I love hunting with and shooting my recurve. There's justsomething very appealing about the simplicity of it but it definitely isn't the way the indians did it. Realistically it is "traditional" equipment that is very technologically advanced, and I'm OK with that. In all honesty I would love to try doing it as the indians did and would love to use hunting tools that were hand made by me.

In my mind it is similiar to my blackpowder hunting. I hunt with my blackpowder gun during "primitive" weapons season which is funny because ther is nothing remotely primitive about that gun. It looks and actsmore like a sniper rifle than some relic from the past. So in a way I feel like I'm cheating and deep inside I want to buy an old flintlock, iron sight,loose powder muzzleloader and really try to challenge myself and learn a little about the way it used to be done.

So why don't I do it? Make the self bow, arrows, flint heads, deer tendons the whole nine yards. Why not get an old flintlock kit and tackle that challenge as well? Simple & honestanswer, it's not practical right now, it's not convenient. Those are interests and hobbies that would require a great deal of investment as far as my time and budget. To be absolutely confident in the equipment and my abilities with the equipment would cost me more time than I can afford right now. I guess I feel like there are probably quite a few people in the same boat, that would like to just not right now, maybe when I retire or when the kids are grown or when I hit the lotto, maybe then. Hell I might try to kill some buffalos and build a
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