Traditional "Know How"

These posts will chronicle my journey as a fatally nostalgic masochist. I am continually drawn to the "old ways" and history, methods, and means of the low technology past.

Friday, March 29, 2013

My Troubles With The Bitz

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I recently switched up my fletching jig from a relatively non-adjustable inexpensive model and picked up a used Bitzenburger jig. This jig ...

Friday, March 22, 2013

A Day in the Woods

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I got to take a day off from Daddy duty yesterday and spend the day in the woods. Call it a kind of mental sanity day. With Mom and Jr. of...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

All In The Family

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My first bow when I was a small boy was a flimsy fiberglass stick with a twine string that fired wooden suction cup-tipped arrows. I can re...

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Friday, March 1, 2013

A Traditional Shave

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The more I learn about "The old days" the more knowledge I find forgotten. I have been long using the old style shave soap and br...

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Crafting Wood Arrows

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After the last day of deer season there is time for equipment maintenance and re-tooling for the following season. Nothing builds anticipat...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Knives Of The Hunt

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It seems like most older hunters have always had a fascination and infatuation with their knives. This probably was ingrained long ago in ...

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Friday, January 25, 2013

The Deer Mock Me!

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I came home from work last night and backed into my parking spot by the garage. On the hill beside me was a nice adult doe at 15 yards just...

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two4hooking: My father and ancestors were from Conowingo, MD around the Susquehanna river. Records as far back as 1761 show a man with my surname from Conowingo was paid a bounty for squirrel scalps, which almost seems fitting. There were others with my name in Maryland as early as the 1600s, and I have found over a dozen Revolutionary War veterans with my last name. Some of whom served directly, and were friends with, General Washington. It is safe to say my relatives have been hunting, farming, trapping, fishing, foraging, cooking wild and surviving in Maryland for many generations.

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