Who's going primitive this year?

[Scott E]

Obsidian was me the chert was done by my buddy Ryan Gill

[AkDan]

great looking heads!

[Jack Skinner]

Try to keep this one alive. No elk again this year but I did make meat with death in the fall, rawhide backed osage.

 

[Scott E]

Nice one!    

[frank bullitt]

That's a pretty bird, Jack! Good shootin!

Pretty nice looking bow and footed arrow, too.

[Jack Skinner]

Thanks guys it was about 12yds and 12 feet high in old snag. It was last day of hunt and I figured no guts no glory used a hardwood footed poplar shaft with homemade broad head like the one in photo. I had lost my judo point shaft earlier in the day on a just missed shot on another bird, I had some feathers fly off bird but no bird and lost arrow. So used broad head shaft that I had carried all week. The birds and elk liked this drainage.
 

One more for you. My Antelope blind and gear including goat rawhide backed hickory board bow.

 

[frank bullitt]

The Bow Builders Book? Never seen that one before Jack? More info please.

[Jack Skinner]

It is a European book that was translated into English. It is European bows from Neolithic to present, with several authors. It is a pretty cool book have only made it thru couple of chapters. Very informative. I got it at a Woodcrafters store in Loveland CO., of all places. Also found the BBIV there as well.

[RAU]

Im gonna try this year. Im  shooting an osage selfbow I made 60 lb at 28, with a deer hide quiver I made from my 1st traditional kill. My arrows are wood but I bought spine and weight matched shafts and I'm shooting steel grizzly heads. So arrows aren't super primitive.The fletchings are turkey wing feathers from turkey's I killed tho.

 

[frank bullitt]

Thanks Jack! I will have to check to get a copy. Sounds like a pretty cool read.

Cool setup, Rau! Good shootin to ya!