Anyone who plans to hunt big game with an atlatl needs to consider several important things in preparation for the hunt. A large part of a successful hunt is good preparation. You will need to do at least the following to prepare properly: Find a venue where you can...
An Open Letter To The Pennsylvania Game Commission Pennsylvania Archaeologists have long known of the use of the atlatl in Pennsylvania’s prehistory. The atlatl and dart were used by the native population for hunting and fishing for longer than 13,000 years. It is...
The sun turned the sky to brilliant red as it sank beneath the tree line along the western shore of the Rainbow River. In the evening calm the clear water was glass smooth. I held my atlatl and harpoon dart ready in hopes I would get a clear shot at a fish. We could...
Some new Possibilities for Sportsmen: We kept our atlatls ever ready, searching the depths for Talapia, the boat gliding slowly across the dark waters on that moonless night. Among the weeds in the deep, clear water, we made out shapes of various creatures. Some were...
We got started early in the morning. We went out to the land we planned to hunt which is a parcel of several thousand acres along the banks of the Oklawaha River in the neighborhood of Ocala, Florida. We had our rifles and rangefinders in hand and ready to go. I was...
The colors of Autumn ornamented the hillsides as seven intrepid atlatl hunters came into a wide open expanse of short grasses and tall goldenrod. The forest on either side of the field sheltered the fallow deer which were our quarry. On our mind was one in particular...
An Atlatl Hunting Experience by Len Riemersma March 2001 I've been throwing darts at various targets for over five years. I am not an excellent thrower by any means. To be quite honest I wasn't positive that I had reached the level of expertise necessary to...
Humans have been using atlatls for thousands of years to hunt and fish. The following is a story about my adventures using replicas of this anchient weapon to hunt wild boar: I have been hunting with this ancient style weapon for several years and have developed...
Brian Goodsell, Owner of Fallow Hollow Deer Farm was slightly amused by the nest of debris that I was accumulating for my blind. I had tried several times before to ambush a fallow deer to no avail. They tended to be a lot more aware of their surroundings than I...
Brian Goodsell, Owner of Fallow Hollow Deer Farm was slightly amused by the nest of debris that I was accumulating for my blind. I had tried several times before to ambush a fallow deer to no avail. They tended to be a lot more aware of their surroundings than I...
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