This is better then any video game available. Kept my boys entertained for hours every day we camp.
Thank you to all the people associated with the Michigan Longbow Association that have helped my boys get a head start on some quality entertainment and productive activities. This pic was taken Memorial weekend at a Primitive Archery Shoot in Marshall, MI.
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Very cool
Awesome!
Good luck to the youngins in their endeavors to make useable points.
My experience with knapping taught me real quick that I had enough skill to make little rocks out of bigger rocks...lol
:archer:
Good Deal!
Not what I thought it would be....LOL!! Very cool!
This is where they were bitten by the knapping bug. Here is my oldest at the Kalamazoo show this past January. When we left the show, Nick had made (with the awesome guidane of Greg) 4 VERY useable heads.
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Sorry, double post. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this phone does that.
That's great Mike!!!
Outstanding! Love to see the young ones getting hooked early. Dads/Moms know your resources-there are plenty! :archer2:
Awesome
That is good stuff right there.
You have great kids Mike. This winter one of those knapped heads is going to meet a bunny... :bigsmyl:
Now that's cool!
Mike, You got me.
Great pics! Good times.
:thumbsup: Fantastic.
That's better then any video game that's for sure...It's great to see kids in the great outdoors and not "Napping" on the couch for a change... :thumbsup:
Very cool!
That's great, look at them go!
There is a friend of mine and fellow flintknapper who started flintknapping around the age of 14 and is now 19 years old and he goes by "The Kidknapper". He is one of the premier flintknappers around and his works were selected for THE knapping calendar that is put out . His name is Douglas Alcorn and his works can be viewed on flintknapper.com.
So keep them boys at it Mike. There is always room for two more "kidknappers"
That is cool! :thumbsup:
NOTHING BETTER than starting the little guys off right
very cool
Man there won't be a safe rock for miles around your house !
Glenn
Raising them right!
mike, next year at Compton if the boys have any spare time you should bring them to my campsite I love to knap and we could have our own knap in my son is 13 and does it with me.
steve
That's awesome. My two boys are always glued to their iPads. I'm at fault though.
I spent a fair number of hours as a kid trying to make points on my own. There's a deep reason why this appeals to some kids, just like archery itself does to so many people. Personally, I don't think we've traveled so far from the plains of Africa, which is one reason I call it "hunting" and never "the sport of hunting".
Good on ya!
wish I knew how to flint knapp!
L.R.
It is so nice to see kids learning some eye hand crafting. They can learn many skills from these sort of things.
That's what I like to see. None of that video game garbage.
Just think what might happen if they got the bow building bug :bigsmyl:
That's great! :thumbsup: God bless.