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bjrogg:
GlisGlis you better take a breath. This might take a while.

Thanks Bob yes it has been very difficult to even get to the point of being able to reply to a post.

Hopefully someone is backing up the site our something good like that.

Pappy I think I’m going to switch up my prayer request.

My old eyes never were very good.

My ears have really gotten poor after close to 50 years of driving equipment.

Past the point of gathering meat.

I’m going to ask for my nose, another animal, cleaning up my dead trees. Or some other Devine event.

It’s almost making me crazy not knowing. I want so much to know “The Rest Of The Story “

Miss you Paul Harvey

Bjrogg

WhistlingBadger:
That's a bummer, Brian.  Sorry you didn't find it.  I understand the desire to know, even if the meat won't be any good anymore.  Take comfort knowing nothing goes to waste in nature.

bjrogg:
I did some work at firewood yesterday morning before the rain.  My pond is at the top of what was once a cliff from the lake shore.

I have been working at cleaning up the dead ash from top of cliff. My plan is to continue to the bottom but I have barely made a dent in the mess.

I know that nothing is wasted in nature. I have the normal feelings about losing an animal, but my biggest regret is not knowing how much damage my stone point did?

Would my deer have died in the pond with a steel point?

Would I have gotten an exit hole and blood trail with a steel point?

Would there have been any difference?

I feel like this shoot was similar to my second Selfbow buck. It was a steel point , but it didn’t have an exit hole. No blood trail. Fortunately I saw were it fell.


If it had gone down the hill from my pond I doubt I would’ve found it.


I am still looking but life does go on

Bjrogg

Eric Krewson:
I think all of us selfbow shooters go through a stone point phase, early on I wanted to kill a deer with one but by best friend and selfbow mentor had already gone through his stone point phase with the result of a number of unrecovered deer. I think he recovered 2 out of the 5 deer he shot with stone points, because of this he went back to steel. That said; he wasn't a great flint knapper or the best shot, didn't make the best flying arrows and might take a low percentage shot, there are a lot of variables associated with stone point success.

I have another friend who is a great shot and has places to hunt where he can pick and choose only high percentage shots, he is deadly with stone points and has killed a lot of game with them. He also has people knap perfect, very sharp, weight matched points for him.

Nolan with one of his stone point kills, I made his bow;





 

bjrogg:
Exactly Eric.

I started out knapping. Then eventually some crude arrows. Then a poorly tiller bow.

It wasn’t until I put them all together that I got serious about selfbows.

It wasn’t until I started to think about hunting that I really got serious about arrow flight.

I  hunted with steel points for my first two Selfbow bucks.

I definitely learned a lot about arrows, bows, hunting and patience.

I know I am not the best of the best knapper , but I have gotten much better. I’ve shoot these arrows and have confidence in how they will fly.

I saw the arrows entire 7 yard flight. I saw the shaft penetrate a good seven inch.

She was very slightly quartering to me. I released as her leg was coming forward and the arrow hit right in the tuff of fur behind her leg.


I do so much want to know. Am I good enough? Would a steel point have been the clincher?

I have know doubt that steel points are superior to my points, but dang this seemed like a pretty deadly arrow

Bjrogg

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