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Who was your inspiration?

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hammerstone:
Well i'm on here a lot , but like to read more than i like to talk so here's a little about me.No one ever had to lead me to the outdoors,it was always a part of me. My parents had the good sense to buy me a shotgun when i was ten and mom would take me to which ever woods i wanted to hunt and pick me up in the evenings (thanks mom).Then in my teens i came across a book called THE SEARCH by Tom Brown j.r. , now here was a guy who was living the life i was dreaming of.Some of Toms stories are a little hard to swallow,but i have everything he ever wrote and fact or fiction i would rather read that stuff than the latest issue of Forbes any day (although Homer does make a pretty good furniture polish) Then one day i met Fred Bear, he was hangin on a peg in a JC Penny store in the form of a 53" Black Panther recurve.I proceeded to shoot the finish off that little sucker and pick up more bad habits than you could shake an arrow at, i dislike short bows to this day and get target panic just looking at a traditional target, but i was hooked. I shot glass for about ten years and killed a lot of game with them. Then one day i saw the first issue of PA,something about that cover shot with stone pointed arrow on a snake skin backed bow fascinated me,and it always will.

okiecountryboy:
My Grandfather and Great Aunt. I am lucky enough to have a very rich Native American history. My Grandfather's name goes way back in the Peoria tribe. My Great Aunt was the oldest living Peoria Indian in recorded tribal history. She lived to be 107.
They both, especially my Grandfather, taught me tons. Leather work, beading, tanning, smoking meats, NA food, stories of what life was truly like generations ago, the list goes on.
PA? Well, looking around on he internet, and found a brotherhood of people with similar interests.
I was always told that I was born a century or two too late, and found that there were a lot of me out there!

A big Thanks to my heritage and the wonderful folks here at PA!
 

FAW:
My Dad - gave me an old fibreglass bow when I was six, showed me how to make cedar arrows from split rail fences on the farm, how to use my jackknife to narrow the piece of cedar from the point to the back  and fire-harden the tip, how to make a bow that would fire these arrows from the branch of a green apple tree when  the old 15 pound fibreglass didn't have the ""öomph"to deliver the arrow. I guess you could say it got me "hooked". By the way, I still have that old fibreglass bow and my Granddaughters are now using it with my supervision.

Fred Arnold:
I'd have to say Dan Quillian. If probably not for Dan I'd likely be shooting wheels.

Zuma:
Wow, Thanks folks for such great testimonials.
I really enjoy reading this thread. I go back and re read many posts.
Keep em coming.
Zuma

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