down the shaft. The other way is opposite where the fletchings are facing outward like this )( when looking down the shaft. I hope this makes sense. Does it work either way? I also haven’t figured out what the small flap on the bottom half of the fletching is for?

Is it the natural arc of him in throw and friction making the dart rotate in flight?

Wow, such an amazing sport for hunting practice from ancient South America. I loved seeing this. They're good at it too, many hits.

somehow we tend to believe that the atlatl has to hold spring-energy like a bow... but even no historical atlatl exists where a spring action was visible... they all be stiff...

Thank you for your insight

Impressive I have read that the Teutonic Knights were terrified of atlatls because they could punch straight through armor

Fascinating Archeological news

Have you taken game with these?