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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
I had an experience years ago in Arkansas....way, way out in the middle of nowhere in the Ozarks where there are guys who still shoot with muzzle loaders, and in Tennessee where I lived a while many still use bow and arrow to hunt (actually a wide range of hunters nationwide). With next to little experience with guns
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That's very interesting Jim!
I believe it was after the Civil War, that the Southern white Americans began using bows to hunt. Firearms weren't readily available for these ex-Confederates, so the poorer ones used bows and slingshots. The bows were based off of British longbows in essence. I think this is where the white American archery tradition comes from. Otherwise, in North America it was the native men who used bows (supplanting atlatls) and sometimes bows became almost fully substituted by guns.
Muzzle-loaders are a field of guns that I find very fascinating...
I might get a Kentucky style .50 cal percussion sometime.
