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Offline JEB

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Primitive hunting?
« on: April 05, 2017, 10:05:42 am »
Anyone hunt  (SH) with their stone points :-D?

Or anyone else hunt primitive, self bows, self made arrows and stone points?
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Offline Ed Brooks

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2017, 10:08:53 am »
There are a lot of successful self bow hunters on here. I hunt with a self bow and stone points. However, I'm still in line for my 1st kill  :( Ed 
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2017, 11:45:26 am »
My first selfbow kill was with a stone point that Tracy made.  The arrows were hill cane and the bow was one I made out of osage.  It didn't even know it had been shot.  It kept on walking a short ways up the hill and then started to get wobbly.  It tried to run but didn't make it to far. 





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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2017, 01:49:19 pm »
taken a doe with one of my one points but yet to take a deer with my self bow and stone points.
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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2017, 02:01:23 pm »
Jeb I Feel some good karma flowing your way. This could be the year.

Clint that's a nice Buck and looks like you put that stone point right where it's supposed to go.
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Offline mullet

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2017, 03:04:51 pm »
I've taken an Osceola Turkey, and a few hogs with stone points.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2017, 03:55:57 pm »
I've hunted exclusively with stone tipped or trade point tipped cane or hardwood shoot arrows and self or sinew backed bows for quite a few years now but, like Ed haven't taken any game...except a squirrel or 2.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2017, 04:22:35 pm »
I hunt with wood bows and various arrows from turned parallel shafts to cane and boo, but not stone points. I stick with steel.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2017, 07:05:18 pm »
Was lucky enough to take a nice old doe with self made gear, osage mollie, river cane arrows and a knapped Ky blue point (TRACY point) from the ground.  I now use the same type of equipment but with trade points. 
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Offline aaron

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2017, 07:05:33 pm »
Yep. I have taken a blacktail deer with a stone point.
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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2017, 07:07:52 pm »
It's the only thing I use
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2017, 07:14:14 pm »
I was lucky enough to kill a BBuck with a osage bow a cane arrow and one of my own knapped points, missed a few also   (SH).  Bob
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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2017, 04:13:26 am »
I have killed 2 with stone points and Cain arrows and self bow of course but many with trade points / self bow with sourwood shafts.  :) Self bows are all I hunt with but vary on the shafts and heads from time to time. :) I like to hunt with what I make and don't Flint nap anymore. ;)
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Offline Ballasted_Bowyer

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2017, 02:34:55 am »
I took a fish with a homemade laminated wood longbow. Maple and Purple Heart limbs. I didn't have a fishing arrow with me so I tied a hook to a target point.
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Offline JEB

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Re: Primitive hunting?
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2017, 07:27:04 am »
I guess my curiosity was more towards knappers than bowyers. I figure most self bowyers hunted primitive but never thought that most knappers don't.   At last weekends spring knap in we had a fair amount of knappers  there and some really good ones.  I asked many if they hunted with their points and very few responded that they didn't hunt at all.

I guess knappers make points and blades for the love of the art of doing it.

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