Bushcraft Bow Hunting

[caliban]

Just an obscure article on subsistance bow hunting in the Ozarks that I though some of you might enjoy. Nice to hear about applications for the bow other than spiking Frenchmen, shooting baited deer from trees and hunting yellow dots.. Funny how wading along a crystal clear river hunting fish with a self made bow was associated with poverty.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...arks+fishing&ndsp=18&hl=en&sa=N&start=54&um=1

 

[Nagual]

Cheers for that, quite interesting!

 

[jojo]

Indeed. Thanks for posting. Interesting ways to make the points.

 

[stovie]

Curtis caught it too

survival is survival...

 

[gloomhound]

"hillbillies" You don't say.

 

[caliban]

Hope that description didn't offend you Gloomhound. Sounds like the life to me, free and self-reliant.

 

[Whittler Kev]

Very sustainable

 

[apj1974]

Isn't it illegal to hunt anything with bows in the UK?

 

[apj1974]

Isn't it illegal to hunt anything with bows in the UK?

err as in it illegal to hunt animals in the uk using a bow and arrow. As far as I know its perfectly legal to blow Thumper's brains out with a shotgun whether or not he has a nice bow tie on at the time!

 

[red dreads]

Don't quote me on the APJ1974, but I think I read somewhere its legal to hunt(fish) with a bow on the coast as long as its below the high tide mark and not in fresh water ie not in an estuary .All else is illegal I believe.

 

[Matt.S]

err as in it illegal to hunt animals in the uk using a bow and arrow. As far as I know its perfectly legal to blow Thumper's brains out with a shotgun whether or not he has a nice bow tie on at the time!

The Ozarks are in the US. It's a backwoods, mountainfolk folk area, what some people call Hillbillies (some consider this a derogatory term, others a complimentary term, others too a neutral one). A largely self-sufficient, frugal, country-living group.

Of course all discussion of bowhunting on this forum is anecdotal, historical, hypothetical or from foreign lands, since everyone in this country follows all laws at all times, irrespective of how in-tough with reality they are

 

[gloomhound]

Hope that description didn't offend you Gloomhound. Sounds like the life to me, free and self-reliant.

Oh I'm not offended at all. It's something of a badge of honor around these parts.