Ive made lots of Javelina sausage of all types.  After grinding it, we always mixed 1:1 with ground pork, then add seasonings.  Before packaging we take some and fry it to check for taste.  You can always add more seasonings if desired.  We usually found that it required a little more garlic.  Each year we would process 4-10 javelina.  By adding the fresh ground pork it made it a little more mild and also increased the volume.  Check your area for someone that makes spices for meat or you can order them online.

Im all for artistic expression!

 

Great looking bow. 

Bighorn Legacy Update - We have been offering the Bighorn Legacy....our tribute to G Fred Asbell, for about a year now. Sales have been brisk. It feels good to be caught up and have inventory to offerwithout the wait.
It was important to us that we duplicate the prototype provided by Teresa Asbell as closely as possible. We weren't just trying to build a great recurve. We were trying to duplicate Fred's design and build as closely as possible.
This past Kalamazoo Traditional Expo, the Bighorn Legacy was shot quite a bit by Bighorn collectors. The grip, the lines of the bow were inspected and compared to vintage Bighorn bows.
Everyone that inspected and shot our bows came back with similiar comments...."Wow!"..."It feels exactly like my Bighorn!".
We are very proud of that. I knew that the bow shoots great. I was hoping for the approval of the collectors. We are very pleased. More to come!

I think you are way over complicating it. Get an arrow that shoots good (enough) with feathers and go shoot your bow a couple thousand times before May. You are going to be shooting a bear at 8 yards. You are not competing in the Olympics.  Killing that bear isn't about perfect bare shaft flight, it's about not $hitting the bed when he's standing there 8 yards away and blowing the shot.

Traditional equipment isn't a compound that you "tune" then only need to shoot 6 arrows out of a week before season. You won't have "perfect form" after buying a class and shooting a couple weeks.

Go shoot that bow a bunch with decent flying arrows and kill a bear.

Folks been doing it for a really really long time without all the drama!

 

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Quote from: evgb127 on February 10, 2026, 07:51:07 PMI've always enjoyed the content Henry put out about traditional shooting, like the video of Byron Ferguson visiting his shop. 

You've also piqued my interest... I've been following your posts about the Asbell recurve, but I haven't heard about the Traditional Woodsman Longbow.  Any details to share?

Not much detail yet.....we have determined the first Traditional Woodsman longbow will be 62 inches, slight reflex/deflex, a locator grip....and the first ones will be in my favorite green glass style.

Big box store similar to Lowes. They got everything even some groceries.

Glued up a blank to knock the rust off, seems like I havent forgotten anything.  I have another one to put up and then its on to my victim.

Between Guster and Porter what are your opinions on flashy or classic in terms of material selection?

I guess why I brought this up (as it relates to Iowabowhunter) is in another post he said he was getting a right paper tear and he moved his brace height WAY up and it helped. If he was a right handed shooter (a big assumption) his arrow was too stiff... and decreasing the power stroke by raising the brace height seemed counterproductive in my way of thinking. He was also trying to move the shelf further out at the same time.

With this post, I think he is making the right moves with the changes he has in mind.

Sooo...after reading all of this past and present....I see that Three Rivers's Stu Miller online calculator has the following footnote... once all your calculations are entered and the results are shown.


Fine tuning can then be done by adjusting the bow's brace height.

If the arrow is slightly weak (lower dynamic spine) for what the bow needs, then lower the brace height.
If the arrow is slightly stiff (higher dynamic spine) for what the bow needs, then raise the brace height.
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Maybe the previous poster has it nailed exactly; but it still seems to me backwards from the way I always thought.