RE: Truly ' Primitive' Weapons
 

The article says, " In all, Beckum figures he has killed 16 or more whitetails with his homemade gear, including the highest-scoring Pope & Young buck ever taken with primitive archery gear in Georgia." 10,000+ years of history can' t be wrong. ;)

That' s fantastic! His arrows are works of art. From also hunting with my own gear, I can attest that making a set of straight, properly spined, well matched and tuned primitive arrows requires as much skill, knowledge, and time as a hard hitting hunting bow; and that' s not including the stone points. They are another art form in their own rite...something I would love to acheive, but a challenge I haven' t begun to tackle. I' m also sure the quality of his brain tanned quiver and clothing exceeds that of any modern-tanned leather we can purchase today.

There is something very special that comes from taking after game with primitive equipment. It' s something that really has to be experienced to be appreciated. Words just cannot do it justice. Invigorating, sense of belonging in nature, self-reliant pride, and the feeling of walking among an ancient family (our family) are but a few phrases that come to mind that " might" give a glimpse as to why we choose to hunt as we do.

Here' s another article that might spark some interest, one that I wrote for our state' s bowhunting organization last year:

http://www.ubofpa.org/selfbow.htm

RE: Truly ' Primitive' Weapons
 

Date: 7/2/2003 1:43:59 PM


I have a a story sitting around somewhere which i believe i cut from the pages of Out Door Life magazine about a doctor in louisiana that killed a i believe a 10 point buck with a 14' spear and he bragged about it all over town but the game wardens got wind of it but had no name to go with the story until he sent his picture into the local news paper where he got into some trouble because theres no sper season so he was using an illegal weapon and he also used his dogs to help track it after he speared it so they also got him for using dogs out of season it was a short little story but a good one that being why i cut it out and saved it

Sean