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Post by frostwolf on Jan 29, 2015 1:43:43 GMT
What's better? Stone knives or Bone knives?
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Post by Horsie on Jan 29, 2015 1:48:50 GMT
I'd say stone, it's probably not going to break as easily, and it'll probably have a better edge. Obsidian (it's glass, but I'm counting it!) is sharper than a scalpel just by chipping it.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jan 29, 2015 1:51:48 GMT
Naw, Fluttershy would be a Girandoni air rifle.
Or maybe the more modern Benjamin Rogue .357.
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 29, 2015 1:52:49 GMT
Bone will serve in a pinch though... and if it breaks off inside someone, that could really suck.
Stone would be better though. Especially for cutting.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jan 29, 2015 2:03:03 GMT
Obsidian is good, flint is more durable.
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Post by frostwolf on Jan 29, 2015 2:03:26 GMT
So bone for stabbing, stone for cutting?
My gut was right.
I had the main character of my story basically jump onto a buffalo and stab her bone knife into it's flesh deep enough to make a good handle to hold onto (she also held on one of the horns also)
Then I had her cut it's throat with a stone knife when it was on the ground dieing. Speeding up the process.
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 29, 2015 2:05:04 GMT
You could definitely stab with stone, probably better... but a bone wound could be bad for a variety of other reasons... splintering, infection...
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Post by Horsie on Jan 29, 2015 2:05:22 GMT
I'm sticking to firearms Word, airguns won't do.
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Post by frostwolf on Jan 29, 2015 2:07:44 GMT
I found myself surprised at the tactics native Americans used to hunt buffalo. Just herd em off a cliff.
I mean...I expected more stabbing and arrows.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jan 29, 2015 2:07:55 GMT
I'm sticking to firearms Word, airguns won't do. I've seen vids of people dropping deer and hogs at 100 yards with the Benjamin, it's not a lightweight. |
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jan 29, 2015 2:10:58 GMT
What would probably make a better stabbing knife than bone would be antler. Yes, I know, technically it is bone, but it's not hollow and less porous than regular bone so it would hold a point better.
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Post by Horsie on Jan 29, 2015 2:11:37 GMT
I don't doubt it, as long as you can get a projectile that's heavy enough to go fast enough, it'll work just as well as a bullet fired from a firearm. But I'm thinking of firearms.
Fire and smoke, fire and smoke!
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 29, 2015 2:14:49 GMT
Then again, Fluttershy is pretty quiet, so... maybe an airgun makes sense?
Also, yeah, herding off of a cliff was a thing, and it often led to quite a bit of waste.
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Post by Horsie on Jan 29, 2015 2:24:56 GMT
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a place. I normally shoot .22 without hearing protection (rifles at least, pistols are still loud), and she could slap a silencer on it. 
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Post by frostwolf on Jan 29, 2015 2:30:38 GMT
Then again, Fluttershy is pretty quiet, so... maybe an airgun makes sense? Also, yeah, herding off of a cliff was a thing, and it often led to quite a bit of waste. Which is weird cause I keep reading that the native Americans weren't wasteful. |
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