How would you make these

thats a good question. the walking book of totally useless knowledge that i am i don't know the answer to that one. I think the fact that nowadays if your skin color is different it seems that you have to hang out with people that have the same skin color as you. this is just a shot in the dark but does anybody agree that skin color really doesn't matter?

Of couse skin color doesn't matter, I'm married to a beautiful African/American woman who is my heart, I don't see her skin color, I see her. I am Irish American because my family came from Ireland (Erin GO Bragh!!!) and they got here in the Mid 1920s, struggled to make ends meet and have grown ever since. But I'm Irish American even though I was born here, in Texas. My family is close knit family and do alot together, but in the end I am just a plain ole American guy.

I still want one of them 3 foot long wompom belts, them are great.

By the way Sarge, this a not a political rant its an ancestry rant so lets keep it going.

My family (two brothers) came here in 1641 aboard the Charitas from Stockholm, Sweden. They settled in New Sweden, which is the Chester-Philadelphia area today, as part of the Swedish West Indian Company. Axell was a soldier and Oloff (my direct ancestor) was a mill builder. Oloff was one of four named as a magistrate in 1658 and became a judge of the first court of the new world. He is listed in the North American. So we've been slinking around the woods for quite a bit.

and obviously skin color doesn't matter to Rick...Twinkies are the same color as Simpson's (hey this could explain the dough..I mean Doh!)

TOM BROWN I SAY AGAIN TOM BROWN! ANyone serious about Bushcraft MUST have all of the books in his series. Al the basic traps, snares, fishing and hunting tecniques are there. For instence...forming a channel with sticks posted into a stream to funnel fish, frogs, and turtles into a tiny shallow holding area so you can bash them, spear them, or catch them with your hands.

Why fish with a piece of bone hook when you have dynamite?

(Homeland Security writing furiously)

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TOM BROWN I SAY AGAIN TOM BROWN! ANyone serious about Bushcraft MUST have all of the books in his series. Al the basic traps, snares, fishing and hunting tecniques are there. For instence...forming a channel with sticks posted into a stream to funnel fish, frogs, and turtles into a tiny shallow holding area so you can bash them, spear them, or catch them with your hands.

Why fish with a piece of bone hook when you have dynamite?

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Because its illegal to "fish" with dynamite????

Touche` Cliche`! I dig ur stuff man!
A coward dies a thousand deaths. The brave but one!

DUDE!!! I am NOT a man:mad: How many lives did you say you have left???

You're lost, Lost and it's a slippery slope.

Go get him Nell. When you're done, send what's left over to the intro pages so we can find out a bit about him. For now, where's my popcorn?

Ggggggggrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!,lmao!

Lost, you might want to go to the introductions section and actually introduce yourself. That's generally the way it works. Give us some information about yourself.

Lost Lebowski I have the entire collection by Tom Brown Jr. but also 98* and a few others. Books do not make the woodsman, skills and practice do. Books are a learning tool nothing more.

Tom Brown Brown Shrown, who needs a freak'n book.

Ya read it once and then use it for the fire or toilet paper. Make sure you crumple it up a few times, makes it softer on the butt.


Wow, I completely missed the color discussion. Ahhh, just as well. I'm a Whoplock, married a Russian, have an African American son and a German daughter.

Yeh, we get looks and stares from everybody.

:sidestep:
ok then.
to the original poster:
i am a bowyer and fletcher. i have a thread a little bit back on the construction of a selfbow from green [unseasoned, a poor choice for bows] sitka alder [a poor bow wood], dried only a few days and constructed with only a knife in a few hours. it is perfectly servicable for small to medium game and still holding up to the breaking in period.

the problem is in knowing the qualities a decent bow needs, and the proces involved in making it efficient and accurate [tillering] so that it works like a bow, and not a 'stick lobber'. a decent home-made self bow for small game like i used to make when i was a child draws like a moose and shoots like a mouse, so to speak, and will fatigue rapidly with changes in moisture and with use. now i can make a selfbow in a day or so [if i had a kife and a fire] that i could take deer with.

i certainly agree that making a bow [and knowing that you need to tune it to the proper spine weight] is the sort of thing to learn before you find yourself needing to hunt with it, if at all possible.

if you search google for "bowyering", "tillering" and "self bows" you will find more than you might even care to learn. if you would like advice after that point on making primitive bow, myself and probably others here have some experience we're willing to share.

A Whoplock FVR?? Thats a new one on me:D as far as the color discussion,uummmm ,I think someone forgot we are all crayons out of the same box called life before they shot off their mouth.

not me; i'm a sharpie...

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not me; i'm a sharpie...

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Nah,you just think you are sharp(ie)LOL

no, like crayons, i now come in every color, i'm just harder to get rid of dontchaknow

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no, like crayons, i now come in every color, i'm just harder to get rid of dontchaknow

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Ah yes,I have a 21 month old grandson,I know this very well,the poor walls tell an interesting story,I just haven't deciphered it yet!

im 1/2 british on my dads side , 1/2 chech and 1/2 polish on my moms side (with some itallian blood too though i dont know where it came from) my great great grandfather on my dads side was royalty when he came to canada. now my moms side was pesantry , my grandfather and all his brothers killed soviets and nazis there entire youth untill they came to canada in 1959. my grandfathers one brother would always tell me about how he would set beartraps on all the roads and watch as soilders lost there feet, poison there food , he told my one time he was hiding under a bush with a single shot blot action .22 , he saw a soilder and shot his knee from 100 yards, waited for more to came and save him , then kill them too, the most dangerous person iv ever met. on my dads side in the 1600's we were pirates or something im not rly sure , but my moms side is bloody enough for the both of em.

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TOM BROWN I SAY AGAIN TOM BROWN! ANyone serious about Bushcraft MUST have all of the books in his series. Al the basic traps, snares, fishing and hunting tecniques are there. For instence...forming a channel with sticks posted into a stream to funnel fish, frogs, and turtles into a tiny shallow holding area so you can bash them, spear them, or catch them with your hands.

Why fish with a piece of bone hook when you have dynamite?

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!st off just let me say that there are mnay authors of "Bushcraft" type books out there: Mors Kochanski, Cody Lundin, J. Wayne Fears, John "Lofty" Wiseman,
Paul Tarwell...And any older Boyscout Handbook and Field Manual teaches many of the same things you just mentioned. I checked out one of Tom Brown's books from the library but didn't care much for it. it taught the same thing the others teach. Also I 2nd what Beowulf posted!:cool:

1st off. Where the heck you been? Good to see you back.

Yea,this time,I agree with Rick:D

This time? What the?

Just kidding,dont have a cow man!:D

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Just kidding,dont have a cow man!:D

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He Da' Wolf of course he is going to have a cow, Ha Ha Ha:p

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TOM BROWN I SAY AGAIN TOM BROWN! ANyone serious about Bushcraft MUST have all of the books in his series. Al the basic traps, snares, fishing and hunting tecniques are there. For instence...forming a channel with sticks posted into a stream to funnel fish, frogs, and turtles into a tiny shallow holding area so you can bash them, spear them, or catch them with your hands.

Why fish with a piece of bone hook when you have dynamite?

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I have a post-secondary education, so I can read fairly well. I just wanted to point that out because I want to add: I know how to fish, hunt, trap, survive in near-Arctic winter cold, and 80-100F summer heat and I have a couple other survival skills too. I've never read Tom Brown's or anyone else's survival books.

I know how to use dynamite, I've never used it to catch fish. It's always amazed me how people get all pee-their-pants excited about how many dead fish float to the surface, they have no idea how many other dead fish sink to the bottom. It's mindless and I've discouraged several of our younger members from attempting it because I've also seen what can go wrong using dynamite.

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Ok in a worst case scenario how would you make a bow and arrow to hunt?

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In a worse case scenario I'd use the same technique as we did as kids.
I'd start with a strong tree branch or piece of wood about three to five feet long. I'd then tie my boot lace to one end, after notching the wood, and the then notch the other end.
Next bend the bow and tie the other end of the dowstring, boot lace, to the other end thus creating a functional bow.

Now as far as an arrow is concerned, any long, streight,pointed stick or rod should suffice. You should be sure that your intended arrow is longer than the bow's draw depth.

This should give you a survival bow and arrow to fish with or even as a means of personal protection from both animal and human predators.

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I have a post-secondary education, so I can read fairly well. I just wanted to point that out because I want to add: I know how to fish, hunt, trap, survive in near-Arctic winter cold, and 80-100F summer heat and I have a couple other survival skills too. I've never read Tom Brown's or anyone else's survival books.

I know how to use dynamite, I've never used it to catch fish. It's always amazed me how people get all pee-their-pants excited about how many dead fish float to the surface, they have no idea how many other dead fish sink to the bottom. It's mindless and I've discouraged several of our younger members from attempting it because I've also seen what can go wrong using dynamite.

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My friend, I have to agree most hole heartedly with you on this matter.
Catfish, frogs, turtles, molesks, and a great number of other creatures, all of which could become future food for you, GONE! with just one stupid act.

If you want to blow something up, then go and join E. O. D..

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