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in reply to: What are these Native American implements? #130431

It took these people many many hours of work to perfect these items. That paw print is interesting…they took something probably millions of years old and recognizing it as something special they made a piece of jewelry or some other article from it.

I saw some ancient English jewelry made from amber with insects trapped in it…

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in reply to: What are these Native American implements? #130289

The boys also found what I believe to be a “medicine bowl”. It’s a black and white rock with a big “bowl” scooped out of it. Friends who have seen it tell me that the Native Americans would leave these implements at their favorite campsites, often hidden and come back to them as they wandered back into the area. They were used in making corn flour, medicines, etc..

Like I said, I’m not even a good amateur on this. This area was home to various tribes at different times; Osage, Sauk, Fox, Dakota, Kickapoo, Chippewa and Shawnee…and probably the Cherokee, Chickasaw and before them, the Mississippian Culture all wandered in here periodically.

 

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in reply to: Changes to Tradbow.com #99076

Looks great to me…..

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in reply to: Warm September #8843

It was 93F on Sunday here in the Ozarks, today it’s 75,,so nice..

Tomorrow will be my start of the bow season.

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in reply to: Billy Berger's Apache arrows.. #55753

When I was a kid in Memphis our arrows were made from a reed we found near the Loosahatchie River. It was a tough reed and fairly easy to work with, but it wasn’t cattail. We used aluminum or steel slugs for arrowheads, we cut them with my dad’s cold chisel and a hammer.

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in reply to: Fun at the range today… #43754

Oh yeah, they had to shoot the Pearson and the wood arrows, they had fun….the range is at a really nice bow shop. Sometimes I shoot at my farm, but it’s so wet lately I don’t want to be standing in foot deep gumbo mud..

I told the teens to think about traditional, it’s fun. The owner brought out some Samick Sage bows that he had and let them look at them.

On an aside, something I may look at is ordering one of those older Browning short recurves, like the Nomad from RMS..I had a new one back in the early 80s and loved it.

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in reply to: Litter Bugs #18092

We have an annual event down here called the Great Garbage Gig-Off….people with boats will cruise the Black and Current Rivers and the boat that collects the most garbage (by weight) wins…You can see these people out there with their 20 foot long gigs retrieving beer cans etc. off of the river bottoms.

I like to hunt some walk-in only areas in the Mark Twain Forest and I have brought back plastic water bottles and candy wrappers many times from very deep woods…if ya pack it in, pack it out. And yep, I’ve seen more than a few of those Mylar balloons and strangely enough, plastic Wal-Mart bags in the woods.

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in reply to: Checking back in #57147

Welcome back, I was gone also.

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in reply to: Apr/MayTBM editorial #57136

I handed the magazine to my wife and had her read Mr. Thomas’ article, she loved it. I grew up in North Memphis with my brothers and a hundred cousins and friends. We roamed the woods around our subdivision, built tunnels, played on the Loosahatchie River, built bows, and hunted and fished. Our parents worked and they knew we were around, but we also watched out for each other. My scout leader was a WWII vet who seemed to know everything about tents, fire, cooking in the open and knives…parents now would be appalled that he smoked in front of us….and all of us kids think he probably took a few pulls on that 1/2 pint in back pocket…When we moved to Missouri it was more of the same, but now it was bigger woods and the Current River. My three boys did not have us hovering over them, we taught them responsibility and they ran with it. They all grew up pretty darn good.

I can’t understand some of these social teachers, workers etc….they aren’t helping kids by hovering over them.

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in reply to: I've been gone too long… #51656

I just renewed my premium membership, I guess I’m here for awhile.

Yesterday, the wife and I were getting our garden plot ready and during breaks I would shoot a couple of arrows at some straw bales. She’s starting to get interested in archery. I may buy some lighter limbs for my Samick Sage to get her started.

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in reply to: I've been gone too long… #22995

I noticed that as I got older the gravity around me got worse. Back in November I missed a step at a hotel, and down I went. I was 200+ miles from home and no one with me…I had to use a belt to lift my foot up into my van so I could drive home. That pain stayed with me for weeks.

In late summer I fell trying to cross a ditch on my farm and not only did I fall, I hit a darn tree on the way down…thanks to everyone…I’m on the mend,,and a lot more careful.

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in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #17493

A very enjoyable thread. I’ve been wanting to get back to more or less making my own arrows, assembling my own arrows would be more precise. I was thinking about whether or not to have straight fletching or helical…straight would be easier.

My thoughts were to order some shafts spined for my 45# Samick, and finish them with Danish oil. Then, I would straight fletch them, nock them and put trade points on them. The trade points will come from an old saw blade a friend is supposed to be cutting with his plasma cutter, I’m shooting for 160 grain heads. My thoughts were to use the Arizona fletcher with the fletching tape instead of glue. I’ve never used the tape, does it work?

Many years ago I bought a cheap fletching jig that would only do straight, and I repaired no telling how many aluminum arrows in my compound days..they seemed to work fine. I occasionally shooting some of them in my recurve and they fly straight.

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in reply to: Strange Things/Near Misses #17473

Back in 1980 a friend and I were shooting in his backyard. He had straw bales and a canvas hung up for a back stop. He shot an arrow, using his new fangled release and it hit the top of a bale, flew over the canvas and we had no idea where it went, it was truckin’…

A few days later there was an article in the paper about a man finding an arrow in the headlight of his car…it was over 2 blocks from Jim’s house…

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in reply to: Traditional Bow shops, Columbia/Jeff city MO? #16402

I’m headed to the Springfield/Branson area in a month or so. I stop at some shops over there.

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in reply to: Traditional Bow shops, Columbia/Jeff city MO? #16336

I think the list is Carson City, NV, Jefferson City, MO,. Juneau, AL and Honolulu, HI. There may be one more up in New England.

Back to archery. I have a hanker’in for a longbow or a short recurve…

I used to own a Browning Nomad recurve, loved that bow. It broke in 1980 and they weren’t making it anymore. I may look at RMS’ selection of used bows.

I’ve lost two old wooden arrows trying to take out Mr. Groundhog..my brother told me to use a shotgun, but it’s kinda fun stalking the little critter.

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