Writings

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The Squirrel Chronicles

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.
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Tillering the Organic Bow

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.
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Pig 'n' Tater Sausage

Leopard Spots

A Taste of Asparagus

Handicapping the Odds

Patching a Bow Limb

Moose in a Dutch Oven

Barely A Ripple

It's All In The Spin

Sharpening Broadheads With a File

Self Bows & Swamp Rooters

Mule Trained

Tree-Seat Whitetails

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.
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The Case for Intelligent Design

Barred for Life - A Tale of Grinding Truth

The Principle of Complements

Reaction Wood

Thinking Glue

Seeing Spots

Using the Bowyer’s Edge™

Dimensions of a Hunting Bow

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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The Elements of Style

Seeing Bows Bend

Two difficult areas on bows cause even the experienced tillering eye to strain sometimes.
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Venison and Mushrooms

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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Trip to Greece