Primitive archery- Very Interesting!

[waksupi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqrlaIef2o&feature=share

[starmac]

Interesting, you don't need a magnum bow either. lol

[x101airborne]

Awesome video. Reed shafts, eh? I have heard about cane shafts, but not reed. Then again, I am not much of a primitive archery expert by any standards.
Cool post, though. Thanks.

[GaryN]

I liked it. Course I've spent the last thirty-five years hunting deer and elk with longbows and recurves. And I use single bladed broadheads exclusively.

[Bad Water Bill]

Didn't you folks read anything about BOERRANCHER His knapping and the pictures of his deer kills.

I think Joe has posted here for the last 3 years or so on his kills with his own handmade bow,arrows and arrow heads. I am not sure just how many deer he has killed with his stuff over the last few years.

Joe has some interesting reading here of this years hunt.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=170355

And he IS one of our own.

[MtGun44]

Clearly more than a few folks are taking up this challenging sport. Neat video, pretty
impressive penetration from light arrows, light bows and tiny "bird" points.

Otzi, the alps iceman who was frozen 5000 years ago left a very good set of tools
that have been thoroughly examined. There is a great set of 3 videos of making arrows
that are exactly the same as 5000 yr old southern european technology.

Here is the link to part 1. Well done by an American from Oregon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNmUJWNCMw

Bill

[popper]

If a target point under a 40# bow will go through 8 planks of oak, it'll go through a deer. The demonstrations I saw as a kid, arrow penetration was better than rifle rounds. At that time a special glass block was used for ballistic testing, wound channel and deformation were visible in the block. Maybe they should have called them turkey points instead. I suspect most birds killed by natives were by cast nets and snares, not arrows. Why would you waste a labor intensive point on a dove? Just use a pointed shaft with sinew as a head to keep weight forward..