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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: paulsemp on June 19, 2012, 06:12:26 pm ---Just remember for thousands of years the "stick bow" feed almost everybody. I have only shot a compound maybe 6 times but there is no way it feels better than a wood bow. You will soon see what drags us in!

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That's where paulsemp makes a glaring error.  All our ancestors are gone simply because the primitive bow was ineffective.  They all died of hunger and malnutrition or eating bad mushrooms that were easily stalked with a stick.  In fact, we were extinct until the compound bow resurrected us as a species.  Same for flintlocks, deadfalls, snares, fishtraps, and following circling buzzards to a kill site made by a real predator....none of those work.  Thank God for PSE, Hoyt, Matthews and all the other makers of ten-speed bows. 

Stick around, I will be giving a lecture on the proper use of sarcasm in civilized debate.

vtgunfighter:
I get sarcasm, huge fan. That's great.   ;)

I am also a big fan of the traditional skills. I have a group of friends that run a school here in VT. Reclaiming Our Origins through Traditional Skills.
http://www.rootsvt.com/

My sons will be heading out there next week again for some time with all the stuff that kept our ancestors and some of us alive. It's always been technology and innovation that's kept us moving and fed, just a different version. Good to know skills and a shame so many of us have let them be forgotten or were never shown.

I have an osage selfbow that I bartered for from my friend Brad out there. I'll start shooting that soon to keep me from working too fast on my first build. Not sure the DL is right for me but I'll figure it out. It still feels foreign.

youngbowyer:
Sounds like a great challenge! The right tools can really make a difference, get yourself a nice drawknife, a rough rasp, and a fiskars hatchet. Those are pretty much the only tools I use to make a bow besides sandpaper and a scraper. A board bow is the way to start. Get yourself a straight grained maple board from home depot or any other lumber store.

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