I was torn as to whether post this is here or in ooga booga, but I chose here... for some reason..lol
Here is a picture of my personal hunting set I am using this year. Notice I have made numerous fancy, beautifully enhanced bows, but this one is rather bland. The reason for this is actually quite special. This entire hunting set, bow, string, arrows, points, and quiver are all made with true stone age tools. Not a single modern tool has touched any of this set. Not only that, I documented the entire process and will be either producing another book and/or dvd about the entire process. I will give you the basics on this set now, but I will certainly let you all know when the documentation is available!
The entire set is made from Florida materials and I only used native Florida stone tools. The bow is made from White stopper (aka Florida snakewood) The string is sinew, arrows are cane, fletched with random feathers picked up here and there. Goose, duck, turkey, etc. (all legal ones though) Different feathers whether secondary, primary or tail feathers called for slightly diffrent styles in fletching, but each is wrapped with sinew, burned with a cherry coal and cut with a stone flake. They are all done in some variation of the eastern 2 fletch. The points are all local, ground fired cherts and agatized coral. They are glued with pitchglue and wrapped in sinew. The quiver is grape and jasmine vines woven around a rivercane frame. The shoulder strap is stone cut and twisted deer rawhide.
While we may live in a modern world where power tools and even metal tools make short work of stone, cane and wood, it is exciting to build a true stone age set to hunt with. Using only true stone age technology to kill a deer is probably going to be the pinnacle of my archery career. I don't think it will be anymore difficult that killing a deer with modern made, primitive equipment, but it will be more satisfying to know that I did it with a set that mirrors exactly what stone age man was capable of producing
