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- From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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- Subject: [Homestead] Longbow and Crossbow
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:38:22 -0800
Things you wished you knew before---why James is so devoted to primitive tools. I sneaked up on his place when he and Denise went off to entwine themselves in a quilting bee---marvelous opportunity that left him bereft of all firewood cutting tools except a jacknife and coping saw---his stout insistence that they are good enough for cutting firewood is just sour grapes..
I've been keeping an eye on them., next to go is that old colonial fowling piece. However, being the compassionate neocon that I am, I will leave him a copy of this e-mail, so he can cobble up a bow and some arrows to take the place of his colonial shotgun. If he goes hungry now and then, it's good for him, but we don't want him to starve to death, do we? There's a downside of course, we'll have to listen to some of his raptures about his bow and arrow being better than an Uzi for deer hunting.
http://www.thebeckoning.com/medieval/longbow/longbow-manual.html
I learned longbow and arrow-makihg from Luna Leopold, Aldo Leopold's son, in the catacombs beneath a Catholic church in Madison, Wisconsin when I was around ten years old. The crafty old Priest figured he could troll for converts among the unbelievers if he threw out attractive-enough bait. Didn't work, by age ten I knew religion was a priestly swindle practiced upon a weak-minded, gullible populace. But have to give him credit for trying to improve the odds.
http://www.camohunter.com/arrows.html
http://www.outdoorguidemagazine.com/morgue/backissues/lsum2000issue6.htm
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/flight-arrows.html
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/ancienttech/arrow_making.html
http://www.archery-centre.co.uk/MakeArrow.shtml
http://wideopendoors.net/middleages_original/LifeTimes/Arrows.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/27344/typebows.htm
http://www.student.utwente.nl/~sagi/faq/arrwmake.shtml
http://www.ozbow.net/woodarrows_1.htm
http://domino.htcomp.net/bhn/Columnists.nsf/0/d4f89e807155f5b28625661300748ec2?OpenDocument
http://www.brokenaxe.ca/diy/straight/straight.html
http://www.archery-centre.co.uk/HowNotToLoseArrows.shtml
http://www.dto.com/hunting/article.jsp?articleid=540
http://tradarchery.prohunternetwork.com/links/
http://www.brokenaxe.ca/diy/arrows/wood.html
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/ezcrsbw.html (make a crossbow)
http://www.rotteneggs.com/re_egg_display.php3?eggid=2686878 (more on crossbows)
http://www.clcweb.net/Crossbows/crossbows.html (commercial crossbows)
http://www.geocities.com/monstonitrus/a_and_s/crossbow.html (combat crossbow---if you really want to fight with an ill-tempered bear)
http://www.worldcrossbow.com/FAQ.html (crossbow FAQ)
http://www.sca.london.on.ca/links/weapons.html (another source on making bows, arrows, plus ballista is the #$%^& deer are laying siege to yourfarmstead)
http://www.thebeckoning.com/medieval/crossbow/crossbow-bolts.html Imaking, fletching bolts)
http://www.geocities.com/gunversation/bowsversuscrossbows/bowsversuscrossbows.htm (crossbow vs. longbow---difference is the operator)
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[Homestead] Longbow and Crossbow,
Tvoivozhd, 11/19/2004
- Re: [Homestead] Longbow and Crossbow, clanSkeen, 11/19/2004
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