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Main Discussion Area => Announcements => Topic started by: Blood Trail on January 10, 2012, 10:31:22 am
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Well, actually I'm from North Carolina but haven't lived there in about 12 years. I moved to Fort Worth after spending 10 years in the Marines (Ooh rah!) where I work for Lockheed Martin (JSF F-35 and F-16 fighter programs). I've only been bow hunting since '06 and shooting trad for a little over a year now. I've been chewing at the bit to build my on bow. I got an Osage board and some red oak at the house that I have no clue what to do with it! LOL! This site was recommended to me from those boys over at Texasbowhunter.com. I have so much respect for y'all bowyers and I can't wait to pick yall's brain! Thanks for having me! :laugh:
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Welcome aboard Blood Trail! I'm just down the road from LM in Springtown - down 199. I have hooked up with a bunch of these guys over the years and good as gold all of em. Seems like these days you might be lucky to catch me if ya lived next door :D.
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Welcome Blood trail,you will like it here,just ask away,lots of folks here ready and willing to help.
Pappy
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Woohoo, another Texan on the forum. I'm in St Paul, Texas a suburb northeast of Dallas just a bit. Get in your truck and drive over to my shop and we'll whip you up a bow in no time. I don't do red oak, but if you come over I'm sure there's an osage stave in the shop you can play with or we can work on your board. I just put up a thread looking for folks in this area to go cut osage with me if you're interested. http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,29866.0.html (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,29866.0.html) Also, I try to host a couple combination flint knapping/bow making/hog hunting outings at the deer lease a couple hours west of you near Cross Plains. Here's one of those posts: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,25825.0.html (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,25825.0.html) You're welcome to join us. I try to schedule them when the weather is perfect in the spring...probably sometime Mar-May.
Welcome, and I'm serious about helping you build a bow. I've helped 3 guys make bows since moving to Dallas in 2007 and there are 3 more in progress, albeit very slowly. People are sooooooo busy these days. I will provide a stave if you come.
George
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Welcome. I am in Stephenville.
Cipriano
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HEY from Houston!
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Welcome aboard Blood Trail! I'm just down the road from LM in Springtown - down 199. I have hooked up with a bunch of these guys over the years and good as gold all of em. Seems like these days you might be lucky to catch me if ya lived next door :D.
Sweet brother! I live in Lake Worth! ;D
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Woohoo, another Texan on the forum. I'm in St Paul, Texas a suburb northeast of Dallas just a bit. Get in your truck and drive over to my shop and we'll whip you up a bow in no time. I don't do red oak, but if you come over I'm sure there's an osage stave in the shop you can play with or we can work on your board. I just put up a thread looking for folks in this area to go cut osage with me if you're interested. http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,29866.0.html (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,29866.0.html) Also, I try to host a couple combination flint knapping/bow making/hog hunting outings at the deer lease a couple hours west of you near Cross Plains. Here's one of those posts: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,25825.0.html (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,25825.0.html) You're welcome to join us. I try to schedule them when the weather is perfect in the spring...probably sometime Mar-May.
Welcome, and I'm serious about helping you build a bow. I've helped 3 guys make bows since moving to Dallas in 2007 and there are 3 more in progress, albeit very slowly. People are sooooooo busy these days. I will provide a stave if you come.
George
WOW...i don't know what to say...THANKS is too easy. Brother, thank you for your offer! I will take you up on that! I work with a rock hound that gave me a piece of obsidian (sp?) becuz I wanna learn how to knapp! I'd like to get up your way sometime real soon! Once again, thanks!!! :laugh:
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Welcome. I am in Stephenville.
Cipriano
I hunt in Dublin!
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WOW...i don't know what to say...THANKS is too easy. Brother, thank you for your offer! I will take you up on that! I work with a rock hound that gave me a piece of obsidian (sp?) becuz I wanna learn how to knapp! I'd like to get up your way sometime real soon! Once again, thanks!!! :laugh:
No biggie, watching somebody shoot the first arrow out of their first bow is one of life's great pleasures for me. ;D ;D ;D There's a corner in my shop with a tarp and about a half inch of flint shards on it where I knapp. I'm not very good, but I can make a point worth hunting with. I'm going out to the lease Friday and will take my new short osage bow and try to get my first deer with a stone point. I've killed lots of them with steel points but never stone. I'll PM you my contact info and address.
Cipriano is a flint magnet and a heck of nice guy. You must drive right by him on your way to hunt. I haven't met Cowboy yet, but not for the lack of trying. :'( He's hard as heck to keep in the state. You need to meet Patrick (aka jackcrafty). He taught me nearly all of what I know about flint knapping. He's down near Midland I think.
Do you hog hunt at all? I like that about as much or more as deer hunting. I'm always looking for company hog hunting if I head to the lease. Hopefully we can do some of that too.
George
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WOW...i don't know what to say...THANKS is too easy. Brother, thank you for your offer! I will take you up on that! I work with a rock hound that gave me a piece of obsidian (sp?) becuz I wanna learn how to knapp! I'd like to get up your way sometime real soon! Once again, thanks!!! :laugh:
No biggie, watching somebody shoot the first arrow out of their first bow is one of life's great pleasures for me. ;D ;D ;D There's a corner in my shop with a tarp and about a half inch of flint shards on it where I knapp. I'm not very good, but I can make a point worth hunting with. I'm going out to the lease Friday and will take my new short osage bow and try to get my first deer with a stone point. I've killed lots of them with steel points but never stone. I'll PM you my contact info and address.
Cipriano is a flint magnet and a heck of nice guy. You must drive right by him on your way to hunt. I haven't met Cowboy yet, but not for the lack of trying. :'( He's hard as heck to keep in the state. You need to meet Patrick (aka jackcrafty). He taught me nearly all of what I know about flint knapping. He's down near Midland I think.
Do you hog hunt at all? I like that about as much or more as deer hunting. I'm always looking for company hog hunting if I head to the lease. Hopefully we can do some of that too.
George
Brother, I get the shakes harder with pigs then I do deer! Something about them lil boogers that gets me outta my skin! :laugh: :laugh:
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Brother, I get the shakes harder with pigs then I do deer! Something about them lil boogers that gets me outta my skin! :laugh: :laugh:
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Something about them lil boogers that makes me wanna get them outa their skins! yum
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Brother, I get the shakes harder with pigs then I do deer! Something about them lil boogers that gets me outta my skin! :laugh: :laugh:
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Something about them lil boogers that makes me wanna get them outa their skins! yum
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hehehe.... ;D
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Small world. I teach in Dublin:)
Cipriano
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Proud father of a U.S. Marine here to far away to join in your guys' fun any time soon but if you don't take georges offer I'll cry right along with George. ;)
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Sorry about that George :'( :D. We will meet eventually - i just know it :). I did get together with Jackcrafty at his home in Midland a couple times - heck of a nice and knowledgeable guy. Met with Cipriano at my house one day cause he drove over one weekend :).
We'll set something up Blood trail. I haven't made a bow in a few years but it's kinda like riding a bike. I do like to knap though and could show ya a thing or two and send you home with a bucket of good flint. Just ride out four miles west of Springtown on 199 and hang a right on Deerskin Lane, i'm the last house with all the canoes.
Lake Worth? Lowes is my favorite hang out ::) ;).
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No worries Paul, I haven't taken the initiative to just road trip over there. Once I get a new truck I'll have more incentive to get out traveling. How's the shoulder doing? You ready to knap yet?
Lowes is my favorite hang out too. :)
George
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Still hitting therapy but getting better. No knapping yet but soon i hope..