How to Find Flint and Chert In Creeks and Rivers.

Finding chert & identifying flint rock cobbles for flint knapping primitive stone survival tools.upstate New York, we show how I find chert and how to identify chert.
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How I Find Chert / Flint Cobble - Flint Knapping Primitive Survival Skills - Rock Hounding Road Trip Camping Adventure TravelVlog ~~~~
Fun fun fun! Traveling around upstate New York finding, identifying, and quarrying chert for crafting primitive stone tools! On day 2 of our road trip, we traverse many creeks and rivers looking for flint / chert cobbles. We find Onondaga chert, esopus chert, and some type of blue-grey chert... and limestone! Jay talks about how he finds chert and how to identify flint and chert.
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[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Tools are in the product list!

[@jlastre]

That smile @ 4:33 is from _Wallace and Gromit._ Thanks.😊

[@user-xe5dr9rs6z]

Beautiful and amazing chert stones

[@trevord5229]

I could not imagine this being easy with cold hands.

[@casonmurphree1080]

people give this guy more love !!!

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Thanks!

[@aaronengland8289]

I love how half the time you don't even know what kind of rock you're working on. It may not sound like it but that's actually a compliment lol. You clearly learned to identify rocks the same way I did and I can appreciate that because it erks the hell out of me when people tell me the type of rock and where it came just by looking at the color and I'm just like... (smacks rock with another rock) "Hmm, sounds right" (Smacks rock again) "Breaks the right way, too. Okay, so this what I call hard-breaky-break-sharp-edge-cut-cut-rock."

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I did get to identify the majority of these after the fact

[@aaronengland8289]

I saw that. Started sounding pretty technical toward the end there lol. I'm so bad at it that I don't even try anymore. Despite our family being some of the more traditional folk in our area nobody ever passed on knapping or the knowledge of what rocks too look for. Worse yet, our area doesn't even really have a lot of rocks in general unless you count the non knappable ones. And most of those aren't good quality. It's mostly swamp out here. I got more practice making things from bone, hardwoods, shells, and occasionally teeth than anything else lol.

[@xXHighRyzeXx]

Thanks man! I'm trying to educate myself on survival so I can get into it and this will be greatly helpful in starting my journey!

[@melvinbell1964]

Thanks for the video

[@pepejuan2924]

A lot of good info thanks for posting 👍

[@TBOR101]

Always Interesting... Always Informative... 👍

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Glad ya liked it

[@ssource4852]

11:08 I've spotted some red twig dogwood at the water edge right there. red twig dogwood is very flexible and you could use it as a bushcraft fishing rod handle.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Worth a shot!

[@tracymathews6383]

This was very helpful. Now we know we can find flint in the summer and winter.

[@christopherlocke9616]

I love videos like this!!

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Make sure to hit subscribe! I have a lot of videos just like this one

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Check out the Patreon perks! Some include free flint! Www.Patreon.com/visionquestoutdoors

[@BUZZKILLJRJR]

Im a really good arrowhead finder rock hound so to speak but wasn't sure what filnt looks like unprocessed apparently there is a ton around hear some really good some really bad but more the i thought but suspected and this just proved me right. Thank you for the quick run down many of the flints here are creamier colors and yellows and whites summer even almost read like brick a lot of the crappier flints around here are the darker ones like you were showing the lighter colors here seem to be better smoother quality that's always use the word kind of creamy looking I found a chunk the size of bigger then my head, that looks like native Americans that used to live around the family homestead property were chipping flints from it for years! It had tons of chips taken from it.

[@genegorringe7395]

Definitely loved the video you do good at narrating keep up the good work be safe watch your six God bless Gene Gorringe Mi 💙 ✌️ 🇺🇲 🇬🇧

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Thanks Gene 🙏

[@historylooker7]

Cool video 👍

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[@Filmar152]

Great video!

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[@Filmar152]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors I'm subbed and they are amazing, great job!

[@jefferyhall1556]

Hi my name is Jeff and I have been watching your videos .on the episode how to find flint and chert in creeks and rivers.I noticed when you reached down and pointed to a stone ,at time mark 542,I believe you missed a large hand axe

[@mcdanielguinnthenorthernwa9110]

I've just got a steel striker just need to hunt for some flint now thanks for the info bro

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Glad to help

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Did ya find flint yet?

[@mcdanielguinnthenorthernwa9110]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors sadly no not yet haven't found an area I can just go and look but not my property sadly

[@justinhall2117]

I can just imagine how many times your fingers hated you for missing the rock lol

[@ltn4434]

I really want to get into arrow head or spear head making. So I’m heading down to the ozarks in Missouri. What kind of flint would I find there and and specifics I should look for in that area as a beginner like when I break it open with a stone what am I looking for ?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Take a look through my other videos, I do flint identification, in Missouri if I remember correctly your flint is white. I will look into it more and get back to you, I. The mean time check out my other videos, they will help

[@ronaldhuffstatler6062]

Man that’s leaverwright flint

[@dennispedicone5125]

Thanks, I'm learning a lot watching your videos but still can't find anything for fire starting.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I have flint and steel firestarting scattered throughout

[@geoffreybudge3027]

If your standing on the rock , chert is easy to find . It’s knowing where the vain protrudes or lays on or in the ground .

[@steveo9141]

I found an outcropping along a bicycle trail that had rock that was the consistancy of flint but was white. What did I find? It knapped well. I endured sweltering heat and sun to make my very first flakes. I felt as if I was still in Boy Scouts 50 years ago.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Did you find out what it was?

[@steveo9141]

Not yet. I'll have to start looking at the online references.

[@senkuu_ishigamii]

You know where I can find it in Virginia/Maryland? I live near the Burkittsville Area. Like a few miles south in NoVA

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I found some random jasper right in a field in burkittsville! Maryland all along the Chesapeake

[@senkuu_ishigamii]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors Ok I’m going there again this summer I’ll let you know if I can find some!

[@kylek9378]

What's your elevation there? I'm at 6000' I'm wondering how high flint is in the mountains

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

In the valleys and creeks. Highest I’ve found is like 3000’

[@travhammer]

I'm in South Carolina, central. Wouldn't be any use to search here, right?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

You’d be looking for rhyolite down that way

[@galor8765]

Hello im new here any chances you can find flint areas on the map? I live in Slovakia Košice and i cant find any whatsoever

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I tried to access some records for slovakia and was not able to. I tried some various things but it just wont let me look.

[@Robert-Herman]

I live east of the Hudson. My research tells me that there is no flint/chert on my side of the river. Am I right?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

It’s there, more rare

[@artamandi]

Do you know what "gloves" are?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

What are those? I have no idea. Why don’t you educate me random internet person?

[@phrotojoe]

Middleburg area ??

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Near there yep!

[@qwertyhjbvcdfyhjk]

Can you find flint in most rivers in New Hampshire?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Quartzite, rhyolite, and possibly red flint up in New Hampshire.

[@qwertyhjbvcdfyhjk]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors how about the White Mountains, New Hampshire?

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

There’s a high quality white quartzite in the white mountains. Knaps like flint

[@qwertyhjbvcdfyhjk]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors cool! I can’t wait to try this!

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Let me know how it goes and keep me up to date

[@andyshriner5443]

What if I want to find Flert? Sorry I'll see myself out. After the video, of course.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

😆

[@nicodianime]

My headphones volume was at max, jumped out my damn skin that intro was so loud. ☠️

[@tomzigoris3835]

I live in Michigan were can I find flint or chert

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Chert nodules are abundant in the Bayport limestone quarries in Arenac and Huron counties. Chert and flint are in the Niagaran dolomite in the Northern Peninsula, exposed in Scott's Quarry near Trout Lake, and the old quarries at Manistique.

[@tomzigoris3835]

@@Wildernessquestoutdoors thank you so much i will plan a trip

[@vikkijov]

It looks so cold. lol you're nuts

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I am nuts.

[@PraviLukijanJC]

I take showers in 0⁰C water

[@troybradley8647]

Need water

[@tomzigoris3835]

I asked around they say Michigan is not a good state for it

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Chert nodules are abundant in the Bayport limestone quarries in Arenac and Huron counties. Chert and flint are in the Niagaran dolomite in the Northern Peninsula, exposed in Scott's Quarry near Trout Lake, and the old quarries at Manistique.

[@richardcull4126]

Lol true stoner

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Always.

[@brendanmaillett8610]

It's chert bro! We don't have flint.

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

I go over this in multiple videos

[@tommybabin5156]

Flint is found in chalk deposits ? Correct?

[@johnny6148]

thats chert

[@Wildernessquestoutdoors]

Yep

[@lostpony4885]

Washing hands in liquid nitrogen...

[@aslanbosnakoglu8240]

ice age is a myth. never was such a thing. if anything we are in an ice age right now. greenland was named greenland by vikings because it was green.

[@vicbertfartingclack4559]

Tell that to all the moraines, drumlins, till deposits, erratics, and eskers where I live; not to mention isostatic rebounding of the ground that is still happening. Greenland got its name from Erik the Red around 983 AD. It was snow covered but he wanted to entice settlers by fraudulently calling it green. More than 2 million years ago it was green … then the glaciers formed.