#525 Deer Hunting – Big Stick Archery – Bob Smith

we’re heading out to actually Mason City, Iowa. We’re gonna meet with a man named Bob Smith. No, that’s not his alias. His company’s name is Big Stick Archery http://www.bigstickarchery.com/ . And if you look around his home there in Mason City, you’re gonna see a lot of big box, and they were all taken with, what I call traditional, a stick and a string traditional archery. And that’s what this episode is gonna be about. It’s hunting way back when. In the warm-up, Bob and I were talking about shooting flaming arrows off the sides of a castle. What a trip that must have been? Bob, welcome to the show.

Thanks. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. And, you know, you go back and you read the book “Shogun” and you just go back through England and Europe. And longbow archers have been part of, you know, war for a long, long time. I mean, you know, Sun Tzu and all his guys, they had bows. You know, that’s what they…

I don’t know as much about it as you, it sounds like, but yes, I know that, you know, archers were kinda like the go-to guys. I mean, like, they were the guys to have, I think.

Yeah, no, there wasn’t a question about it, because, you know, they had rudimentary cannons and then they had the archers, and they would just shower the sky, I mean, literally hundreds and hundreds of broadhead with flaming or just screaming out. And they would hurt you.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, and somebody had to make those bows and make those arrows, and that’s what they…long way to introduce Bob Smith’s Big Stick Archery, because he is a bowyer. And he is a maker of bows, you just can see a couple behind him. And he’s gonna talk to us about why he is building bows. And the other parts of the show is gonna be the adventure of hunting. So, Bob, I’ve talked long enough. Why don’t you jump in and chitchat, and talk to me about being, you know, a builder of recurves and longbows?