Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: billy on July 24, 2012, 02:31:09 pm
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HEy Guys,
I've starting filming for Hunting Dragonflies with a Primitive Bow, Part 2. I know some of you have seen my first one, but some of you may not have seen it. Of all the youtube vids I've made, Hunting dragonflies has gone the most Viral, hitting half a million views within less than a year of being online. Well, that success has spurred me to start on Part 2. I'll let you guys know when it is uploaded and available to see. For those of you who haven't seen my first one, here's a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-eFa-2KI4&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-eFa-2KI4&NR=1) Hope you like it!!
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Crazy stuff, looks like fun.
Are you able to retrieve most of the arrows...? :laugh:
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Can't wait to see it, part 1 was my favorite video that you have on your youtube channel. BTW, just watched your DVD yesterday, AWESOME!
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There are SO many mad hippies in your comments. I thought it was pretty incredible. Impeccable aim, great video.
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Can't wait. :)
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Looking forward to watching it billy
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Dragonflies are a symbol of happiness and purity to the NDN. Seems a shame to be hunting them for ones pleasure
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Did you get any footage of the hog hunt for the next DVD?
Tracy
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It seems no different than shooting a mosquito or a horsefly. You can have equal respect killing a dragonfly to hone your skills as you can shooting a deer for sustainance. We take from the earth. We'll all give back to her some inevitable day.
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It seems no different than shooting a mosquito or a horsefly. You can have equal respect killing a dragonfly to hone your skills as you can shooting a deer for sustainance. We take from the earth. We'll all give back to her some inevitable day.
Interesting point of view, debatable but interesting
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Dragonflies are a symbol of happiness and purity to the NDN. Seems a shame to be hunting them for ones pleasure
Ever try their backstraps?!?! Oh man!
All puny attempts at humor aside, the natural progression of the logic is to stop driving a car because we hit insects with the windshield, and so on. Taking the North American Conservation Model into the arguement we then have to ask if the limited number of "kills" is an unbearable burden on the breeding population. Populations of a species are the focus and not the individual animals.
To weight the argument in favor of the single animal versus the population argues against any hunting for any purpose, or for that matter keeping of animals for food sources.
Yup, loaded philosophical content in this thread now. Oops. I have probably incited unrest in everyone that reads my post. Time to get scarce.
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my grandfather and uncles allways said "if you kill it you eat it" ;) just sayin. thats why i get so mad when i run over a skunk ;D j/k ...
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I came, I saw, I liked it. I killed more dragon flies on my drive to WallyWorld than you got on your whole outing. I am not loosing any tears over "one DF". I was amazed to see how the little suckers could easily move out of the way. On to Part 2.
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No unrest here ,I'm just not one for killing anything unless it is causing damage or
I plan on using/eating it,but if it's leagal and it don't bother you it don't bother me. :) :) cool video billy. :) I once made some young boys that came to my place to squirrel hunt cook and eat a Red bird they came in with. They don't do that anymore,but to tell the truth it wasn't half bad. :) :)
Pappy
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Anything taste good if you put enough BBQ sauce on it. :)
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Toasted grasshoppers dipped in a molasses sauce will make 'em smile if'n you can get folks to try 'em.
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I guess we are a bit different up here. Most people brought up in the country know that Dragonflies are a man's best ally against biting insects and many look forward to their appearance in the Summer. Soon after they come out you literally see the Horsefly, Deerfly and Blackfly population begin to dwindle. They are an incredible insect and I have watched them many times catching insects on the fly.
Big difference between accidentally hitting one with your car, I actually make the effort to miss them when I can, and deliberately shooting them.
Grasshoppers are tasty even without molasses and I've been know to eat the odd Ant as well, I even munch on Mosquitoes and other biting insects when they become too annoying.
In any case, do as you all please.
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Do you have the honey ants up there, Marc? From what I read, those are certainly worth time spend foraging!
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Can't say I have ever heard of Honey Ants before JW.
Looked them up and we definitely don't have those up here, kinda wish we did
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I had a Kentucky House Wife cookbook once that had a recipe for cardinal. ::) when you're hungry you eat. I may not go out shooting DFs every week, but if I get a chance and think I can retrieve my arrow,....well, I may take a shot or 6. dp
p.s. I bet somewhere in this world someone eats dragon flys.
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I want to tell you what I did in the span of time it took billy to film the killing of 1 dragonfly in his movie. If you have a weak stomach you might want to stop reading now. The images you are about to see are graphic and disturbing. I went to the Grand Canyon. I knew the risk of my actions but felt it was justified because I wanted to see nature in all of its splendor. Now Billy's actions were disturbing because he was having fun while killing one incest but I was having fun while enjoying nature. Also no one has mentioned that Billy was also stepping on plants which I did not do while driving and burning tanks of gas on asphalt roads in our national forest. I think most of you will agree that I did nothing wrong because I love nature unlike the df killer.
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Thats one Bad Azz vid....Billy!!! Me likes ;)
Gives me a great idea. A flaming pine pitched arrow into a yellerjacket hive. Then a free-for-all shoot out with friends. Last one standing the winner.
I also like your newest DVD. Keep up the great work man....I dig it. G-man is out.
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I was out doing a bit of target practice tonight and had a visitor stop by while I collected my arrows, and he hung around long enough to run into the house and grab a camera :)
I just got your DVD in the mail today Billy and am watching it right now. Pretty good stuff so far! I love watching those squirrels fly as the arrows wizz past them ;)
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Slight thread hijack. Parden, me Billy.
Cameroo. What kind of stain did you use to get that green color on that bow?
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Ya, sorry Billy :)
That was the bow I got in the bow trade last year, from Darcy (DEllis). It's actually paint, not stain. I think its acrylic. BTW, it's still shooting great Darcy!
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Nice tip overlays Cameroo, ;) :) :) John you are a killing machine. ;) :) Marc they are kind of like Dirt dobbers around here ,they kill lots of spiders [which I don't care for] so I don't kill them. :)
Pappy
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And they eat lots of mosquitos here too, which I hate. ;D
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From a book called, "Man Eating Bugs The Art and Science of Eating Insects" by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alluisio.
Y'all ought to check it out, library has it, it's got a cute Thai girl on the front eating a spider. Lot's of good pics. ;) :o
have a gooder, dpgratz