Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: iowabow on March 13, 2012, 11:25:55 am
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With three days left I still have list with things to check off. We had a great sunrise this morning and I heard on the news that we will be in the 80s tommorow.
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I intend to document this momentous time in modern history, the Inaugural Mini-IAJam! Will be sure to post pics in here when I get back.
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Can't wait to see the pics. I love a good bow gathering :)
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You are closer than I am OO. Take time to make time, make time to be there.
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Part of the course will include a moving target. Luke my neighbor hit it the first time with a spear!
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Setting up shop.
Heat treating bench is done and the tillering tree area is ready to go. Demo and display tables are set up and I had a little time to start putting targets together. I even had time to fix a set of wheels to the bandsaw so we can move it out doors.
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You are putting alot of work into this. I hope everyone appreciates is as much as I do. Looking forward to leaving here Friday early.
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I agree Bevan! I plan to be there around noon on Friday. Lookin forward to the chance to just hang out.
Any body that has some rock to trade please bring it. I'll be workin on my knappin as well as a few sticks of osage. Its gonna be a great time!!
Thanks again to John and Annette for hosting this event. Looks like the setting is gonna be perfect.
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Wow, you guys are putting so much work into making this a real class event. I'm going to have to hurry and get my tuxedo pressed!!!
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Looks like nothing but fun to me! Enjoy your time together guys. Im stealing your dolly idea on your bandsaw........
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Thanks for the support guys. I think I like the quote shannon gave me about coming to TN for the IBO, he said, " We will treat you good so many ways you will have to like one of them!" I am kinda modeling this off of them. I had some time at the end of the day and some scrap wood so I banged out this bow stand.
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Looks like nothing but fun to me! Enjoy your time together guys. Im stealing your dolly idea on your bandsaw........
Cool the dolly is made form 4 washer,4 pins, a steel rod, and 2 U bolts
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Thats looking good ! ' Frank
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Looks like you are almost ready,should be a great time for all.Have fun and keep the pictures coming. :)
Pappy
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Thanks for the close ups hawkeye!
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Looks like you are almost ready,should be a great time for all.Have fun and keep the pictures coming. :)
Pappy
Thanks Pappy, this has been a real group effort by many who are coming and a lot of talking and planning on the phone with others. I have everything done but food so I am shopping today after the shooting stakes are finished. Scott, John W Tim M and me will place the 3d shoot on firday.
The photo below is a stake for a 100 yard war shot. I need suggests for how to run that shot. Should it be score only on of the best of three arrows? This target is placed in an open field so finding arrows will not be an issue because it was disced.
Some of the other setups will be a running pig bag, shot over small pond at a deer, a shot at a duck on the edge of a pond and a polar bear in a wooded valley. The rest are fun shoots through V ed trees and real trail like settings.
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Well todays the day to set up the range and my bow club came through with lots of help. We started at 8am and unloaded targets from the club shed and they have suggest that use there help in setting up the course. So how could I say no to that!
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Wow, thank you Flint River Bowhunters!
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Got back home a little after noon yesterday and spent he rest of the day recovering from the weekend. I think i can speak vor the group and say WOW!!! Great prep work, nice facilities, outstanding "last minute" 3d range, good company, nice demos... what have I left out. Oh yeah, how bout them FIRE DANCERS!!! >:D
I am hopin Iowabow and Bevan will start posting some pics pretty soon. It was a wonderful time to sit around and enjoy the weather. Waking up to turkeys on the roost and 70 degree temps, then ham an eggs with cinnamon rolls and coffee (thank you Mrs. Iowabow!)
I was glad to meet and get to know 3 more PA members. This reinforces the notion that these are some of the finest guys on the planet! Also met John C. Whitaker who happens to be the author of a flintknapping book I am reading. If you ever get a chance to spend some time with him, you will not regret it.
All around, we had a fair turn out and a pleasant time talking shop and swapping stories. One of the highlights of the event for me was watching Pat throw an atlatal dart between 2 trees (a foot apart) and drill a turkey target from 15 yards! This was witnessed by several guys and everyone nearly fell over! Except Pat who calmly walked over pulled his dart and turned back around as if to say "what?!?"
Great event, John! Let's do it again sometime.
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We had the most unbelievable weather! Some attributed the 80 degree weather to the prayers offered to the gods by JW.
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Other believe it was his sacrifice!
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All joking aside this was a real fun weekend! We had about 20 people show up in total. The weather could not have been better. The company could not have been better, it was truely a great time. So I am going to share a lot of photos take by Bevan and Annette. When Bevan arrived he presented Annette with a gift he made for her (that was really nice thank you!)for all the work she put into the event.
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We set up a table so people could see some of the points that we have been working on.
first is my case then the next are Scott's (stringman). on the far right side of the table are the works of John Whittaker.
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The Atlatl course setup
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John provides guildence on the Atlatl
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Looks like a great time.
JW, could you perform your rain service for a gathering in early May ;)
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Tomorrow I will post the brainning, some points that Scott made, fire dancers and a few other pictures. As I said earlier Bevan and Annette took most of the photos so thanks for documenting the inaugural IA Jam. A few words here about those of you that showed up......Bevan thank you for driving all the way down here to the first IA jam and bringing JW with you also thanks for the jerky and the coffee! Annette loved it and I am trying it again in the morning. JW you have a great sense of humor and I really enjoy talking to you. You made me and everyone else laugh all weekend. JW thanks for helping me take down the range. All of you made a great impression on my son Isaac. Scott, thanks for the knife and the other points (pictures to follow) I learned a lot form you about holding points and striking platforms. Scott thanks for helping me set up on Friday. John is not on this forum but if he was I would thank him for that great Atlatl demo and the coaching. Ed. Thank you for coming and putting on the braining demo. Ed handed me the hide after finishing the process and said its yours, wow! thank you! Also JW isaac loves the bow and has invited friends over to see it.
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Les Lerner came and sold slabs and worked with new knappers
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Very cool,thanks for sharing the pictures,looks like yall had a great time. :) :)
Pappy
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Fire preformers putting on a great show!
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Well that's it for the photos (except of a few more of points that Scott made) tell us what you think!
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Looks like a great time.
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Great pics of what looks like an awesome time. makes me want to move where more of this stuff happens. :)
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Looks like you guys had a great time. Thanks for posting all the pictures.
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My wife and I talked and we would like to host this event again next year. If you like what you see please pm me with your address and I will send you info in the mail in about 6 months about the event.
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That looks like a great time!
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thanks for the jerky and the coffee! Annette loved it and I am trying it again in the morning.
You and Annette are most welcome. And see, you did not get sick from Kopi Luwak coffee. :laugh:
Thank you for all you did. I had a great weekend.
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Great pics of what looks like an awesome time. makes me want to move where more of this stuff happens. :)
Kevin Cost-more and iowabow will tell you, "Build it and they will come."
John and Annette are two of the finest hosts you could hope for, their son Isaac give me hope for future generations (he's one of the funnest kids to hang around with I have EVER met!)
Everyone that was there was generous with their time, tools, talents, and good humor. In other words, it was just like the attitude we have here on this forum.
By the way, if Bevan ever offers any of you some of his patented Cat Poo Coffee, take him up on it! Not a bad cuppa brew. Although last nite I fell of the back of the couch while cleaning the base of my tail with my tongue. Doctors say the cast will come off in another 6 weeks.
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Hey Just Do It!
More photos still to come...Just catching up at work so will post on Friday so check in at same bat time same bat channel.
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Looks like a great time, might have to try and make it next year !
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Looks like a great time, might have to try and make it next year !
Yep, it's a 'john' convention all right.
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Hey is an amazing knife made by stringman that I got in the draw at the end of the event.
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Everyone got together and presented Annette and me with the following wonderful items for hosting the event. Thank all so much for the table the knifes and the points. I am going to take apicture of isaac shooting his bow this weekend and post it up for JW. Thank you JW for the kind words about my son. You all made an impact on him as well.
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Scott and I went to the creek last firday and pulled some rock that looked like it might be good to knap and then we heat treated it. Sunday we made each other points from the material and this is a picture of the really nice point he made. The point I made him was from some really rough material that looked very bad but it was fun to make a point from it.
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The smaller points that you see above were made by John Whittaker. Great goup of guys so if anyone want to attend next years event let me know. Maybe we can have the TN boys car pool and do a road trip. You know we do have fire dancers at our event lol
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Woohoo! Shoot that thang, Runt!
I think that bow is the 7th attempt at a red oak board bow...and the only one that is even a shade better than firestarter material!!!
Now you just need to have him do a little sanding to get rid of the pencil marks and lay on a finish. It's an easy enough project that he can do it all himself and maybe it will spark his desire to start HIS very own bow next!
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Boy, sure like that money shot! That bow couldn't have gone to a more deservin kid.
I do my best not to wish away time, it seems to slip away fast enough as is, but in some cases the event I'm lookin forward to shore keeps me on the edge of my seat. This is gonna be one a them cases, and since you two have already said you re willing to host again, lets talk about makin it longer next time?!? Also, I'd like to put in a request for some a them rolls again, and I'm not sure how you pulled it off but if you can get some weather that is similar to this years that would be great as well. Annette, if youre mom coyld make some more of them cookies... Thats probably too much to ask, but it would be icing on the cake!! ;D ;D ;)
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Hey Stringman (Scott) this is MrsIowabow. You can bet the cinnamon rolls will be ready next year! I will definitely tell Mom you appreciated her contribution too. She had a good time meeting you and the rest of the gentlemen who were here. Please tell your wife I was skeptical when my husband presented the idea to me of this event but the kindness & respect that was afforded to me, Isaac & John by you & all the guests we had was amazing. We look forward to hosting again & will start working on the weather request as soon as we can.
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Hey guys of the primitive persuasion.Events like this just always seem to go by too fast.Especially with the way the weather was and the hospitallity of the host.Good memories of this event all the way around.That bow of Isaacs should grow with him as he gets older too.Guess I'm a farmer at heart but planting those seeds in these children benefits everyone.He sure is a great kid.Runs like a gazelle through the woods on the course too.Well time to catch up with this early spring here at my little rest area.See you guys around maybe this summer some where.
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That looked to be a fine time and I would love to go. I am hoping that next year I will be able to pack the truck and do some traveling back east and your event would definitely be on the to do list.Thanks for sharing it on the forum. ' Frank
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Sorry I am so late posting this. I got this knife from John (Iowabow) while at his 'jam'. Really cool knife!.