I read that Indian's would tell us that we could keep our bows if they could have our arrows! The author went on to discuss the difficulty of carving a decent arrow out of the straightest branch one could find, and then matching that arrow to another one.

Our advantages are, in no particular order, lathes, glue, tree stands, uniform broadheads (although the same author claimed that a stone broadhead could be made sharper than a steel one due to the greater density of stone), tools, sights (maybe not an advantage if you shoot enough?), compounds, compounds with offset wheels for letoff, cams, lock at full draw, optics, range finders, limb silencers, etc.

Where is the big jump from the Indian's equipment - is it really the arrow?

beprepn



Edited by - beprepn on 01/26/2003 08:12:47