A bit unorthodox but after so many issues with pen tips drying using Bombay India ink I started using bamboo skewers to write on my bows and it works remarkably well. Only a slight adjustment period for writing with a skewer.

 

This is a sinew backed Osage static recurve I built a few years ago. It pulled 56#@26". The arrows are a mixture of Poplar, laying across the top with Wensel Woodsman and home made trade points and in the home made GFA style quivers are hill cane arrows...

 

Through the week I went for look for a mob of goats that have living in some hills near my work. Decided to take my primitive setup. No goats were seen or heard but a bowhike with a primitive kit fully sourced and made from scratch never fails to evoke a feeling of connection to the roots of our species.



Brigalow selfbow. Rawhide string, rabbit fur silencers, bark tanned axis deer hide quiver stitched with rawhide. Bamboo shafts, obsidian points.

Jerry Gentellalli was the owner of Rancho Safari. He was a very innovative person. His CatQuivers came in various sizes from the original with just a hood enclosing the fletching to the II which had pouches on either side of the hood to the three which had a knapsack around the hood, to the 3.5 and other models that incorporated his CatQuiver Mini with backpacks. He also made a belt systems for the CatQuivers.

In addition he made a fantastic ghillie suit and system.

In 2007 a fire destroyed his business. It never recovered to the extent it was before the fire. Jerry passed away in 2022.

Lookin' real good Randy!

I set it up with a new set of white tip 45-pound limbs.  Really goes well with the autumn orange arrows.  A 2018 flies like a dart off of it.

While I waited to get the riser back form the shop, I ordered in what parts I could from Monte Dunaway and robbed the others from another junked riser.