Atlatl!

[corivax]

I was playing with gfish's atlatl (a gift from the wondrous keen vixyish), and it is neat. I will now proceed to gush about it. :)

Comments

[ilmarinen]

Very cool. Archery actually depends on the arrow being flexible also--although I don't think it is anywhere near as critical. In archery, the arrow actually bends around the bow.

Is the spear in the pictures aluminum?

-B.

[corivax]

Yeah, it's made from two standard hunting shafts cut down and fitted together. You can get wood ones, but they cost a lot more.

It's funny - I did a lot of archery before realizing that arrows wobble in the air. I'd somehow imagined they followed their trajectory perfectly.