Personal Hunting thoughts
In the beginning there were rock and sticks and lots of time to chase food.I’m old but not quite that old. My daughter said I’m some where between mud and rocks. Can you imagine hunting with rocks and sticks. Think about it. A small boy runs in the hut and yells, mom we are going to starve. Dad broke his finger and can’t throw rocks. After several day of eating nuts and berries he has an idea. Tie a rock on the end of the stick. The next evening the boy came in the hut and yelled: Mom we are going to starve, Dad’s rock came off his stick and hit the neighbor in the head. And so it went in the development of weapons for hunting and war. The human was very busy improving the weapon for the next several thousand years.
David and his sling shot kill the giant. I tried that and only managed to break a window and hit myself in the head with the rock. Then there was the alatl. I still can not believe a person can hit anything with one of those things. I tried and had a hard time throwing it let alone hitting a
target.
Then came the bow and arrow. I can’t tell how many days I sat in the stand and thought about how it might have been invented. Some say it was a musical instrument first. Others say it was a Childs toy. I like to think there was some old man sitting at a camp fire who came up with the tool. It is said that the bow appeared in all cultures around the same time give or take a few one hundred years. Knowing the telephone wasn’t working yet it makes you think there must have been a bunch of old men sitting around the fire. Now the human was able to take game and defend their self and family from a distance. This was I’m sure the start of the obesity problem.
The human as usual couldn’t leave it as good enough. It had to be improved over the next several hundred years. What started as simple as a stick and a string became in some cases much more. The backing of the stick bow made it more durable with materials such as rawhide, bamboo, silk, and in later years fiberglass. The composite bows made of different woods, Wood and horn, wood and fiberglass was another improvement making the bow some what faster.
Then down in southwest Missouri an engineer named Allen put cam wheels on a bow which made it easer to shoot with a small amount of increased speed.
With the invention of the compound bow everything went hi-tech, sights, release aids, peeps, power peep and on and on. A bunch of the young hunters think you can buy success by just adding all the new gadgets to your bow.
Now some of us have put and end to the hi-tech equipment and shoot and hunt with the 50’s and 60’s style bows for our own enjoyment. Some have gone back further and shoot home made all wood long bows.
At times I wonder why the human would take something so simple and beautiful and make a machine out of it. Now all this BS has brought me to my point of this writing.
I myself have embraced the traditional / primitive side of bow hunting and enjoy the process more then the kill. As a friend once said, “I’m not near as mad at the deer as I use to be“. If I get one or not as long as the time spent was fun, I’m happy. As for those who feel they need the kill to enjoy hunting Your cheating yourself out of some good times.
I got to quit and go out and shoot my bow. she’s yelling at me and accusing me of cheating on her. See you in the woods.
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