Here is how I make gun cherts(you call flints)

[IanH]

Jump into it, if a rock even sort of looks like it will make conchoidal fractures, I will try to make a gunflint out of it. If it does and sparks well, I'll make more. Scrounging rocks is part of the fun.

As far as being lucky enough to have access to suitable rocks, well, part of that "luck" is enduring 11 months of summer (I was out shooting today in 106 degree ambient temps with 55% humidity), extreme drought periods (had about five inches of rain to date this year), and general weather misery.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I have a large tin cookie container that is full of about 15# of broken arrowheads that I picked up in bean fields 50 years ago. I cut a few gun flint sized pieces out of some of these and tried them out in my flintlock, they spark really well.

Last time I posted this several guys got irate about me destroying the history of the artifacts. These pieces have no history, all I know about them is I picked them up in a 15-mile radius on the Tennessee river and up various tributaries around Stevenson Alabama when I was in my 20s, I am 75 now. I had quite a bit of good stuff, one bowl, several celts, tools, and various points going back to early archaic and possibly paleo. Years ago, my son and I spent the day sorting things out, I gave everything to him to hold for my granddaughter who is interested in archaeology.

Although I dug my bowl before it was illegal to do so, I didn't have any provenance to prove it so I donated it to the local artifact museum rather than face the feds with fines and jail time for having it.

My bowl in the local museum, it is the woodland bowl with the chip out of it.

 

[Flathead85]

I have a large tin cookie container that is full of about 15# of broken arrowheads that I picked up in bean fields 50 years ago. I cut a few gun flint sized pieces out of some of these and tried them out in my flintlock, they spark really well.

Last time I posted this several guys got irate about me destroying the history of the artifacts. These pieces have no history, all I know about them is I picked them up in a 15-mile radius on the Tennessee river and up various tributaries around Stevenson Alabama when I was in my 20s, I am 75 now. I had quite a bit of good stuff, one bowl, several celts, tools, and various points going back to early archaic and possibly paleo. Years ago, my son and I spent the day sorting things out, I gave everything to him to hold for my granddaughter who is interested in archaeology.

Although I dug my bowl before it was illegal to do so, I didn't have any provenance to prove it so I donated it to the local artifact museum rather than face the feds with fines and jail time for having it.

My bowl in the local museum, it is the woodland bowl with the chip out of it.

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Thats actually neat youre reusing them.