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That is beutiful work. How does it fire compared with say a modern reflex deflex longbow?

Gday mate, Xanotherra what you want. We call them "black boys". You see them around a fair bit inland on ridges in infertile soils. Make good spears too and are good bush tucker. You see them around a fair bit. Dont know how you would go with customs though. Cheers

Nice work mate, The wood pattern looks great almost like marble. Long the long handle too. And the imprefection on the peice i really think that kind of thing gives a peice more character than a perfectly machined tool. Well done and very creative!

For me survival skills are about just that. Survival only. I consider bushcraft to be the skills required to survive and thrive in the wilderness. To live confortably and enjoy nature. Personaly I have no bias toward any era, i dont care if it is 1000 years old or 10 years old. If a technique...

Australian cattle dog or rodesian ridgeback.

Alot of guys cut the tops out of them and use them as big kettles to make all grain home brew beer.... and the circle of beer continues.

beautiful work paul, you make it look easy and i know personally how difficult knapping is. Thank you for the youtube links also, excellent resource. Do you use any modern tools to make the job easier?

For me instinctive shooting comes from hours and hours of practice. I never tried aiming my arrows and I always have my eye on the target through the whole draw. When I first started I had allot of problems with inconsistency. Thinking about all the tops and tricks I had read started to put...

Wow this thread rocks! What's your next move Jon. Going to just keep playing with him for a while or confront him? I must admit it's amusing but I keep going back to the fingers on the tent. I mean a normal person just doesnt do that. Classy move on the pistachios. A sleepless night clutching...

Has anyone use or owned a axminister axe that can vouch for the quality?

Also wanted to mention that I find alot of mushroom species just in shady parts of a garden that has alot of woodchips as mulch. At my work we have wood chip mulch and there must be at least 5-8 different fungi species growing everywhere!

This is a very helpful thread. Ive been looking for something like this for a while. Just need to find some info on the difference between the Australian and UK species

very nice bow! I just got a new one personaly that i really like. A Samick Verna 50LB nice accurate but not as nice as yours.

wow! amazing! complete with stone path and everything.

Very creative, great use of various elements. Im seeing these style of things being used more and more lately.