Hunting with the Bow & Arrow

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Saxton T. Pope. Hunting with the Bow & Arrow

Hunting with the Bow & Arrow

Table of Contents

I

THE STORY OF THE LAST YANA INDIAN

II

HOW ISHI MADE HIS BOW AND ARROW AND HIS METHODS OF SHOOTING

III

ISHI'S METHODS OF HUNTING

IV

ARCHERY IN GENERAL

V

HOW TO MAKE A BOW

VI

HOW TO MAKE AN ARROW

VII

ARCHERY EQUIPMENT

VIII

HOW TO SHOOT

IX

THE PRINCIPLES OF HUNTING

X

THE RACCOON, WILDCAT, FOX, COON, CAT, AND WOLF

XI

DEER HUNTING

XII

BEAR HUNTING

XIII

MOUNTAIN LIONS

XIV

GRIZZLY BEAR

XV

ALASKAN ADVENTURES

A CHAPTER OF ENCOURAGEMENT

BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE

THE UPSHOT

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Saxton T. Pope

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The wood was obtained by splitting a limb from a tree and utilizing the outer layers, including the sap wood. By scraping and rubbing on sandstone, he shaped and finished it. The recurved tips of the bow he made by bending the wood backward over a heated stone. Held in shape by cords and binding to another piece of wood, he let his bow season in a dark, dry place. Here it remained from a few months to years, according to his needs. After being seasoned he backed it with sinew. First he made a glue by boiling salmon skin and applying it to the roughened back of the bow. When it was dry he laid on long strips of deer sinew obtained from the leg tendons. By chewing these tendons and separating their fibers, they became soft and adhesive. Carefully overlapping the ends of the numerous fibers he covered the entire back very thickly. At the nocks he surrounded the wood completely and added a circular binding about the bow.

During the process of drying he bound the sinew tightly to the bow with long, thin strips of willow bark. After several days he removed this bandage and smoothed off the edges of the dry sinew, sized the surface with more glue and rubbed everything smooth with sandstone. Then he bound the handgrip for a space of four inches with a narrow buckskin thong.

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