Hunting and Fishing

HUNTING IN PA/ A Letter to the PGC I wrote the following letter to the Pennsylvania Game Commissioners concerning hunting with atlatls in Pennsylvania and the upcoming vote at the January 22 meeting. I have emailed it to each of them and plan on sending out a hard copy as soon as I can. I won't pretend to know exactly what is on their minds and I cannot predict how they will vote at the meeting, but I would rather they table   More...

Before the Bow and Arrow There Were Atlatls I remember the first time I picked up an atlatl and dart nine years ago. I immediately thought about using them to hunt. I was intrigued as my instructors shared stories about how this weapon was used to face down giant pachyderms and several other now extinct animals. These were my ancestors they were talking about... these were our ancestors. Now obviously I couldn't hunt a wooly mammoth or a giant bison, but   More...