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Well, I'm hoping to retire to the Virginia hills, and if I pull that off, I'll probably try to take the time to try and learn it.

I'm intrigued by your remark about making your own tackle and wonder how much of it one might actually make.

Just about everything you need, you can make yourself. I have made bows out of Osage orange, Hackberry, Hickory, Oak and Pecan. They are all self-bows, made of one piece of wood. Like the english longbow style and the american flat bow style. No recurves at this time.

Made arrows from rivercane, ash, dogwood, hickory. Fletching from wild turkey or Canada goose feathers, glued on with hide glue or duco cement, sinew wrapped for durability, with self nocks.

Arm guard and tabs from leather (from Tandy's) had to buy the arrow heads, steel or brass field points. Also made the quivers from Tandy leathers, now get leather at various shoots.

All the components can be purchased for assembly or gathered the old fashioned way or bartered.

A pair of good websites is www.stickbow.com & primitivearcher.com Hope this helped.