New Atlatl (spearthrower)

[jerv]

I finished my new atlatl today.
The peg is a deer vetebrae. It has a 2oz antler block to serve as a banner stone set close to the handle to increase the stability of the throw.It is held in place with sinew and leather thongs and i've used a leather spacer to help keep it in place. I am a bannerstone sceptic but included one as an experiment. So far I can;t see they do much but counterbalance the longer and heavier darts.
The handle is leather thonging and makes the thrower feel really nice in the hand.


I think I'll be using this one for our competition on the 25th

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in the hand

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[Snufkin]

Looks good. I've never tried a bannerstone, I'm rather sceptical too.

 

[torjusg]

Very cool!

Haven't tried a spearthrower yet, but I hear they work well.

I don't think a bannerstone does anything but to add weight to the throw. Should be advantageous if you are using ultra-heavy mommoth killing darts. But when using a lighter dart it shouldn't make any difference to how far you are going to throw. That is using bowlogics, which essentially should be the same.

 

[jerv]

the physics of it all rather elude me. i would have thougth a lighter thrower would work better for speed and therefore distance. The weight does make the thrower more stable however and as I throw whopping 180 odd gram darts serves as a nice counter balance.

 

[sam_acw]

I read an article about banner stones being primitive silencers.
Something technical http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-atlatlflex.html but I can't find the exact article and can't remember where it was. I thought it was either on Primitiveways or WildernessWay magazine sites.