Posts by Don Paul

  • Guns of the legends Collection

    We used to have one of those pole spear/Hawaiian slings w/ the catch (bottom-most spear) when I was a kid.[/QUOTE] hill raiser


    That's cool,:thumbup: the Nemrod sling is mint and still has all the lettering. I'll post up some Nemrod catalogs
    on another thread when get my scanner on line.


    Cheers, Don

  • The origins of slip tips

    Quote from behslayer

    If you ever make it up to NYC, check out the Museum of Natural History Paleo Indian and Eskimo Exhibits. They have a great display on Hunting tools, all sorts of slip tips for fish and Seals.



    That place used to have the best French Onion soup in the city when I was a kid and park nearby was the reason I got into self defense.^^


    Cheers, Don

  • Guns of the legends Collection

    Merci Monsieur, I had a Complete Googler first addition I read over and over as a kid. Guy Gillpatric and his wife
    had a tragic ending in life.When his wife, Maude Louis Gilpatric, learned that she had breast cancer in July 1950, they decided to commit suicide together. Guy shot her in the back of the head, than shot himself at their home in Santa Barbra Calf.


    Cheers, Don

  • The origins of slip tips

    Great post Dan and Virgili, Guy Gillpatric's book was one I read as a kid. I copied some of what I saw on arrows
    I built for my long bow that I used to try to rid my little frog pond of a massive snapper turtle. The turtle from hell was eating my bull frogs. and had me too scared shite-less to swim in the pond.
    I'll add some of my early hand made slip tip images later this week.


    Cheers, Don

  • MPLA update

    Expanded marine protected areas in Southern California won’t take effect on Oct. 1 as planned, the Department of Fish and Game said Thursday. The ecosystem safeguards have generated lots of controversy over the past few years, including an unresolved lawsuit by fishermen alleging they were created illegally.


    The Department of Fish and Game, which is responsible for managing the reserve system, said the delay was created because the Office of Administrative Law can’t finish processing the complicated package of regulations in time for the planned start date.


    The law office “has additional questions and requests for more information,” according to a news release by the fish and game agency. It did not characterize the substance of those queries.


    California’s Fish and Game Commission is expected to choose a new start date for the protected zones at its regular meeting in Redding on Sept. 15. It’s not clear whether commissioners will consider moving the start date back weeks or months, but a spokeswoman for the Fish and Game Department said it didn’t appear to be on the order of years.


    On Dec. 15 the commission adopted regulations to revamp protected areas in the South Coast region, which spans state waters from Point Conception in Santa Barbara County to the U.S.-Mexico border. The planned no-take or limited-take areas cover approximately 354 square miles of state waters and represent approximately 15 percent of the region.


    The strategy is less aggressive than what many conservationists wanted, but they praised have it as a good start toward recovering numerous species, from lobster to sheephead.


    Fishermen said they will be squeezed into less-fertile waters, creating economic losses and potentially dangerous crowds.


    Mike Lee: mike.lee@uniontrib.com;

  • home made guns

    I can't tell from the images, but a few inch's of ET relief with tapered lead in at the beginning of the track will help you thread the shaft into the slot in sloppy seas. Five feet of bobbing gun stock and five feet of shaft, each held with one hand can be a bitch to fornicate with while a tuna swims circles around you on the surface.
    I'm a deep groovy kind of guy.....but don't let my prejudices toward ET's defer from my admiration of your gun building.:toast:


    All the best, Don

  • home made guns

    Quote from cancunspearo

    hope you like them any suggestions would be greatly aprecciated thanks lunker for the kind welcome!


    Nice work.
    If there is any top coat ( two pack or epoxy in the ET let it fully cure before using it where there can be sand in the water column. ET wood tracks can very easily embed sand grans into the grain or uncured top coat forever scoring the shaft and slowing the projectile. A easy way to spot this is look down the barrel as you hold the gun with the sun overhead, if it glitters in a few spots... that is worn down sand particulate which contact the shaft nullifying the shaft/water molecule interface. This water- film/shaft interface is what the shaft glides on unless the shaft or track is poorly machined or has a debured sear tooth slot. Poor rubber geometry and a un-straightened shaft after tab welding/heat treatment can deform the tail of the shaft as well.


    Cheers, Don