Writings
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Requiem for Jerry Pierce
In a room with a few friends, Jerry Pierce liked sitting near the wallpaper and listening. In a room full of people, he sometimes required a curtain to hide behind, if others allowed it. Neither usually worked for him, at least not for very long. He was not shy, but he had a self-effacing strength of character that could not be dimmed under bushel baskets. It puzzled him even as it drew people to him.Read more...
Building Rattan Kids bows
I've published several articles on making kids bows. Their creation has long interested me because of the implications to our sport. To get them into as many small hands as possible, I wanted bows that were economical, easily built, and durable. Beyond those simple criteria, I wanted the construction to be easy enough that kids could witness and participate in it, thereby valuing the results beyond something merely handed to them free. I wanted to arm the neighborhood, so to speak, and in the process inspire adults no less than children.Read more...
Sharpening Broadheads With a File
Bow Tools You Can Make
Organic bows don't require the inventory of tools and jigs that their laminated brothers regularly employ. No need for thickness or oscillating sanders or for air hoses and bow forms. In fact, hand tools of various sorts employed by the skilled bowyer yield more precise results than power equipment can hope to achieve.Read more...
The Case for Intelligent Design
Barred for Life - A Tale of Grinding Truth
Matching Bows to Arrows
The importance of matching arrows to bows has so focused some of us that when sorting arrows into spine and weight groups we go well beyond our skill as archers to perceive differences and perhaps even beyond our equipment’s ability to appreciate our efforts.
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Seeing Bows Bend
Two difficult areas on bows cause even the experienced tillering eye to strain sometimes.
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Under the Squirrel Bigtop
If I have a totem animal, it's the squirrel. I might have wished for a wolf, or a tiger or some other majestic and large wild thing to shepherd my spirit through this world, but I ended up with a squirrel. You don't choose these things. They choose you.
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