Welcome!!! How did you become interested in Atlatls?
As a kid, I watched one too many Tarzan movies I think! I remember at a very young age being facinated with bows and arrows, and specifically spears. By 7 years of age, I had a crazy reputation in the...
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I've always been interested in shooting. My father had me shooting air rifles and archery when my age was still in the single digits. Started hunting as soon as I was old enough and bowhunting was my...
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Collecting Native American artifacts. I missed my first chance to see the atlatl at the Northeast Atlatl Championship in Appalachian (sp?) NY in 1996 I think. I got there a little too late due to work...
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I first read about the atlatl in one of Jean M. Auel's books. I think it was "The Valley of the Horses". I was very skeptical when she described how far and accurately a person could throw a spear...
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I dont honestly know where or when I first heard of the atlatl. I have always been a voracious reader of history and anthropology tomes so it may very well have been sometime in the early 80's while...
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I read about atlatl as a kid interested in cave men and early artifacts.Never saw one till I met Rich Vanderhook doing an atlatl day demo for thestate archeology dept. about 10 years ago.Rich was and...
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I was working with the sponsor of a local history weekend, taking the names of vendors and polling them as to if they would be interested in returning the next year etc. Off to one side was a very...
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hi ya all. im from southern In and became interested in atlatls because of primitive archery. ive read this forum front to back several times in the last month, and wanted to congratuate all the...
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I became interested in atlatls when I read the Earth's Children series. (Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of the Horses...)I have never used a proper one but I did make one from a forked stick and it...
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Welcome everyone! It's great to have you here. I hope you stick around and help us to make this forum and the WAA grow to its full potential.Tom
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