Marshall Primitive Archery Rendezvous

[paulsemp]

A few more

[PEARL DRUMS]

Cool pics Paul!

 I never even got my camera out. I did the same thing last year. There is just something about Marshall that screams slow down, relax, take it easy and talk to my dear friends. Pics just never crossed my mind.

[Pat B]

I see a few familiar faces. Looks like great weather too. Wish I could have been there.

[PEARL DRUMS]

High of 70 Pat. The nights got cool. I think it was 35-38 night. I was toasty in my bag, but getting out for coffee making was a tough proposition. Thats yew bowyer and DGF to Ryans left. To my right in the last pic is my chumba wumba buddy Marty (OLD TIMBER BOWS). I love him dearly! Bob (Chamookman) has the glasses and brimmed hat and thats Codys brother Landon with the red shirt on. Talk about a lights out shooter, I didnt want nothing to do with that young man on the course. And he has a gorilla grip when he shakes your hand, thats always a good sign!

[paulsemp]

Thanks for putting names with faces Chris. I forgot to type them with the pics

[Buckeye Guy]

I am home , but so wiped out it may be a few days till I come to enough to be able to think !!
Soo proud to be a part of this family of all around good folks !
I better not give names right now or I will forget some, a huge thank you to all that were there, and all that helped out !!
Mike and I thank you all !!
I have to go unpack now so see ya after bit !
The worthless old nut from Ohio!

[blackhawk]

I'm on the road heading home from visiting family,and just uploaded a bunch of pics...I'll post em after I get home from my PC....

What a blast....I think I had more fun this year(is that possible?)....the whole weekend is nothing but a big highlight...the friends,or should I say family to me ...the trading of materials...the making of bows...shooting shooting and more sshooting ....the AWESOME dinner on Saturday eve(thanks to all who donated either food,services,or money to make that happen ....n one of my favorite moments was when pearly,Paul,and I went and shot the course with a bow we made Saturday that was still unsealed and unfinished...Cody came along too but he cheated and used an already sealed finished bow..lol...but we shot our bows in by walking the course n I carried a scraper n sandpaper in my back pocket in case I needed to adjust my tiller...but none of us had too....Paul had a rawhide string on his he made n halfway thru his string broke n he had to borrow one of our bows to finish shooting the course...lol....good times....good times

A slew of pics to come soon from me...

[PEARL DRUMS]

Yup, that was fun shooting all three of our new bows at once. Ol' dead eye Paul was knocking em' dead even while switching bows every target. Of course the selection of bows he had to choose from didnt hurt anything. It was a dream weekend for any archer/bowyer/knapper or relaxer.

I had the pleasure of eating chef Pauls fine cuisine all weekend. It was a real treat camping next to him and meeting him. Both of our dads cut meat so we had lots of similar stories to chuckle about, and of course we both have our finicky meatcutters sons taste buds! The meal Saturday night was YUM-FRICKIN'-EEE! Thanks to all the chefs, doanters and set up folks......even that ol' worthless nut from O-H-I-O.

[blackhawk]

marty and chris(and me) working on some wood,and my wife cooking some dogs 




paul working some yeller 





chris straddling his own wood 




my baby girl playing with my clamps n tools while I work on a mulberry stave 





uncle marty and "his" baby girl...lol    if she ever goes missing I know where to find her 





garys first up 





next up is cody 





matts boy Dylan 





codys lil brother landon ...n he shot better than his big brother 





matt nock hunting for garys arrow...lol 





sunday morning we went out as a family minus one who was so exhausted from running around the previous days,and decided to rather sleep in...the kids have so much fun together there  first photo is of my youngest son with his arrow in flight 





my oldest daughter pointing to her arrow...she was so proud of that shot(and so was dad,n he put it in the 12 ring  ...)...






my lil buddy boy drawing back to shoot with me n my two daughters looking on 






my wife drawing back to shoot.. 





me shooting with my baby girl on my back       






and one last picture of a family shot after shooting a round.....(minus our oldest son who was still sleeping when we got back...lol)....             






wished I took more pics...sorry guys                    

[YewArcher]

Had a real nice time. It was nice meeting you all and felt good to scrape on some wood.

[paulsemp]

Nice pics Chris, that little one of yours gave me my baby fix while I was away from mine.

[Pappy]

Great pictures,looks like a great time,sorry I missed out. From what I heard you couldn't have ask for better weather.
   Pappy

[MWirwicki]

Nice pics, Hawkster!  We sure enjoy camping with your family.  And Wee-wicki had plenty of friends to play with on his toy blanket.

[Buckeye Guy]

Nice pics Chris !
Sure wish I was smart enough to post pics , every time I try it does something different and I never do get them to here !
Oh well long as everyone had a good time !
I am a happy camper !
Guy

[RyanY]

So glad I was able to make it out this year. Always a pleasure seeing friends and meeting new ones. Can't wait to see it pick up even more next year!