How would you make these

**flandersander** · 02-22-2008, 02:52 AM

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?

**Beo** · 02-22-2008, 03:53 PM

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.

**Beo** · 02-22-2008, 04:00 PM

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

**Beo** · 02-22-2008, 04:03 PM

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

**Rick** · 02-22-2008, 04:59 PM

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.

**trax** · 02-22-2008, 05:06 PM

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!)

**Lost Lebowski** · 02-22-2008, 05:49 PM

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?

**Rick** · 02-22-2008, 05:51 PM

(Homeland Security writing furiously)

**nell67** · 02-22-2008, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by Lost Lebowski

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?

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

**Lost Lebowski** · 02-22-2008, 06:02 PM

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

**nell67** · 02-22-2008, 06:03 PM

DUDE!!! I am NOT a man

How many lives did you say you have left???

**Rick** · 02-22-2008, 06:07 PM

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

**crashdive123** · 02-22-2008, 06:09 PM

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?

**nell67** · 02-22-2008, 06:11 PM

Ggggggggrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!,lmao!

**Rick** · 02-22-2008, 06:13 PM

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.

**Beo** · 02-22-2008, 06:37 PM

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.

**FVR** · 02-23-2008, 12:18 AM

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.

**canid** · 02-23-2008, 04:54 AM

: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.