Whats your primitive set up?

[Mark Baker]

Somewhere I have some better "equipment" pics....I'll search and see if I can locate a couple more.

[Mark Baker]

[Mark Baker]

Most of my bows are in the 60's to mid 70's for poundage, and mostly osage, but I've used just about anything I can get my hands on that will make a bow.   I have killed a couple deer with stone that I knapped, but really prefer steel.  I've used cane, dogwood, chokecherry, ocean spray, and various wood shafting over the years.  Kinda prefer pine right now, but I'm making up some new cane shafts this winter.

[coaster500]

Great pictures Mark and some great animals!!!!

Love that Vine Maple bow    


                   

[Sean B]

All are welcome Dave!!!  Awesome pictures Mark, can you get a close up of your steel heads?  I saw the carnage that Jeff "Tippit" Springer did on a Spring Quebec Black Bear with one of his Tippit heads.

[twitchstick]

I have an 42 lbs osage that 4est trekker made in a bow swap a few years ago that I like to use this year for an antelope (if I draw the tag). I have a HBH I'm working on and a few staves I'm hoping to finish for the rest of the hunts this year.

[Mark Baker]

By "steel" I mostly meant store-bought.   I've always been a wood guy, so most of my creative energy is in building the bows and the arrowshafts.   I did kill a doe once with a trade point I made from a spoon, to illustrate to my bow-ed students at the time, that "sharp" was more important than brand.  

I also have some beauty trade points that Doug Campbell made and gave to me.   And I've done some stone on my own.  

As far as effectiveness I use a couple real rules of thumb for my hunting.  Sharp is important....and always try and shoot a set-up that will get you two holes, for bloodtrails.  Thats a pretty broad generalization, but if you do all you can to insure that those two things are covered, you will enjoy plenty of success.

[Mark Baker]

Here's a pic of the "spooner" doe...as I like to call her.  

[glenbo]

Here is hy herd of primitive bows at this time:



Here are a few self nicked arrows with trade points and some wild turkey feathers given to me by Guru.










The second from the left is your bow Sean, the next is now Izzys. The second to last is now Shawns

[Sean B]

Thats awesome Mark, thanks for sharing!!

Glen, Been shooting that bow quite a bit.  Nice and quiet, and smooth as silk.  I'll be shooting some bear greenies out of it for sure, and maybe my stone points!