Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: recurve shooter on May 06, 2010, 05:55:43 pm
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my mom's boyfriend has two boys, one is into guitars and vidio games, and is an awsome kid. the other is a little clone of how i was when i was his age. he loves hunting, fishing, and just being outside, so he loves when i show up lol. anyway when i showed up last weekend he went running in his room and came out with this. its a little wrist rocket he modified to shoot a carbon arrow he found at a garrage sale. check this out. creative kid aint he?
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later that day we cut down a couple of oak saplings to play around with. this is what he ended up with and he thought it was the greatest thing sence sliced bread.
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not sure how that hinge happened, green wood is a pain. but he sat down with my tomahawk for about an hour or more and made this all by his self. i was pretty impressed. over the summer im going to bring him to my grandpa's house where all my tools are and we are gunna try to get him a decend redoak bow built. i just wish i was a little bit better of a bowyer so i could teach him a little better. :-\
now i just got to get it through his head that just cuz it moves dont mean you need to kill it lol. ::)
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Hey recurve,
Get that boy a bow and a few arrows .....if he shoots with the same dedication as he builds bows....the little critters could probably use some kevlar ;D.....speakin of kevlar's....they are real tricky to skin out, that's how come it costs so much.
Rich
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Rich....You sure that you don't have Yooper Blood running in your veins.... O:)
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speakin of kevlar's....they are real tricky to skin out, that's how come it costs so much.
Rich
lol. ;D
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Tell him I love his fashion sense, how can ya not like a kid in da swampers eh :) Wish i had a bow set to go because it be on the way with his name on it :)
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lol yup with this little feller its a mix between barefoot, coona$$ reboks ( uh, da swampers eh?) lol, and soccar cleats. lol
i want him to have a hand in makeing his bow, so the first chance i get me and him are gunna start him one. only thing i can make is a board bow, so it'll be some kinda redoak bow for him hopefully. cant wait to get him to kill something with a bow. this kid kills more skwirls with his little 30 dollar walmart pellet gun than i kill with a shotgun lol.
oh, he has a name lol. its coleton or colton, i dont remember how to spell it lol. ;D
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haha the arrow shooter is straight badass. That kind of craftiness an ingenuity are priceless. Put a whisker biscuit on it and bam...deer-killer.
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haha the arrow shooter is straight badass. That kind of craftiness an ingenuity are priceless. Put a whisker biscuit on it and bam...deer-killer.
it impressed the crap out of me. just wait till he discovers black powder. :o give him a pipe a marble a and a lighter and watch what happens. lol.
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yep....I made a SlingShot Bow ...years ago...shoots about 160 through a Chrony...with Carbon Arrows
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Swamper's? Shoot, boy, them boots is Fire Boots! ;D Very good for you Recurve, I hope you do get to sit with him and make a nice little bow for him. Yeah, it is a big temptation, to shoot at anything that moves, when you are that age.
What part of La. are you in?
Wayne
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thanks stickbender. i live in hammond, about ten minutes from lake marapaus. he lives about fourty miles west of me in a little hole in the wall town called french settlement.
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Tell him I said " Tres Bon"...... ::)
Wayne
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Ya I would say that boy needs a bow,that was a yooper idea,very cool that he came up with it,Guess that El. is just a child at heart. :)
Pappy
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I heard it in a Song....Long Ago Pappy....
You Never Grow Up.....You Never Grow Old
and I am just checking it out to see if there is anything to it........... >:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixFm35xkzg
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Dang, Trey, you were here and never said you had a student. I could have sent you home with a stick of wood for his bow. Or......cut down the one you brought over here and make yourself a heavier one.
piper
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i was planing on useing a redoak 1x2 to make him one. you know im not to good yet, and redoak is easyer for me to work than hickory. :-\