Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Pappy on February 19, 2007, 06:09:37 am
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Well we had a good day Sat.Got some Hickory ready for the Tn. Classic and a few other little projects.It was cold at least for us.Here are some pictures from the fun.
Pappy
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Looks cold to me. You better keep the boys with the matches away from all that pretty hickory. It looks like you got a bunch done, and had some fun doing it. Justin
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Ya it was fun and did get alot done,now all we like is laying them out and get them floor tillered.
O well always another day.
Pappy
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Sure doesn't look like the way most of us up nort picture Tenn. Where's this "global warming" I've been lookin forward to. It's 24 degrees here with 30mph winds. Looks like good friends and good fun are keepin ya'll warm though. When is the classic?
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Yep I'm with you Brokenock,It was in the 20's down here this week end.I say God Bless George,and bring on the Warming.Pappy if you didn't have the jackets on I'd of thought yall stole some of our beach sand. :D
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When I got up this morning it was 39*. ;D I HATE the cold.
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I'd be happy at 39 degrees. Depending on the wind.
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It was 14 Sat. morning and hadn't been out of the high 20's all week.But now it is in the high 50's and should be in the high 60's by the end of the week.Brokennock the Classic is May 4/5/6.Come
on down,we have a lot of yanks there,We put them in there own camp ground so we can keep a eye on them.All jokes a side we have had folks from Mic.Ind.Ohio.NewYork.Wisconsin.Iowa.Ill.and
allover the south east.We have some people coming in from North Dakota this year.Hope we can handle all the people.Also Rayno is coming in from Pa. that will be the first from that state.If you don't like the weather in Tn. just wait a day or 2 and it will change.
Pappy
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We say the same thing about the weather here in new england. It was below freezing the other day, then today was in the 40s. How far into the smokeys are you?
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We are about 3 hours from the Smokey's,we are in what they call the foot hills.Just hills no mountans.It was 69 here today.I think they use that saying everwhere.
Pappy
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Would love to attend the classic but thats right in the 1st week of our turkey season.
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It is toward the end of ours,It opens here the last of March and runs through the middle
of May.Maybe come down one year and hunt and shoot.
Pappy
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Maybe for '08. How much is a non-resident license and turkey tags? I wish we started earlier, toms are strutting and turkeys are fired up long before our season starts. I've been sayin for years we should start a couple weeks earlier. But at least there is no more lottery for turkey here. Is ther a lottery for tags in Tenn. ???
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What is the Tn. classic?
Sean
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Sean, The Tenn Classic is Pappy's version of MoJam...a bow building extravaganza! I think. Pat
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Sounds like a great time, wish I had more time or less work, lived closer or something. Really enyoyed the article on last years event. Hope it turns out good again this year. Kenneth
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Little John it is a regular archery tournament with bow building put in.It started off with what we call the selfbow challenge,You start a bow on Thursday and shoot it for score Sat. or Sunday.
The challenge is to shoot a bow you just made .If you don't finish you will get enough knowledge[we hope ]to take it home and finish.We had 39 started last year and 30 finished.So it can be done if you stay at it.We also have all the regular classes,longbow,selfbow,and recurve for men
women and kids.Brokennock,not sure for just turkey or lic. run from March through Feb.of the next year and or good for Deer also.When you get ready let me know and I will follow up on it for you.
Pappy
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Still getting ready.Here we are getting some feathers ready and making some handles for some rasps.The feathers are for the trophies.Always count on Steve I give him a hard time but he is a big help around the shop.
Pappy
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love to get down there myself oneday. maybe dave and i could carpool. as for the snow i love it give me cold and nasty anyday. it keeps people out of my woods. lol. pappy that is bow is awesome by the way. did you get a chance to finish up those shafts.
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Not yet but I am going to get on them soon,I have had a lot of complaments on them already
and they ant even finished.I'm glad you like the bow I know you make your own but was just something I wanted to do, hope you enjoy.Ya we would love to have you sometime.
Pappy
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Man Pappy,It sounds like it's going to be alot of fun.I'll be up there next year.I'll have a year to recruit a gang of swamp hunters to ride up with me.Ya'll have fun.Eddie
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One day when my buisness runs itself I will shoe up down there. Sounds like a lot of fun!
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Hey Jamie,get in, I'll drive.
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There you go jamie.
Pappy
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Another great day preparing for the Classic. Pappy will have more pictures to post Monday. Although our club membership is capped at 25 people...we have a great bunch of guys. Today wasn't even a scheduled work day, but had multiple members down during the day doing different tasks to improve the grounds.
We're continuing to get the hickory staves cut into blanks. Working on handcrafting some of the trophies, even found time for skinning snakes, steaming bows to straighten and reflex on form, putting snake skins on my current bow project, and some good ole dutch oven cookin'!
It was a great day...life is definitely good! ;D
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Guess we will get back at it this weekend,I am fletching arrows for the awards and GregB has
most of the starves roughed out,I think around 25 adults and 7/8 kids.Man it's a lot of work to pull all this together but it just don't seem like it.I guess as they say a labor of love. :)
Pappy
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Wish I could go!
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Well we got all the wood cut for the camps,so I guess we can get back on getting some stave's ready and primping up the place around there,we keep it nice most of the time ,but I love it when people see it for the first time and say man this looks like a park,Got some more new targets on the way and already planing the range out.We try and do some special things to make it a challenging but fun shoot.The practice range is set so we are getting there.We have one more Major working next weekend and then it is on.We have some folks planing on coming in on Monday or Tuesday the 30th and 1st so we need to be ready. ;D
Pappy
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You guys are awesome. I can hardly wait. ;D Justin
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Justin, we're getting excited too! It's a lot of work, but the kind of work you don't mind.
I'd personally really like to share bow makin' techniques back and forth with you guys that are coming. Each of us probably do various steps of the process a little different. I like to see different techniques and judge for myself if I want to change or tweak something I'm doing. With all the talented bowyers coming, I think it's a really good opportunity for us to share in person the same type of experiences that are shared here.
Also, there will probably be a lot of the people making bows that are complete beginners. Please feel free to jump in there and give some guidance if you see a need. Pappy and I will undoubtedly be stretched pretty thin, any help would be greatly appreciated! ;) But on the flip side, don't turn it into a chore, just enjoy yourselfs! ;D
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I'm looking forward to the Classic and meeting all you guys also. I'll have my favorite tools and if Dick has enough room, my shaving horse. I also thought I'd bring a bundle of sourwood shoots and we can make arrows around the camp fire at night. I love helping newbys and will certainly pitch in and take some pressure off of you and Pappy, especially with what ya'll have already done. I'll bring a wad of my bows too. ;D Pat
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Thanks Pat and all the rest we will appreshate it,but as Greg said we are doing this for yall so don't turn it into a job.Have fun. :)
Pappy
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Thanks Pat! I hate to wish my life away, but I'm like a kid looking forward to Santa Claus coming at Christmas time...can't hardly wait! ;D
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Pat we will have plenty of room in the truck. I will have my shaving horse too and a ton of arrow material to help out. I will have one of the bow racks so about 25 bows can be displayed. Should be fun.
Dick B
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Greg I would be glad to help in any way I can. Half the fun is helping someone who really wants to learn figure out how to make a bow. It is like watching little kids at Christmas. Or watching bowyers who's wife bought them some new tools. ;D
I decided I better start getting ready for the classic too. Last night Cody and I went down and cut about 75 salt cedar shoots to bring. Ill get some more before the week is out. Justin
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You guys are definitely my kind of people! Thanks alot, and really looking forward to it! ;D
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Greg,Watch him around Yew. ::)
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I also thought I'd bring a bundle of sourwood shoots and we can make arrows around the camp fire at night. . ;D Pat
now that's a great idea. i would love to learn that skill from you pat, if you don't mind teaching. i'm in the same boat with you guys, can hardly wait for it, but my boss still hasn't decided if i'm flying to the states in the first place. kinda nervewrecking, waiting for somebody else to decide if you get to play. then again i've been married for 20 years, so i should be used to it ;D
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Better hope the wife doesn't check this forum Dusty ;D
DanaM
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dana, i was smart enough not to teach her english ;D