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I got my first deer with a bow and arrow that I made myself! I carried this osage self bow for the past two years trying to take game of some kind with it. I took it on two hog hunting trips and numerous deer hunts with out a shot. I finally got a chance at a deer opening week this year, but I missed. Finally yesterday I got a shot at this doe and made good on it! This was not the first deer I have killed and definatly not the biggest, but I have to say it was the most satisfying! I made the bow and made the arrows out of tonkin cane shfts. I also twisted the string myself. This was one of my goals when I started shooting traditional and primitive archery to take an animal with equipment I made myself. I guess my next step forward or backwards, however you want to look at it would be to learn how to knap stone heads good enough to use to hunt with! [/IMG]
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My memory still allows me to experience that same satisfaction every time I'm reminded of it with a story just like yours.
Not that there are tons of them but a good number of folks are members of the same primal hunt experience.
Congratulations!!!
God bless,Mudd
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Nice job, I am on the same quest, have also missed one but didn't get a shot this year. I made my self bow two years ago and haven't used stone points but do make my own arrows. Congrats on your deer.
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-------------------- You really haven't hunted the old fashion way until you've done it from one of these Indian houses.(The Tipi) "Glenn ST. Charles" Posts: 2502 | From: Kansas | Registered: Aug 2005
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Finally yesterday I got a shot at this doe and made good on it! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
This was not the first deer I have killed and definatly not the biggest, but I have to say it was the most satisfying! I made the bow and made the arrows out of tonkin cane shfts. I also twisted the string myself. This was one of my goals when I started shooting traditional and primitive archery to take an animal with equipment I made myself. I guess my next step forward or backwards, however you want to look at it would be to learn how to knap stone heads good enough to use to hunt with! 
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