Whip & Tippit--Road Trip from TN Classic to SC Hogs!

[tippit]

Our road trip for a little get together started in Nashville when Joe picked me up at the airport (flight from Boston).  This would be our 2nd TN Classic.  Last years TN Classic was the adventure that lead to the Bama Twister knives for ST Judes.  This years adventure held a few surprises too...taking us through three states and visiting numerous Trad Gangers.  

I'll leave it there to see if Whip, the TN Classic gang, Don & Skyler, or some Bacon boys find this post...tippit

[leatherneck]

No holding back. Lets hear it!

[Whip]

I'm just a couple of days into being back home and haven't had a chance to download pictures.  Still playing catch up here but will try to get back and help fill in a couple of details.  
I can say that I did bring back a few souvenirs.  

[DW]

Of course we found it....been looking foward to this thread even before the Adventure started. We have several pics that we will post when the thread gets to them. It is gonna be a good one!

[stringstretcher]

Are you guys talking about the TN. Classic at Twin Oaks?  I was there and would have sure loved to met you guys?

[tukudu]

Jeff did you make some meat with "My last one".??

[lpcjon2]

Is this Thelma and Louise part II. Looken forward to hearing the adventure.

[jcar315]

[Benjy]

I know some stuff  :D  But I'm not saying a word....not yet!    

Benjy

[BOWMARKS]

I know I am waiting,heard a little but want more details.  

[Shortlongbow]

It was a pleasure sharing a campfire with tippit and whip. I'm looking forward to the hog hunting stories!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

[Irish]

Two of my favorite Trad Gangers!!   Bet you guys had a blast!

[ethan]

FOUND IT!!!  Just wish I could post pics!!    

P.S.  How far down the road did the "peach-cobbler" make it!!??  

[Cookus]

C'mon boys and spill your guts!

[Whip]

ARRGGHHHH!!!            
I just pulled pictures off the card in my camera and am missing everything from the TN Classic up through the first half of the South Carolina hog hunt.  I know they were there once because I scanned through them on the camera during the last night of the hunt.

Jeff, if you have pictures to post I'll try to add some color commentary as you go....

[tippit]

Well you are all probably looking for "blood trails"...if you attend the TN Classic you'll get to see a lots from the guys & gals scraping yellow wood into bows, pounding rocks into hunting arrow points, and hammering steel into all sorts of sharp instruments.

Last year Joe & I had so much fun, we vowed to return.  Food, friends, and a little liquid apple pie made the evenings delightful around the fire pit    

If you like making you're own equipment for bowhunting, the TN Classic is the Graduate School to leaned the trade secrets!

Pappy and his crew are tireless workers to make everything tick like a Swiss watch...tippit

 

Kenny 4runner, Skyler, and Adam

 

Joe waiting in line (Saturday night food feast)

 

James and Rebecca Parker with kids.  I have purchased a number of Rebecca's beautiful quill knife sheaths in the past.  It was so nice to meet her (plus add a few more to my colection).

 

James is incredibly skilled in knapping and bow building.  His Asian horse bows take a year to make and they shoot flatter and further than any high tech coumpound bow!  I purchased one of his bamboo backed osage glue ups to try my hand at making a bow.  I've made a few osage selfbows but never a glued up bow.

Once he realised I was the veterinarian who kept buying Rebecca's sheaths.  We made a swap...some heartworm meds for their dogs and a flint point like the one he was wearing around his neck for me.  It took him less than an hour to knap it out...Perfect!

 

[Whip]

For me, this trip was like just another chapter in a long drawn out spring.  I had just returned from hunting turkeys in Nebraska, and within a matter of three days found myself back behind the wheel with the truck pointed south.

Last year was my first Tennessee Classic at Twin Oaks, and I knew I had to return.  I timed my arrival so that I could pick Jeff up at the airport and we headed out to set up camp.  I wish I had pictures for you Stringstretcher - I'm sure you would have recognized the camp set up along the road on the upper camping area.

If you have never been to the TN Classic it really is an event to add to your bucket list.  Do it yourself project abound.  Selfbow building, flint knapping occupy center stage.  There also was a good assortment of vendors, and I scored a nice Bear Green Stripe takedown and also ordered a pair of custom handmade moccasins.

Best of all was the chance to share camp with a bunch of really good friends.  We ate like kings (or like pigs, depending on your point of view)

The shooting courses are exceptional.  Pappy and his crew really know how to put on an event.

[tippit]

A many of you know one of my major passions is blacksmithing/bladesmithing.  I can't resist talking with other blacksmiths to pick up new ideas.  There were two different smiths there this year  and they had some great set ups.  I particularly love the portable stand the one fellow made.

 

 

 

Stiks-n-Strings & his family were camped right next to us.  Kris brought Joe & I Osage staves to hack away at. Plus we did a little trading...I'm sure I got the better of that deal  

 

Robtattoo shooting..I can almost remember when I could pull a heavy bow back like that...well maybe.

 

Ethan shooting one of Jame Parker's Hornbows

 

[Ric O'Shay]

This is really great. Keep it coming!