Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Hillbilly on May 31, 2010, 02:57:49 pm
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Here are a few pics from the NC Traditional State Championships shoot. As usual, all of us forgot to take a camera out on the 3d courses, but we got a few from camp. Had a great time, it was good to see everyone again and hang out, eat good, and do some shooting, knapping, picking, and such.
Hanging around Dave and Cora Knight's set-up:
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Rebecca and Jeremiah Parker:
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Gabriel Parker and Chris Cade (Mechslasher:)
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Alan Brown chilling out:
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Patrick Brennan (LilPat) knapping:
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Patrick's girlfriend Hannah knapping:
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Wade (N2everythg) and his daughter Kate in the knapping pit. Kate is learning to knap and is getting to be quite a good shot with her osage bow, too.
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Barry, AKA "No Keys" McCall:
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An all-night jam session broke out Friday night:
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Pat under the influence of too much.....uhhh........music....yeah, that's what it was: :)
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Cody lulls everybody to sleep with random dulcimer music:
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We ate good. David Knight brought his big cooker and kept us well-fed all weekend:
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Saturday night, we threw a fish fry. Me and Chris slaved over hot deep-fryers cooking up about twenty pounds of catfish fillets and a half-bushel of hushpuppies. Everybody threw in some side dishes, and we ate 'till we hurt.
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we had a great time, but SkunkBob was happy for us to get back home and feed him. ;D
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good food and good times are all ways fun...looks like pat had waaaaaay to much fun.LOL..john
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Look's like ya'll had a great time, especially, Pat.
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yeah! I was intoxicated with all the great music and good friends! ;D
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Had a blast, Weekend went way too fast.
Great to see everyone again.
Great food, great company, good times. Thanks to everyone for both the great food and good times from kait and I.
I didnt get many pics and the ones I did were just with my cell phone but here they are.
Y'all plumb wore out my girl but she sure did have fun.
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It looks like a good time was had by all. Thank you for sharing it with us.
God bless,Mudd
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Too bad it's so damned far for Me...or I would be there next year after Pappys Bash....aint nothing like this Happens any wheres near Me here...these people are all Sticks in Da Mud...... ::)
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My son and I had a good time Saturday, but it looks like the night time is the time to be there.
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Looks like a great time,but I would expect no less with all of yall around. ;) :) :)
Pappy
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Too bad it's so damned far for Me...or I would be there next year after Pappys Bash....aint nothing like this Happens any wheres near Me here...these people are all Sticks in Da Mud...... ::)
It looks like a great time at that event.
El, what is keeping you from creating and organizing your own event? I’ve hosted a couple of atlatl tosses and organized a larger Roman / ancient weekend at my club, have done some bow making and atlatl demos (Farm Day, Franklin County Fair), and am in the middle of putting together a fairly large Stone Age themed primitive skills and archery event for the fall, with lots of kid activities. It is a lot of work, but incredibly gratifying. I think one of the biggest lessons I have learned is to not overpromise, be honest about the size and scope of an event you can handle, get commitments early, and keep it fun for yourself, so you dont burn out or go crazy with the little details.
Bet you some Yoopers would help you get it going.
Dane
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sure looks like ya had a blast
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i'm trying to figure out what gabriel and i are talking about.
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Chris, looks like he's attack-ting you with that roll-out gizmo. :) Wish James coulda made it down, not the same there without ol' ugly.
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El, what is keeping you from creating and organizing your own event?
Bet you some Yoopers would help you get it going.
Dane
Dane....there is no interest in Primitive Archery here....might be two of Us within a 150 miles that I know of....everyone here is into their Mega Bows...... ::)...and as for Yoopers.....I stand alone......
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I see your dilemma, but maybe you can work it in your favor? Since no one is doing it, you will be the first. Get the borg bow guys something new to try out. Target families and kids, and get ‘em hooked early. Do little events at summer camps maybe, or with the Boy Scouts, have an informal primitive meet and invite local town officials like the mayor and business owners, and get some free press. Food always brings folks. Have “mastodon burgers” and “mega-fauna dogs” and Cave Man Juice (soda or some other beverage) Bet your local paper would do a feature on primitive skills and weapons – just call the paper and talk to the reporters or editors. Having it at your local archery or gun club can help you tie it in to another event. I did a toss and piggybacked it to a fall turkey shoot, so we got some shotgun folks coming over to play. Hunters, I have found, really like learning about what we used to survive thousands of years before guns were invented.
Lots of organizations would really love this stuff, like veteran organizations, a soldier’s home, local summer camps, etc. If you have a natural history or American Indian museum, talk to them about having an event at that site. Making it free is really appreciated by parents. I’m looking at doing an atlatl event at Old Deerfield, which is only a few miles from my house. There is a summer camp in this region for under privileged kids that does awesome work, and I am going to contact them about volunteering to do some stuff with them. Shoot, there are tons of ways you can make these kinds of things work, not just a big, established event like Twin Oaks and Mojam and NEPSG. Those take years to get to where they are now – something to work toward. And get knappers and tanners and other primitive skills folks to come out. The more the better. Heck, if you have room, have it at your house, bbq some amazing food, do some bow making, and have a small group come and have some fun. Good for the soul, good for building a reputation, too.
Don’t forget Paeleo Planet. Most of the folks who came to my ataltl events were through posting there. A local college anthro club was another source of participants, and word of mouth. Newspaper articles, too, for the Roman event, and we got about 100 people to come out during that nasty rain from the hurricane that hit the region last fall.
And if you feel really ambitious, think about founding a primitive archer / skills program. That is part of what I am doing at my club, building up long moribund archery program, but keeping the emphasis on primitive. I’ve got the green light to do a lot because they now see that ancient stuff does bring in people and give added diversity to the usual shotgun and pistol and rifle programs. All this is part of my newly founded Stone Age Living Project. We are going to do a lot over time, even building Mesolithic and Native American structures, dugout canoes and coracles, short and long treks, winter atlatl and archery shoots, snowshoe making, all kinds of cool stuff.
Dane
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El Destructo, I owe you a big apollogy. You are in Texas, not Michigan, yes? But you are a Yooper? I hope I got that right, at least.
Dane
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You betcha Ey....I am a Yooper....Tru an Tru.....when I bleed...I bleed Deep Woods Off...... :P
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Chris, Was he asking you to get him a hamburger? ;)
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Looks like all had big fun in North Cack-a-lackie. Wish I could have been there myself.
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i think i was still laughing at allen walking around in shorts. it was scary!
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Especially when you strobe-lighted his legs with that flashlight. ;D
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We had a big Ole time! Great to see so many good friends at one time. Music was fun, food was great, the targets were rigged & the snakes were out. Oh yeah I forgot they had a gossee to baby sit the kids, fun entertainment. ;D
Tina
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here's a pic of one of our groups on the white turkey.
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That must have been one of my misses! :D I don't see my arrow.
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Awesome photos, everyone looks happy and well fed.
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There looks like a good time. And..what's wrong with Pat ? ...... he's still upright ! Nothing better than friends,food and fire. ' Frank