That is fantastic. He was one of our club, Oklahoma Selfbow Jamboree students. Myself and 10 others started that club the Oklahoma Selfbow Society 18 years back. We have run as many as 400 or more students, men, women, kids through our 4 day gathering each year. We have people that bring Osage staves for sale and we teach them from the start of picking a piece of wood, to laying out the bow and using hand tools to shape the bow. We teach making the bows, even other types of wood, making strings, picking different types of finish for the bows, making primitive arrows and we have a lot of flint knappers that are in our group that teach snapping stone.
It is a great thing when we hear of a bow maker that learned from us taking wild game of winning a shoot. Out motto on on all of our shirts, gear and hats is "Passing on the Tradition".
Congratulations Caleb.
Mike
Mike,
Thank you and the crew that run the program. It is no small undertaking I’m sure. To have a young person get hooked on archery is cool. But to have them take up the full traditional gear and complete a hunt is another level.
I have found a few stone points in the fields of New England. Every time, I am struck by just what that point meant to the person that lost it where I found it. Most we find are thought to be around 1500 to 2000 years old. It is a real tribute to those early hunters to commit to the self bow and a stone point.
