What about Tom Brown

[strick9]

I was just pondering the past and was curious, when I was around twenty , that was almost 20 yrs ago, yes time does fly, but anyway, Tom Brown was my ultimate hero, in his thoughts and abilities and writings on harvesting and tracking game and the respect he had for all creatures , but since returning to the world of traditional I never hear his name referenced.
 My best buddy at that time actually attended one of his camps and came back with an astute working knowledge that astounded me and he was as green as they come, Anybody else heard of or from him lately?

[R H Clark]

I read an article in Field and Stream on him about 4 or 5 years ago. I read his books when I was a teen. He had a part in one on how to build a Hickory selfbow. That was my first attempts to make a bow.

[Little Tree]

My experience at the Tracker school is what got me started into Self-bow making 10 years ago. I took a handful of classes in 97, had a blast. Then I was an assistant instructor for a few also. It actualy changed my life in a sense, and is probably the sole source that pointed me in the direction of Primative Archery, hide-tanning, and hunting and fishing, tracking, etc. etc. It was probably the best money I have ever spent. Just the awareness training alone has helped my hunting abilities immensly. You can see what he and the school are up to at Trackerschool.com. I have been thinking about going back to see if I could lend a hand in the bow-building dept. we will see....
LittleTree

[mbbushman]

He used to interest me when I was a teenager, read a few articles by him, and about him. I sort of stopped paying attention to anything written by him after he claimed he could track grasshoppers in waist high grass.   :rolleyes:

[bayoulongbowman]

I have read about his schools , that would be interesting for sure! Mark#78

[Alex.B]

http://www.trackerschool.com/

[Tim]

I also attended Tom's school several years back. He's a very intense and focused guy. In my opinion Tom has one of those personalities you need to overlook for his knowledge.

I'd definitely recommend the school, I met some very nice intructors and a few friends I still keep in touch with.

[John Scifres]

I enjoyed his books.   There are kernels of knowledge in everything we experience.  Our lives should be a process of gathering kernels.  I gathered a few from his writings.  I still have the books.  I might have to re-read them, thanks for reminding me.  In fact, my kids are now old enough to read them.  I'll pass them along.

[Mr.Magoo]

Lots of info. on the net from folks who've taken his classes.  A fairly large portion of people say he's full of it.  In fact, I recall reading a couple of accounts where the students said he never came to the classes and spent his time watching TV in his house.  

Personally, I find his "grandfather" story dubious, and the claim that he can tell if an animal was inhaling or exhaling by the track ridiculous.

Call me incredulous.

[strick9]

As with all good there is some , well not so good, His books really suited me as I was raised by my family to respect and appreciate and even more so when it came to the natural world, at the age of 11 my Great Grandfather, after the loss of his wife, literally scooped me up and set upon even further teachings of the ways of old, snare and deadfall building, fire with drill and bow and tracking to the inth degree, it seemed as soon I mastered these, he was complete, he passed when I was 13, however he always smiles down when I make a good track or clean kill.

 Tom Brown also seems to have the same beliefs, so "full of it" or "dubious", who knows, but in a different era where gardens and wild game were the norm I doubt if any could surpass... I find that in these type of people with their knowledge and respect and even true attachment to the strings of the natural world, a feeling of loss due to over population and increasing distance of the fellow man from what is reality sometimes makes a man a little grumpy to say the least...