Finding flint/chert

[Kipawa17]

Rockhound all over central Oregon and Washington found lots of obsidian , hard agate and jaspers. Never found any chert or flint types, although I did trade for some at a rock show and that piece is somewhere in a bucket with lots of other rocks!

 

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jasper makes good gun flints but needs to be heat treated to knap, the knapper before me at The Dixon's Gun Makers fair used local jasper (I wish I knew the source)