Primitive hunting

[Hopeful-Bowyer]

Hey ya'll, been traditional bow shooting for over a decade now as well as hunting small game(never connected with big game in the past few years I've been trying) but I was wondering about getting into primitive hunting. I make stone points, arrows and have made my own laminated bows but I was wondering how many out there still go out with stick, stone, and string to bring home the groceries? My last season before joining the army and deploying(3 seasons back) I tried with primitive arrows and took a number of grouse and rabbits but never got within my comfort zone on the buck I was trying for. Plus I need to build a self bow..

[twitchstick]

I'm working on a set up for next year. There are some Tradgangers that do hunt regularly with primitive gear with successes. Maybe some of them will chime in.

[RAU]

Heres a recent one

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=132344;p=4#000054

[scrub-buster]

That's a link to my post of the deer I killed with a selfbow, hill cane arrow, and a stone point.

[RAU]

scrub buster I show that post around my office and to friends as if it was my own, I love it! one day ill do it too!

[Hopeful-Bowyer]

That's an awesome buck! And one awesome stone point! Did you knap it yourself Scrub-buster? Either way, that's really cool. Exactly what I wanna try doing.

[scrub-buster]

Thanks Rau.  Good luck. Keep at it and it will happen.

Hopeful-Bowyer:  I didn't knap that point.  My friend Tracy made it for me.  I gave up on knapping.