making a blow gun

feeds@yuku.com (Oregon Abo) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:42:28 GMT

I was wondering how to make a blowgun? Powerful enough to kill a rabit, but not enough to make my mom mad

ethno. books of interest list

feeds@yuku.com (aurox) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:02:02 GMT

has anyone read any good ethnographic books on trapping, north american indian trapping, and other northern people in scandinavia and siberia as they have similiar animals to north america and recent recorded use of the traps, at least for those of us in north america, the best one i have seen yet is :

by john m. cooper, called snares, deadfalls, and other traps of the northern algonkians and northern athapaskans, he wrote it in the 1930's, hard to find but i get from library...

shell fishin lure...

feeds@yuku.com (weaselbear5) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:33:11 GMT

yucca cordage, mussel shell, fire hardened privet hook,

First deer-Atlatl - Graphic photo included

feeds@yuku.com (Huey Tlatoani) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:07 GMT

I got up early this morning to go do some goose hunting, and on the way to the marshes saw a doe deer which had been hit by a vehicle off the side of the road. It had managed to drag itself about 60 yards from the place where it was hit, and was still trying to get away despite the complete loss of function of it's hind legs. I had my atlatl and a triple bladed foreshaft which I made for "small" game, coyotes down. I hit it from about 15-20 feet away (so as not to get injured...

fishing hooks

feeds@yuku.com (weaselbear5) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:08:05 GMT

locust.

My first Traditional kill

feeds@yuku.com (Quest for fire) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:49:22 GMT

Hey how are you all?
I got my first Doe this year.
Even though it was not Primitive equipment I am pretty proud of myself.

Viper longbow,magnus two blade broadhead.
16 yards leaning out the back of platform with my bow arm shoulder smack dab up against a tree.

I cleaned...

coyote traps?

feeds@yuku.com (aurox) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:19:33 GMT

does anyone out there ever found info on primitive coyote traps? i know they are some of the most challenging to trap with steel,

First rabbit stick

feeds@yuku.com (Rainy Raven) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:59:36 GMT

All right, on another forum I read there was a discussion on the Cold Steel Bushman's usefulness as a spear (http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=50608&start=24) where I opined that it would be better used as a cheap, effective backup blade than a spear and a rabbit stick would probably do more to put food in your belly, I made this:

Video: Cherokee fletching a blowgun dart

feeds@yuku.com (David Morningstar) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:39:24 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lPx9B_gR50

All done in one smooth movement, not like I've been doing it at all.

sling accuracy

feeds@yuku.com (paleoarts) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:42:43 GMT

this is a thread i started over on slinging.org that i thought some of you might benefit from.

in preparation for my ISAC style competition next month i've been practicing with an eye towards accuracy and i've settled on a few things that have helped me improve it. i just want to share these with everyone in the hopes that it might help some of you improve yours. i, of course, am not saying that this is the way things should be done by everyone or that it's the...

mountain lion

feeds@yuku.com (Arko) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:36:15 GMT

Wasn't sure where to put this. My friend captured this amazing still on his trail cam he put up at his feeder. Guess HE won't be gettin this buck.

rabbit sticks

feeds@yuku.com (fieldwalker) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:49:51 GMT

Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site will be having it's 3rd Annual Archeolympics on February 6. 2010. The park is interested in purchasing rabbit sticks for this event. If anyones interested in selling rabbit sticks contact

Tanya Petruney, Park Ranger IV-Interpretation

Seminole Canyon SP & HS
P.O. Box 820
Comstock, TX 78837
Tanya.Petruney@tpwd.state.tx.us
office 432-292-4464...

Hunting with the English warbow

feeds@yuku.com (Fitzcarraldo) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:45:44 GMT

Does anyone on here hunt with the English warbow? I use this to refer to a high-poundage, full-compass, rounded-belly English longbow without a hand-wrap, and tillered for a long draw. If you do, please tell me about your experiences with using this bow for hunting. I am very much interested in hearing about it.

Homemade Pike fishing lure

feeds@yuku.com (Jon R 17) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:27:20 GMT

I made this lure today, i thought a few people may be interested to see it. It is supposed to look simelar to a Rudd which there are a lot of in the nearby lake. I wanted to directly imitate this fish as i know the Pike like to eat them.

First of all i carved the basic fish shape from a piece of wood. Then i filled a bucket with water and wrapped a small piece of lead arround the fish. The lead was enough to sink the wood rapidly to the bottom. I decided that it may be best to...

Elk Hunt 2009

feeds@yuku.com (Mahto Sapa Numpa) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:40:38 GMT

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while

Thanks to Toxophile Ken who set me up with IPE and Black Bamboo a couple years ago so I could make an elk killing bow! I used the rose arrows I made and posted in a tutorial last spring. The obsidian points I made for the arrows at the time. Thanks to my friend Coby who gave...

every1's hunting gear for this year plz show pics!!!!!!!!

feeds@yuku.com (darcandrios) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:32:57 GMT

hey there every1. I was just wanting to see what every1's hunting gear would be this year. this is my gear 76lbs @ 28 inches osage bow with my arroos i made.

Woomera Kangaroo Drive Hunt Video : Warning Graphic Content

feeds@yuku.com (Kier) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:30:23 GMT

While attempting to relocate a website on something I mentioned in a previous post, I came across this interesting video. It was originally recorded sometime in the 1970's and depicts a group of...

The Primitive Pattern Painted Hunting Shield

feeds@yuku.com (Kier) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:55:30 GMT

This idea has been milling in my head for a quite a while now, and I have only found just a few photographic or image examples of such devices around the internet.

Most of the best examples have been seen in Africa, Australia, and some of the South Sea Island cultures.

It did somewhat strike me that North American tribes have had a war sheild that can sometimes have a set of feathers that could almost look like the back end of some deer. The small circular shield...

snake trap?

feeds@yuku.com (knap123) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:22:18 GMT

has anybody used live snake traps? i saw a you tube video on one and looked up there site for there product and figured i couald make one from a woodwn box. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W108HiF4Pn8&feature=related there site has a bunch of sizes. i called and talked to them and they said if the conditions right you had about 95% sucess rate. i said i wanted to put them on a snakey creek and...

Man V Wild

feeds@yuku.com (California Bowhunter) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:28:05 GMT

Wow this show has some good points and at times it down right sucks,I just watch the show where he killed a Reindeer and I could not believe he did bone out the meat and pack it or he could of raped it in the hide and drug it but no he made some type of Carrier and lost it in the creek and only got one hind leg, and when he came to the cabin and did not stay the night that blew me away.

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