Well you are all probably looking for "blood trails"...if you attend the TN Classic you'll get to see a lots from the guys & gals scraping yellow wood into bows, pounding rocks into hunting arrow points, and hammering steel into all sorts of sharp instruments.
Last year Joe & I had so much fun, we vowed to return. Food, friends, and a little liquid apple pie made the evenings delightful around the fire pit
If you like making you're own equipment for bowhunting, the TN Classic is the Graduate School to leaned the trade secrets!
Pappy and his crew are tireless workers to make everything tick like a Swiss watch...tippit
Kenny 4runner, Skyler, and Adam
Joe waiting in line (Saturday night food feast)
James and Rebecca Parker with kids. I have purchased a number of Rebecca's beautiful quill knife sheaths in the past. It was so nice to meet her (plus add a few more to my colection).
James is incredibly skilled in knapping and bow building. His Asian horse bows take a year to make and they shoot flatter and further than any high tech coumpound bow! I purchased one of his bamboo backed osage glue ups to try my hand at making a bow. I've made a few osage selfbows but never a glued up bow.
Once he realised I was the veterinarian who kept buying Rebecca's sheaths. We made a swap...some heartworm meds for their dogs and a flint point like the one he was wearing around his neck for me. It took him less than an hour to knap it out...Perfect!