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I remember reading how Indian arrowheads were commonly made out of metal utensils(pots. pans, cups etc.) traded for with the whites.
As far as killing power, a story exists of one plains Indian killing three buffalo with one arrow... claiming the third with the arrow protruding from the second!
On a hot, dry day, a strong bowman could easily drive one clear through an enemy. The 'gut' held it's strength better when dry.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 20:
1494 Johan Friis chancellor (Denmark, helped establish Lutheranism)
1507 Gentile Bellini Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
1632 Thomas Osborne Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)
1784 Adam Black Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1790 Joseph II Emperor of the Holy Roman empire, dies
1805 Angelina Grimke reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
1809 Henry Walton Wessells Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1838 James Barbour Terrill Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
1886 Béla Kun Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
1893 Russel Crouse journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1898 Enzo Ferrari Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Island NY, railroad tycoon
1901 Ali Muhammad Naguib Khartoum, President of Egypt (1952-54)
1902 Ansel Adams photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
1904 Aleksei N Kosygin Soviet premier (1964-80)
1907 Nadine Conner California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1910 Millicent Fenwick (Representative-R-NJ 1975-82)
1911 Robert Guyn McBride Tucson AZ, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1914 John Daly South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
1917 Frederick Page CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1921 Joseph Albert Walker Washington DC, test pilot (X-15)
1924 Gloria Vanderbilt don't my jeans look great, poor little rich girl
1925 Robert Altman Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, MASH)
1926 Kenneth H Olsen US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
1927 Sidney Poitier Miami FL, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner)
1927 Roy Cohn lawyer, "grand inquisitor" (for Senator Joseph McCarthy)
1929 Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
1934 Bobby Unser auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
1936 Larry Hovis Wapito WA, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
1937 Nancy Wilson Chillicothe OH, jazz singer (Feel Like Making Love)
1937 Robert Huber München, Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie Maine, folksinger
1942 Phil Esposito NHL player/coach/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
1943 Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 Antonio Inoki [Kanji Rikidozan], wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1946 Sandy Duncan Henderson TX, actress (Hogan Family, Pinocchio, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?)
1946 J[erome] Geils New York NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (J Geils Band-Freeze-Frame, Centerfold)
1947 Peter Strauss Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Secret of NIMH, Space Hunter)
1949 Ivana Trump Gottwaldov Czechoslovakia, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
1950 John Voldstad Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
1954 Patty Hearst Shaw San Francisco CA, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
1954 Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev Russian colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25)
1955 Kelsey Grammer St Thomas Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser)
1959 Joel Rifkind New York serial killer
1963 Charles Barkley Leads AL, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, Philadelphia 76ers, Olympics-gold-96, All Star 1987-90)
1964 French Stewart New Mexico, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1966 Cindy Crawford Dekalb IL, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
1977 Veronica Ledesma Miss Argentina-Universe (1996)
Stringing the stronger bows was no mean feat, then there was that nasty slap of the wrist from the bowstring--hence the necessity of the wrist guard.
But use one as a weapon? You could put your eye out.
Much easier over at the rifle range, from .22 to 30.06.
A study of European and oriental archery might show the Native American product to be technologically arrested.
Which shortfall has been more than compensated in the development of the state of the art casino which rips the average wallet right out of any honkie dog soldier stupid enough to blunder inside.
Just in: a secretly recorded telephone conversation suggests that George Bush got so hammered he drove off a bridge into the Chappaquiddick River and left Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate and die.
Or perhaps it was something of less consequence but hyped more by orders of magnitude in order to demonstrate media bias.
"Bat 21" was showing on History Channel's "Movies In Time" today and I followed the action as Gene Hackman is SAM'd out of an RB-66 and teams up with Danny Glover.
When Gene Hackman melodramatically winced as the NVA shot one of its own wounded I could stomach no more of Hollywood's revisionist garbage and returned to monitoring Discovery Channel's coverage of launch and christening of a new destroyer "Forged In Steel".
We had done work for an Air Force vet whose memories of the B-66 included the admonition that "we got our work on the planes done in the morning because in the desert [California?] the tools would get so hot in the sun by the afternoon we couldn't handle them".
He also recalled it was difficult moving in the aircraft to use the piss tube; leading me to wonder how the lines at McCain's grave will be handled since he told Chris Matthews that She Who Must Be Oyveyyed would make a good president.
On a sobering note a friend for twenty years who was a tool-em and fuel-em in Vietnam now has emphysema [after ignoring our nagging to quit smoking lo all these years] and is wheezing by on inhalers putting off oxygen.
It's not fair that good people should suffer so I have volunteered Bill Clinton to take our friend's place when the Grim Reaper arrives.
I mean, if it's dark and you've got a quota, who cares, right.