about jay massey

[Blacktail]

does any one know if there is any footage (dvd)with jay in it...maybe some hunting...thanks john

[sonny]

don't know about hunting footage
but I have one of his books that I'll lend to you
if you'd like to read it.
it's called "Bowhunting Alaska's Wild Rivers" and I read it
all the way through while in my tent during a rainy archery
shoot that I went to several years ago.

send me a PM if interested.
 

[Pat B]

Contact Ted Fry at Raptor Archery. He and Jay used to hunt together and he might know of a DVD with Jay in it. I have two of Jay's books, " Primitive Archery" and "The Bowyers Craft" both autographed to me so I'm leery of loaning them out. 

[Blacktail]

thanks for the info sonny and pat...sonny,thanks for the offer but i will pass..those books are getting rare and spendy..john

[Pat B]

Ted is in Hood River. Nice guy with lots of archery history!  Great story in an early PA magazine about Ted and another guy and a successful wood bow moose hunt on the Moose John River.

[Traxx]

That other guy,was most likely Dick Hamilton.Dick has a piece of archery history as well.It was Dick,who actually Stirred the Interest in Jay to go Primitive.Jay was intrigued,that Dick stayed with the Straight limbed hill style bow, and wood arrows,when all others had gone to the latest greatest recurves of the day and modern high tech arrows.Jay then started on his Regression in archery,or at least thats how most saw it anyway.LOLAnother interesting point,that is little known.Even though Dick is a Die hard Longbow shooter,he is credited by many as the original designer of the Modern compound.Allen may have had the patent,but many say Dick,was the man who drew up the first plans and prints,that anyone had ever seen of a modern C bow.Talk is,that Jay credits Dick as being the toughest SOB he ever hunted with.

[mullet]

 That's neat information, Mr Traxx, I never new that. Thanks